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Satellites of Soap Satellites of Soap Blackout and Candles: A Dark Night Experiment Blackout and Candles: A Dark Night Experiment An Optical Illusion For Your Inner Nocturnal Animal An Optical Illusion For Your Inner Nocturnal Animal
Re-Discovering The Color Blue
Color Blindness

Re-Discovering The Color Blue

I wore blue-blocker sunglasses to see what the world looked like without blue. For exactly one

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A World Without Blue
Color Blindness Optical Illusions and Effects

A World Without Blue

I recently re-discovered classic BluBlocker sunglasses, and wondered what would happen if I wore them

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Shine Pig Season
Optical Illusions and Effects

Shine Pig Season

As the sun sets each summer evening, it sends a shimmering pig up the side

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Quality Time with an Inanimate Object
Geodes

Quality Time with an Inanimate Object

I have an inanimate object in my life: it is an unbroken Brazilian agate geode.

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Scratching the Surface of a Water-Filled Unbroken Geode
Geodes

Scratching the Surface of a Water-Filled Unbroken Geode

There is a finite amount of water on the earth, endlessly cycling through everywhere water

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Reversing the American Flag Optical Illusion
Optical Illusions and Effects

Reversing the American Flag Optical Illusion

“I’m a vexillologist,” a gentleman said to me on the BART train platform, “and I’ve

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Journey Through a Geode
Geodes

Journey Through a Geode

Exploring something fully sometimes requires destroying it, like the dissection of a cadaver or the

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Swimming in Puddles and Diving Down Drains with an Endoscopic Camera
Cameras

Swimming in Puddles and Diving Down Drains with an Endoscopic Camera

What hard-to-reach places can an inspection camera reveal? An inspection camera, also called an endoscope

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Transforming Temperature Into Light with a Thermal Camera
Cameras

Transforming Temperature Into Light with a Thermal Camera

The thermal camera is the fourth in my series of extra-sensory cameras (after underwater, micro, and

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Befriending the Aggressor
Cameras

Befriending the Aggressor

While gathering photos from my 2011 Bushnell hunting camera for my most recent post, I was overcome

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Learning How To See, created by artist Emily Wick in 2016, chronicles a quest to literally see the world in new ways. Its projects have been featured on KQED Arts and Medium.

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Soap bubble at night, Oakland, CA, September 🪣🪄
Soap bubble at dusk, Oakland, CA, September 📌💥
Crows often fly overhead while I’m blowing bubbl Crows often fly overhead while I’m blowing bubbles, and I sometimes make a wish that I’ll catch one. 

Someday I’ll have a series of crows within bubbles, but I’m not there yet!!! 

Soap bubble at dusk, Oakland, CA, September 🤍🖤

#crow #crows
A hawk flew overhead last night while I was time-l A hawk flew overhead last night while I was time-lapsing the falling darkness in downtown San Francisco last night. Can you spot it??? Warning: It’s very hard to spot
Soap bubble at night, Oakland, CA, September 🪐🔭🥏
Soap bubble at sunset, Oakland, CA 🌈🎈🍭 Se Soap bubble at sunset, Oakland, CA 🌈🎈🍭 September
Soap bubble at sunset, Oakland, CA, September 🎈 Soap bubble at sunset, Oakland, CA, September 🎈💬
Soap bubble in partial sunlight, Emerald Pools, Yu Soap bubble in partial sunlight, Emerald Pools, Yuba River. 🪲🪨
Soap bubbles at dusk, Yuba County, CA, September ✨🪐 Third slide = #bts pic of me by @gabyl0lz 💓

#ufosightings #dusk #soapbubbles
Soap bubbles at dusk, Yuba County, CA. 🔦🛸✨ Soap bubbles at dusk, Yuba County, CA. 🔦🛸✨

#ufosighting #ufosightings #nightbubbles #soapbubbles
Last Rays of a Dying Sun is released and we just g Last Rays of a Dying Sun is released and we just got our blue vinyl copy in the mail! 🗡️🔦🥏Featuring my photograph as the cover art. 

Congratulations @therainparadeofficial 

Rain Parade is Matt Piucci @mattpiucci, Steven Roback @bristoluk77, John Thoman, Steven Junca, and Derek See. The album also features Mark Hanley @amarksupreme, Vicki and Debbi Peterson from The Bangles (@officialthebangles), the Moore Brothers and more!

#rainparade #coloredvinyl #unboxing #stopmotion
Soap bubble just before sunset, Yuba County, CA. S Soap bubble just before sunset, Yuba County, CA. September 2023. ✨🌲🛸

#ufosighting #bubble
Soap bubble at dusk, Oakland, CA, September 🪩🪣🪁 

#glitter #sparkle #bubble
Soap bubble at dusk 🦩🔎 Oakland, CA, August 2 Soap bubble at dusk 🦩🔎 Oakland, CA, August 2023 

#pinklight #crepescular
Soap bubble at dusk, Oakland, CA, August 2023 ⏳🗝️📜 

#bubbles #dusk #ufosighting
Soap bubble at dusk 🪣🪁✨Oakland, CA #glitt Soap bubble at dusk 🪣🪁✨Oakland, CA

#glitter #dusk #ufosighting
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