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Turquoise Ice from Lake Baikal

April 8th, 2013 | Brain, Space

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Lake Baikal, located in the heart of Siberia, is the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world. For a short time in March, as the thick ice begins to melt, you can catch a glimpse of these incredible turquoise masses jutting out from the surface.
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Apparently, a combination of wind, temperature differences, frost and sun in the ice crust causes the ice hummocks to form.

Alexey Trofimov, who is responsible for several of the photos above, said that “The shooting is not easy, as Baikal is known for its unpredictability.
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It is especially dangerous shooting ice of Lake Baikal.”

The photos kind of remind me of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, maybe it was inspiration..?

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If you are brave enough to venture to Lake Baikal and capture some of this majestic ice, head to the plains of southeastern Russia:

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However, I would heed Trofimov’s warning.  Capturing photographs of melting ice is a dangerous proposition.
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And here’s one last photo that I especially appreciate called “The Lake Baikal Nervous System”:

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It’s reminiscent of this photograph by S. Louw for the Art of Neuroscience 2012 post.

-RSB

Superman & The Mechanical Monsters

October 31st, 2012 | Robot

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Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, this amazing stranger from the Planet Krypton, the Man of Steel, Superman.

I was in sort of a 1940’s cartoon mood this morning, so I give you Superman & the Mechanical Monsters.  The short film was released back on November 28th of 1941, but it looks similar to animation from my childhood.  The Mechanical Monsters was the very first story that featured Clark Kent using a telephone booth to discard his street clothes and change into Superman.  Apparently, this cartoon also influenced scenes from Castle in the Sky (great film!) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

And while searching around the internet, I stumbled across this Techno music video made by Nick Benidt from footage of the cartoon:

The song here is ‘Nizhny Tagil’, produced by Marek Tejchik from the Berlin-based minimal techno label, FRUCHT.  It has a lot of vintage sounding robot sounds, so I see why Nick chose The Mechanical Monsters for the video.

Here’s Nick’s excerpt:

“The song reminded me of robots, buttons, technological gizmos, etc…so I started thinking about footage I had seen or downloaded over the years. I remembered a special film I’d been saving for the right inspiration. It was a Superman cartoon made in 1941 called ‘The Mechanical Monsters’ In those days TV wasn’t around yet, so people would have seen this 10 minute cartoon before the main attraction in the cinema.”

Alright folks, now go dress up as a robot and scare some people.

Happy Halloween!

-RSB