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science: The Brocken Spectre, here seen in Poland, is an optical phenomenon in which the observer’s shadow appears to be magnified on clouds or fog below. The Spectre can be observed from mountaintops when the sun is low and behind you, and there’s dense fog or clouds below. It is often accompanied by a glory, a rainbow-like halo that can also be observed when one is between the sun and a layer of clouds, and the movement of the clouds plus the apparent magnification can give the impression of a supernaturally tall ghost being walking the mountain. The phenomenon is named for Brocken, also known as Blocksberg, a mountain peak in northern Germany long associated with witches and devils in local lore and literature. Another place to see it is the Scottish mountain Ben MacDhui, a frequently fog-shrouded peak where legend has it an unusually tall “Grey Man” resides. It isn’t hard to image how a lone mountaineer—halfway lost and hearing his own footsteps oddly distorted in the mist—could conjure up mythical beings when faced with a ghostly giant in the distance. You see Brocken, I see Castiel.
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The Brocken Spectre, here seen in Poland, is an optical phenomenon in which the observer’s shadow appears to be magnified on clouds or fog below. The Spectre can be observed from mountaintops when the sun is low and behind you, and there’s dense fog or clouds below. It is often accompanied by a glory, a rainbow-like halo that can also be observed when one is between the sun and a layer of clouds, and the movement of the clouds plus the apparent magnification can give the impression of a supernaturally tall ghost being walking the mountain.

The phenomenon is named for Brocken, also known as Blocksberg, a mountain peak in northern Germany long associated with witches and devils in local lore and literature. Another place to see it is the Scottish mountain Ben MacDhui, a frequently fog-shrouded peak where legend has it an unusually tall “Grey Man” resides. It isn’t hard to image how a lone mountaineer—halfway lost and hearing his own footsteps oddly distorted in the mist—could conjure up mythical beings when faced with a ghostly giant in the distance.

You see Brocken, I see Castiel.

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danintendo asked:

hii!! your crayola paint is awesome! do you have like a tutorial ??? i wanna make something like that :)

Thanks so much!  I love it, even if my canvas is gigantic and I need more crayons.  I don’t have a tutorial yet.  I can tell you what I did.  It’s really simple. 

I watched a ton of videos where the crayons were glued to the canvas and a blow dryer or heat gun was used to melt them.  I never liked it because you cannot control where the wax went and  a lot of them were too messy.  I saw a few videos and read some blogs where the crayons were pushed through a hot glue gun.  So I decided to do that.  Except the damn glue gun clogged immediately.  The metal tip was actually hot enough to melt the crayons, so I did it that way.  I peeled the crayons, arranged them in rainbow order and melted them over the canvas (that I painted black they day before) in a more controlled way.  I overlapped the colors to created a fade effect.  That’s basically it.  It’s pretty time consuming and a little messy, but pretty relaxing. 

I hope that helps!

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