Mar 7, 2018
👩🏽🔬👩🏻⚕️👩🏼🔧👩🏾🏫👩🏿🏭Let your curiosity take you higher! #womenshistorymonth #womeninstem #girlsinstem #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity ⠀ ⠀ Repost @ashley_kaplan_photography⠀ (at Exploratorium)
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👩🏽🔬👩🏻⚕️👩🏼🔧👩🏾🏫👩🏿🏭Let your curiosity take you higher! #womenshistorymonth #womeninstem #girlsinstem #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity ⠀ ⠀ Repost @ashley_kaplan_photography⠀ (at Exploratorium)
Paint your week in technicolor! Loving this @physicsfun video on our Explo Monochromatic Room!⠀ ⠀ Repost—Monochromatic Room: a photo of colorful San Francisco is illuminated by a very narrow frequency band of light, with a wavelength of 589nm- the characteristic spectrum of sodium vapor lamps at low pressure. Seeing color is both about the source of illumination and how an object interacts with light. Here a white LED flashlight can momentarily “paint” the scene with color. Sodium vapor lights are a type of gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium metal vapor in an excited state with two dominant spectral lines at 589.0 and 589.6nm, producing the bright yellow light in this exhibit. 🌟 #physics #physicstoy #physicsfun #sodiumvapor #sodiumvapourlamp #monochromatic #monochromaticlight #excitation #dischargelamp #electronexcitation #colorvision #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity (at Exploratorium)
🌌 Get lost in your imagination this weekend.⠀ ⠀ Loving this stellar take on our Mood Lighting exhibit by @r_mckeon! #moon #mood #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity (at Exploratorium)
Cubatron Core by Mark Lottor | Long Exposure Experiments
The beauty of long exposure is the visualization of time and movement.
Long exposure photography can be used to capture a lot of different phenomenon. In this case, it is used to capture the movement of the blinking lights through this multi-LED large scale installation, the Cubatron Core by Mark Lottor, to make an abstract image to convey motion. The piece will be featured at the Exploratorium through Thursday, January 25, 2018.
From the photographer: "As the Media Explainer, I usually take pictures of the Explainers themselves, but on one day I was interested in playing around with my camera. Specifically, i had the intention of capturing a decent long exposure shot. I took some test shots around the museum, but since I did not have a tripod, they came out blurry and unpleasing. I figured that the Cubatron would produce the best results because of its numerous vibrant lights. Also, because it looks cool. When I began taking my long exposures, I tried to stay as still as possible, but these pictures did not give me the results I wanted. Instead of producing an interesting image, the lights had no movement and overexposed the picture. Then, I figured out that while taking the long exposure, I could move around the camera while the shutter was still open and create the appearance of movement. I continued to fiddle around with different shutter speeds and different patterns of movement, which resulted in the images that I shared with you. Then I enhanced them a bit in photoshop and voila!" —Joshua Guillen, Exploratorium Media Explainer
☁️ When winter fog rolls into our piers... it casts us in its curious shadow.⠀ ⠀ An elevated topography of silvered squares inserted between the water and the sky, our Sun Swarm installation is an architectural intervention that collects and disperses bits of sunlight across the deck of Pier 17. #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity #perspective #fog #sanfrancisco #alwayssf (at Exploratorium)
What does the future look like for girls in STEAM? Don’t ask us… ask the girls!⠀ ⠀ Our Exhibit Designs for Girls’ Engagement (EDGE) project featured girl advisors for its research into how to better girls' interactions with museum exhibits. Co-creation with these young women was key in understanding how to bring equity into museum learning for science, tech, engineering, art, and math. See their input in this quick slideshow, and catch the full report with the link in bio! #internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth #girlpower #girlsinstem #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity (at Exploratorium)
Beautiful bacteria 🔬⠀ ⠀ Our Bacteriopolis exhibit is a wall of living bacteria growing on mud. Its vibrant colors come from all the different types of photosynthetic pigments being produced by the bacteria to harness energy from light. #exploratorium #ignitecuriosity #bacteriaart #science #impressionism #impressionist #oilpainting (at Exploratorium)
New Year's Resolution inspiration from Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer. Put "Experience curiosity daily" and "Support education and museums" on your list of resolutions for 2018!⠀ ⠀ #exploratorium #newyearsresolution #newyears #nye #ignitecuriosity #educationforall #sciencemuseum #museumsforall (at Exploratorium)