#electrical storm

[poetrybyonur]

She is dazzling, electrical, and I would stand foolishly with my arms outstretched, daring to be struck down by her intensity.

A spoken word from 2020 that I redid. Click on image to hear my Londoner voice. (Background Music by Steve Jablonsky.)

#poets on tumblr #love quotes #love poetry #romantic poetry #love poem #romantic writer #onurtaskiran poetry #poets and writers #gentleman poet #love #poetrybyonur #writers #spilled ink #spoken word #spoken poetry #cockney #lightning #electrical storm #londoner #english gentleman

[newyorkthegoldenage]

This photo, with no retouching, was made from the windows of the Daily News on May 19, 1934, by Hank Olen, a staff photographer. The flash of lightning that plays around the Empire State Building so closely that it seems to have hit it, provided all the light that was needed to make the picture.

Photo: Hank Olen for the NY Daily News via Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1930s #Hank Olen #lightning #Empire State Building #May 19 #19 May #lightning bolt #electrical storm

[whereifindsanity]

Francisco Negroni

#volcano eruption #electrical storm

[mycolourfullworld]

#lightning #electrical storm #storm #lightning storm #storm clouds #clouds #storm chasers #beach #sea #sand #ocean #waves #endless summer #summer #summer storm #summer vibes #beach vibes #good vibes #vibes #aes #aesthetic #aesthetics #lifestyle #style #mood #lonely planet #landscape #landscape photography

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Electrical Storm Over the Badlands

By Optimal Focus Photography

#optimal focus photography #photographer #flickr #electrical storm #badlands #landscape #nature

[chasingrainbowsforever]

"Night” by Chris Johnson

#thunderstorm #storms #lightning #lightning bolts #electrical storm #clouds #weather #reflections #brown blue

[the-succubabe]

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#electrical storm #thunder #rain storm #thunderstorm #nature #sky photography #photography #storms #lightning #lightening #bolt #voltage #aesthetics #powers #mine

[unanuvola]

ELECTRICAL STORM // U2 [The Complete U2 • 2004]

#u2 #electrical storm #2004 #2000s #unanuvola

[rainy-kinda-mood]

Luka Vovk 

Free to use under the Unsplash License

buy me a warm drink?

#lightning #storm #storm clouds #lightning storm #thunder storm #electrical storm #photography #weather #weather photography #bnw #b&w

[the4chambersofmystery]

"You're in my mind all of the time

I know that's not enough

If the sky can crack there must be some way back

For love and only love"

#u2 #electrical storm #william orbit mix #no comment tunes #spotify

[ademater]

Night Electrical Storm

August 2022

#electrical storm #storm #night storm #lightning #thunderbolts #august #italy #ademater personal selection blog

[snowshinobi]

"you're in my mind all of the time/I know it's not enough" is such a gut punch bc thinking of someone always sure sounds like a lot to me, why's that not enough? what is enough? what are we measuring?

so I looked up U2's comments on the song, "Electrical Storm," released in 2002: the tense, uneasy weather mirrors the tense, uneasy relationship between the singer and their lover. nice, love an extended metaphor. U2 also connected this uneasiness to how a lot of Americans felt after 9/11 attack the year prior, reflecting that the song wasn't intended to be political but those swirling feelings wove their way in anyway.

back to the question: what does "enough" mean and why isn't being "in my mind all of the time" it?

Straightforward Reading: "enough" is a measure of long-term compatibility. Thought is sweet but it isn't action. This person you think about all the time—do you come through for them? Do they come through for you? Or is mutual attraction the only thread holding you together? Alternatively, this partnership you've both put in the love and time to build—does it work? Or do you just wish it did? There are differences no amount of love can overcome.

Hear Me Out Reading: "enough" is a measure of stability and security. What did America do following the 9/11 attacks? Beefed up its national and international security. What did that achieve? The amplification of systemic racism via blatantly targeted ""random searches"" of nonwhite travelers. Further erosion of individual privacy, as if social media empires and other corporations weren't doing enough damage on their own. In its attempt to eradicate terrorism, the US gov't divided and scrutinized the people it claimed it was protecting. Through heightened surveillance, the American people are in their government's "mind" (cough, extensive collections of personal data, cough), all of the time, and it's not enough. This won't guarantee the safety of anyone. All it does is, ironically, terrorize the people who are already marginalized and strengthen the power of the already rich and powerful.

I don't think U2 subconsciously wanted to encourage listeners to critically analyze America's response to 9/11, nor the increasingly hellish targeted advertising-filled nightmare that is our current internet. I just think it's cool that "you're in my mind all of the time/I know it's not enough" feels bigger than one storm, bigger than one relationship. Because it can be. It is.

#U2 #electrical storm #9/11 #America #surveillance #privacy #internet safety #analysis #snowswords #cosmic #showed me this U2 deep cut he likes (specifically the William orbit remix) not realizing #how normal about i was gonna be about it. I'm so normal about music guys. not thinking about one lyric for 2 weeks straight at all #this lyric has been in my mind all of the time and y'know what. it is enough #i didn't even get into how this lyric sounds so ace/aro-spec to me #the way aro folks form deep connections that so many ppl don't take seriously bc they aren't romantic #the way sex-repulaed ace folks who like romance can struggle to build a relationship that makes them and their partner happy #i love cosmic so much. he's in my mind all the time #this relationship may not be enough for him someday. because there's a kind of love I can't give. #man. maaaaaaaaan.

[cosmicfocus]

2022: Strike Gallery

Lightning Focus: Annual image compilation for 2022. #electrical storm #lightning #weather

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#2021 #Bolt #Electrical Storm #electrostatic discharge #Featured #flash #forked lightning #ground strike #images #Lightning #lightning loop #nature #photography #season #storm #Strike #summer #thunder #thunderbolt #thunderstorm #trigger #weather

[monkeyslunch]

Weird work lunch break abstract art.

A purple horizon with maybe sand dunes. Some kind of electrical-looking geysers. Shrug.

#abstract art #sand dunes #hellscape #electrical storm

[picspammer]

Electrical Storm by U2

#idkw i've been thinking about this video #i mean i rewatched it a couple of days ago and it just. wow #it's so intimate and in a way surreal #hate to admit it (bc of the director. he supported depp... a lot) but this one is truly great #i also have my issues with bono... #can't a girl just like a piece of art FFS...why are men like this #anyway. incredible stuff #electrical storm #u2 #i see it's not clear that she is a mermaid #samantha morton #larry mullen #larry mullen jr #The Best Of 1990-2000 #u2 band

[nicholasr]

Thinking about the upcoming solar maximum bringing more aurora borealis and more threats to junk satellites and questions about how common an occurrence The Carrington Event was

#carrington event #solar cycle #musings #electrical storm #satellites on fire falling from the sky