{"id":17968,"date":"2013-05-10T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17968"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:48:51","slug":"creative-prompt-207-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/creative-prompt-207-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #207: Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine and shadow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow\" target=\"_blank\">Definition<\/a>: A <b>shadow<\/b> is an area where direct <a title=\"Light\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light\">light<\/a> from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the <a title=\"Space\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space\">space<\/a> behind an <a title=\"Opacity (optics)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opacity_%28optics%29\">opaque<\/a> object with light in front of it. The <a title=\"Cross section (geometry)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cross_section_%28geometry%29\">cross section<\/a> of a shadow is a two-<a title=\"Dimension\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dimension\">dimensional<\/a> <a title=\"Silhouette\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silhouette\">silhouette<\/a>, or reverse <a title=\"Projection (linear algebra)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Projection_%28linear_algebra%29\">projection<\/a> of the object blocking the light. The sun causes many objects to have shadows and at certain times of the day, when the sun is at certain heights, the lengths of shadows change.<\/p>\n<p>An <a title=\"Astronomical object\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronomical_object\">astronomical object<\/a> casts human-visible shadows when its <a title=\"Apparent magnitude\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apparent_magnitude\">apparent magnitude<\/a> is equal or lower than ?4.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Currently the only astronomical objects able to produce visible shadows on Earth are the <a title=\"Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun\">sun<\/a>, the <a title=\"Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moon\">moon<\/a> and, in the right conditions, the planet <a title=\"Venus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venus\">Venus<\/a>. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>Shadow the hedgehog video game<\/p>\n<p>2009 movie<\/p>\n<p>Me and my shadow<\/p>\n<p>shadow government<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Hills, Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Dancer &#8211; 2012 movie<\/p>\n<p>shadow puppetry<\/p>\n<p>beyond a shadow of a doubt<\/p>\n<p>Silver Shadow<\/p>\n<p>Sea <em>Shadow<\/em> (IX-529) was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved<\/p>\n<p>Earth&#8217;s shadow<\/p>\n<p>eye shadow<\/p>\n<p>lengthening shadows<\/p>\n<p>shadow play<\/p>\n<p>Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog.<\/p>\n<p>We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/aqcpp\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to\u00a0 post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine and shadow Definition: A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/creative-prompt-207-shadow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Prompt #207: Shadow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-17968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}