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cool fireworks game for your iphone. touch the screen to see the fireworks going off and add your own photos to the display for the personal touch. Very cool.

This is an incredible and devastating photograph.

This blast took place at the St Helena fireworks factory in Ghargur, Birkirara 27th June 2007. Situated in an unused quarry, nothing remained of the factory after a series of after explosions completely destroyed all traces of it. Men lost their lives and the emergency services were unable to do their job amid fears of further explosions.

This breath-taking image reminds us of the dangers involved in the manufacture of fireworks and in the creation of such abundant beauty, there can be terrible loss.

Always be safe with fireworks.

Cute and clever piece of artwork in homage to everyones favourite past-time, fireworks! The little box appears to be holding a rocket and looking expectantly at the big box.

We are not holding a caption competition and would not like to know what you imagine the little box is saying to the big box.

However if you insist on telling us we will not argue.

For absolutely everything and anything about fireworks, its got to be Epic Fireworks, the UKs home of fireworks.

Over at Bob Shea and Lane Smith’s wonderful Curious Pages blog, they’ve posted the classic Jim Flora children’s book, The Fabulous Firework Family (1955). Flora is best known for his distinctive designs for RCA and Columbia Record jackets, magazines and various commercial art projects of the 40s and 50s. The Fabulous Firework Family launched Flora’s second career as a children’s book author and illustrator.

The book was acquired by Terrytoons during the Gene Deitch era (1956-1958) and the resulting film turned out to be the last cartoon Deitch personally produced at the studio. Al Kouzel directed and, though Flora was involved with adapting the story to the screen, the final result wasn’t entirely successful in translating the charm of the original book.

It’s illuminating to compare the book to the cartoon. Below is a pan-and-scan TV version of the Terrytoon, sans credits. (The original CinemaScope version of the film, with full credits, will be screened March 2nd at my Wide Screen Cartoons program at the CineFamily/Silent Movie Theatre).

Dreaming about Fireworks? Wondering Why?

We all love fireworks, there is not doubt about that. However when we start to dream about fireworks, what could it mean? Of course simplest answer is that it’s been too long since we last visited Epic Fireworks, the UK’s leading supplier of display fireworks – but it may also have other, much deeper meanings.

Let’s delve into one of the most unexplored and mysterious places on earth… the human psyche.

There are many explanations for dreams and many different interpretations for images that we see while we sleep.

Fireworks in dreams are said to have the same significance as an explosion, a release of energy of emotions. This can have a powerful effect on us and on people around us.  So if your partner starts to fizz like a fuse in the middle of the night, it might be a good idea to have a bucket of cold water handy.

Of course, fireworks are generally associated with happy occasions and celebrations. It’s not often that you will see a firework and not be happy about it or even happy before you see it. When we dream of fireworks we are hoping to be able to celebrate a happy occasion or good fortune. So it could be that we are hoping for something good to happen. I reckon seeing fireworks is good in itself so really dreaming about fireworks could actually just mean that we want to watch fireworks. So dreaming of fireworks = wanting to watch fireworks. This seems to make good sense. Unless you are scared of fireworks, in which case it probably means something bad, but lets focus on the positive people!

There could also be a more….spiritual meaning behind the dream (cue religious type music). If there is an excess of spiritual emotion in you, it might need to be channelled by your brain to stop it shooting off all over the place. This can be very messy (see the note about having a bucket of water above). Different fireworks can represent different things. The Catherine Wheel is said to symbolise the martyrdom of St Catherine of Sienna, thus seeing a Catherine Wheel in your dream could signify feminine oppression. However if like most people you didn’t know that the Catherine Wheel represented that how would your brain know to use that imagery as a representation? Another mystery of the human mind. Also seeing a rocket represents your aiming for the unknown, a blind, unguided flight into a sky full of surprises. Or again, it could just mean you fancy lighting a rocket.

Some say that seeing fireworks in dreams shows that you are enthusiastic, creative and talented, although it could also mean that you are a big show off and are making a bit of a spectacle of yourself. I think, taking it all into account, using logic and reason and what with one thing and another, weighing up all the arguments, looking at the bigger picture and remembering to carry the 1, that you just want to light some fireworks. And what’s wrong with that?

Above is a represantion of a nightmare. No fireworks allowed!!!! Noooooo!!!!

A little bit of fireworks love for valentines day.

OK, OK, enough of the soppy stuff now. Get back to the fireworks!

This is another level up for fireworks philosophy. We thought we were pretty out there when it came to our obsession with fireworks but this guy takes it even further. This is a very cool interview with frenchman Pierre-Alain Hubert and his take on small fireworks, his use of them and the artistic and philosphical implications. Very cool.

Pierre is an art professor and also a pyrotechnics artist (his words). He has taught in Marseille, France and also at the CAVS dept. of MIT in Cambridge Massaschusetts. Some serious credentials.

Check the video above and see what you think.

It is very refreshing to hear someone talking about fireworks and not merely saying “I like em big and loud”

Of course, everyone has their own preferences for fireworks and we see it here everyday, some people prefer quiet fireworks, some like pretty colours, some go for the size of the effect or how long it hangs in the sky. Many people like gold coloured fireworks and many prefer silver. Some like the classic, red peony – green peony combination that plagues so many consumer fireworks.

The important thing is that we all like different styles; it would be a boring world if we were all the same.

What I like about Pierre-Alain is that he sees the effect at close quarters, rather than looking for a massive cloud of crackles that fills the entire sky, he wants one good crackle that fills his field of vision. He is able to focus on that single effect and make it larger than any massive barrage could produce. By singling out one effect, even one so small, he has brought the firework closer to us and of course, us closer to the firework.

This is evident when we discuss with many of our customers the benefits and drawbacks of Cat 4 or “professional” fireworks. Cat 4 fireworks are, of course, much larger and can create incredible effects that fill the sky and cast brilliant light all around. This is great. However, when you have to stand so far away from the firework (in order to observe safety distances) does it then just become a far away version of the same firework that you could fire with Cat 3 (consumer/display fireworks). We hear time and time again from our customers that use Cat 4 (and use many of our fireworks with them) that our fireworks create just as impressive an effect, and the ability to use them closer to the audience brings the crowd into the display further. Pierre has taken this to the next level, using tiny Cat 2 (garden) fireworks and viewing them much closer has only changed the scale. Not the quality of the effect. In fact he has emphasised the effect by eliminating the background distraction and the need to stare at the distance, taking in the bigger picture. In other words “Zooming in” creates a clarity and undistorted vision and allows the appreciation of the effect in its purest form.

It is always interesting to find other ways of looking at fireworks – literally. We salute Pierre for his unusual way of thinking and encouraging others to take a second look.

It is important to note here that we love big fireworks. Happy philosophising!

Brilliant photograph of a fireworks shell that looks like a jellyfish

A team of marine scientist’s gas discovered the deepest undersea erupting volcano, which is nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Known as the West Mata Volcano, it has been found by scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

“For the first time we have been able to examine, up close, the way ocean islands and submarine volcanoes are born,” said Barbara Ransom, program director in NSF’s Division of Ocean Sciences.

According to the expedition’s chief scientist Joseph Resing, “We found a type of lava never before seen erupting from an active volcano, and for the first time observed molten lava flowing across the deep-ocean seafloor.”

“It was an underwater Fourth of July, a spectacular display of fireworks nearly 4,000 feet deep,” said co-chief scientist Bob Embley, “Since the water pressure at that depth suppresses the violence of the volcano’s explosions, we could get an underwater robot within feet of the active eruption. On land, or even in shallow water, you could never hope to get that close and see such great detail,” he added.

Imagery includes large molten lava bubbles three feet across bursting into cold seawater, glowing red vents exploding lava into the sea, and the first-observed advance of lava flows across the deep-ocean floor.

The West Mata Volcano is producing boninite lavas, believed to be among the hottest on Earth in modern times, and a type seen before only on extinct volcanoes more than one million years old.

According to University of Hawaii geochemist Ken Rubin, the active boninite eruption provides a unique opportunity to study magma formation at volcanoes, and to learn more about how Earth recycles material where one tectonic plate is sub ducted under another.

Further study of active deep-ocean eruptions will provide a better understanding of oceanic cycles of carbon dioxide and sulfur gases, how heat and matter are transferred from the interior of the Earth to its surface, and how life adapts to some of the harshest conditions on Earth.

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