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Bugs Above
Today on the Endless Swarm, one of my favorite Krulwich videos about insects, from the Morning Edition entitled “Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can’t See.” I was reminded of this amazing fact when hiking in Napa yesterday. In the … Continue reading
Posted in film, insect, science
Tagged cold, hiking, insect, napa, NPR, Robert Krulwich
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Cocoon Day
It’s a cold day to stay in and do taxes and bills, and my thoughts turn to one of my favorite themes in insect art, the cocoon. Here is one of several delightful cocoon sculptures by Kari Ann Olstad, And … Continue reading
Posted in art, insect
Tagged cocoon, cold, Kari Ann Olstad, science tarot, Tammy Stellanova
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Ant Music
And welcome to Bug Music Friday. Turned out in the pouring rain in SF to see the delightfully energized tribute band Madam & The Ants play at a beautiful place called Broadway Studios. Upon entereing I realized I had been … Continue reading
Posted in insect, music
Tagged ant, Daniel Mercadante, insect, Madam & The Ants, music, Tom Waits
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Your Mandible Expectations
Mike Libby adds watch parts to beetles and other insects, hollowing out their abdomens and adding watch gears, sewing machine parts, and other mechanical items to create a pleasing, sometimes even plausible, clockwork insect sculpture. His site the Insect Lab … Continue reading
Posted in art, insect
Tagged art, automobile, beetle, Ernst Junger, Mike Libby, Ray Bradbury, Scot Bain, sculpture
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“In everything there are particles of all things”
Anna Pinzari and Chantal Corso have a delightful gallery of paintings from 2008 depicting butterfly wings at such a close range that they become abstract arrangements of colored rectangles. Butterfly and moth wings are covered with tiny scales that give … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Pinzari, art, butterfly, Chantal Corso, Fields, painting
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Insectivorous
Today there is a lovely but light article in the Wall Street Journal about insect-eating in trendy restaurants, with some information about the logistical problems in procuring, serving, and selling insects for edible consumption to a sometimes only mildly curious … Continue reading
Michelle Yeoh vs. the Black Widow!
Beautiful spider woman versus cross-dressing Michelle Yeoh. Don’t know how the rest of the film is, but this clip is pure dangle-from-wires awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_zhZ64iicY From now on, if somebody asks, i was born in the Year of the Spider.
Endless Swarms Most Beautiful
“There is grandeur in this view of life … from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” – Charles Darwin Welcome to the Endless Swarm, a celebration of insects! In … Continue reading
