Photograph by Robin Loznak
"Light shines through the gills of a wild mushroom found growing in a damp, forested area near Elkton, Oregon."
Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Photograph by Robin Loznak
"Light shines through the gills of a wild mushroom found growing in a damp, forested area near Elkton, Oregon."
"Acclaimed Argentinian director Juan Pablo Zaramella just released a masterful stop motion short film entitled Luminaris.... Detailing a few summative days in the lives of two lightbulb factory workers, Luminaris is a masterpiece in both its lighthearted depiction of the monotonies of assembly-line work and its quick-draw frame-by-frame storytelling...
Every frame is meticulously crafted, from the tousled hair of our male protagonist to the shadows creeping across cobblestone streets. The effect practically brightens the screen for you." The CreatorsProject
"The second edition of the Festival of Lights Ghent took place in the town centre of Ghent from 26 January until 29 January 2012. Last year the free event drew no less than 200,000 visitors, both from Belgium and abroad. An overwhelming success that exceeded by far the organiser’s - the city of Ghent - highest expectations!"
"This year the light festival’s theme is ‘Happiness’, which is not a coincidence since 2012 is the Maeterlinck Year in Ghent. On 9 November 1911 the Swedish Academy announced it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature that year to the author of Ghent origin, Maurice Maeterlinck. In 2011 it is exactly one hundred years ago, that Maurice Maeterlinck earned the highest literary prize and he still is the only Belgian writer to have received this honour."
"Prismatica acts as an extension of the visual and perceptual experimentations of my Enigmatica installations. The piece consists of arrangements of pyramid-shaped crystals affixed to an LCD screen and illuminated with programmed geometric animations. These animated patterns are precisely mapped to the vertices of the crystals, illuminating them individually and in formation. The animations are further refracted through the geometry of the crystals in accordance with the shifting perspective of the observer, which in turn alters the way the illuminations appear and interact with reflections of surrounding lights within the space."
"Try to imagine reddish green — not the dull brown you get when you mix the two pigments together, but rather a color that is somewhat like red and somewhat like green. Or, instead, try to picture yellowish blue — not green, but a hue similar to both yellow and blue.
Is your mind drawing a blank? That's because, even though those colors exist, you've probably never seen them. Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be impossible to see simultaneously.
The limitation results from the way we perceive color in the first place. Cells in the retina called "opponent neurons" fire when stimulated by incoming red light, and this flurry of activity tells the brain we're looking at something red. Those same opponent neurons are inhibited by green light, and the absence of activity tells the brain we're seeing green. Similarly, yellow light excites another set of opponent neurons, but blue light damps them. While most colors induce a mixture of effects in both sets of neurons, which our brains can decode to identify the component parts, red light exactly cancels the effect of green light (and yellow exactly cancels blue), so we can never perceive those colors coming from the same place.
Almost never, that is. Scientists are finding out that these colors can be seen — you just need to know how to look for them."
Photograph by Patrice Carlton
"I had planned a recent trip to Thailand in November to coincide with the Loy Krathong celebration because I had seen pictures of the floating lanterns being launched into the sky. However, nothing I had seen prepared me for the incredible magic of experiencing thousands of these lanterns floating into the night sky at once while monks chanted at the Lanna Meditation Center in Chiang Mai. It was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had."
Director : Daihei Shibata
"Life is transparent, warm and swirls randomly like a soft light.
And it constantly changes...
Life illuminates itself and then it begins to illuminates a new life.
A sprouted mass of innumerable lights become a flow before long,
and then become the part of the life-throb of ages.
That ties life, this moment now."
Researchers have studied these “diamonds” since the weevil’s discovery in the early 19th century but, until recently, no one knew know how the scales reflected so much light."
