Video: Animated Map of Nuclear Explosions, 1945-1948

Videos

I nicked this from Deanna Lepsch. This is fascinating to me for many reasons, but especially since I've been doing so much research about early atomic bombs for my novel. It's worth watching the entire way through (only about 15 minutes):

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto's "1945-1998" is an animated map showing the 2,053 nuclear explosions that took place around the world during the 20th century, from the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998.



Here's a link to MAKE if you can't see the above embedded video:
blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/animated_map_of_nuclear_explosions.html

Book Signing: David Morrell

Book Signings

Thank you to Meline Nadeau for this photo of David Morrell and me during his book signing at the 2010 Seton Hill WPF residency!


Heidi Ruby Miller and David Morrell
Photo by Meline Nadeau

Reflection: Sunrise Photo Shoot at Kentuck Knob

Reflection

One weekend last month I got up at 4:00 AM so that I could open the gates at Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob for the Westmoreland Photographers Society sunrise shoot. What an incredible experience to watch the world awaken from the top of that hill! While the photographers checked their shutter speed and adjusted their tripods, I wrote.

Part of it was for work - facts for my weekly progress report and details for copy to be turned into press releases and articles later - but part of it was for me. Trying to capture a particular time of the day is challenging when you're not writing about it as it's happening, and especially if you're normally sleeping at that hour. You miss the small stuff, those details that let your reader say, 'I know exactly how that feels.'

Maybe they'll say that when they read the revised chapter in my recent novel. The setting is certainly better for it and so is the mood. You see, we didn't have the bright sky and blooming color that morning, we had the swirling clouds and the river valley mist that crept skyward. The unfolding scene did more to inspire me than the latest tips from professionals in a magazine and more to calm me than my daily yoga.

Let's hope I captured a little of that for the page...


SEATED: Heidi Ruby Miller
Photo by Kern F. Little

Incidentally, you can see the weekend's final photographs at an exhibit at Kentuck Knob this Saturday from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. I'll be there, as well the photographers, so say, "Hi!" if you stop by.