Arborea- A Little Time
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Filmed early April, 2012 in the Elora Gorge, Ontario, where I grew up, & a place that I’ve come to consider as something like Canada’s Glastonbury, but where the myth has yet to be made. The day I filmed this, I hiked between Fergus & Elora along the Catarct Trail, and all along the Gorge in Elora, about seven hours of hiking in the end. I laid down near where I filmed this, on the edge of the water, across from a small cave, and just felt the wind & sun & the earth buzzing beneath me. The music is Otterly, by Cocteau Twins: www.cocteautwins.org.
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View more videos and live den cams here: http://foxes.channel4.com/dencams/live-dencams
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A documentary about travellers in England, featuring Neon Hitch (who is now a pop artist).
I went to a book talk & signing with Charles de Lint last week. He’s been among my favourite authors for about fifteen years, and this is the first chance I’ve had to see him in person. I was nervous talking to him when he was signing my books, but he was super nice and friendly and made conversation with me, even though he’d already signed a million books before me, and must have been exhausted.
Also in the video are Jay Asher and Leslie Livingston. I’m sorry I only focused on Charles de Lint; he was the one I was there to see, and I didn’t have enough battery or patience to film the entire thing.
Autumn in Yosemite National Park, by Henry Jun Wah Lee
The Clockwork forest (2011) from greyworld on Vimeo.
‘The Clockwork Forest’ is a public installation by art collective Greyworld in the woods of Grizedale, England.
Shared by designer Andrew Shoben at this year’s Design Indaba conference in South Africa, The Clockwork Forest involved a series of turnkeys being affixed to trees in the woods, inviting passersby to come closer and inspect them. The music that results from turning the key seems to turn the entire forest into one big music box, adding a layer of human-made sound to all of the natural sounds of wildlife in the woods.
Commissioned by the National Forestry Commission of England, The Clockwork Forest aims to foster interaction between the forest and its visitors. See more photographs of the project at Greyworld (via Design Boom).
Mmm, I like this. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of retellings of Little Red Riding Hood.
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a last storm
New “Super Earth” Found at Right Distance for Life
Dim star would give any atmosphere red glow, like “evening all the time.”
Imaged Above:An artist’s depiction of GJ 667Cc orbiting a red dwarf, with its binary companion stars in the distance. Illustration courtesy Guillem Anglada-Escudé, CIW
A new planet—probably a rocky super-Earth—has been found squarely within its star’s habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say.
The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. A binary pair of orange dwarf stars are part of the same system.
The new planet has a mass 4.5 times that of Earth and orbits its host star every 28 days.
The red dwarf is relatively dim, so the planet receives slightly less light from its star than Earth does from the sun. But most of the star’s light is infrared, so the planet should absorb more of its incoming energy than Earth does from sunlight.
That means if the planet has a rocky surface—which is predicted for planets less than ten times Earth’s mass—and an atmosphere, it could support liquid water and maybe life, said co-discoverer Guillem Anglada-Escudé, who conducted the work while at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
“If it has an atmosphere, it’s probably reddish all the time, because the star is really red,” Anglada-Escudé said. “It would be like being evening all the time.”
For any hypothetical observers on the surface, the binary stars in the distance would be “very prominent in the sky, and it would be an exotic thing.”
(via the-star-stuff)
This is completely mesmerising, like those playground clapping games.
(Or post-playground games - my sister & I can still clap faster than any kids I know.)
Arborea - A Little Time
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Little light shining,
Little light will guide them to me.
My face is all lit up,
My face is all lit up.
If they find me racing white horses,
They’ll not take me for a buoy.
Let me be weak,
Let me sleep
And dream of sheep.
Oh, I’ll wake up
To any sound of engines,
Ev’ry gull a seeking craft.
I can’t keep my eyes open—
Wish I had my radio.
I tune in to some friendly voices
Talking ‘bout stupid things.
I can’t be left to my imagination.
“Let me be weak,
Let me sleep
And dream of sheep.
Ooh, their breath is warm
And they smell like sleep,
And they say they take me home.
Like poppies heavy with seed
They take me deeper and deeper.”
monsterhugs: wingsuits/squirrel suits
In this time-lapse movie, the southern lights turn the sky into a cozy inferno
Last month, photographer Alex Cherney photographed aurora australis igniting the Australian night. This breathtaking red aurora was caused by particles from January’s solar storms exciting oxygen in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
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