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awild | May 13, 2009...well, not really. But an exchange I had at Photo Synthesis with Andrew Bleiman of Zooillogix got me thinking about all the different insects that have charmingly envenomated me at one time or another.
Myrmecia piliventris, Australia
So I'm starting a meme called Things That Have Stung Me. The rules are simple:
List all the things that have stung you.
Bites don't count.
Pass the meme to 3 or more other bloggers you suspect have also been well-zinged.
Here are mine.
Things that have stung me:
Ants:
Pachycondyla verenae
Pachycondyla harpax
Pachycondyla villosa
Pachycondyla…
clock | May 12, 2009Carel P. Brest van Kempen (yes, the artist who did the banner of this blog) submitted this video for a contest. I am not sure how the voting goes, but perhaps lots of visits to this YouTube video are the thing they are looking for:
clock | May 6, 2009It is really sad when an independent book store closes. It is even sadder when that book store was not just a shop but also a center of local community, a place where people gathered to have coffee, talk, interact with boook authors, take art or yoga classes, participate in theater or children's activities. But the economic downturn is affecting everyone and Market Street Books in Southern Village was forced to close by May 1st.
I went there a couple of times last week, to commiserate with the employees and volunteers who were packing, wondering what the future will bring for them and picked…
clock | May 5, 2009Brian made me do this:
There are several others in this series, featuring warthogs, pterodactyls, mammoths and moas....all found on YouTube
clock | May 4, 2009...are three blogs written by the same person - Ross Horsley, a librarian with interesting creative juices.
Her first blog is My First Dictionary in which she uses pictures from an old 1950s kids' Dictionary and replaces the text with something....usually ominous!
Her second blog is Musty Moments with old clippings and ads, sometimes with her own text added:
And the third is Anchorwoman In Peril! where she reviews slash-pics:
Read the interview with Horsley at NO JUAN HERE
clock | May 2, 2009Carel Brest van Kempen just posted a new one - even more ambitious than all the previous cases:
I've given the time-lapse treatment to a new painting. Feeling more confident with the process, I tackled a major painting this time: A pair of courting Crowned Flying Lizards (Draco cornutus) in the foreground compete for our attention with a big old male Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) calling from his sleeping nest in the background.
awild | April 26, 2009In the event you thought your weekend wasn't much fun, consider Nicholas White, who spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator one weekend in 1999. Here's the time-lapse security video:
The story is recounted by the New Yorker.
clock | April 16, 2009
[It's all over the interwebs, but I first saw it posted by Dr.Isis and SciCurious]
awild | April 8, 2009
...whose arrival is apparently scored with new-age music and accompanied by your choice of beverage. Be warned.
clock | April 5, 2009I know everyone and their grandmother has already posted this. But, if there is going to be a virally spread internet meme, this one is much better than most:
stoat | April 4, 2009Let's see if I can post this before Emma does :-)
As noted elsewhere, during the nesting season some of the swans on the river, and one in particular, can become aggressive. The one at the end of the reach seems partciularly provoked by our white blades. So when we were coming back today we were pleased to see it a fair way off over the river, and while it glared at us we seemed safe, several lengths clear.
But no! As we rowed on, we were treated to the sight of the mighty swan nearly taking off in that way they have, with a flapping of wings and a paddling of feet along the surface, followed…
awild | April 2, 2009
Hikers at Purmamarca
Bits and pieces of landscapes, northern Argentina, March 2009.
El Palmar National Park
Cardon cactus, Amaicha del Valle
Termas de Reyes, Jujuy
Copina, Córdoba
Soybeans, ad infinitum
Purmamarca market
Purmamarca market
Purmamarca
Infiernillos, Tucuman
high desert, after late summer rains
On the road