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Props - A Series: Invented Library Book

One of the handful of stolen school library books from Moonrise Kingdom. As an illustrator, there was only a single bookcover’s art I actually made myself (the others are, in my opinion, better suited for a movie since they aren’t so cramped and detailed.) But I was asked to “design” them all: to create the physical props and make them seem genuine. To do this I used withdrawn-from-circulation library books from my own collection as dummy copies (real-life books masquerading underneath the invented bookjackets.) Then I added all kinds of tears and scuff-marks, labels, stickers, stains. Perhaps most valuable were the mylar protectors themselves. Some were 30 or 40 years old. A lifetime of grime and hard use viewed, correctly, as innately valuable.

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Making The Darjeeling Limited DVD Cover - Part 2

If I remember correctly, in Part 1 – which can be found here – we were discussing the challenges of faithfully reproducing such a unique blend of patterns, textures, and colors.

So here we have:

1. The Special Color Palette (along with formulaic notations on how to make more in case I ran out. As ever, I used Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache.)

2. A few models for how things worked: window-curtain folds or the way patterned fabric curves around a frame – as in the case of the unique lounge chair. (The chair was tricky. It seemed so chaotic and freewheeling, initially I tried drawing it freehand. The result was terrible. Reminding me of the harsh reality that very little can be skimped on – particularly capturing a feeling of wildness or randomness – if you want to get things right.)

3. And of course the final artwork. Penciling … adding texture and shadow … and lastly color (which, for the first time, I did by painting everything else before the people.) With so much detail in such a small space, it can’t really be taken in unless at close range. So I’m including a cropped image followed by the whole, finished piece [Edited to add: The finished piece became corrupted by some quirk of the Tumblr interface but has now been re-uploaded.]

I also want to point out – which I failed to do in Part 1 – that this is fundamentally an illustration OF a work of art. This traincar interior … all the trains … the whole rest of the movie … was designed by Mark Friedberg. The props were created, gathered, curated by Sandy Hamilton. The costumes were designed by Milena Canonero. The whole thing was photographed by Bob Yeoman. (And of course they were all working toward the vision of the director, who was Wes Anderson.)

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Polar Vortex spills Arctic weather into North America

What in the world is a polar vortex? On Earth, it’s a large area of low pressure and extremely cold air that usually swirls over the Arctic, with strong counter-clockwise winds that trap the cold around the Pole. But disturbances in the jet stream and the intrusion of warmer mid-latitude air masses can disturb this polar vortex and make it unstable, sending Arctic air south into middle latitudes.

That has been the case in late January 2019 as frigid weather moves across the Midwest and Northern Plains of the United States, as well as interior Canada. Forecasters are predicting that air temperatures in parts of the continental United States will drop to their lowest levels since at least 1994, with the potential to break all-time record lows for January 30 and 31. With clear skies, steady winds, and snow cover on the ground, as many as 90 million Americans could experience temperatures at or below 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18° Celsius), according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

The Goddard Earth Observing System Model above shows this air temperature movement at 2 meters (around 6.5 feet above the ground) from January 23-29. You can see some portions of the Arctic are close to the freezing point—significantly warmer than usual for the dark of mid-winter—while masses of cooler air plunge toward the interior of North America.

Science Behind the Polar Vortex / Credit: NOAA

Meteorologists predicted that steady northwest winds (10 to 20 miles per hour) were likely to add to the misery, causing dangerous wind chills below -40°F (-40°C) in portions of 12 states. A wind chill of -20°F can cause frostbite in as little as 30 minutes, according to the weather service.

Not sure how cold that is? Check out the low temperatures on January 30, 2019 in some of the coldest places on Earth—and a planetary neighbor:

-46°F (-43°C) – Chesterfield, Newfoundland

-36°F (-33°C) – Yukon Territory, Canada

-33°F (-27°C) – Fargo, North Dakota (Within the Polar Vortex)

-28°F (-18°C) – Minneapolis, Minnesota (Within the Polar Vortex)

-27°F (-33°C) – Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

-24°F (-31°C) – Chicago, Illinois (Within the Polar Vortex)

-15°F (5°C) – Barrow, Alaska

-99°F (-73°C) – Mars

Learn more about the science behind the polar vortex and how NASA is modeling it here: https://go.nasa.gov/2Wtmb43.

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What’s a Blood Moon? And Other Lunar Eclipse Questions.

Tonight, Australians, Africans, Europeans, Asians and South Americans will have the opportunity to see the longest lunar eclipse of the century. Sorry North America.

Lunar eclipses occur about 2-4 times per year, when the Moon passes into the Earth’s shadow. In order to see a lunar eclipse, you must be on the night side of the Earth, facing the Moon, when the Earth passes in between the Moon and the Sun. Need help visualizing this? Here you go:

What’s the difference between a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse?

An easy way to remember the difference between a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse is that the word ‘eclipse’ refers to the object that is being obscured. During a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks the Sun from view. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow obscures the Moon.

Why does the Moon turn red?

You may have heard the term ‘Blood Moon’ for a lunar eclipse. When the Moon passes into the Earth’s shadow, it turns red. This happens for the exact same reason that our sunrises and sunsets here on Earth are brilliant shades of pinks and oranges. During a lunar eclipse, the only light reaching the Moon passes through the Earth’s atmosphere. The bluer, shorter wavelength light scatters and the longer wavelength red light passes through and makes it to the Moon.

What science can we learn from a lunar eclipse?

“During a lunar eclipse, the temperature swing is so dramatic that it’s as if the surface of the Moon goes from being in an oven to being in a freezer in just a few hours,” said Noah Petro, project scientist for our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, at our Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Diviner team from LRO measures temperature changes on the Moon through their instrument on the spacecraft as well as through a thermal camera on Earth. How quickly or slowly the lunar surface loses heat helps scientists determine characteristics of lunar material, including its composition and physical properties.

When is the next lunar eclipse?

North Americans, don’t worry. If skies are clear, you can see the next lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019. The eclipse will be visible to North Americans, South Americans, and most of Africa and Europe.