Eclipse 2024 - Tumblr Posts
I had a discussion with my mom tonight about the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday and found out exactly how much audacity the local Chamber of Commerce has.
You see, my mom works for the town library, and the library, as a member of said organization, was asked to wait to provide free eclipse viewing glasses until the Chamber had the chance to sell some for a profit.
The asking price?
$50!!! Fifty fucking dollars!!!!
For the cardboard piece of shit glasses that you can buy at the Wal-Mart 4 pair for 5 bucks or get for free with an Eclipse slush at Sonic!
The fucking audacity!
We are in the path of totality here and will be in it for just under 4 minutes, so the price of everything has soared for the weekend, including hotel rooms at our 2 just barest of okeyest hotels, has skyrocketed.
The price on those hotel rooms?
Starts at $675 a night this weekend. Starts there!
That, and most of the surrounding area hotels are sold out at those prices. We are not metropolitan, just rural with a little bit of industrial mixed in. We should not at all be able to command that pricing.
One of the local churches wants fifty bucks to park in their parking lot to watch it, and a few other places around followed suit. Private residents want anywhere from ten to fifty dollars to park on their property.
The gas prices here are up because of a predicted peak in use. There's an Eclipse Festival at the fairgrounds this weekend, with bands playing all weekend, and the pricing on it seems to be the only reasonably priced thing in the entire racket.
Our entire city collectively lost their minds in a money grab over this eclipse thing.
Will time stand still or Will there be a sudden chill, when the silver mother moon floats on by.
y'all I'm in the path of totality and even though it hasn't happened yet, I must say, what has happened is such a beautiful sight
(it currently looks like this)
The ancients were overdramatic and I can see why
The eclipse is passing over my part of the country right now and we just saw totality which was so incredible and so strange that it makes me realize just how much the ancient civilizations must have lost their gourds when this happened. I've seen partial eclipses before but watching one at totality helps me understand just how
f r e a k e d
those people must have been and makes their apocalyptic symbolism seem a lot more justified. Anyway glad we have modern astronomy to reassure us that the world isn't ending heres a really cute really crappy photo from the dumpster fire that is my iphone camera (you can kinda see a little solar flare at the bottom maybe?). Happy Eclipse :)
*breaks character briefly to post cool art*
I got the chance to road trip out to the path of totality! My phone camera didn’t do it justice, so I painted what I saw instead 🌞🌚
Here’s the photo I took and the sketch I made with my finger in the notes app while watching it happen 😆
It's almost MOONDAY! To celebrate, here's a redraw of a piece I did to celebrate the 2017 eclipse!
The sun is more mellow now. There was a lot of rage in 2017 generally.
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024
ALFREDO JUÁREZ | RAMI ASTRO | JOSHUA INTINI | KENDALL RUST | DERAN HALL | KUZCOKHANDA | TREVOR MAHLMANN | OTHINGSTODO | NASA | STEVEN RATNIK
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024
ALFREDO JUÁREZ | RAMI ASTRO | JOSHUA INTINI | KENDALL RUST | DERAN HALL | KUZCOKHANDA | TREVOR MAHLMANN | OTHINGSTODO | NASA | STEVEN RATNIK
Apr. 8 2024 Eclipse
Credit: Victor Toth
I was supposed to be able to see the eclipse where I live BUT GUESS WHAT
I got the chance to road trip out to the path of totality! My phone camera didn’t do it justice, so I painted what I saw instead 🌞🌚
Here’s the photo I took and the sketch I made with my finger in the notes app while watching it happen 😆
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024
ALFREDO JUÁREZ | RAMI ASTRO | JOSHUA INTINI | KENDALL RUST | DERAN HALL | KUZCOKHANDA | TREVOR MAHLMANN | OTHINGSTODO | NASA | STEVEN RATNIK
ECLIPSE DAY HOW WE FEELING SPACE ENTHUSIASTS?!?!?!
ECLIPSE DAY HOW WE FEELING SPACE ENTHUSIASTS?!?!?!