July 16, 2009: Electrified Plants

xoxoxoBruce · 07-16-2009, 12:11 AM

It took photographer Robert Buelteman 10 years, working an average of 60 hours a week, to produce 80 photographs.
Damnnnnn!

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Working in complete darkness, he begins by placing his chosen plant onto a metal board which he then passes the electrical surge through.
He can even pinpoint areas where he wants to focus the charge using a wand and a simple car battery.
As his subject lights up with the current, and emits radiation invisible to the naked eye, Mr Buelteman captures the moments by passing a fibre optic cable back-and-forth over the plant. The cable emits a beam of white light which is just the size of a human hair and whatever the miniscule torch-beam touches, transfers the image onto film.
The captivating blue haze that surrounds every leaf, petal and stalk is actually gases ionising around them as the plant is electronically shocked.

Uh... um... oh.

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'You just have to imagine it like a painter creating a picture on canvass,' he said. 'The plant is the subject just like the painter's bowl of fruit or the person they are capturing.
'The electrified board I place the plants on is the canvass. The fibre optic cable emitting the light-beam is my paintbrush.
'Another way to try and understand it is like a normal photograph on a normal camera, except I am manually controlling the exposure by hand. In the same way the image I capture is simply burned onto film.'

Ahhh, of course.

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But despite these being the first pictures of their kind in his profession, Mr Buelteman says he has in fact invented nothing and uses a combination of age-old techniques developed decades ago. Semyon Kirlian - developer of Kirlian photography - accidentally found in 1939 that it was possible to photograph electrical discharges at the edges of objects if that were being shocked on an electrified plate.

At 10 years X 60 hrs/week = 80 photographs, I can see why it didn't catch on.

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wolf · 07-16-2009, 12:36 AM

Just wait until the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to our Chlorophilic Brethren gets a load of this one ...

xoxoxoBruce · 07-16-2009, 12:38 AM

PETCB?

sullage · 07-16-2009, 02:19 AM

people for the ethical treatment of all life? PETAL? i imagine something like this already exists somewhere. the question is weather they have a funny acronym.

DanaC · 07-16-2009, 03:33 AM

Damn. I read this as 'electrified pants"....at last! I thought...

Sheldonrs · 07-16-2009, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Damn. I read this as 'electrified pants"....at last! I thought...

Shock the Monkey!

Pie · 07-16-2009, 08:52 AM

Pensive or Happy?

DanaC · 07-16-2009, 09:01 AM

I would imagine that might rather depend upon the voltage.

dar512 · 07-16-2009, 09:21 AM

Keziah: No thanks, I'm a fruitarian.
Max: I didn't realize that.
William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian?
Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already.
William: Right. Right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots...
Keziah: Have been murdered, yes.
William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly!

Sheldonrs · 07-16-2009, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Pie

Pensive or Happy?

I'm sure if i put on electric pants my "monkey" would be both pensive AND happy. lol!!

dacliff · 07-16-2009, 10:16 AM

What? No salad recipes? I'm shocked!

xoxoxoBruce · 07-16-2009, 10:23 AM

Their salad days are over, those plants are cooked.

birdclaw · 07-16-2009, 10:25 AM

Finally a name for my band. Electrified Pants! You can dance, you can dance, everyone look at your pants.

lumberjim · 07-16-2009, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Damn. I read this as 'electrified pants"....at last! I thought...

great minds...

Gravdigr · 07-16-2009, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by birdclaw

Finally a name for my band. Electrified Pants! You can dance, you can dance, everyone look at your pants.

I'm a man and I have a hat, so, I don't get that reference. I'm unsafe, also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

07-16-2009, 12:36 AM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Just wait until the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to our Chlorophilic Brethren gets a load of this one ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-16-2009, 12:38 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	PETCB? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-16-2009, 08:52 AM	#7
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Pensive or Happy? __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

07-16-2009, 09:21 AM	#9
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Keziah: No thanks, I'm a fruitarian. Max: I didn't realize that. William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian? Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already. William: Right. Right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots... Keziah: Have been murdered, yes. William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly! __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

07-16-2009, 10:23 AM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Their salad days are over, those plants are cooked. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-16-2009, 02:19 AM	#4
sullage Master Locutor Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 155	people for the ethical treatment of all life? PETAL? i imagine something like this already exists somewhere. the question is weather they have a funny acronym.

07-16-2009, 10:16 AM	#11
dacliff Confounded Conjuror Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 33	What? No salad recipes? I'm shocked!

07-16-2009, 10:25 AM	#13
birdclaw putting the "g" in flight Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 145	Finally a name for my band. Electrified Pants! You can dance, you can dance, everyone look at your pants. __________________ “The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman.”

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