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Only the Creepiest Photo Ever Taken

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:58:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "These photographs were a common aspect of American culture, a part of the mourning process. Surviving families were proud of these images and hung them in their homes, sent copies to friends and relatives, wore them as lockets or carried them as pocket mirrors. Nineteenth-century Americans knew how to respond to these images. Today there is no culturally normative response to postmortem photographs."

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Mourning is a strange thing, and different cultures deal with it in vastly different ways. But there’s a reason people associate the Victorians above all with morbidity and death, and one of them is memento mori like this:

The fact is, postmortem photographs like this were taken more than any other kind of photograph in the Victorian era — especially in the U.S.

So, given your lack of a “culturally normative response” to these pictures, dear reader, we advise the faint of heart among you to click elsewhere.

“Child in Coffin at the Death Room”

did you notice the strange silhouette on the right side of the picture

the photographer’s assistant, holding the casket lid open

For me, though, more intriguing than the dead are the living who pose with them

and heartbreaking. (Above and below: siblings with their brothers.)

Another common theme in Victorian-era postmortem photography was the staged scene of mourning

“Orphans at Their Mother’s Grave”:

Another style

the dead were posed to look alive

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Bacteria Eating Uranium [electron microscope magnification]

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:47:42 GMT

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05. Bacteria: Uranium waste bacteria (metallireducens bacteria (green))

Electron microscopy

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being used to digest uranium waste. This bacteria is able to survive in radioactive environments and turn the uranium waste from a soluble form (that can contaminate water supplies) to a solid form.

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Other species of Geobacter bacteria can eliminate petroleum contamination in polluted water and convert waste organic matter to electricity. Geobacter sp. are anaerobic bacteria (living without oxygen) that use metals to gain energy in the same way that humans use oxygen. Coloured scanning electron micrograph, Magnification: x3,600 and x4,800

Taking Note: Musical Notation

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:58:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A lot of the details of our current musical notation evolved over the centuries, but the fundamentals can be traced back to one person: Guido d'Arezzo, an Italian Benedictine monk who lived from 995–1050 A.D

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Photograph of the original stone at Delphi containing the second of the two hymns to Apollo. The music notation is the line of occasional symbols above the main, uninterrupted line of Greek lettering.

Ancient Greek musical notation was capable of representing pitch and note-duration, and to a limited extent, harmony. It was in use from at least the 6th century BC until approximately the 4th century AD

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Early Music Notation

The founder of what is now considered the standard music stave was Guido d'Arezzo, an Italian Benedictine monk who lived from 995–1050 A.D.

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His revolutionary method—combining a 4 line stave with the first form of notes known as 'neumes'—was the precursor to the five line stave, which was introduced in the 14th century and is still in use today.

Guido D'Arezzo's achievements paved the way for the modern form of written music, music books, and the modern concept of a composer.

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Tags: music

Five of the Most Popular Caves in the Philippines

Tue, 06 May 2008 06:26:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Aside from beautiful white sand beaches and scenic diving spots, the Philippines is also endowed with wonderful caves. There are hundreds of caves in the Philippines. Peñablanca, Cagayan alone has already around 300 caves.

Spelunkers and non-spelunkers, here's a list of the most famous caves in the country that can give you thrill and excitement. You will surely love and enjoy them.

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Excavating these caves will surely give you a thrill.

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Jackpot Cave in Cagayan

It is the second deepest cave in the Philippines at 115 meters. The cave has a walking size passage, shafts and drops of varying depths that provide for a lot of rope works.

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Odessa Tumbali Cave in Peñablanca, Cagayan

It has superb formations and passage shapes, canals and lakes for swimming, photography and cave diving

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Sumaging-Latipan in Lomyang Crystal Cave in Sagada, Mt.Province

fossil cave remarkable for its large passages and impressive gours

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Odloman Cave in Mabinay, Negros Oriental

This cave is 8.9 km. long. Five entrances have been connected and the system comprises a mix of large and small galleries with some active streamway.

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Palawan Underground River or St. Paul Subterranean River

The navigable part of the river inside the cave of the 4000-acre St. Paul Subterranean River stretches 15 kilometers in length (5 miles). St. Paul Cave is the 3rd deepest cave in the country.

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Tags: caverns, caves, rivers

German Floats

Tue, 06 May 2008 01:36:29 GMT

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Fantastic HDR Pictures

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:38:24 GMT

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Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion.

This post covers 35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. Some of them might look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not — keep in mind that they’ve all been developed out of usual photos, and not a single image is an illustration.

Fantastic HDR Pictures

Sources and Further Resources

HDRCreme.com
A growing collection of HDR-photos.

HDR Tutorial Round-Up

HDR Video Tutorial

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How to create HDR Photos - HDR/Photomatix tutorial

There has been a lot of buzz recently about HDR photography, but many people assume that it's only limited to professional photographers. The reality is that just about anyone can take and process an HDR photo with most cameras and proper HDR software.

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Cloud Iridescence

Tue, 06 May 2008 02:44:18 GMT

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It shows a phenomenon known as "iridescence" that occurs somewhat commonly in thin clouds, or the thin edges of thicker clouds, as is the case here. These colors are caused by diffraction of sunlight as it passes through the cloud. The sun itself is just above the top edge of the picture. While the colors are real, the're quite exaggerated here so they're easily visible. To the naked eye, the glare of the sun would normally render these colors almost, if not completely, invisible. They're more easily visible to the naked eye if you have dark sunglasses on. Even so, at their best they're most often washed out and pale, but they're visible if you just look.

Wait till the sun has disappeared behind the edge of a passing cloud, and look to see if you can catch a glimpse of some of these colors in the edges of the cloud. Quite often, you can see them, and once you do, you'll have seen something beautiful that most people never know about, or bother to notice.

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Tags: sky

Playful Images from René Maltête

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:33:00 GMT

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Only the Creepiest Photo Ever Taken

Bacteria Eating Uranium [electron microscope magnification]

Taking Note: Musical Notation

Five of the Most Popular Caves in the Philippines

Excavating these caves will surely give you a thrill.

German Floats

Fantastic HDR Pictures

Fantastic HDR Pictures

Sources and Further Resources

How to create HDR Photos - HDR/Photomatix tutorial

There has been a lot of buzz recently about HDR photography, but many people assume that it's only limited to professional photographers. The reality is that just about anyone can take and process an HDR photo with most cameras and proper HDR software.

Cloud Iridescence

Playful Images from René Maltête

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prison

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serpent

sirène

ski

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station

hiver

nageur

écoliers cinéphiles

Folded Rocks

Colors From Outer Space

Beautiful Dendrite Forms

Jaguars

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