Interior Screens

Interior views, with external test objects being transformed when viewed from within.

Lens/Aperture Testing

Variable settings for different Lens/Apertures.

Covered Construction

Covered box construction with full stage lighting rig.

Light-proofing

Lightproof 'wrapping' of the overall frame.

Prototype Build

Some initial shots of prototype frame construction.

The Birkeland Terrella

Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland (1867-1917) began his own study based in the long tradition of work with electromagnetic terrellas. Between 1896 and 1913 he pursued a series of gas-discharge experiments in his laboratory at the University of Christiania (modern Oslo), directed primarily at reproducing in the laboratory the effects of the Aurora Borealis.

Article on Sphæra: the Newsletter of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

PALAOA

Providing an acoustic live stream of the Antarctic underwater soundscape...more than 15000 km lie between Antarctica and AWI. Underwater sound is recorded by two hydrophones at PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf. The data stream is transmitted via wireless LAN to the German Neumayer Base and then by satellite link to AWI in Germany.

PALAOA - Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice

Scenes from Antarctica

Down in Antarctica, November marks the end of spring, the beginning of austral summer, and the beginning of Antarctica's cruise season. The Sun just rose for the first time in 6 months on September 22nd, and is now visible in the sky all the time.

Collected here are 32 photographs of Antarctica from the past several years

Earthstar

Earthstar comprises three elements: customised antennae tuned to radio bursts emitted by the sun, footage of the solar chromosphere captured using a Hydrogen-Alpha telescope, refrigerators containing specially developed aroma molecules that hypothesise what the sun might smell like.

Earthstar by David Haines and Joyce Hinterding

Encounters At the End of the World

There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science.

Encounters At the End of the World by Werner Herzog