watch the YouTube video embedded here… you can also download

from the Internet Archives, click this link: Ravishing Light, a Solar Videopoem

 

After watching many hours of NASA’s amazing SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) footage of the sun at the Internet Archives, I downloaded some short videos and from them distilled the clips you see in this video. I am delighted to find this footage and to create a solar videopoem.

 

A vision of such power that what went before falls away in a rapturous death. A rapturous death of the ego. An unerasable enlightenment. That Rubicon. I was inspired to write this piece after seeing the movie, ‘Sunshine,’ which also uses footage from NASA’s SOHO Observatory:

on that day explosion of ravishing light infiltrated all crevices of the abode no shadow only a few seconds but transformed everyone’s consciousnesses neuronal synapses exploding in rapturous light retinal cells lighting up firing laser stunning flashing images into the brain marked by the event the way a flood line is gauged by how far inland the water traveled all those who witnessed the event scattering of the light bore the mark like a rare sedimentary flare layer in the archeology of the mind or a moment when everything saturated overflow of light expanded beyond outer limits of comprehension remained engraved luminosity in the cells at any moment to spill forth when memory activated the sequence of that day when the sun cosmic storm blazed without heat only light brilliant

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prose poem written in July 2007 (also available at the Internet Archives as a separate recording); videopoem created April 2010.

 

These are the videos I finally chose and downloaded. I used clips from some of them for my short videopoem:

 

wave- archive.org/details/CIL-10079

SOHO_TRACE_Intro_YouTube- archive.org/details/GMM-10421

recon- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIPreconSTRIP

quiet20010310ntscarchive- archive.org/details/SVS-2766?start=4.5

EITflameszm- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIPEITflameszmSTRIP

304blow- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIP304blowSTRIP

archive.org/details/SVS-3286

EITbulb- archive.org/details/SPD-SOHO-STRIPEITbulbSTRIP

flarezoom640x480- archive.org/details/SVS-2496

helio_fleet_v1.1- archive.org/details/SVS-3570