Here is a visual playground for my inspirations, loves and artwork.
Any of you artists out there. The Florida Steampunk Exhibition South will be a little different with the addition of an ART GALLERY which will go on during the entire weekend. More information at the link below.
Also, some stats on the gallery show I put on last year that was only a ONE night reception and NO convention:
40 Artists
71 Pieces of Art
300-350 People in Attendance
king eider, surf scoter, harlequin duck, spectacled eider
(photos by dcumminsusa, jgilbert, matthew sullivan and usfws headquarters)
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OUR NEW GOAL IS 1000 SIGNATURES BY APRIL 2ND! That’s next semester folks! Can we do it? Yes, with your support and spreading the word we DEFINITELY can. Lets show these suits who’s BOSS! WE ARE! :D
http://www.change.org/petitions/edmc-goldman-sachs-please-don-t-turn-the-art-institute-into-a-diploma-mill
IIndigo Milk Cap (Lactarius indigo)
The Indigo Milk Cap is entirely blue to blue-gray, sometimes with greenish stains when old. When broken, it oozes indigo blue latex, which turns gradually greenish when exposed to air. It grows on the ground, typically in oak or pine woods. This mushroom has a broad geographic distribution, occurring throughout eastern North America and from Arizona to Mexico, but is most common along the Gulf Coast of the southeastern United States and in Mexico. It is generally considered edible, but reports vary regarding its desirability. (Lincoff 1981; Arora 1986, 1991; McNight and McNight 1987)
(via: EOL) (top image: Dan Molter; bttm image: Patrick Coin)
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Today I had a lecture on phylogenetics, and part of the lecture talked about the eventual understanding of the homologous features shared by dinosaurs and modern birds, leading to the realisation of their close relationship that is still a confusing science today.
The homologous features include egg-laying and the building of nest structures as part of their parenting behaviour. This behaviour was best observed in a fossil of Oviraptor philoceratops.
The most notable fossil of this animal (see below) shows an adult dinosaur, 2 metres in length and just over a metre in height, sprawled over a nest full of eggs.
To begin with, the eggs were thought to belong to a small Ceratopsian called Protoceratops. The dinosaur lying on top of the nest, however, was not a Ceratopsian. Instead, it was a therapod. Initially puzzling palaeontologists, it was theorised that the animal was actually trying to steal the Protoceratops eggs. This led to the genus name of the strange of the dinosaur: ‘Oviraptor’, which literally translates to “egg thief”.
It was later discovered that these were not the eggs of a Protoceratops, when further, identical eggs were discovered, containing the tiny embryos of Oviraptor.
[photo credit: Ryan Somma]
The animal’s name, although now inaccurate, had stuck. The “egg thief” is actually one of the famous good mothers of the dinosaur superorder. It’s my mum’s favourite species, and one I learnt a lot about throughout my childhood. Shame it has such a shitty name, it deserves one that describes how good a parent it really was!
Awesome!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsoxvbi0Sr1r4qxzwo1_1280.jpg)
Today I had a lecture on phylogenetics, and part of the lecture talked about the eventual understanding of the homologous features shared by dinosaurs and modern birds, leading to the realisation of their close relationship that is still a confusing science today.
The homologous features include egg-laying and the building of nest structures as part of their parenting behaviour. This behaviour was best observed in a fossil of Oviraptor philoceratops.
The most notable fossil of this animal (see below) shows an adult dinosaur, 2 metres in length and just over a metre in height, sprawled over a nest full of eggs.
To begin with, the eggs were thought to belong to a small Ceratopsian called Protoceratops. The dinosaur lying on top of the nest, however, was not a Ceratopsian. Instead, it was a therapod. Initially puzzling palaeontologists, it was theorised that the animal was actually trying to steal the Protoceratops eggs. This led to the genus name of the strange of the dinosaur: ‘Oviraptor’, which literally translates to “egg thief”.
It was later discovered that these were not the eggs of a Protoceratops, when further, identical eggs were discovered, containing the tiny embryos of Oviraptor.
[photo credit: Ryan Somma]
The animal’s name, although now inaccurate, had stuck. The “egg thief” is actually one of the famous good mothers of the dinosaur superorder. It’s my mum’s favourite species, and one I learnt a lot about throughout my childhood. Shame it has such a shitty name, it deserves one that describes how good a parent it really was!
Awesome!
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