"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU
http://www.blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
http://www.artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
many thanks to (in random order):
xm24 bologna, csoa mezzacanaja, ericailcane, robert rebotti, andrea bagni, paper resistance, studiocromie, rifrazioni festival, sasso passo, sibe, festival de cine experimental de maldonado (uruguay), gianluigi toccafondo, orilo, maria de brea, bs as stencil, run don't walk, franco fasoli, modo infoshop, pietro and icone festival, doma, cesare romani, popup festival and all the blu's family
After a bright northern lights display the night sky sometimes is filled with pulsating patches of light.
This pulsating aurora is fairly weak compared to normal aurora, so you need to be at a very dark place to see it. It also helps if you let your eyes get used to the darkness of the night for at least ten minutes.
The same patches of aurora then appear and fade out again constantly over the whole sky, a pulsating process that might go on for hours.
Usually the period of pulsating is approximately half a minute but very rapid flashes of less than a second are also observed.
Pulsating aurora takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere that is called the ionosphere, at heights between 150 and 400 kilometers.
The exact mechanism that causes pulsating aurora is still a mystery.
The timelapse footage was shot with a modified Nikon D1H digital still camera at one frame per second and a three step noise reduction was applied in post production.
During large geomagnetic storms the northern lights (aurora borealis) can sometimes also be seen far away from the arctic regions.
On the night of 6/7 April 2000 a large cloud of electrically charged solar wind particles hit the Earth by surprise and a strong northern lights show was seen all night from Europe, the United States and Canada.
Northern lights from these latitudes look different than in the polar regions: more red and yellow colors, slower movements and mainly rays and beams of light instead of moving curtains.
The footage was shot on the beach of the island of Terschelling in the north of the Netherlands.
For 500 kilometers to the north of that island there is only sea water, so the northern night sky is very dark.
This makes it a perfect place to see the northern lights.
The little house on the beach that appears in the film is an old rescue shelter for shipwrecked sailors. In the shelter there were blankets, food and fresh water.
This rare footage was shot with a modified…
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