Scottish Adventure Writers

Keep the heid!

Sure, everyone knows Stevenson, Doyle, and Scott, but further down the list we get some lesser-knowns that bear investigation.

Did Scotland Invent The Comic Book? (Close, but not quite.)

Did Scotland Invent The Comic Book? Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors:

The Glaswegian Proto-comic.

It’s frustrating that this publication had all the elements necessary to make a comic book narrative, all in place for the first time, but seperately, never quite used together. It’s more the Missing Link rather than the Origin Of Comics itself.

But with Scotand so influential in the comics form, from the likes of Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, Dennis The Menace, Dandy and the likes of Alan Grant, John Wagner, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, Gary Erskine and Frank Quitely, it’s good to know there’s something in the blood.

Aurora Borealis to light up the night sky (Wish I was in Scotland now.)

BBC News - Aurora Borealis to light up the night sky: 

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He added: 'So if it is a bright one, and the evidence suggests that this might be, it is a large solar flare. It really should be unmistakeable.'

Was thinking about this just the other day, before I'd heard about solar activity.

"It just went red all over! It's red all over!"

BBC News - Special flight to the Northern Lights from Humberside:

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The first flight from Humberside Airport to see the Northern Lights has been so successful, that it could become an annual event.

The three hour trip travelled north over Scotland in search of the lights, which are caused by solar wind - a flow of charged particles from the sun travelling to Earth and hitting the atmosphere at its thinnest point causing a brightly coloured display.

I don't have a bucket list, as such, but if I get to retire and travel some day, making an effort to see the Northern Lights is something ... well, I would go on and on about here, I suspect. A bit like Mac at about the the 3:10 mark in this clip from Local Hero.

Scotland's ever-changing scenery. Then and now re-photography.

BBC News - Scotland's ever-changing scenery:

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 I put the slider in the middle so you can see the shore line changing. Neat effect. It'd be cool to this technique applied to photographs of NYC over the years.