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Wall relief on the FoodsCo supermarket, indicating that, by 2015, chemistry was part of the agricultural process.
This shopfront and Hale’s the Chemist was established in 1826. The coat of arms above the shop is that of Queen Charlotte, who was the wife of King George 111. She served as Queen of Great Britain, and Queen of Ireland, from her wedding in 1761, and became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the union of the two countries in 1801. George 111 and Charlotte had 15 children in total, 13 of whom survived until adulthood. Queen Charlotte visited Bath in November 1817, and stayed in Sydney Place. She died November 17th 1818, aged 74.
Cary Johnson and Rachel Zygmontowicz screen samples of dead honeybees for the presence of pesticides.
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The shopping area of Leamington Spa. A busy Regent Street.
Regent Street meets Parade.
On the right is H B Dunn Chemist.
At 87 Regent Street.
Grade II listed.
87 and 87a, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
Shop with flat over. c1820 with later additions and
alterations including later-C19 shop front. Pinkish-brown
brick with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate roof and
cast-iron balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. First floor has
tall 6/9 sashes, second floor has 3/3 sashes, all with plain
reveals and flat rusticated arches.
Ground floor: side entrance a part-glazed, 4-panel door with
Gothic tracery, overlight with decorative glazing bars, within
panelled reveals.
Off-centre entrance to shop a part-glazed door with lower
panel and cambered glass above, narrow overlight;
basket-arched shop windows with narrow, long-panel apron and
fluted 1/4 colonnettes, leaf motif to spandrels, frieze with
blind box.
First-floor balcony has diamond-and-scroll motif.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a chemist has occupied these premises since
the shop was erected. Regent Street, originally known as Cross
Street, was laid out c1808-1814. The first houses in a terrace
development were built 1814.
Nos 71 and 73 Parade (qv) and Nos 87-93 (odd) Regent Street
(qqv) constitute a group.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-: 140; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 34).
The building at the corner is 85 Regent Street. An old bank. Also Grade II listed.
Number 85 and Attached Railings 85, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
Includes: No.85 and attached railings REGENT STREET.
House, now bank. c1818 with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades, Welsh slate
roof with ridge stacks and cast-iron railings and balconies.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 5 first-floor windows arranged 2:1:2 of
which the outer bays project. Plinth and horizontal
rustication to ground floor.
First floor: outer bays have tall 6/9 sashes with tooled
surrounds and cornices on consoles. To centre a 10-pane French
window with divided overlight, within tooled surround with
pediment on consoles; a short balustrade of bobbin balusters
projects over porch.
Second floor: continuous sill band. 6/6 sashes with tooled
surrounds, that to centre with ears.
Third floor: 3/3 sashes, sills. All windows in plain reveals.
Ground floor: central entrance within distyle Corinthian porch
with engaged pilasters, frieze, cornice. Double multi-panel
doors within doorcase of fluted pilasters, fanlight with
decorative glazing bars and rusticated surround. 6-pane sashes
with fanlights with radial glazing and rusticated surrounds,
sills, plain reveals.
First floor, outer bays each have continuous balconies with
ornate, scrolling balustrades and with ornate balcony divider
to left.
Right return: 4 storeys, 5 first-floor windows with basement
to left. Almost identical facade. Ground floor, entrance to
right: 5 steps to 6-panel door with blind overlight, between
pilasters with horizontal rustication and within porch with
similar pillars and cambered arch with central keystone,
cornice. Otherwise ground-floor fenestration similar to main
facade, but with 1 wider 1/1 fixed light window with
margin-lights and radial glazing to head. Windows to upper
floors as front facade. No openings to basement. First floor
has similar but continuous balustrade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings and 2 gates across front of this
return abut main facade and have 2 levels of rails and bars
with spear-and-tassel finials. Steps to basement have stick
balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: known for a time as Gloucester House, the
dwelling was occupied by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
during a visit to the Spa in 1822. It was altered to a bank in
1822. Originally Lillington Lane, the Parade was renamed Union
Row c1809, and by 1860 had become the Parade. The lower
section was laid out c1810-14 and built 1814-1818, with the
upper section, east side built c1824-1840.
Occupies an important corner site.
Nos 71 & 73 Parade with Nos 87-93 (odd) Regent Street (qqv)
form an architectural group.
No.73 Old Bank listed 19/11/53. No.85 Regent Street listed
25/03/70. These two addresses are for the same building.
(Roth D: A Pocket Guide to Royal Leamington Spa: Warwick:
1978-: 19; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and
Development: Chichester: 1988-: 34).
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE REGENT STREET
1208-1/7/272 (North side)
19/11/53 No.85
and attached railings
GV II
See under: No.73 Old Bank and attached railings PARADE.
It is now a Lloyds TSB.
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Chemist Bernie Hernandez-Sanchez is the first woman at Sandia National Laboratories to win the 2016 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) Award from Great Minds in STEM for outstanding technical achievement.
Learn more at bit.ly/2mZtTV2.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
Located at 191 Coleman Parade, Glen Waverley, this neon sign was built by Claude Neon and installed in 1966. Claude Neon are famous for constructing the popular Skipping Girl Vinegar sign in Abbotsford.
The yellow neon arrow used to wind its way down to the red neon Night Service sign but is no longer operational.
Such a sign is a rarity in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Information: Melbourne neon website (www.adonline.id.au)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District Environmental Branch colleagues Vanessa Pepi, Erika McCormick and Nicole Silva present Earth Day topics to Wiesbaden Middle School students April 22, 2013 in Wiesbaden, Germany. The three female environmentalists - a biologist, chemist and project manager - spoke to sixth through eighth grade students about green energy, recycling recovered fuel, deforestation, the Endangered Species Act and science-based career fields. In Dave Lawrence's classroom, McCormick assisted two volunteers interested in trying on personal protective equipment worn by environmentalists in the field. The entire class, including the teacher and the volunteers, got a chuckle out of the PPE, but realized the importance of wearing it around hazardous materials. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
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Dr. Dog
Mavis Staples
Dan Deacon
!!!
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Portugal. The Man
Jessica Lea Mayfield
John Grant
Cut Chemist
A Place to Bury Strangers
White Denim
Big Freedia
Japanther
Royal Bangs
Damien Jurado
Viva Voce
Colour Revolt
Miami Horror
Pujol
Turbo Fruits
Parts & Labor
Nite Jewel
Kid Koala
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The Civil Wars
Secret Sisters
Davila 666
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Pterodactyl
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Franz Nicolay
David Dondero
Reading Rainbow
Reggie Watts
Mondo Drag
Houses
No Joy
Dominique Young Unique
Beans
Grass Widow
Delicate Steve
Pictureplane
White Arrows
Esben and The Witch
David Mayfield Parade
O'Death
Ivan and Alyosha
Adventure
Possessed by Paul James
Mansions
Constants
Royal Thunder
Maneja Beto
Hooray For Earth
Drew Andrews & the Spectral Cities
In Tall Buildings
Hosannas
Coolrunnings
Mother Falcon
Santah
Now Now Every Children
Atlantic/Pacific
Young Buffalo
Southeast Engine
Sugar & Gold
Yip Deceiver
Mister Heavenly
Blissed Out
The Spring Standards
Lost in the Trees
Database
Pure X
Telegraph Canyon
Flowers of God
Giggle Party.
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BRAINSTORM (Portland, OR -- indie-pop/art rock)
BrownChicken BrownCow String Band (Greenbrier County, WV -- bluegrass)
Cleemann (Copenhagen, Denmark -- electroacoustic/lyrical/pop)
Daniel Benjamin (Stuttgart, Germany -- pop/experimental)
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MiniBoone (Brooklyn, NY -- indie/rock)
North Highlands (Brooklyn, NY -- indie-folk)
Richard the Lionhearted (Columbia, MO -- country/folk/rock)
Sarah Renfro (Brooklyn, NY -- singer-songwriter/folk-pop)
Sugar Glyder (Charlotte, NC -- pop-rock)
Kelsey Waldon (Nashville, TN -- Americana)
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Tidal Waves (Johannesburg, South Africa -- afro-beat)
Wesley Hartley & The Traveling Trees (Portland, ME -- country)
ACHTONE! (post-rock)
Alphabet (indie-pop)
Babar (post-rock)
Backside Pick (funk/jazz)
Baruch the Scribe (folk-pop)
Bosque Brown (country/soul)
Boxcar Bandits (skunkgrass)
Caleb Ian Campbell (singer-songwriter/experimental folk)
Curvette (experimental/post-punk/Southern rock)
Danny Rush and the Designated Drivers (country/rock)
Dear Human (post-rock)
Deep Snapper (post-punk)
Delmore Pilcrow (rock/country)
Depths (metal)
Dim Locator (avant-garde/Americana)
Drew Phelps (jazz)
Dust Congress (chamber folk)
Eaton Lake Tonics (experimental/folk/rock)
Ella Minnow (blues/pop/rock)
Final Club (rock)
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Kampfgrounds (garage rock)
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Magnum Octopus (hard rock)
Manned Missiles (garage rock/pop)
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Midnite Society (bloghaus)
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Oh Lewis (powerpop/Indie/rock)
On After Dark (indie/rock/new wave)
Paper Robot (rock)
Peoplodian (pop/electronic)
Pinebox Serenade (folk/rock)
Record Hop (rock)
Roy Robertson (experimental/folk)
RTB2 (experimental/ folk/rock/soul)
Sans Soleil (experimental/rock)
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Sextape (ghettotech)
Shiny Around the Edges (experimental/punk)
Spooky Folk (indie-pop/rock)
Sundress (pop/psychedelic)
Swedish Teens (punk)
The Demigs (indie rock/pop)
The Hope Trust (rock/pop/country)
The Jakeys (acoustic/celtic/grunge)
The Slow Burners (folk/rock/psychedelic/roots)
The Wee-Beasties (alternative/punk/rock)
Violent Squid (experimental)
Westboro Butchers (rockabilly/instrumental)
Western Giants (Americana)
Western Skies (Americana)
Young and Brave (pop)
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Air Review (Irving -- rock)
Analog Rebellion (Arlington -- stadium lo-fi)
AnonymousCulture (Dallas -- electronica/hip hop)
Baring Teeth (Dallas -- metal)
Broadcast Sea (Dallas -- rock)
Clint Niosi (Ft. Worth -- experimental/folk)
Cocky Americans (Dallas -- garage rock)
Diamond Age (Dallas -- acousmatic)
El Cento (Dallas -- rock)
Ethereal & the Queer Show (Dallas -- avant garde/pop)
Fate Lions (Ft. Worth -- pop/rock)
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Wotancraft's Traveler's Notebook and City Explorer Camera Bag Review - Part 1
Our job to find great stuffs from all over the world doesn't stop at product level, I believe understanding the concept and stories behind is far more important than product features. Only through digging deeper will I be able to bring true benefits to end users, in the process of doing this I learned a lot and makes my job an adventurous one. It is exactly this practice which sets us apart from a typical retail chain store.
This review is separated into two parts. Part 1 is a story in this post, Part 2 is a product review in the next post.
I first found Wotancraft from random searching on the net a year or so before, then I popped into a great store in Hong Kong called Annie Barton and found their products there. Admiring the quality and aesthetics I grew interest in the brand, I was scared away by the price though. So despite having the feeling that those bags suit my needs and in styles I adore, I found myself staring at them repeatedly on the net and never got myself one. What stopped me from getting one? The price tag and lack of knowledge about Wotancraft's true attention to details. Annie Barton told me each one of the bags were made by hand by those artisans in Taiwan, I couldn't believe it, no way, the bags are so well made I thought they were produced by professional mass producing bag maker. Judging from the details, each model requires literally hundreds of manufacturing processes and it was not possible to be made by just a few persons by hands. The story turned out entirely true when I got a chance to visit Taipei 20 days ago.
On the day I arrived Taipei, before other business engagements I shot right away to the Wotancraft showroom/shop. It was a huge disparity between what's inside the place and everything else surrounding it! Inside a dim florescent lit office building full of local trading businesses with zero taste and style decorations, I was still assuming Wotancraft a corporation you know, but once I entered the showroom, everything changed.
Surrounded by cozy fixtures made from aged wood and pig iron, products made from leather and canvas, I immediately felt homey. One side of the store was an open shelf displaying full product range and prototypes, while the other side is a service counter full of custom made leather straps for Panerai watches. I picked up the City Explorer series of bags and started examining each one of them until a friendly staff came out of the backyard and explained to me product details.
Soon I was unpacking my camera bag and started trying out almost every model possible. I guess camera bag to a guy is like fashion to a girl, you can spend hours enjoying the selection process in a setting like that. The staff noticed my Traveler's Notebook and some of my leather craft stuffs like camera case and straps. "James have the same notebook! He made crazy customization of it." That's when real conversation began.
By then I realized that each one of their bags were literally made by their own hands. Four artisans made up the entire Wotancraft company, the two I met in store were among them. It was not a corporation I presumed before, just a small bunch of people doing everything by themselves. Time to leave for a business engagement, hungered for more stories, I used Paypal to pay for the City Explorer 002 Ranger bag, left the showroom and determined to contact James about his Traveler's Notebook and come back a few days later. During my initial stay at the showroom, there were constant influx of Panerai fans looking for unique leather straps, but I'm not gonna cover that part of the story here.
3 days later, after a few email exchanges I finally met James, the soul behind Wotancraft. The company was created out of his pure passion in photography and watches, despite working as a bio-chemist after his graduation, he started to make his first prototype camera bag 5 years ago. Not satisfied with camera bags with trivial features and ugly looks, he explored different forms and materials and came up with a bag he would use. He was kind enough to show me all the thoughts he put into this City Explorer 002 Ranger bag, comparing it to his first prototype. I will cover the details in Part 2 in the next post.
Let's talk about James' Traveler's Notebook. In a typical Traveler's Notebook show me yours and I'll show you mine fashion, we exchanged our usage patterns. His cover is not the original but one made by himself, a very thoughtful implementation. There are two layers of leathers, a thicker one forms the shape while the outer thinner one gives its distinct Wotancraft look.
The thin leather on the cover is the same material James uses in his City Explorer series of camera bags. Stitched together on 3 sides, the notebook cover has an opening on one side doubling the cover as a pocket by itself. To increase the pocket size, James relocated the elastic string attachment point from the middle of the back to the edge, creating an inner space large enough for his stationery stuffs.
As a master of customization, he of course couldn't settle with a bookmark without his very own Wotancraft branded charm and leather tag. On typical day, James would use two types of notebooks inside - Traveler's Notebook lightweight paper for note taking, sketch paper for sketching. Inspecting his TN, I found inspirations common to creative people, not only would he take notes in meticulous details, he sketches out architectural structures purely out of his head, perhaps this keen practice is his way of precipitating his creativity into reality.
James' TN is so far the best Traveler's Notebook mod I've ever seen, functional and pleasing. I've got to make one myself someday :) Stay tuned for Part 2.
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Loitering behind the counter of Damien Hirst's Pharmacy, the Tate-owned 1992 room-sized installation that looks remarkably like an upmarket chemist's shop, I was interrupted by a gallery assistant. She stuck her head around the corner and then was gone. Maybe she wanted to buy some suppositories, but was too shy to ask.
I only came in here myself because I had a headache, after looking at all the eye-test dot paintings that punctuate Hirst's Tate Modern survey show, and catching the whiff from Crematorium, Hirst's 1996 ashtray – huge as a hot tub – filled with shovel-loads of old fag-butts and ash, drug-taking paraphernalia, sweet wrappers and swizzle sticks. I had also got down on my knees to sniff through one of the vents set in the glass walls of his A Thousand Years (1990), trying to determine whether it is a real rotting cow's head in there, lying in its pool of congealed blood. I got a face-full of ammoniac air, the smell of all those flies buzzing around, and the corpses piling up in the insecto-cutor where they are being zapped.
One wants to write a straightforward review of Hirst's work, but it is almost impossible. What would it be like, I wonder, for someone with no knowledge of his art, let alone his global reputation, to come along and review this show? What would they see? So much has already been said about Hirst, including a great deal by me. How can we see it fresh?
Tate curator Ann Gallagher has done her best to strip away the excess and repetition of Hirst's art, but it won't go away. It's what he does. The exhibition opens with works from his student years, the late 1980s. A row of pots and pans hangs on the wall, as in a kitchen, their undersides painted in jolly colours. An empty torso-sized MDF-and-laminate kitchen cabinet sits beside his first homespun spot painting, painted on board, which jostles with wonky, dribbly ovoids. Then come the first medicine cabinets, with their empty boxes and jars of pharmaceuticals. The first time I saw these I must have been wandering around with a clipboard, marking them as an external examiner on the Goldsmiths Fine Art degree course. This was 1989, the year after Hirst had curated his famous Freeze exhibition, and already he and his fellow students, and Goldsmiths itself, were famous.
Synthesising the kind of conceptualism-lite, post-pop appropriation and visual gags that many students (and not just at Goldsmiths) were working through at the time, Hirst was also assimilating his influences. These included Kurt Schwitters' collages, minimalism, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons's early Hoovers in their dust-free display cabinets, Jannis Kounellis (whose rotting ox carcasses, hung from rods, had been on stomach-churning display though a hot Barcelona summer in 1989) and Francis Bacon. The shadow of American artist Paul Thek was probably in there, too. Thek once decorated a wax arm with butterfly wings, as well as making boxes which housed what looked like raw meat. Like Hirst, Thek also conflated the plight of the body with religious iconography. Thek's career went off the rails and he died from Aids in 1988, the same year Hirst curated Freeze.
With its cow's head and flies, A Thousand Years comes not far into Tate Modern's show, Hirst's first in a British museum. Made the year after he left college, this double-vitrine was first shown in the warehouse group show Gambler, in south London. A Thousand Years is still extremely powerful, and still surprising. Clean and dirty, full of life and death, formally shocking and rich, it has an air of maturity and finality. In a recent interview for the exhibition catalogue, Hirst tells Tate director Nicholas Serota that it is still possibly the most exciting thing he has ever made. Hirst recalls that Lucian Freud said to him, about this work, that "I think you started with the final act, my dear."
Little else Hirst has made is comparable, except perhaps the large, sealed double vitrine from the following year, containing a desk, chair, ashtray and packet of cigarettes (The Acquired Inability to Escape), but even this has the feel of an extrapolation rather than a development. Hirst's shark, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, from 1991, seems to have shrunk, and here looks more like a specimen than an open-jawed threat. A recent second version is even smaller in its black-framed aquarium; it looks like a tame dogfish, and I can imagine a Ming vase filled with lilies parked on top of its glossy black tank in some collector's home.
There's an element of fun in earlier Hirst: the Sigmar Polke-inspired string of sausages in a formaldehyde-filled frame; the ping-pong ball floating on the updraft of a hairdryer angled to the ceiling. When he repeats this last trick some years later with an airborne beach ball, the idea has lost its lightness. And what, in theory, could be lighter than standing among swooping exotic butterflies in Hirst's 1991 installation In and Out of Love, the creatures hatching from pupae stuck to canvases and floating about the room, living and dying in the space? In reality, it's macabre. Some of their fellows are mired in the thick, gloopy monochromes on the walls of the room next door, which evidences the aftermath of the original show's opening party.
Mother and Child Divided by Damien Hirst
Mother and Child Divided, exhibition copy 2007 (original 1993). Photograph: Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2011./Tate/Tate Images
The rest is variation and repetition. Production, in other words: the business of being an artist, and art as business. Hirst's later work might be taken as a critique of the very market that supports him, and the people who buy his work – but I somehow doubt it. Flies begat butterflies, which begat more butterflies. Medicine cabinets begat a whole pharmacy, with endless little pills arranged on shelves. Cabinets begat cabinets, MDF and laminate being replaced by gold-plated steel, nickel and brass. You could stick anything in these cabinets of curiosities and vitrines: medical speculums, nasty operating theatre tools, row after row of man-made diamonds, sheep, cows, Havana cigars – now, why not a human corpse? (Go on, you know you want to.)
This exhibition charts a great descent in Hirst's art, one that mirrors the ascent of his bankability and the creation of ever more decadent and overblown artefacts. I have enjoyed some things – if enjoy is the right word for paintings covered in a crust of dead flies (one of which is here), but the returns have diminished with almost every show. Hirst may well think he is giving us what we deserve: an art of spectacle and the tokens of spectacular wealth. The show's last rooms are full of such things, among them a Carrara marble angel, whose exposed guts and skull are sculpted as tenderly as the feathers on her wings; a white-on-white spot painting whose edges are anointed with gold leaf; a pure white dove caught in flight in a limpid tank of formaldehyde.
The cloying ostentation of these rooms is surely deliberate, but does not make one want to linger. Lots of artists have made works with expensive materials but very few flaunt it the way Damien does. His later work might want to be an attack on the puritanism of a certain sort of highbrow taste, or it might be pandering to the vulgarity of super-rich collectors, or to the perversity of the art market and the place he has come to occupy in it. Maybe he wants it every way he can. Down in the darkened Turbine Hall, his diamond-encrusted platinum skull is displayed in a specially constructed black-box room. The theatricality of this is nauseating – or would be, if it weren't so silly and contrived.
Others have already weighed in with spite, gall and a fury quite out of proportion to the fact that Hirst is only an artist. There are some who look forward to his downfall. In 1991, reviewing In and Out of Love, I wrote that Hirst's work had enormous spirit and great originality, and that I was glad he was around. By 2009 I was writing that his recent paintings were "momento mori for a reputation" (the hapless paintings Hirst showed at the Wallace Collection that year have thankfully been passed over here). My problem with Hirst is not the money (Picasso made lots, and nobody cares), nor the vulgarity he has opted for, but his capitulation as an artist. He could have been so much better. It is an enormous disappointment.
• This article was amended on 24 April 2012. References to Formica, which is a trademark, have been changed to laminate.
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WARNING: Please don't try to replicate the reaction at home, Declan is a fully trained and qualified Chemist (the type that does Chemistry not the type who fills your prescriptions) and followed all the relevant safety protocols for handling our shoot.
The setup was a bit problematic as the key "light" was from the chemical reaction. This was a once only effect for the two sets so we first got the rim lights lined up, set the camera Aperture and Shutter speed in Manual to expose the rims correctly and then got the focus fixed on the correct point.
I decided to shoot bracketed so that we could get a few different exposures and maybe catch the correct one. Then Declan suggested I switch the camera to Aperture priority so that for each bracketed set the camera made the (hasty) decision on shutter speed for me as I would not have time to make the decision myself (the first reaction was only to last about 20 seconds).
I've almost completely gone Manual for most of my shooting but Declan's idea made this shoot work, hands down - the best way to shoot this was Aperture Priority. There is no way I could have judged the exposure, set the camera in fully Manual, shot the bracket set and then re-exposed all over again fast enough to get enough shots before the reaction died down. In the end I shot 8 sets of 3 bracketed images.
Model: Declan Fleming
Strobist:
Camera set to Aperture Priority @ f5.6 - Bracketing a set of 3 images: -1, 0 & +1
Subject positioned at the top of a flight of stairs.
Triggers
YongNuo RF-602
"Keylight"
Large flask containing Oxygen to which Phosphorous was added. The reaction caused a very bright white light to be emitted from the flask.
Rim
1 x SB900 - Cam right very high, bare and gelled with 1/8 cut CT Blue.
1 x SB900 - Behind subject, bare and gelled with 1/4 cut CT Blue.
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