Empty offices filled with soft pink light?
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Moscow 21 may 2010
The sun was setting. Shining through Ian's ear illuminating the blood inside, it cast a pink glow on his neck.
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Raspberry molecules
'Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it tastes vaguely of raspberries.'
Guardian.co.uk Tuesday 21 April 2009 00.05 BST
Guardian.co.uk Tuesday 21 April 2009 00.05 BST
Sunday, 19 April 2009
An email
An email from jcmegabyte, a creator of time lapse videos of clouds...
'As for clouds and odd colors, well it's all very scientific. Believers in UFOs, government conspiracies and such will happily invent their own reasons (HAARP, chemtrails, etc.), but basically, the colors are caused by particles and gases in the earth's atmosphere filtering and scattering certain colors of light, while allowing others. This has been going on since the earth had an atmosphere - long before mankind had any ability to affect it.
The more air the sun has to shine through (i.e. at low sun angles such as sunrise and sunset), the more of the high frequency light (blues, violets) are filtered out, leaving the lower frequency reds, oranges and pinks to light up whatever they hit, in this case, clouds. This effect is even more pronounced when there is a lot of pollution (from humans, volcanoes, etc.) in the air. When the sun is more overhead, there is less air to penetrate so more of the blues (and UV) get through, causing a more white light.
Interestingly, light and water works just the opposite - blue light penetrates deeper while the reds are filtered out, causing light underwater to be virtually void of any red color unless one (underwater photographers, etc.) brings an artificial light along. '
'As for clouds and odd colors, well it's all very scientific. Believers in UFOs, government conspiracies and such will happily invent their own reasons (HAARP, chemtrails, etc.), but basically, the colors are caused by particles and gases in the earth's atmosphere filtering and scattering certain colors of light, while allowing others. This has been going on since the earth had an atmosphere - long before mankind had any ability to affect it.
The more air the sun has to shine through (i.e. at low sun angles such as sunrise and sunset), the more of the high frequency light (blues, violets) are filtered out, leaving the lower frequency reds, oranges and pinks to light up whatever they hit, in this case, clouds. This effect is even more pronounced when there is a lot of pollution (from humans, volcanoes, etc.) in the air. When the sun is more overhead, there is less air to penetrate so more of the blues (and UV) get through, causing a more white light.
Interestingly, light and water works just the opposite - blue light penetrates deeper while the reds are filtered out, causing light underwater to be virtually void of any red color unless one (underwater photographers, etc.) brings an artificial light along. '
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Friday, 27 February 2009
A false lead
On reading (again in a free newspaper, on the 24th February 2008) that the following morning, artist Stuart Semple was going to release smiley-faced pink clouds over the capital from outside Tate Modern on London’s South Bank, I wondered (not necessarily in this order):
Could this be the cause of the pink glow?
- I had seen the pink glow for myself from this very location in November -
Was the pink glow a remnant of a trial run for the artist?
How could one control the appearance of a cloud?
Was this the end of my investigation in to the pink glow?
With some trepidation I arrived on the South Bank at 9am on Wednesday 25th February 2009 to witness the event. I was at first disappointed and then relieved to find I had followed a false lead made of helium, soap and vegetable dye.
Stuart Semple's Happy Cloud
I spent an hour watching the somewhat melancholy smileys drifting over the Thames, feeling a sense of community spirit as I held my mobile phone wistfully up to the sky in unison with my fellow cloudspotters.
I asked myself, had I really been expecting to see a spectacle akin to the aurora borealis emerge smiling from a cloud making machine?
Could this be the cause of the pink glow?
- I had seen the pink glow for myself from this very location in November -
Was the pink glow a remnant of a trial run for the artist?
How could one control the appearance of a cloud?
Was this the end of my investigation in to the pink glow?
With some trepidation I arrived on the South Bank at 9am on Wednesday 25th February 2009 to witness the event. I was at first disappointed and then relieved to find I had followed a false lead made of helium, soap and vegetable dye.
Stuart Semple's Happy Cloud
I spent an hour watching the somewhat melancholy smileys drifting over the Thames, feeling a sense of community spirit as I held my mobile phone wistfully up to the sky in unison with my fellow cloudspotters.
I asked myself, had I really been expecting to see a spectacle akin to the aurora borealis emerge smiling from a cloud making machine?
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Chinese candle light
A day in early December. Sunlight enters my living room. It illuminates a red lacquered Chinese noodle flask, casting pink light on to the wall behind an extinguished candle.
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