Fun with Sulphur Hexafluoride

Sulphur Hexafluoride is a completely transparent gas 6 times heavier than air. This means it works about exactly the opposite of Helium. Rather than making a persons voice high-pitched, it lowers it. Rather than making objects float on air, objects can float on Sulphur Hexafluoride. The end part of this video shows somebody float a foil boat in a container of Sulphur Hexafluride. It’s surreal.

Scrapbook content

This skirt by the duo 6267 caught my eye. Clipped from The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2007, in the Marketplace section. (The article was called A Duo called 6267 Adds a Spark in Milan.) I like the contrast between the fitted overskirt and pleated texture of the underskirt.

pleated skirt

I clipped this from The Wall Street Journal, the February 23, 2007 Review: Theater. The picture is credited to Paul Kolnik, but this is only a small piece of that photo. (The play being reviewed was ‘Salvage’.) I like what they did with the shoulders.

Jacket

(The title is reference to the book I learned how to read on, so you probably won’t “get” it.)

The picture has been clipped from The Economist, the article Medical statistics: Signs of the times.

Red Dress

Thanks to the comments on the original post, I discovered this is a painting by John Waterhouse, and that there are two different versions of it, as you can see here and here.