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Talk about a close encounter.

Preparing for his first space flight in April, astronaut Jack Fischer tweeted that his favorite song, Garth Brooks‘ hit “The River,” was the first on his pre-launch playlist. On Thursday, Fischer got to meet and talk with the country music superstar—while in space. “I think you have so many great songs and so many great messages but it’s the heart that you put in every performance and the soul that you put into all those songs that make them so impactful,” Fischer told a tearful Brooks. “‘The River’ in particular was pretty much...

Artist Lauren Dicioccio uses a needle and thread to memorialize news articles, perserving the black and white images of The New York Times via multi-colored stitches. She embroiders snapshots of Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga in her series "sewnnews" -- a palindrome paying tribute to the familiar touch and smell of the printed page.

"I wanted to make work that celebrated the newspaper as an object and a physical presence in our lives that perhaps would not be around much longer," Dicioccio wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. "I felt that using materials and a method derived from craft was the most appropriate medium -- hand-embroidery on cloth is so evocative of the human spirit, it represents time and care and tactility in a special way that suited perfectly my feelings about the newspaper."

Scroll through the images of Dicioccio's work below and let us know what you think of her textile creations.