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Category Archives: Photography
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Sonik Silikeletons
Cover of The Sea Nymphs’ On The Dry Land (2016), with radiolarian skeletons
Good band-name, beautiful cover, but I don’t like the music. It’s interesting to compare a trimmed version of the cover:
Trimmed version of The Sea Nymphs’ On the Dry Land
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• On the Dry Land at Bandcamp
• Radiolaria at Wikipedia
Snail Hail (¡Caracol!)
Small yellow snail, possibly juvenile White-lipped Snail, Cepaea hortensis
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Snail ID in UK — a good simple guide at the NHBS
Seaing Is Beleafing
The Leafy Seadragon, Phycodurus eques, from southern Australia (Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
Wikipedia says: “The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words φῦκος (phûkos) ‘seaweed’, and δέρμα (dérma) ‘skin’.” That’s obviously wrong for dérma, but I can’t find a definitive etymology.
Mentem Mutantes Moleculæ Matutinæ
Glowly We Rot
The phosphorescent fungus Panellus stipticus, responsible for white rot (Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is of course a core referencing of Sunn O)))’s classic album Insect Villain Monocrypt (2006).
Ring Ma Belle
Saturn through a 6″ telescope (Reddit)
Seeded Seating
Seedhead of a dandelion, Taraxacum sp., growing thru seat-slats of a bench
Glühbus
Julia Kotowski, a.k.a. Entertainment for the Braindead, with a glowing globe
Palme D’Awe
A coco de mer at the Eden Project
A rare and endangered palm at the Eden Project is thought to have made botanical history by producing the UK’s largest mature leaf of its kind, about 13ft (4m) long. The coco de mer, native to the Seychelles, was grown from a seed in the Cornwall attraction’s rainforest biome. The seed, given by the Seychelles Ministry of Agriculture in 2003, has now developed into a plant with a massive mature leaf. Over the next decade, the leaf could grow to 8-10m long, the Eden Project said. — Rare palm’s 13ft leaf thought to be UK’s largest, BBC News, 20ix25
