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Neatoramanaut Beth Wieder saw a funny-shaped cloud and snapped a picture of it -and then was nice enough to send it to us! Can you see the hands of Zeus holding a baby Pegasus? The screenshot at the right from the Disney film Hercules should give you a bit of reference. -Thanks, Beth!
A sweet little cloud tries to do the right thing. This animation was Conor Finnegan’s graduate film project at IADT National Film School. -via Swiss Miss
Light pollution may be the bane of astronomers, but they are art to photographer Blake Gordon. In his photograph series Cloud Projections, Blake captured patterns of lights from buildings in downtown Austin, Texas:
"I captured defined patterns of light above the city when atmospheric conditions were right," he explained in an email. This is part of a larger interest in seeing "the clouds as a surface." For instance, Gordon mentioned that he had also produced "rough images from a plane flight in Minnesota where I saw the reverse: low winter clouds gave light pollution a medium to mark upon, and towns broadcast their cluster signals to those above."
About these "broadcasts," Gordon asks: "Some of them were so precise that it’s hard to conceive that they are just afterthoughts of a lighting design. Would it still be called light pollution?"
BLDGBLOG has the story: Link | Gallery at Blake’s website
Photo: Colorado Uerling
Dark Roasted Blend has a neat post about all sorts of weird cloud formations. This one above is a Punch Hole Cloud:
Punch Hole Clouds may appear as a circular or oval holes in a layer of supercooled clouds; sometimes they assume a form of a perfect circle and persist for quite a long time, drifting together with the cloud layer. One explanation seems to blame the air traffic (the jet contrail intersections) combined with a thermal inversion (a circular motion of a rising warm air).
