Late Tuesday, the airspace over Britain — which since Thursday had been closed because of the giant floating volcanic ash cloud born in the wilds of Iceland — was reopened, signaling the end of a nearly week-long worldwide travel disruption.
By The New Yorker April 21, 2010 Late Tuesday, the airspace over Britain — which since Thursday had been closed because of the giant floating volcanic ash cloud born in the wilds of Iceland — was reopened, signaling the end of a nearly week-long worldwide travel disruption.
I have not been able to articulate those few hours, the burned remains of the buildings I saw later and the tiny particles of ash floating in air.
The planet Mars has drawn closer to the Earth than ever before, but they can't see it for the smoke and ash, floating down as if in a snow globe.
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Manuscripts dating back as far as the 13th Century were no more than ashes floating on the morning breeze.
The artist, meditating, watches the floating garbage and ashes impassively, and loses sense of "whether it is the river which is running and moving or myself".
In their minds, said Mr. Low, they like to think of "Sara and her ashes floating out over Manhattan," a place she had once lived and to which she had hoped to return someday.
So we took a cyberscan of the guy's body, and on top of all the practical elements we used as a base, we had a matte painting, a reveal matte painting of the cracks that ran through the body, 3D particles of large chunks of ash falling out, 3D particles of small ash bits floating down, residual dust flying off of it and, at one point, his head falls off and crashes to the ground as ash.
A scene in the film portrays the violent destruction of the towering Na'vi Hometree, which collapses in flames after a missile attack, coating the landscape with ash and floating embers.
The apparent density of these cenospheres is less than that of water and as such, they float on the ash slurry when it is impounded in the ash ponds or lagoons.
