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The Larvacean Art of Rebecca Hutchinson
Rebecca Hutchinson builds delicate biomorphic forms out of fragile unfired paperclay, hangs them in an art gallery, and then destroys them after the show. Many of them look like ant nest casts or caterpillar cocoons, but what they really remind … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Alldredge, larvacean, plankton, Rebecca Hutchinson, sculpture
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The 27 Happiest Invertebrates In The World
Recently a friend sent out one of those gawker-style lists calculated to encourage maximum sharing and reposting: The 26 Happiest Animals In The World. It’s full of aww and squee, but one thing stood out- It’s absolutely devoid of invertebrates! … Continue reading
Posted in insect, lol
Tagged ant, antlion, beetle, centipede, chaetognath, cicada, cuttlefish, dragonfly, fungus gnat, isopod, jellyfish, jumping spider, mantis, moth, riftia, rotifer, sea cucumber, sea slug, snail, spider, stick insect, tardigrade, Tick, tube worm, wasp, Weevil
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Chirp Across the Chasm
There simply is no insight more rewarding, lasting, and revealing than inquiry and discovery of our natural world through evidence and research. Seriously, how many days and nights have you hiked through a forest and wondered what it really sounded … Continue reading
Making Iron Gall Ink
After reading my series of holiday posts on galls, my friend Karima excitedly reminded me of one of the earliest forms of gall art: INK! And this month we finally made some! Karima Cammell owns and operates Castle In The … Continue reading
At some point I just got tired of stinging his crotch
I recently nearly completed the game Deadly Creatures for the Wii, possibly the only game where the main character is a tarantula and/or scorpion. But at some point, I confess I just got weary of crotch-stinging. Though humans show up … Continue reading
Tumbled Swarm
A few insect-art gems from my tumblr page this Tuesday:
Posted in art
Tagged ddt, fly, JAW Cooper, Leyendecker, néocide, Savignac, treehopper, tumblr
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The Insect Book of Utamaro
Whilst hunting down information online (for an entirely different post on Japanese insect art), I found several delicately beautiful images by the famed ukiyo-e artist Utamaro, all tantalizingly referred to as pages from a 1788 work entitled “Picture Book of … Continue reading
Record of the Insect War
Over the holidays lots of friends sent me this glorious link of Brian Chan‘s Insect Origami, beautiful sculptures of multi-legged invertebrates created by folding a single piece of paper. Coincidentally, I watched a documentary with my relatives over the holidays … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Chan, colinaut, gerromorpha, juliabee, Jun Maekawa, mayfly, Origami, Petr Stuchlý, Phil Kuhns, Robert Lang, sculpture, Scutigera, Victoria Serova, water strider
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Raise a Glass of Insects
Happy New Year! Though perhaps everybody is perhaps a little tired of celebrating things by now, I finally have time to talk about my favorite insect-laced booze, so let’s go! For a few years now I have been rounding … Continue reading
