Eyjafjallajökull’s Death Ash and The Sublime

Leave it to Icelanders to make the depressing, beautiful. Check this amazingly heart-breakingly Ruskin-esque sublime-y video of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano spewing its death cloud.

Leave it to Icelanders to make the depressing, beautiful. Check this amazingly heart-breakingly Ruskin-esque sublime-y video of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano spewing its death cloud.

The artist who shot this, Sean Stiegemeier (and he’s actually from Cali not Iceland), used his digital Canon mark 5II SLR (for any of you photo-nerds out there, the merger of pro-sumer video into SLR cameras is officially underway).