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After Dark: Time (Clip)

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00:02:15

This After Dark event examined time's many faces through activities and presentations featuring honeybees, jump-shot photography, antique timepieces, and a performance by Gamelan Sari Raras.

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Date: June 10, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: time, clocks, gamelan, pendulums, bees

After Dark: Risk Everything (Clip)

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00:03:20

This April Fools’ Day After Dark event exposed people’s threshold for taking chances. For example, visitors could test their belief in the laws of physics as a bowling ball swung toward them. They could also tackle a climbing wall, try their luck at casino games, and see if they had the nerve to carry out the instructions on a card they were given.

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Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s):

Keywords: risk, science after dark

After Dark: Distortion: Thee Oh Sees and Harry Smith Film (Clip)

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00:01:49

A highlight of this After Dark evening was Thee Oh Sees, one of the Bay Area’s best underground bands, who created a playful aural disorientation while playing in front of “visual music” by the late experimental filmmaker and musicologist Harry Smith.

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Date: March 4, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: music, band, concert, thee oh sees, harry smith, experimental, art, film, after dark

After Dark: Sexplorations: Biologist Kristina Yu (Clip)

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00:01:54

The Exploratorium TV crew caught up with Exploratorium Living Systems director, Dr. Kristina Yu, at After Dark: Sexplorations. Kristina confirmed it for us—sex is all around us, all the time.

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Date: February 4, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: sexplorations, kristina yu, biology, organisms, sex

After Dark: Resolution: Mark Lottor's Cubatron (Clip)

Running Time:
00:01:54

This After Dark event featured a special installation of the Cubatron by Bay Area artist and engineer Mark Lottor. A visually stunning favorite of music and art festival audiences, the Cubatron is a 3–D light sculpture made from 8–x–8-foot modular cubes, each containing 1,000 individually programmable RGB LEDs. Viewed from any direction—even underneath—the Cubatron’s thousands of programmed pixels paint exquisite arrays of color that cascade in spectacularly dynamic patterns.

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Date: January 20, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: cubatron, mark lotter, exploratorium, after dark, led art, sculpture

After Dark: Resolution:Media Artist Ken Murphy (Clip)

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00:04:23

Ken Murphy, creator of A History of the Sky— a time-lapse visualization that will span an entire year—talks about his project during the After Dark event, Resolution.

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Date: January 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: ken murphy, history of the sky, time-lapse, installation, clouds, sky, video, weather, technology, art

Links:

Ken Murphy's Website

After Dark: Fire and Ice: Flaming Ice in Slow Motion (Clip)

Running Time:
00:00:36

See slow-motion footage of flames licking through ice during a demonstration by Eric Muller of the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute. Can you guess what he added to the bottom of the vessel before lighting it?

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Date: December 3, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Chemistry

Keywords: fire, ice, after dark, slow motion, teacher's institute, flames

Links:

Teacher's Institute Website

After Dark: Fire and Ice: The Cauldron in Slow Motion (Clip)

Running Time:
00:00:34

Slow motion footage of The Cauldron by Kiki at the Fire and Ice After Dark event.

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Date: December 3, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: cauldron, fire, after dark, kiki, flames, fountain

Links:

The Cauldron Website

After Dark: Fire and Ice: Pyrograph in Slow Motion (Clip)

Running Time:
00:00:52

Slow motion footage of Pyrograph, a work by Earl "Dodger" Stirling that has been described as a cross between Dante's Inferno and the Foucault Pendulum. Like a fiery version of the Exploratorium's classic Drawing Board exhibit, Pyrograph swings a pendulum across a sandy, flaming cauldron and traces out oscillating patterns in colorful fire.

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Date: December 3, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Art, Chemistry

Keywords: pyrograph, fire, sand, earl sterling, after dark, pendulum, patterns, salts

After Dark: Fire and Ice: Magnesium Burning in Dry Ice (Clip)

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Most things won't burn on Mars—after all, the main ingredient in the Martian atmosphere, carbon dioxide, is used in fire extinguishers on earth. So how would one create fire without oxygen? Use metal!This slow motion footage shows magnesium burning within a block of dry ice.

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Date: December 3, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Chemistry, Art

Keywords: fire, magnesium, oxygen, burn, light, glow, dry ice, demonstration, snack


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