Copepoda by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur / Artforms of Nature (1904)
Krustenkunst
Tag Archives: Natural History
Krustenkunst
For Flake’s Sake
It caught my eye, it caught my eye,
That fluttering flake of fallen sky.
It rode the wind as cars bored by
And did not die:
And shall not die,
That fluttering flake of fallen sky.
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
A poem written months ago about a briefly glimpsed blue butterfly flying along — and over — a busy road. I don’t know the species, but Polyommatus icarus seems a reasonable guess.
Free-Wheel Ferning
Photo of unrolling fern frond, frondlets and frontletlets (from Free Photos)
Elsewhere Other-Engageable
• Farnsicht — beautiful black-and-white photograph of ferns by Karl Blossfeldt
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Free-Wheel Ferning” is a pun on the title of core Judas-Priest track “Free-Wheel Burning”, off core Judas-Priest album Defenders of the Faith, issued in core Judas-Priest success-period of 1984.
Eggs for Eyes #2
White bird-eggs of various species
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Elsewhere other-accessible…
• Eggs for Eyes — colored eggs of various species
Farnsicht
Photo of developing ferns by the German nature photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Farnsicht” is a pun on German Farn, meaning “fern”, and Fernsicht, meaning “view” or “visibility” (literally fern, “far”, + Sicht, “visibility”).
Multicolore Mondo Macao #2
Blue-and-yellow macaw, Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758), by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Previously pre-posted
Multicolore Mondo Macao
Red and yellow maccaw, Macrocercus aracanga, by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
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(Now Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
Green and Not Heard
Slanted and Enchanted
Green-Gold Moss with Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
I assume I got the name “Slanted and Enchanted” from a subconscious memory of an album of the same name by the American band Pavement, though I might just have come up with it independently.
Two ’Toos View Youse
John Gould’s illustration of Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri (now Lophochroa leadbeateri) (1865)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
