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posts tagged "video"
Patrick Wolf playing ‘Teignmouth’, live recording at the Hilles House near Painswick in Gloucestershire, August 2012.
Patrick Wolf’s voice pretty much makes my panties peel themselves off.
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Symphonies of the Planets
There is no sound in the vacuum of space because sound needs a medium to travel through, but celestial objects can still make a “noise” with electromagnetic waves. On its journey to the edge of the solar system, the Voyager 1 Spacecraft recorded vibrations created by interactions between the charged particles of the solar wind and the magnetospheres of various planets and moons. These haunting soundscapes were sent home to Earth, and since the vibrations were between 20 hz to 20 khz—within the range of human hearing—we could convert them into sound.
The results are both stunningly familiar and utterly alien, and NASA even released an album of them. Realise that you’re not listening to human-made sounds, but instead to the solar weather of planets and moons.
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The Ilulissat Glacier of Greenland breaking up. The largest calving ever filmed.
“Filmmaker Julian Tay shot some footage of the 2012 New Year’s fireworks at Docklands in Melbourne, Australia and then decided to see what happened if he digitally reversed it. The result is strangely beautiful as all the little rockets move in reverse creating pretty counter-intuitive visuals, imploding into nothingness.”
― Christopher Jobson, This is What Fireworks Look Like in Reverse
The midnight sun (polar day) is a natural phenomenon in which the sun does not set during the summer. In other words, given fair weather, the sun is visible in the sky for a continuous 24 hours. This phenomenon occurs mostly north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle.
The duration of the midnight sun increases the farther poleward one goes. At Finland’s northernmost point, the sun does not set for 73 days during the summer. On the other hand, in Svalbard, Norway, there is no sunset from approximately April 19 to August 23. And at the North Pole, the sun is not visible for half a year.
Another phenomenon, its counterpart, called polar night, occurs in winter when the sun remains below the horizon throughout the day.
(video clip taken from BBC’s Planet Earth)
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The Chauvet Paleolithic Cave Paintings (32,000BC)
Polar Bear trying to eat a BBC photographer.
Richard Feynman on where trees come from. (skip to 2:30)
Kate Bush - The Sensual World.
It reminds me of when I was in my very early twenties, living in Montreal with my bestest friend, making little videos of us dressed up as faeries & dancing around with watery projections over us & glowy lights. I wonder what happened to those videos?
I don’t live in Montreal anymore, but she still does, so I only see her a few times a year. I saw her over Christmas in Elora, our old home by the gorge, & we read oracle cards & drank tea. I always miss her after each time I see her.
{ I’m Dreaming of a Blue Sunset · on Mars. }
with an open hand & a full heart; merry sweet & ghostly little christmas.
A little belated.
A breathtaking aurora from Earth’s largest geomagnetic storm in almost 10 years
Late last Sunday, the Sun unleashed an M9-class solar flare, showering Earth with subatomic particles that gave rise to one of the biggest geomagnetic storms in recent history. The resulting aurorae, which were even brighter than usual in the planet’s northernmost latitudes, were an absolute marvel to behold.
Shown here is a video shot in Sweden’s Abisko National Park by Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakely. This brief but beautiful time-lapse was shot over the course of three hours, and is one of the more impressive videos that we’ve had the pleasure of enjoying in the days following the storm.
I completely understand how Philip Pullman wrote the northern lights into his His Dark Materials series as portals to another world.
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A rare video of a mother polar bear nursing her cubs. From the Polar Bear Cam in Churchill, Nov 2012.
If anyone needs me, I’m going to be regressing into a 5 year old child and squealing with delight over the absurd cuteness of this video.
Cat playing and trying to cuddle with … wait for it… dolphins.
kittie & dolphins forever.
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