2024 April 12

Total Totality Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona

Explanation: Baily’s beads often appear at the boundaries of the total phase of an eclipse of the Sun. Pearls of sunlight still beaming through gaps in the rugged terrain along the lunar limb silhouette, their appearance is recorded in this dramatic timelapse composite. The series of images follows the Moon’s edge from beginning through the end of totality during April 8’s solar eclipse from Durango, Mexico. They also capture pinkish prominences of plasma arcing high above the edge of the active Sun. One of the first places in North America visited by the Moon’s shadow on April 8, totality in Durango lasted about 3 minutes and 46 seconds.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240412.html

Just under four minutes of quiet, dark stillness. The nearby crows were (once again, as they were in 2017) very much not a fan as totality approached.

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024

ALFREDO JUÁREZ | RAMI ASTRO | JOSHUA INTINI | KENDALL RUST | DERAN HALL | KUZCOKHANDA | TREVOR MAHLMANN | OTHINGSTODO | NASA | STEVEN RATNIK

what really, really doesn't translate through photos is how strange the lighting during an eclipse actually is. Finally figured out what it is though - the lighting at like maybe 70~80%ish coverage is remarkably similar to the type of lighting produced by shitty old white LEDs on the brink of death. That's an extremely indoors, artificial kind of lighting, but it happens outside, which makes it really surreal.

RIGHT before totality, the lighting shifted again to be extremely similar to what it looks like when you're wearing shitty sunglasses. You can tell that the color of the light is still white, but now there's a weird dark overlay on top of your entire field of vision. I was distracted trying to look at a bee when it hit, and in the moment I tried to take off a pair of sunglasses I was not wearing so that I could see the bee better. And then I remembered that I'm not fucking wearing sunglasses, and it was because of the eclipse.

During totality it was like actual nighttime, right after sundown where you can still see some of the light from the sun right under the horizon, except without any of the reddish hues you get out of a real sunset + obviously the light is coming from above still. I can't emphasize enough, the hue of the light remains white the entire time. It really is like someone is just dimming the artificial white lights in an interior space. So so cool. I don't know why both my phone camera and nikon adds a yellowish tint to all of these photos.

crickets chirped their nighttime songs for a few brief minutes

040824 Eclipse

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For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3

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We really did something when we invented prism deck lights...

"Oh hi don't notice me, just your friendly neighborhood FUNCTIONAL SEMIPRECIOUS GEMSTONE"

This is a seriously underexploited aesthetic. Like yes crystals are all the rage and we've seen salt rock lamps, and there's a French designer doing some cool stuff with lighting forced through prisms of imperfect stone

but I feel like there is SO MUCH MORE OUT THERE to do!

I like all the crystal suncatchers out there, except that the crystals are SO SHINY that every so often a concentrated beam of light meanders directly into your retina. They need to learn to chill out a bit.

Ooh but this involves a special interest of mine! Manganese glass! Because those prisms aren't made of amethyst and that glass was not originally purple!

So humans have been trying to get glass 'water clear' forever and we've experimented with adding all sorts of stuff to our glass recipes to prevent that slightly greenish tinge you get with really old glass. Back when these were being made the stuff we added was manganese dioxide and it made the glass perfectly water clear - unless it had prolonged exposure to sunlight. Which is the whole purpose of these things. Glass with manganese dioxide in it would turn purple over time, I collect sun turned glass and some of the stuff I've got has the barest hint of purple, some is a deep dark amethyst like these prisms. We stopped using manganese dioxide around the early part of the 20th century because we found stuff that worked better and didn't discolor over time. So if you're thrifting and find glass with a purple tint then you can be pretty sure it's at least 100 years old - maybe as old as 170 because we started using manganese dioxide widely in the mid 19th century!

Yanina Couture

Growing.

Rainbow mo

made some film soup (soaked color film in various Liquids after exposing it) and was really pleasantly surprised by how fun they turned out! photos all shot around my neighborhood or in my apartment in an attempt to use up some expired color film. one roll was soaked in dish soap + kosher salt + boiling water and the other was soaked in boiling red wine. 

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To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

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