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H.A.A.R.P. stands for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and is not a secret or classified project. On their website it plainly states that the site is “a premier facility for the study of ionospheric physics and radio science,” but many people believe it has another purpose not so benign. Many people believe HAARP is a potential global weapon that can control the weather.

The finished design.

Trying to control the weather isn’t all that crazy of an idea. Weather Modification Inc. has been around for 40 years. Other countries have spent tons of money in weather manipulation throughout the years. HAARP is a big clump of radio antennas in Alaska that can be linked together to focus there combined energy into a target in the ionosphere. There are about 180 individual antennas, with a total size about 35 acres and combined they can spit out about 3,600 kilowatts of energy into the atmosphere. That’s 3.6 million watts. A radio station is 50 thousand watts max. The people running HAARP say it’s not a weather control project or any type of “star wars” weapon. What they don’t say is exactly what will happen when they shoot the energy into our atmosphere. Since its a research project, they figure just turn it on and see what happens, so it’s not that hard to see why a lot of people are concerned about this.

I was given a book a long time ago on concept art for old Disney films and one of the films they had sketches for was called Victory Through Air Power. One of the sketches was of the earth with a black octopus curling around the earth from above and the same coming up from below. I always thought this was a striking image and it was one of the first things that came to my mind when I was thinking about HAARP as a potential global weapon.

This was my initial sketch, inspired by an old concept sketch for the disney film Victory Through Air Power.

I chose oranges and browns for the palette because orange is traditionally a color signifying caution, like in road construction, and putting the earth in browns give it a more gloomy feel. I put the octopus over the northern hemisphere, but I didn’t put it over Alaska just because I didn’t think the view of the earth from that perspective was as interesting. I used google earth to position the earth underneath the octopus.

This was the first attempt to figure out how to build it.

In a Fibonnaci number sequence, which goes back hundreds of years, each number is equal to the last two numbers. So it goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on for as long as you want to keep adding numbers. The sequence is found all over in nature, so its really more of a discovery than an invention.

One square and curve unit

Creating the graphic wasn’t all that hard, its really a series of squares, with a smooth arc from one corner to the other. You can keep growing it out as large as you want, but I thought 10 would be good for percentages of black. The centermost square is 100 percent white, then I add 10 percent black to the value until you get to 90 percent at the largest square. It never gets to 100 percent black unless the design is on a black shirt.

The end result

Really the best way to build the graphic is to make one square with its corresponding curve, then group those, then duplicate them and scale them as big as you like.

A lot of people are against “the chip” though, and that may not be the only way big brother tracks you. RFID chips are also in millions of products including clothing. You probably have many RFID chips in your house without knowing it. They also have a special ink that can be colorless, but read by RFID readers and tracked that way. If I was going to make a shirt about RFID tracking, I like the little bean chip for a graphic better than the others, at least to start with.

So I used my own hand again, and just stuck it on the flatbed scanner.

A scan of my hand.

Then after a simple desaturate, invert, and find edges, you can see we are well on our way…

The same and, after some Photoshop button pushery.

Then its just a matter of touch up. If I wanted to only print on black shirts I’d be all set, but I wanted to print on other dark colored shirts, then a little more is needed. If you copy the touched up black and white file into a channel, then create a new blank layer, load the new channel as a selection then fill with white, you’ll have the white outlines of the hand with a transparent background. Was that too fast?

1. Copy black and white layer to a new blank channel (make sure the white in the layer is what you want to keep). That’s as simple as select all, copy, paste.
2. Create a new blank layer.
3. Load the new channel as a selection. That’s usually under the “Select” menu at the top, then click “Load Selection” and select the channel you want. That will give you some ant trails around the white parts of the channel you just filled in.
4. Then fill the ant trails with white or whatever color you want.
5. Save as a png with alpha

The finished design.