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The show premiered on July 4th. Here are the reactions! ** New permanent sound and light show on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Multiple HD projections, surround sound, theatrical lighting and the latest architectural video mapping technologies will bring Boardwalk Hall’s historic façade to life every night all season long.
Astronomy !!! LINK: Youtube
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Revised Youth - Broken Kites:
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Touch the Sky - Iambic^2:
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Astronaut and educator Don Pettit recorded this time-lapse video from the International Space Station. It shows day turning into night as the Earth rotates beneath him.
Via: Radley Balko, Via: Neatorama
The Night Light Table is a collaboration between designers Charlie Crowther-Smith and Richard Bannister. They wanted to design something that emitted an ambient glow that also functioned as a piece of furniture. LINK: The Presurfer
Take a DEEP BREATH before watching this ESOCast mashup with Dr. J. The Sun is setting behind Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert. While astronomers get ready to observe with ESO's Very Large Telescope, Nature prepares for her own grand display. As night falls over the desert, the southern sky reveals its nocturnal beauty, leaving the spectator in silent amazement. Some people, however, don't just stare at the spectacle. With great skill, they record these unique moments for everyone to see - they are the photographers of the night.
Anyone who has been up at night in a remote, high place such as at one of ESO's observatories in Chile may have been lucky enough to experience the splendid view of the myriad stars shining brightly from the heavens. It is a both a dream and a challenge for a photographer to capture an image of this incredible view. Today we will focus on three ESO staff members, who, during their free time, produce outstanding astrophotography. By publishing their results on the internet they share their enthusiasm for the astonishing wonders of the southern skies with a wider audience.
Yuri Beletsky is an ESO Fellow and astronomer at the Paranal Observatory.
When not observing with the world's most advanced telescope, the VLT, he actively lives out his passion for taking pictures of the southern sky.
"I like the night sky, I like stars and the night sky is so beautiful, you can see millions of stars and astrophotography is the best way to show the people what actually stars are, so taking this picture I share my passion with people and I am showing the sky then."
More at the LINK: Youtube
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The Catatumbo Lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon in Venezuela. It occurs strictly in an area located over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo.
The phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than 5 km (3.1 miles high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. Via: The Presurfer
Fascinating short video charting the extraordinary journey of a male White Lady Spider as it travels across the featureless desert in the dead of night. Brilliant footage from the BBC Animal Camera team. Narrated by Steve Leonard. LINK: Youtube
This Radio Controlled airplane is a scratch built 1936 Lanzo Record Breaker with an eight foot wing span. It is about 12 years old & has seen many configurations from gas powered tow plane, camera ship, autonomous test platform, to video transmitting search plane. In its current configuration, it is a Night Nite flying rc airplane with 30 meters of LED lights. LINK: Youtube
St Pauls Cathedral, Paternoster Square, City of London.
The Big Picture, Alan Taylor's always stunning large-format picture blog for the Boston Globe, is featuring amazingly detailed bird's-eye views of London at night by photographer Jason Hawkes, a follow-up to a prior post. Acrophobics beware!
Jason shot these images with a camera attached to gyro-stabilized mounts from a Eurocopter AS355, hired out at around £1150 (GBP) per hour, using Nikon gear and either a 14-24mm or a 70-200mm lens. Even with that, the low light and heavy vibrations can make things difficult, Jason says "I often shoot tethered to my MacBook Pro to check the sharpness of the images whilst I shoot."
Link, Via: Neatorama
Beautiful pictures of London at night, taken from a helicopter by photographer Jason Hawkes. LINK: Presurfer
Wired held a contest for user-generated night photos. The winner, decided by votes from readers, is this photo taken in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah by Jason J. Corneveaux. Wired hs a gallery of the top ten photographs, plus a link to a gallery of ten more selected by their editors. Link, Via: Neatorama
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