Monday, April 19, 2010

Ravishing Light: A Solar Videopoem (1½ min)



After watching many hours of NASA's amazing SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) footage of the sun at the Internet Archives, I downloaded some short videos and from them distilled the clips you see in this video. I am delighted to find this footage and to create a solar videopoem.

A vision of such power that what went before falls away in a rapturous death. A rapturous death of the ego. An unerasable enlightenment. That Rubicon. I was inspired to write this piece after seeing the movie, 'Sunshine,' which also uses footage from NASA's SOHO Observatory.




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prose poem written in 2007

These are the videos I finally chose and downloaded. I used clips from some of them for my short videopoem: 

wave- archive.org/details/CIL-10079
SOHO_TRACE_Intro_YouTube- archive.org/details/GMM-10421
recon- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIPreconSTRIP
quiet20010310ntscarchive- archive.org/details/SVS-2766?start=4.5
EITflameszm- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIPEITflameszmSTRIP
304blow- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIP304blowSTRIP
archive.org/details/SVS-3286
EITbulb- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIPEITbulbSTRIP
flarezoom640x480- archive.org/details/SVS-2496
helio_fleet_v1.1- archive.org/details/SVS-3570


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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:01 PM

    Beautiful, very enjoyable imagery. Just couldn't quite hear the voice is all. Sounds of the sun and space music sound like good ideas...

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  2. Thanks, A.Decker... the SOHO footage is stunning... I love that stuff... entranced for hours every time I go near it... :)

    Not sure why you couldn't hear the prosepoem... sound is quite boosted, ah well...

    Perhaps in a year I'll come back to this and re-do it... the sun is so awesome, incredible, life-supporting, beautiful, crucial...

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  3. [from old ning site]

    Comment by John F Walter on April 26, 2010 at 9:25pm

    First reaction> thrill paroxysm scintillance= chain reaction!

    I'll be back

    Comment by Brenda Clews on April 26, 2010 at 10:04pm

    Thank you, John... the sun rocks! And the Solar Heliotropic Observatory rocks! And the footage from the new Solar Dynamics Observatory is even better - the NASA site for the new clips... http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21apr_firstlight/ - which are free to download as well. Very amazing, to see our star, its solar burning fields, such a gift... xo

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