Saturday, March 6, 2010

BUBBLE@The Science Gallery, Dublin


Highlights of the BUBBLE exhibition at The Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin in 2009.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Bubble Quotes #1

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”
- William Shakespeare

“I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.”
-Mark Twain

“Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.”
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
-Marcus Aurelius

“This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
- Buddha

“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
-William Osler


original text excerpted from:http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/bubble/3.html

Cylinder Bubble Level Vial




Product Description
These vials have a standard sensitivity of 35 arc minutes for 2mm of bubble movement.
The 'S' range are extremely high quality vials with a machined barrel form bore so they can be mounted or referenced against any of the four sides. They have circlip type inserts for line markings for optimum clarity and zero parallax error.
The 'SC' range have a moulded radius on one face only and have internally printed lines on the same face.



original image and text excerpted from:
http://measuretape.en.made-in-china.com/product/WMQJcoXGHkhH/China-Cylinder-Bubble-Level-Vial.html

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Naomi Kaly



Omotesando
2002
Photo credit: Naomi Kaly

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Bubble Nebula




What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, ghostly apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Astronomer Eric Mouquet's striking view utilizes a long exposure with hydrogen alpha light to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center is a bright hot star embedded in reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia.

*Original image and text excerpted from Astronomy Picture of the Day:
http://www.astronet.ru/db/xware/msg/1216927

Thursday, March 26, 2009

a brazilian priest accidentally ascends to heaven with balloons


Photo released by the Brazilian website UOL, shows Catholic priest Adelir Antonio de Carli, 42, flying on bottom of a cluster of brightly colored party balloons in Paranagua, Brazil, April 20, 2008. Rescuers reached the balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil’s coast Tuesday, but did not find the priest who had been using them in a bid to set a flight record and raise funds for his parish.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Vanitas Still Life with Portrait



DAVID BAILLY
Dutch, 1584-1657

Vanitas Still Life with Portrait, ca. 1650
Oil on canvas. 37 1/4 x 45 3/4 in. (95 x 116 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis V. Keeler, Class of 1911, by exchange. 86.6
original source

Life as a Rubber Ball

Chain of Bubbles



discovered by Professor Igor Kliakhandler of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Technological University USA

Original Source here

Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust Theater Trailer

Bubble Dance by Sally Rand

Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/tNCLveiB