Dec 1, 2025
An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.
Photo credit: Usherwood et al.
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An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.
Photo credit: Usherwood et al.
Frog Kick
A toad swims across a pond in this award-winning image from photographer Paul Hobson. The shot was actually captured from below the water, with the camera kept dry in a glass housing. (Image credit: P. Hobson/BWPA; via Colossal)
The massive C-5 churning the low clouds on it's approach into Nuremberg
Photo by BOSCHH
Sightings - S2E23 (Ghost Special) - “Manressa Castle” (sic) - May 14th, 1993
“Tonight, a special edition of Sightings dedicated to ghosts. We’ll help a viewer contend with a ghostly presence she believes is haunting her home, and we’ll show you the anatomy of a scientific ghost investigation. But first a trip to one hundred year old Manresa Castle, in Port Townsend Washington, it’s a former Jesuit seminary where people try to make contact with what they believe are the tortured spirits of the dead…”
Welcome to the penultimate episode of season two, and our second episode to be missing from my normal source after the psychic special. Luckily, a copy is available on the Internet Archive.
Tonight we visit a hotel in Washington named Manresa Castle, which has appeared on a lot of later ghost shows, apparently. Despite this, information is relatively scarce.
Meet Seattle-based photographer Steve Holderman. “We came to the castle today to try and capture ghosts. We want to see images on film that we can’t explain.”
Nick Gale says people from Seattle come, often on Halloween and the equinoxes, and someone is always in room 306 on Halloween, because the turret on the third floor is a energy portal that lets spirits come in from alternate dimensions.
Of course!
The "gimmick" of Manresa Castle is that each room has a diary for people to fill out with their experiences. Which of course primes the guests as to what to expect. A French website written in Comic Sans says this guy worked for the Castle, and claims a glass exploded in his hand; it also seems to imply the journals aren't in the rooms anymore?
Rod Freeman and his large family of children is using a ouija board, but only encounters the ghosts of a girl who jumped out a window in the 20s and a dead Jesuit and doesn't get why his son keeps asking about "this cool lady ghost named Sapphire". According to him, he's pointed to a Bible verse about perversion by the Jesuit's ghost.
“People want to be scared. That’s why we’re here, that’s why we come, to experience what others have written about in these diaries that are in the rooms.”
Psychic Rhonda Griffin makes contact with all of the castle's many spirits and is overwhelmed by their energy. She is very, very overwrought, but so is the camera work: after it was relatively staid for a while, this one is all wild upside-down zooms through the corridors.
She explains that the castle sits on a crossing of ley lines, and channels the Jesuit - and picks out the same Bible verse the Freemans read.
Finally, we return to the photographer, who discovered - a distortion! Of some kind! Ghosts real???
Though Google says it's closed now, at some point Manresa Castle had a cyberpunk-themed bar in the basement?
Seventh evolution in the Vortices series. Other works in series avvailable for preview and purchase by arrangement with artist; send me a PM if interested
It's time to enter the 4th dimension with this 4th excerpt of the feedback patch I've been sharing in the 3 previous posts. I'm not exactly sure of what's happening (I had left my flesh husk from some times already at this point and was commanding it from above) but I guess this part involves Feedback both from the Vult Freak filter and from the Mimeophon, hence the diaphonic chords. This part happened near the end of the 90 minutes... I intended to stop the recording here... but instead, I did one last move on a hunch... and this is when I entered the Matrix, or maybe I found the Philosopher's Tone ?? ... see you tomorrow !😉 . . . . #modular #modularsynths #modularsynthesizer #eurorack #eurorackmodular #livemodular #liveperformance #drone #dronemusic #ambient #darkambient #experimentalmusic #noisemusic #feedback #vultfreak #makenoise #mimeophon #0ctrl #steadystatefate #vortices #alchemy #sonicalchemy https://www.instagram.com/p/COTD4zdK4oD/?igshid=bo4lae6wz3l5