Light Apparitions

Some nice light experiments made with mirrors by Suzy Poling:






Thanks for the submission Suzy!

No Echo

A compelling series of images from Dan Holdsworth:

City Silhouettes

Excellent series of photos by photographer Jasper James:






I was trying to figure out how he did these... with a quick glance they appear to be reflections with simply a darker silhouette (which sounds obvious), but on closer inspection I don't think they are. I reckon they're double exposures of sorts, two images superimposed.

The Formula of the Locked Potentials in Universal Ratios

Another crazy cool diagram by the scientific-mystic Walter Russell, from his Periodic Table of Elements:



Walter Russell - Periodic Table of Elements - Flickr set

Space-Time Cloak Possible, Could Make Events Disappear?

Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News
Published July 11, 2011

"It's no illusion: Science has found a way to make not just objects but entire events disappear, experts say.

According to new research by British physicists, it's theoretically possible to create a material that can hide an entire bank heist from human eyes and surveillance cameras.

"The concepts are basically quite simple," said Paul Kinsler, a physicist at Imperial College London, who created the idea with colleagues Martin McCall and Alberto Favaro.

Unlike invisibility cloaks—some of which have been made to work at very small scales—the event cloak would do more than bend light around an object.
Instead this cloak would use special materials filled with metallic arrays designed to adjust the speed of light passing through.

In theory, the cloak would slow down light coming into the robbery scene while the safecracker is at work. When the robbery is complete, the process would be reversed, with the slowed light now racing to catch back up.

If the "before" and "after" visions are seamlessly stitched together, there should be no visible trace that anything untoward has happened. One second there's a closed safe, and the next second the safe has been emptied."

Read the full article here »


Nocturne 113 by CHad Wys

Attributes for <IMG ...>

So, pretty much every time I create a blog post I do a search for the HTML image tag to grab and use... mainly with all the attributes; HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALT. I should remember it really, but it avoids small mistakes with missing quote marks, etc.:

<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=500 ALT="Planetary Folklore">

I figure if I'm using it so much I ought to add an article - and grab the code from here!
Some info on this tag:

– WIDTH and HEIGHT tell the browser the dimensions of the image. The browser can use this information to reserve space for the image as it contructs the page, even before the image has downloaded.
– WIDTH and HEIGHT are not required:

<IMG SRC="image.gif" ALT="Planetary Folklore">

– WIDTH and HEIGHT do not have to be the same dimensions as the actual picture. If you set different dimensions the image will be stretched or shrunk to accomodate the dimensions.
– You can use percentages instead of pixel widths. Percentages are of the available width or height that the image could fill - when using percentages be sure to enclose the value in quotes:

<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 HEIGHT="50%" ALT="Planetary Folklore">

– You can specify only one of WIDTH or HEIGHT, and generally browsers will render the image so that the ratio of height to width stays the same:

<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 ALT="Planetary Folklore">

– Always use the ALT attribute

HTML Images - HTML Code Tutorial

Invented Conglomerations

Val Britton makes immersive, collaged works on paper that draw on the language of maps.

The impetus for this body of work was my longing to connect to my father, a truck driver who drove eighteen-wheelers across the country; he died when I was a teenager. Based on road maps of the United States, routes my father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration, mutation, and fragmentation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know.