At 5pm you can see it is still light out and that has always been a liberating experience for me, that first day of the 9-5 drudgery where you walk […]
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Moon and Autumn Leaves
(click to enlarge) Filed under: Light
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: At The Breaking of Day
Day broke, a liquid egg: Filed under: Light
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Sunrise
Photo by Lilian (click to enlarge) And then this: a gift freely given every day. Clouds floating on a sky like water. Fire above, mysteries of home below. Filed under: Light Tagged: spirituality
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Wacky Wednesday on ParliamAnt Hill
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fair-elections-act-draws-more-heat-in-question-period-1.2604045 and http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trade-minister-ed-fast-accused-of-targeting-ndp-mp-with-gun-gesture-1.2604588
Continue readingThings Are Good: Nifty Looking Glow in the Dark Paths
Saving energy is always a good thing, and sometimes that means turning out the streetlights. As a result, pathways go unlit and this can be problematic for cyclists and pedestrians. Enter a new surface treatment that glows in the dark for free night time illumination known as Starpath. Seeing that
Continue readingcartoon life: Looking back 1 v.2
I think I fixed the composition problems from the first version. Looking back on Vernazza in the Parco Nazionalle de Cinque Terre, Italy. Filed under: art Tagged: art, Cinque Terre, good stuff, italy, landscape, light, mountains, seascape
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Stopping Light or Stopping Time?
I don’t get it but apparently German scientists managed to stop, or I suppose “arrest”, light for one full minute. In light speed, that’s about 18-million kilometres. While light normally travels at just under 300 million metres per second in a vacuum, physicists managed to slow it down to just
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat in blinding bright light
Filed under: art Tagged: bright, Cat, light
Continue readingcartoon life: Lampshade in filter fun
Some more fooling around in Popsicolor. The results are so dramatic. Just don’t know what to do with them with the image is so strong. Playing with a flat colour field yields some interesting textures and abstractions. Filed under: art Tagged: filter, Lampshade, light, Popsicolor
Continue readingcartoon life: The lamp above the couch
Filed under: art Tagged: couch, Lamp, light
Continue readingThings Are Good: LED Street Lights Save Los Angeles Millions
Four years ago Los Angeles decided to change its street lighting to LEDs and the results have come in and the savings are phenomenal. They have converted a little over half of all their street lights and are already saving $5,325,793 annually in lighting costs. It’s worth noting that LEDs
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Dreamscapes: The Stars Go Out
In the dream, we know something is wrong when I notice the constellations have all disappeared. All that remains in the night sky is the deep black of space, and a few sets of stars — in triplets and doubles, … Continue reading →
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