This is so NOT cool...

I was just standing in my kitchen, cleaning my menorah when AGAIN. EARTHQUAKE. Shit.

I immediately call my friend J**** and we freak out together on the phone.

Me: Earthquake!
Her: I don't like this!
Me: Earthquake!
Her: I don't like this!
Me: Earthquake!
Her: I don't like this!
Me: Earthquake!
Her: I don't like this!
Me: Earthquake!
Her: I don't like this!

Like that a few times more. FREAK out.

Fuck.

Snowflakes...

All right. So some of you know, I have been making snowflake icons. Well I just noticed that these snowflakes are a USPS stamp. How ultimately cool. On the site they explain a little bit about the method that the photographer uses to get the shot of the snowflake. I am a geek so I thought it would be cool to post about it.

So here are the stamps...

( Snowflake stamps.. )

The explanation is as follows...

Snowflakes generally take one of seven basic forms. For example, stellar, or starlike, snowflakes usually grow six primary branches that support arms, which often develop thin plates of ice at the ends. Bitter-cold conditions create crystals with more facets. The most symmetrical snowflakes occur during light snowfalls when there is cold weather and little wind. If the air is warmer, crystals tend to stick together to form less symmetrical snowflakes, or they can take on a needlelike shape. In higher humidity, snowflakes may branch more, making them dendritic, or plantlike, in appearance.

These stamps are photographs of two basic snowflake patterns by physicist Kenneth Libbrecht. They are stellar dendrites, which form branching treelike arms, and sectored plates, which as their name suggests, form platelike arms. Because fallen snowflakes start to melt and lose their shape in mere minutes, Libbrecht quickly transferred the snowflakes from cardboard to a glass slide using a paintbrush. He then snapped the photos inside a temperature-regulated enclosure using a digital camera attached to a high-resolution microscope.

Now here is the icon I made...I plan on making some more animated ones through the winter. I think they look really interesting. But this is the first.



I customize it with journal names or online names. If you would like one, let me know and I can make it for you.

A thank you to khylea for showing me the original site of Libbrecht's photography.

Cheers.