More from 6am adventures (Taken with instagram)
About
Eve Harlow; an actor who loves a lot of things, such as -
Coffee, neon and pastel colours, rain, loud music, films with subtitles, libraries, fire escapes and airports. Past/future blogs have/will include musings on these topics of such great importance.
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Csquared if I ever did see one (catchy+charming).
Jack White officially joins the likes of Banksy and Steve McQueen as a person who I’d like to befriend. Music genius aside, attempts such as this is why.
Bioluminescent bloom makes beach a magical minefield
IT DOESN’T get much better than this. It’s a moonless night and you are on a deserted beach in the Maldives. As the waves lap the shore, the beach lights up like Las Vegas. Glowing organisms stick to your feet. It is one of the most magical sights in the natural world: a bloom of bioluminescent plankton.
This picture was taken on Vaadhoo Island, but bioluminescing organisms are found all over the world. The ones here are probably single-celled protists and marine crustaceans called copepods. Both glow when they are disturbed.
“Every so often, one of these bright specks of light would appear to take off and run up the beach,” says photographer Doug Perrine. Ghost crabs were grabbing the glowing organisms and carrying them back to their burrows.
It doesn’t work so well on the beach, but bioluminescence usually distracts predators by disrupting their swimming behaviour and preventing them from feeding. It may also act as a burglar alarm to attract animals that feed on the predators. So what to us is a beautiful spectacle of light is to them a minefield (Journal of Plankton Research, DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbh141).
The light is produced by devilishly named twins: a pigment called luciferin and an enzyme, luciferase. Luciferin reacts with oxygen, and luciferase speeds up the reaction. A range of unrelated animals use the same pigment-enzyme pair to produce light, including fireflies, anglerfish and jellyfish. Bioluminescence evolved independently many times: in the bigger picture, it ain’t so magical after all.
Lip wound; acquired by attempting to pop a piece of gum into my mouth with one hand. Fail. (Taken with instagram)
Oh yeah, couple more things -
Another picture I’m using as a headshot ->
What you should drink based on what you’re listening to…fun. Thanks friend.
Purchased the new Beach House album…adoration reaffirmed. Gonna go ahead and quote Pitchfork here - “Filmmakers call the part of the day right before the sun goes down “the magic hour.” It’s that brief moment when the waning daylight causes everything to take on a holy, hazy glow. It took Terrence Malick about a year to shoot his 1978 movie Days of Heaven because he insisted on filming only during this time of day, but the results perfectly capture and distend that dizzy, overripe feeling of right before something very good ends. Bloom does that, too. “What comes after this momentary bliss?” Legrand wonders on “Myth”. It’s a question Beach House don’t seem interested in answering any time soon. Because that’s become their signature magic trick: stopping time right before the sun disappears over the horizon, tricking you into believing a feeling can last forever.”
Career-wise news: short film I shot last year in Halifax?…screening at Cannes! Check it: When You Sleep.
Remember that time I said my goal was to stay at my current apartment for longer than four months?…alas, it was not meant to be. This weekend, this very mature twenty two year old is moving…back in with her parents. I’d feel more ridiculous for being a grown up who’s moving back in with her folks if not for
a) my family being the coolest people I know and
b) the knowledge that Helena Bonham Carter lived with her parents till she was past 30. …I love that woman. (And I swear it’s not just because I could pass as her child).
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Bear in Heaven show (Taken with instagram)
JESUSMARYCHAINAREGOINGTOBEPLAYINGASHOWINTORONTOINAUGUST. !!!!!!.
I think the only show I’d be as excited for would be one featuring a resurrected Elliott Smith followed by The Beatles.
Dear Reid brothers,
I love you.
Sincerely,
Eve Harlow.
“If I was famous, I’d never marry one of my fans…that’s why I have a chance with that guy from Twilight”
-Younger Sister (aka Nicole)
My younger sister may be the funniest human being I know. Example:
I was on a 90’s music binge this afternoon, and naturally played the Goo Goo Dolls Iris. Her response? “It’s like Wonderwall for people who don’t like Oasis”.
A movie that’s the closest thing to a poem in visual form that I’ve ever seen:
…am currently in the process of reading everything I can possibly find on the internet about Bela Tarr.
One that attempted to be a mix of Trainspotting and Hard Core Logo, and failed:
Don’t regret watching it because there were definitely interesting parts to it - from some visual stuff the director tried to some of the characters - but overall, a rather vapid film so concerned with shocking that everything else gets pushed to the foreground.
NEW JACK WHITE! …kind of ridiculous. But mostly awesome.
…almost as awesome as Johnny Depp is.
Watched Bronson…Tom Hardy? Rather amazing.
(Trivia: he gained 42lbs in muscle for the part. !!!).
Current music obsession: new Chromatics.
Current reading material: T.S. Eliot.
This made me giggle.
New demo!
love.
