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In case you didn’t know yet, I like insects, spiders and the like. So, bit of a themed post.

A short video I captured of an ant dragging a rather hefty lunch home:

Bits of my stuff:

Links:
Moths Use Sonar-Jamming Defense to Fend Off Hunting Bats
Dancing caterpillars put off predators (cute photo, found via neatorama)
a bug sculptures photoset on flickr

Origami arthropods found on deviantart, different creators:

That artist of the last one has a lot of other great models in his gallery, only with the thumbnail links disabled.

Two of the students’ presentations in the design seminar today had “WTF? ”-moments.

The one on Coco Chanel had the gun-heeled shoes – mind, she coming up with the idea that simplicity is the essence of elegance, and clothes should be comfortable and offer freedom of movement, and the designers using her brand after her death coming up with rhinestone encrusted bling and high-heeled nonsense like this, is weird, too.

My presentation on Alphonse Mucha had this concept, drawn in 1897, for a suggested pavillion for the World Fair of 1900.:

The WTF part is that it’s a remodelling of the Eiffel Tower.

That was not Mucha’s idea, but when people suggested to move the part of the Eiffel Tower above its main platform somewhere else, and were looking for ideas what to do with the base, this “Pavillion of humanity” is what he came up with.

News story: Bored octopus juggles crabs, shorts out aquarium

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Photos and bits of science: Octopi with forked tentacles

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Art: Colourful cartoony octopi by Rawjawbone – sample:

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Art: Meg Lyman draws, among other things, squids and other cephalopods, and they’re often very cute.
samples:

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More Art:

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Photo (via National Geographic, click for original)
Supposedly smiling octopus	looks more like this to me

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Nudibranchs are, sort of, cute, colourful miniature sea slugs, as far as I can tell.
Have some sample photos by Raymond™ from his Nudibranch flickr stream

Nudi Pixel is a website dedicated to become a spotter’s guide. They have over 10.000 (ten thousand) photos in their gallery.

more nudibranch links:
Another flickr set
Blog entry at Scienceray with a selection of photos

On Monday Don Rosa, creator of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and other stuff, visited the local comic shop for a long singing/sketching session, and I was there, too.

The photo on the left shows him working on a sketch of young Scrooge McDuck, based on the “The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark” story.

Below is the more finished version.

This is the sketch I got for myself. Not one of the more famous characters, I guess.

Hortense McDuck is Donald’s mother. He apparently got the temper from both sides.

Any character who cusses out the president of the USA and tells him “Don’t even speak to me until you grant women the right to vote” and punches him in the gut when he refuses her help with something because it’s “men’s work” is OK by me.