Artcic Ice melting

Very good video from NASA: Sea Ice 2008

Rarely seen icebergs in Antarctica

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.

Most icebergs are white due to tiny bubbles trapped inside, which scatter the light in every direction.
Blue stripes are formed when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.
Green stripes are created by the freezing of algae-rich sea water


Photographs taken north of Antartica by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen from a research vessel, and published in March 2008.

Nadir Afonso, a painter for Thule

Nadir Afonso is a portuguese painter that pursues an eternal quest, the geometrical perfection; I love his paintings where mathematical geometries are used to exploit fantastic patterns and points of view, colours and rythms. In all his painted cities there is a bit of Thule...

Bridges over the Rhine

Essor

Gondolas

Golden purple

New York

Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard) and the flight to the Pole

Following my research in a recent post, I gathered all the data about Ny-Ålesund setlement in the Svalbard archipelago and Amundsen's flight to the North Pole in the airship Norge in a slideshow. Organized to be attractive and educative, here it is:

Svalbard: from Ny-Alesund to the North Pole

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When music is beyond time and space

Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli is one of those mythical pianists that few had the oportunity to listen live ; he didn´t record much , but what he did record is so utterly sublime that we feel the presence of some remote thulean genius...

Here the 2nd movement (adagio) of Ravel piano concerto, with Michelangeli playing and Celibidache directing.