{"id":1253,"date":"2010-04-29T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/29\/pictures-of-light\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:30:24","slug":"pictures-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/29\/pictures-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"pictures of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1268225\/Iceland-volcano-Northern-Lights-appear-ash-plume.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"article-1268225-094368A3000005DC-346_964x641.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2010\/04\/article-1268225-094368A3000005DC-346_964x641.jpg?w=242&#038;ssl=1\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some beautiful photographs of Eyjafjallajokull accompanied by the Northern Lights <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1268225\/Iceland-volcano-Northern-Lights-appear-ash-plume.html\">here<\/a>. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/politicstheoryphotography.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/eyjafjallajokull.html\">Politics Theory Photography<\/a> for posting on it.)<\/p>\n<p>They remind me of one of my favorite films about nature, seeing, and light, Peter Mettler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermettler.com\/pol.html\">Picture of Light<\/a> (with music by Jim O&#8217;Rourke).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ND1buD9ccfk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/scUUJWWE34o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some beautiful photographs of Eyjafjallajokull accompanied by the Northern Lights here. (Thanks to Politics Theory Photography for posting on it.) They remind me of one of my favorite films about nature, seeing, and light, Peter Mettler&#8217;s Picture of Light (with music by Jim O&#8217;Rourke).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688745,689354],"tags":[206,4470,9],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema_zone","category-image_nation","tag-iceland","tag-nature","tag-visuality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-kd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1275,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/28\/offshore-toxic-event\/","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":0},"title":"offshore toxic event","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The OTE keeps unfolding... http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ULLHYmz98P0&hl=en_US&fs=1& Does that thing (between 0:11 and 0:27) know what it is swimming through?? Here's a good collection of some of the most memorable images (but what's that awful music?): http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DRkPzUx0pSQ&hl=en_US&fs=1& Does Sarah McLaughlin improve things a little? http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ik43Hgax4Kw&hl=en_US&fs=1& Or a little light Bach? http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rip7kbZRv18&hl=en_US&fs=1& It's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/politics_postpolitics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ULLHYmz98P0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1220,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/22\/more-great-scenes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":1},"title":"more great scenes","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6pOXjQLh7Y&hl=en_US&fs=1& From Bande a Part. (Thanks to Annette for suggesting it.) Or these two from Blow Up: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zeza1xeWKM&hl=en_US&fs=1& But I distinctly remember someone else coming along and kicking what was left of Jeff Beck's guitar neck right after this. Am I misremembering? Did I see something that was never there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/I6pOXjQLh7Y\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/18\/ways-to-shoot-starlings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":2},"title":"ways to shoot starlings","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Shoot\" as in film, photograph, capture and display, but also fly with them, shoot the rapids of their movement, accompany them, become starling. These mesmerizing videos of moving masses of starlings, \"murmurations\" as they're called, like other YouTube animal videos, tell us as much about the phenomenon being watched as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/XH-groCeKbE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1225,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/29\/like-a-ufo\/","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":3},"title":"like a ufo&#8230;","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"And while we're on a Christian thematic... here are a few beautiful videos set to songs by Sufjan Stevens. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland: And two more... John Wayne Gacy, Jr.: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw&hl=en_US&fs=1& and Romulus: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O7oTRJU2120&hl=en_US&fs=1&","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music &amp; soundscape&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music &amp; soundscape","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/music-soundscape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/otx49Ko3fxw\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1217,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/14\/two-or-three-scenes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":4},"title":"two or three scenes&#8230;","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"How \u00e0 propos: Today's Guardian's piece on The Greatest Film Scenes Ever Shot. What are your favorite scenes, your most indelibly etched screen memories, those \"tiny pieces of time\" as the article quotes James Stewart saying, that have remained with you ever since seeing them? (The comments open things up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/e4LWwhFJoUw\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1210,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/04\/spiritualizing-science\/","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":5},"title":"spiritualizing science","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"or, Carl Sagan rides again, and again... http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Prometheus Unbound raises questions about the atheist spirituality of Symphony of Science's star-scientist-studded videos (pun only slightly intended -- they are mostly men, yes, but drumming on djembes (!), and it's well worth waiting to see Jane Goodall tell us about the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science &amp; society&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science &amp; society","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/science\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/XGK84Poeynk\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}