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Public art installation on the underside of the Don Mills Road Bridge, Toronto.
"Set against the backdrop of Toronto’s infamous Don River, cross sections of a canoe are scattered, divided and sunken into a concrete landscape. This large-scale installation pays tribute to the river’s long and tumultuous history, suggesting a civic call to action — a fierce reclamation and reconnection to Toronto’s waterways."
This sculpture is in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and was created byTwin Cities-based artist Angela Two Stars, It is titled Okciyapi (Help Each Other). This sculpture was created in response to an earlier sculpture, Gallows, that was intended to call attention to several public hangings in the United States including 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota in 1862. The latter became the source of the controversy with many residents finding it a cause of anguish. The original art was dismantled and ceremoniously buried with full cooperation of the artist.
Okciyapi (Help Each Other) is simultaneously a sculptural form, a gathering space, and a participatory work that provides a site for visitors to engage with Dakota language. The sculpture’s ringed configuration of seating elements made from custom-cast concrete makes reference to a rippling drop of water. Inspired by the legacy of her grandfather, Orsen Bernard, and all those working in Dakota language revitalization, the ripple effect represents Dakota language knowledge spreading across generations of speakers. The water vessel in the center serves as a reminder that the name Minnesota is derived from the Dakota phrase; Mni Sota Makoce, the land where the water reflects the clouds. The work incorporates audio, text, and medicinal plants native to the state, which represent a healing reconnection with Dakota language and culture. Navigation of the space represents the artist’s language journey and offers an invitation for the audience to join. Two Stars has conceived of the work in seven sections, representing the Oceti Sakowin, meaning People of Seven Council Fires, known also as the Great Sioux Nation. This group, which includes speakers of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota dialects, is made up of the Wahpekute, Wahpetunwan, Sisistunwan, Bdwakantunwan, Ihanktunwan, Ihanktunwanna, and Titunwan. Members of the Oceti Sakowin nations live primarily in areas now known as Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, as well as in Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada. [Adapted from Walker Art Center website] HBM
Let this be my farewell picture after 15 months in the United States, a time of reconnection with family and friends, a time of work under unforeseen circumstances, in the shadow of a White House lost in "fire and fury", but also a time of discovering jewels of nature and awe-inspiring landscapes through the lens of my camera.
Remember Jesus. "Reconnection."
Painted alongside Demes and my good friend Inok from Switzerland, whom I hadn't seen in 10 years. I had such a great time hanging out and catching up, proving that true friendship transcends time and space.
Solar Orbiter has made the first ever remote sensing observation of a magnetic phenomenon called a solar ‘switchback’, proving their origin in the solar surface and pointing to a mechanism that might help accelerate the solar wind.
The central image shows the Sun as seen by the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on 25 March 2022. An active region on the Sun is indicated, which is thought to be the source of the observed ‘switchback’ identified in the solar corona by the Metis instrument.
An analysis of the outflow velocity in the corona shows that the switchback corresponds to very slow-moving plasma (image at right). This links it to the active region as such slow speeds would be expected above an active region that has yet to release its stored energy.
The magnetic field line sketches show the chain of events that are thought to be taking place in the magnetic field lines to generate the switchback. Active regions on the Sun can feature open and closed magnetic field lines. The closed lines arch up into the solar atmosphere before curving round back into the Sun. The open field lines connect with the interplanetary magnetic field of the Solar System. When an open magnetic region interacts with a closed region, the magnetic field lines can reconnect, creating an approximately S-shape field line and producing a burst of energy. As the field line responds to the reconnection and the release of energy, a kink is set propagating outwards. This is the switchback. A similar switchback is also sent in the opposite direction, down the field line and into the Sun.
This is the first ever remote sensing observation of a switchback, and may provide a mechanism that might help accelerate the solar wind.
Credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI & Metis Teams and D. Telloni et al. (2022); Zank et al. (2020)
Reconnection is the theme with Transport for Ireland with traveling again safely being promoted on GAI Buses as seen on 11525, Ex Dublin Bus Wrightbus Gemini 3/Volvo B5TL SG171 now 11525
A journey of personal growth and reconnection with Mother Earth from the values of sustainable development, agro-ecology and health.
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Rototom SunSplash 26º European Reggae Festival.
Benicàssim 16-22 August 2019 (Spain)
EXPLORE: 11/11/11 #316
near the Borghese Gardens...
What is so marvellous about photography is the ability it provides to revisit, re-experience, remember, and, in this case, re-interpret. I needed this reconnection to Rome, and now I'm off to bed again.
(now these daisies should be called eggplants!)
66798 is pictured working the 6G89 ex Hindlow quarry to Hams Hall stone for HS2 construction activities.
On the right, the disused Hillhead sidings are slowly rusting away, having not seen a train for months. These were opened in a fanfare of publicity in the summer of 2023 with green liveried 66796 working the inaugural loaded stone service.
The rationale behind the reconnection (Hillhead lost its original rail connection over 35 years ago) was to supply stone for the northern section of the HS2 construction, to ease the demands on Hindlow and nearby Tunstead quarries The cancellation of the northern leg of HS2 in 2024 saw the stone flow abruptly finish shortly after the announcement.
Due to the run round time at Buxton URS, I was able to get round to Great Rocks for a second shot, already uploaded.
Tuesday 30 July 2024
Hello Flickr Friends. Haven't posted a new picture in a week or so. I have tried to keep up with commenting on my contacts shot.
I have been very busy editing for another stock site and print work and to top it off another book.
Had a Cancer follow up treatment last week and got a big thumbs up from my Doc.
RA saw here surgeon this week and all is a go for her reconnection surgery on the 10th of January. Doc say she will be in the hospital 7-14 days. Said will be a long surgery. Probably 4+ hours. She is excited to get it done.
Will Try to keep up with your new posts but cant promise. Have a couple thousand at least shot to get edited.
This shot is from April 2010 in Texas. Working on the plan to go again this next April.
D
Wellington, New Zealand
I'm currently reading David Frisby's Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations, (Polity Press, London, 2001). The 3rd chapter, 'The City Interpreted: Georg Simmel's Metropolis', is the one I am interested in.
HBW!
Aurorae are produced by the collision of charged particles from Earth's magnetosphere, mostly electrons but also protons and heavier particles, with atoms and molecules of Earth's upper atmosphere (at altitudes above 80 km (50 miles). The particles have energies of 1 to 100 keV. They originate from the Sun and arrive at the vicinity of Earth in the relatively low-energy solar wind. When the trapped magnetic field of the solar wind is favourably oriented (principally southwards) it reconnects with Earth's magnetic field, and solar particles enter the magnetosphere and are swept to the magnetotail. Further magnetic reconnection accelerates the particles towards Earth.
The collisions in the atmosphere electronically excite atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere. The excitation energy can be lost by light emission or collisions. Most aurorae are green and red emission from atomic oxygen. Molecular nitrogen and nitrogen ions produce some low level red and very high blue/violet aurorae. The light blue colors are produced by ionic nitrogen and the neutral nitrogen gives off the red and purple color with the rippled edges. Different gases interacting with the upper atmosphere will produce different colors, caused by the different compounds of oxygen and nitrogen. The level of solar wind activity from the Sun can also influence the color of the aurorae.[
From: Wikipedia
MMS Spacecraft Animation
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth's magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence. These processes occur in all astrophysical plasma systems but can be studied in situ only in our solar system and most efficiently only in Earth's magnetosphere, where they control the dynamics of the geospace environment and play an important role in the processes known as "space weather."
Learn more about MMS at www.nasa.gov/mms
Learn more about MMS at www.nasa.gov/mms
Credit NASA/Chris Gunn
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, will study how the sun and the Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This process is called magnetic reconnection and can occur throughout all space.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Du 22 Avril au 29 Mai, la Make Up For Ever Academy présente 27 de ses oeuvres photographiques dans une exposition intitulée « Nature Reconnection » dans les allées du Jardin d’Acclimatation.
Le 22 mai, c'était la Fête de Holi (fête des couleurs) au Jardin d'Acclimatation. A l'entrée principale, les participants étaient accueillis par une haie d'honneur de drapeaux.
Space Science image of the week:
Maybe you’re reading this caption while drinking a coffee. As you stir your drink with a spoon, vortices are produced in the liquid that decay into smaller eddies until they disappear entirely. This can be described as a cascade of vortices from large to small scales. Furthermore, the motion of the spoon brings the hot liquid into contact with the cooler air and so the heat from the coffee can escape more efficiently into the atmosphere, cooling it down.
A similar effect occurs in space, in the electrically charged atomic particles – solar wind plasma – blown out by our Sun, but with one key difference: in space there is no air. Although the energy injected into the solar wind by the Sun is transferred to smaller scales in turbulent cascades, just like in your coffee, the temperature in the plasma is seen to increase because there is no cool air to stop it.
How exactly the solar wind plasma is heated is a hot topic in space physics, because it is hotter than expected for an expanding gas and almost no collisions are present. Scientists have suggested that the cause of this heating may be hidden in the turbulent character of the solar wind plasma.
Advanced supercomputer simulations are helping to understand these complex motions: the image shown here is from one such simulation. It represents the distribution of the current density in the turbulent solar wind plasma, where localised filaments and vortices have appeared as a consequence of the turbulent energy cascade. The blue and yellow colours show the most intense currents (blue for negative and yellow for positive values).
These coherent structures are not static, but evolve in time and interact with each other. Moreover, between the islands, the current becomes very intense, creating high magnetic stress regions and sometimes a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection. That is, when magnetic field lines of opposite direction get close together they can suddenly realign into new configurations, releasing vast amounts of energy that can cause localised heating.
Such events are observed in space, for example by ESA’s Cluster quartet of satellites in Earth orbit, in the solar wind. Cluster also found evidence for turbulent eddies down to a few tens of kilometres as the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.
This cascade of energy may contribute to the overall heating of the solar wind, a topic that ESA’s future Solar Orbiter mission will also try to address.
In the meantime, enjoy studying turbulent cascades of vortices in your coffee!
More information: Perrone et al. (2013) ; Servidio et al. (2015) and Valentini et al. (2016).
Credit: D. Perrone et al
This is a portrait of myself getting ready to transition from my everyday afro to a protective braided style, which I taught myself to do largely through YouTube tutorials over the years (the hair extensions I use are hanging behind me, forming a colourful backdrop).
For many Black women, hair plays an important role in our identity, in all the myriad ways we wear it. My personal hair journey, especially as someone whose natural hair is the tightest coil texture labelled 4C, has been long, and in some ways traumatic.
My hair has been shaved off entirely three times in my life - the first two times against my will, but the third time by my own hand, in full control.
The first time was when I was five years old, likely a case of lice, but coinciding with the year my family packed up and moved across the continent from Nigeria to Kenya.
The second time my head was shaved was when I was 12 years old, happening the year we moved back to Nigeria as a sort of grim bookend. Amidst the culture shock and familial reconnection, I was taken from having my hair braided for school to a barbershop to shave it all off, because the adults realized belatedly that the dress code for my new boarding school demanded it.
The third time my hair was shaved, I was 25 years old, and I did it myself, in full control of my choice this time. I had grown it out and had been perming it for several years by then, but one morning I woke up, looked at the tight curls of new growth in the mirror contrasting against the straightened ends, and with very little thought, took a pair of scissors and cut it all off.
This time, it was both my choice and a deeper embrace of my original hair texture fueled by a new wave of YouTube hair channels specific to my hair type, which gave me the confidence that I could actually work with what grew naturally from my scalp, unmediated.
Ten years in, wash days and braiding days while they may be long, remind me that I am choosing myself, over and over again, and that brings me the greatest joy.
Dans la culture amérindienne Pueblos, la Kiva représente à la fois un lieu hautement spirituel et social. C’est un lieu de communication avec les morts, le ciel et les esprits, et par ailleurs un point de ralliement du village pour les cérémonies et les rituels.
Dans ce jardin dominé par le blanc, les promeneurs sont d’abord invités à cheminer dans trois abris symbolisant chacun une part fondamentale de l’Homme : le corps, l’esprit et l’âme.
C’est en se dirigeant vers la “maison de l’âme” que le dôme de la Kiva, resté caché jusque-là, apparaît comme flottant sur un nuage. L’intérieur offre un espace dépouillé et plongé dans la pénombre, ceint d’un unique banc circulaire, d’où les promeneurs contemplent ensemble la voûte céleste créée par un puits de lumière.
Ce jardin vise une expérience collective de reconnexion à la Nature et à soi-même. Sa structure, entre matériaux de récupération et végétal vivant, invite à porter un regard vertueux sur notre société et notre mode de vie à venir. Il nous parle aussi de cette part insaisissable de l’esprit humain, de cette nécessité de croire à un au-delà transcendantal, que l’on nomme spiritualité.
In the Pueblo Native American culture, the Kiva represents both a highly spiritual and social place. It is a place of communication with the dead, the sky and the spirits, and also a rallying point of the village for ceremonies and rituals.
In this garden dominated by the white, the walkers are first invited to walk in three shelters symbolizing each one a fundamental part of the Man: the body, the spirit and the soul.
It is while heading towards the "house of the soul" that the dome of the Kiva, remained hidden until then, appears as floating on a cloud. The interior offers a space stripped and plunged into the dark, surrounded by a single circular bench, from which walkers contemplate together the sky created by a skylight.
This garden is a collective experience of reconnection to Nature and to oneself. Its structure, between recycled materials and living plant, invites us to take a virtuous look at our society and our way of life to come. He also speaks to us of this elusive part of the human mind, of the need to believe in a transcendental beyond, which is called spirituality.
Soon I'll be reconnected with one of my favorite locations in Australia, Tasmania! Next week I will set off on a 5 day journey up the East coast of Tassie with a group of other great photographers. I can't wait to get back there and do things a little different than last time and hopefully walk away with some brilliant images!
Deelerwoud, the south-eastern part (1230 hectares), which is in the possession of Natuurmonumenten is largely accessible to the public. The area is via a wildlife crossing over the (highway) A50 connected to the Veluwe National Park.
Deelerwoud, het zuidoostelijk deel, dat in bezit is van de Vereniging Natuurmonumenten van 1230 hectare. Dit zuidoostelijke deel is grotendeels voor het publiek toegankelijk. Het gebied wordt via een ecoduct over de A50 verbonden met het Nationaal Park Veluwezoom.
Wildlife crossing
Wildlife crossings are structures that allow animals to cross human-made barriers safely. Wildlife crossings may include: underpass tunnels, viaducts, and overpasses (mainly for large or herd-type animals); amphibian tunnels; fish ladders; tunnels and culverts (for small mammals such as otters, hedgehogs, and badgers); green roofs (for butterflies and birds).
Wildlife crossings are a practice in habitat conservation, allowing connections or reconnections between habitats, combating habitat fragmentation.
History and location
The first wildlife crossings were constructed in France during the 1950s (Chilson 2003). European countries including the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and France have been using various crossing structures to reduce the conflict between wildlife and roads for several decades and use a variety of overpasses and underpasses to protect and reestablish wildlife such as: amphibians, badgers, ungulates, invertebrates, and other small mammals (Bank et al. 2002).
The Humane Society of the United States reports that the more than 600 tunnels installed under major and minor roads in the Netherlands have helped to substantially increase population levels of the endangered European Badger. The longest "ecoduct" viaduct, near Crailo in the Netherlands, runs 800 m and spans a highway, railway and golf course.
Wildlife crossings are becoming increasingly common in Canada and the United States. Recognizable wildlife crossings are found in Banff National Park in Alberta, where vegetated overpasses provide safe passage over the Trans-Canada Highway for bears, moose, deer, wolves, elk, and many other species (Clevenger 2007). The 24 wildlife crossings in Banff were constructed as part of a road improvement project in 1978 (Clevenger 2007). In the United States, thousands of wildlife crossings have been built in the past 30 years, including culverts, bridges, and overpasses. These have been used to protect Mountain Goats in Montana, Spotted Salamanders in Massachusetts, Bighorn Sheep in Colorado, Desert Tortoises in California, and endangered Florida Panthers in Florida (Chilson 2003).
Ecoducts, Netherlands
The Netherlands contains an impressive display of over 600 wildlife crossings (including underpasses and ecoducts) that have been used to protect the endangered European badger, as well as populations of wild boar, red deer, and roe deer. As of 2012, the Veluwe, 1000 square kilometers of woods, heathland and drifting sands, the largest lowland nature area in North Western Europe, contains nine ecoducts, 50 meters wide on average, that are used to shuttle wildlife across highways that transect the Veluwe. The first two ecoducts on the Veluwe were built around 1985 across the A50 when the highway was constructed. Five of the other ecoducts on the Veluwe were built across existing highways, one was built across a two lane provincial road. The two ecoducts across the A50 were used by nearly 5,000 deer and wild boar during a one year period (Bank et al. 2002). The Netherlands also boasts the world's longest ecoduct-wildlife overpass called the Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo (sand quarry nature bridge at Crailo) (Danby 2004). The massive structure, completed in 2006, is 50 m wide and over 800 m long and spans a railway line, business park, river, roadway, and sports complex (Danby 2004). Monitoring is currently underway to examine the effectiveness of this innovative project combining wildlife protection with urban development.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015 in Florida. Launch of the Atlas V rocket will carry the four identical MMS spacecraft into orbit to provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Photograph taken at an altitude of One hundred and three metres, at 13:07pm on Thursday 12th September 2013 off the A85 in front of The Four Seasons Hotel, a one time house built in the 1800's that has been subsequently extended into a luxury hotel on the shoreline of Loch Earn in St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland.
The sculptures are called "The Four Seasons" by Rob Mulholland, an installation artist who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1986 and is now acclaimed internationally. The figures suggest anticipation,awaiting the return of others on a distant passage, a sense of homecoming, a return to and reconnection with our ancestral roots. Time, the passing of it, and the cycle of seasons are also reflected according to the artist.
They stopped me in my tracks as I drove past, and I returned to photograph them, completely mesmerized by them.
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Known for its welcoming atmosphere and architectural concept familiar to past visitors, Sunbird offers a serene virtual experience filled with carefully crafted details.
More than a place, Sunbird is a feeling — a reconnection with simplicity, nature, and the beauty of small things. Whether you’re looking to photograph, socialize, or just contemplate, this is one of the must-see destinations in Second Life.
Every day, invisible magnetic explosions are happening around Earth, on the surface of the sun and across the universe. These explosions, known as magnetic reconnection, occur when magnetic field lines cross, releasing stored magnetic energy. Such explosions are a key way that clouds of charged particles — plasmas — are accelerated throughout the universe. In Earth’s magnetosphere — the giant magnetic bubble surrounding our planet — these magnetic reconnections can fling charged particles toward Earth, triggering auroras. Read more: go.nasa.gov/2mnMtDm
Video caption - In this simulation, a reconnection even pushes a blob of plasma toward Earth. The jet blown in the opposite direction wobbles due to the unstable conditions.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Yi-Hsin Liu/Joy Ng, producer
“when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what it is. it may be five mins. five hours. five days. five months. five years. a lifetime. let it manifest itself, the way it is meant to. it has an organic destiny. this way if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer from having been loved this authentically. souls come into, return, open, and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons, let them be who and what they are meant.”
― Nayyirah Waheed
Christmas, 2019
Everytime I say I’m picking up on things, it always jumps ahead of time. Here we are two months later. In Palestine, preparing for Christmas. I enjoyed watching Unforgiven on the flight here.
Doc: “How long can vacation be till we run out of money?”
Multi: “Long enough.”
Doc: “John, I’m serious. We’ve been laying low for so long, don’t you think it’s time...”
Multi: “I’m not ready yet. I don’t think I am.”
In a blinding flash while seeing the beautiful Christmas lights, I disappear. Not again...
***
Multi: “How am I back on the plane again? I didn’t want to come back after the dimension...”
Voice: “Perhaps, you did want to. It’s the reason you kept on living.”
Multi: “No, I don’t. You may have read my mind, but not my soul or heart.”
Voice: “Then why let go?”
Multi: “Because I made a promise...a promise to keep. After his death, I wanted to give up on superheroics...and retreat back into the land of peace.”
Voice: “But the world may never be that peaceful.”
Multi: “It’s reality, I know. Then in weeks we’ll be getting another year. A new decade. And who are you anyways? Where was the previous guardian?”
Voice: “I am Ethereal. Now the new keeper of the Energy. I have been here for the many centuries, but guarding and overlooking the spot...in human or earth numbers, it would be 44 years.”
Multi: “He died?”
Voice: “Yes. He fulfilled his destiny. Thousands of years of promises—he kept your powers alive in the family, and now he knows it’s safe with you.”
I can’t say that I’m trapped here, if I did, there would be no escape, but I assume the last essence of the previous guardian brought me here again. The new guardian—this lady, she seemed know me a lot. A being of pure physical energy reading everything out of my like a book.
Multi: “I’ve done something...which I already had to shy away from my team. I gave up my position, I lost my apprentice, and I wanted to have these powers go away...”
Ethereal: “But you couldn’t. You held back. You knew the existence of some younger ones—the new wave of heroes.”
Multi: “I acknowledge that too.”
Ethereal: “And your adventures in the dimension?”
Multi: “What?”
Ethereal: “You went across dimensions and have saved it multiple times. That is a great feat to be achieved...and is no easy task. The guardian also left a message saying that you should be in charge of all powers. You’re the last person to ever do so, Multi Sharp. He trusted you for a reason.”
Multi: “He did?”
Ethereal: “Yes. He saw the pain consuming you. But he did not take that power away...it wasn’t for punishment reasons, it was for you to learn to let go, which you had with your friend.”
Multi: “Yeah. Can’t explain why I’m still single, eh?”
Ethereal: “Love is a path that you must discover, so I cannot answer that. But that love...it can heal. It can mend wounds. You’ve already answered questions yourself, and you solved it. And shelving the past...you have to let go.”
Multi: “I still can’t...I need time...”
Ethereal: “But it would be too late when your friends truly need you. You’re very powerful. Capable of demonstrating much abilities. And that is my purpose to guide you in enhancing your powers—taming it and meditating as well, among other things.”
Multi: “Well then...perhaps I have gained a new friend here today. And where do I start first?”
Ethereal: “Reconnection? Multi Sharp, this is your own path of journey...you have to figure it out to to self again. Forge it. Now, close your eyes...and feel it.”
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I swear that was almost out of a Star Wars segment, it’s seriously Force like. Very spiritual and scientific in many ways speaking. Only I could inhabit that. Her words still rung in my head. Journey. Perhaps...it’s come to an end here but a new beginning? With some next gen heroes on the way? I don’t know, but I have to find out.
Then I woke up.
Doc: “John? You asleep? You’ve been out cold for 10 minutes. I guess jet lag has a toll on us, eh?”
Multi: “Yeah, feels like hours to me...I had a great dream, going inside the plane again...”
Doc: “Plane? What plane? We landed a couple hours ago.”
Multi: “No, it’s a higher state...only I can reach it. But anyways, I just wanna say we should stay here for two more nights, finish our fun and then leave.”
Doc: “Huh, ok then. What are your plans?”
Multi: Christmas dinner first. Decorating my home again. It’s about time I went back to see my dog and my friends. And some potential recruits which I kinda know a lot about them.”
Doc: “You don’t say...”
Multi: “Yes. We’re going to forge more bonds on the way. I have much info we maybe able to reform.
Dans la culture amérindienne Pueblos, la Kiva représente à la fois un lieu hautement spirituel et social. C’est un lieu de communication avec les morts, le ciel et les esprits, et par ailleurs un point de ralliement du village pour les cérémonies et les rituels.
Dans ce jardin dominé par le blanc, les promeneurs sont d’abord invités à cheminer dans trois abris symbolisant chacun une part fondamentale de l’Homme : le corps, l’esprit et l’âme.
C’est en se dirigeant vers la “maison de l’âme” que le dôme de la Kiva, resté caché jusque-là, apparaît comme flottant sur un nuage. L’intérieur offre un espace dépouillé et plongé dans la pénombre, ceint d’un unique banc circulaire, d’où les promeneurs contemplent ensemble la voûte céleste créée par un puits de lumière.
Ce jardin vise une expérience collective de reconnexion à la Nature et à soi-même. Sa structure, entre matériaux de récupération et végétal vivant, invite à porter un regard vertueux sur notre société et notre mode de vie à venir. Il nous parle aussi de cette part insaisissable de l’esprit humain, de cette nécessité de croire à un au-delà transcendantal, que l’on nomme spiritualité.
In the Pueblo Native American culture, the Kiva represents both a highly spiritual and social place. It is a place of communication with the dead, the sky and the spirits, and also a rallying point of the village for ceremonies and rituals.
In this garden dominated by the white, the walkers are first invited to walk in three shelters symbolizing each one a fundamental part of the Man: the body, the spirit and the soul.
It is while heading towards the "house of the soul" that the dome of the Kiva, remained hidden until then, appears as floating on a cloud. The interior offers a space stripped and plunged into the dark, surrounded by a single circular bench, from which walkers contemplate together the sky created by a skylight.
This garden is a collective experience of reconnection to Nature and to oneself. Its structure, between recycled materials and living plant, invites us to take a virtuous look at our society and our way of life to come. He also speaks to us of this elusive part of the human mind, of the need to believe in a transcendental beyond, which is called spirituality.
After trying to process yesterday's election news, I walked to Lake Michigan at the end of South Pier. Lake Michigan is a grounding element in my life. The visit helped a bit. This is a view from the bluff where I often stand and admire the moods of Lake Michigan.
Installation description from the in/future website;
Toronto-based sustainable arts enterprise Labspace Studio (John Loerchner & Laura Mendes) intervenes into the side of one of Ontario Place’s silos in Passage, embedding sections of old canoes.
Mirroring the state of Toronto’s historic and fractured portage route that once connected Lake Ontario to the Northern Great Lakes, Passage reflects on the canoe as a symbol of Canadian heritage.
Exploring the original purpose of silos at Ontario Place (as pavilions dedicated to educating Torontonians about Ontario’s North), Labspace Studio questions Toronto’s current relationship to its waterfront. Passage’s truncated, damaged canoes suggests a need for newfound care, reclamation, and reconnection to Ontario’s waterways.
Of course there's a story to this.
But I look back at, gosh, over ten years of photo shoot stories, they all start to sound similar. Found somebody to shoot, met up with them, maybe there was a hitch or two, we persevered, ended up not only with some decent photos, but having had a good ol' time.
And a fine Ur-story it is!
But putting fingers to keyboard...you've heard it, I've told it.
How'd I end up in Berkeley shooting May? Why were we in the middle of the street? How'd I find someone to hold a bounce for me?
The answers are, after all this time, a bit mundane.
But the joy I was feeling at this moment, that's still so rich I can taste it. She was a model I'd wanted to shoot for months. Katelyn, holding the bounce, was a friend I'd lost contact with, and was so glad to have had an excuse for a reconnection.
It was the thrill of success, everything was working out, everybody was having a good time, I was playing some music from my phone, an R&B mix I'd put together for this very reason.
And we'd already done another shoot that day, which had Also turned out better than expected.
When I took this picture, everything was right with the world. And that never gets old.
MMS Spacecraft Animation
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth's magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence. These processes occur in all astrophysical plasma systems but can be studied in situ only in our solar system and most efficiently only in Earth's magnetosphere, where they control the dynamics of the geospace environment and play an important role in the processes known as "space weather."
Learn more about MMS at www.nasa.gov/mms
Learn more about MMS at www.nasa.gov/mms
Credit NASA/Goddard
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, will study how the sun and the Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This process is called magnetic reconnection and can occur throughout all space.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The ultimate energy source of the aurora is the solar wind flowing past the Earth. The magnetosphere and solar wind consist of plasma (ionized gas), which conducts electricity. It is well known (since Michael Faraday's [1791 – 1867] work around 1830) that when an electrical conductor is placed within a magnetic field while relative motion occurs in a direction that the conductor cuts across (or is cut by), rather than along, the lines of the magnetic field, an electric current is said to be induced into that conductor and electrons will flow within it. The amount of current flow is dependent upon a) the rate of relative motion, b) the strength of the magnetic field, c) the number of conductors ganged together and d) the distance between the conductor and the magnetic field, while the direction of flow is dependent upon the direction of relative motion. Dynamos make use of this basic process ("the dynamo effect"), any and all conductors, solid or otherwise are so affected including plasmas or other fluids.
In particular the solar wind and the magnetosphere are two electrically conducting fluids with such relative motion and should be able (in principle) to generate electric currents by "dynamo action", in the process also extracting energy from the flow of the solar wind. The process is hampered by the fact that plasmas conduct easily along magnetic field lines, but not so easily perpendicular to them. So it is important that a temporary magnetic connection be established between the field lines of the solar wind and those of the magnetosphere, by a process known as magnetic reconnection. It happens most easily with a southward slant of interplanetary field lines, because then field lines north of Earth approximately match the direction of field lines near the north magnetic pole (namely, into Earth), and similarly near the south magnetic pole. Indeed, active auroras (and related "substorms") are much more likely at such times. Electric currents originating in such way apparently give auroral electrons their energy. The magnetospheric plasma has an abundance of electrons: some are magnetically trapped, some reside in the magnetotail, and some exist in the upward extension of the ionosphere, which may extend (with diminishing density) some 25,000 km around Earth.
Bright auroras are generally associated with Birkeland currents (Schield et al., 1969;[29] Zmuda and Armstrong, 1973[30]) which flow down into the ionosphere on one side of the pole and out on the other. In between, some of the current connects directly through the ionospheric E layer (125 km); the rest ("region 2") detours, leaving again through field lines closer to the equator and closing through the "partial ring current" carried by magnetically trapped plasma. The ionosphere is an ohmic conductor, so such currents require a driving voltage, which some dynamo mechanism can supply. Electric field probes in orbit above the polar cap suggest voltages of the order of 40,000 volts, rising up to more than 200,000 volts during intense magnetic storms.
Ionospheric resistance has a complex nature, and leads to a secondary Hall current flow. By a strange twist of physics, the magnetic disturbance on the ground due to the main current almost cancels out, so most of the observed effect of auroras is due to a secondary current, the auroral electrojet. An auroral electrojet index (measured in nanotesla) is regularly derived from ground data and serves as a general measure of auroral activity.
However, ohmic resistance is not the only obstacle to current flow in this circuit. The convergence of magnetic field lines near Earth creates a "mirror effect" that turns back most of the down-flowing electrons (where currents flow upwards), inhibiting current-carrying capacity. To overcome this, part of the available voltage appears along the field line ("parallel to the field"), helping electrons overcome that obstacle by widening the bundle of trajectories reaching Earth; a similar "parallel potential" is used in "tandem mirror" plasma containment devices. A feature of such voltage is that it is concentrated near Earth (potential proportional to field intensity; Persson, 1963[31]), and indeed, as deduced by Evans (1974) and confirmed by satellites, most auroral acceleration occurs below 10,000 km. Another indicator of parallel electric fields along field lines are beams of upwards flowing O+ ions observed on auroral field lines.
ISS Expedition 6 team. Lake Manicouagan is visible to the bottom left.
Some O+ ions ("conics") also seem accelerated in different ways by plasma processes associated with the aurora. These ions are accelerated by plasma waves, in directions mainly perpendicular to the field lines. They therefore start at their own "mirror points" and can travel only upwards. As they do so, the "mirror effect" transforms their directions of motion, from perpendicular to the line to lying on a cone around it, which gradually narrows down.
In addition, the aurora and associated currents produce a strong radio emission around 150 kHz known as auroral kilometric radiation (AKR, discovered in 1972). Ionospheric absorption makes AKR observable from space only.