Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Represention


I am sure that the spelling of the title is as upsetting for you as it is for my word processor. I could almost hear it wincing as I typed in the offending word. This spelling, however, obviously doesn't upset anyone in Pantene. It is displayed for a few seconds on their new TVC, which on air these days. As I saw it last night, I found myself incredulous at the spelling - which, in its own way, was an interesting 'represenTAtion' of attention to details.


Details, details, details.


Speaking of detail, check out this incredible set of photographs. Miloslav Druckmuller is a veteral eclipse hunter, who travels the world in search of eclipses. He shoots them - with a camera. In August 2008, he shot a series of 38 images in Mongolia, which have been edited into a photo-montage.


These incredible pictures show the solar corona that makes up the sun's atmosphere. It is normally invisible to the naked eye because of the sun's brightness - but during an eclipse, the corona comes alive in all its glory. It is as dangerous as it is beautiful: whipped into gigantic swirls by the sun's magnetic fields, the sea of hydrogen gas is at about 10,000 degrees celsius and stretches for about a million miles in each direction.


Absolutely stunning, isn't it?




You can see more of his work here: http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclipse/



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