Author Archives: swarm
Sing a Song for Stenopelmatus
Happy Birthday to me! In celebration, I want to share with you all a very special friend of mine, a beautiful and noble beast who is tragically loathed and feared by nearly everybody I know, even friends who otherwise love … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, cricket, Hopi, jerusalem cricket, Katsina, stenopelmatus, Susöpa
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More Art Inspired By Plant Swellings
A potpourri of works inspired by parasitic plant materials: Of course there is one very common artwork made from oak galls, Ink! Oak gall ink (also called Iron Gall Ink) has been used for centuries as a vital component to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Beards, gall, Grace Willard, ink, parasite, Susan Deakin, wasp gall
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Cynipid Celebration!
Arielle Casale has created several hundred tiny ceramic sculptures inspired by wasp galls, and dangled them on long fishing line from above. There they hang like stars, as if the host tree they were embedded in had suddenly gone invisible, … Continue reading
Deck the Galls
If you asked me what insect truly embodies the spirit of the holiday season, I wouldn’t hesitate for an instant. What other insect decorates trees in festive baubles, spreading joyful great glowing red ornaments and brilliant translucent spheres? That’s right, … Continue reading
The Insect Art of Kurimoto Tanshū
The 19th century court physician Kurimoto Tanshu (栗本丹洲) (also known as Kurimoto Masayoshi) was also an accomplished naturalist, and in 1811 compiled the beautiful 3-volume work entitled Senchu-fû, which roughly translates as the Thousand Insects Manuscript. Its pages are packed … Continue reading
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Tagged beetle, flea, Japan, Kurimoto Tanshu, Louse, mosquito, Philipp Franz von Siebold, wasp, 栗本丹洲
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Bethany Krull and the Surrogate World
There’s so much good stuff about Sculptor Bethany Krull’s works that I will have to restrain myself from displaying them all. Krull’s seeds, insects, and invertebrates are more than just a celebration of the beautiful forms found in nature, but … Continue reading
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Tagged ant, Bertram Chandler, Bethany Krull, cricket, hermit crab, sculpture
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Attracted To Light
The above pictures are part of a glorious item that I would love to have clutched between my tarsal claws. It is a grand art book called “Attracted To Light“, by Mike and Doug Starn. It’s full of moths, of … Continue reading
Next Instar
And we’re back up! (whew) Thanks to the kind support of the folks at DreamHost, The Endless-Swarm now has more robust behind-the-scenes blog tools. Once our wings have hardened, and we’ll be ready to fly!
Swarm Reboot
This blog was created on a whim by using Dreamhost’s one-click installer. However, though it’s been an easy ride, I am starting to really enjoy insect-blogging, and want to get under the hood a bit more. To do that I … Continue reading
Biophilia
Fantastic insects and other organisms populate Finnish artist Vladimir Stankovic’s Biophilia series of works, created in color pencils and digital tools.
