Meg//22//Libra
This blog supports *intersectional* feminism and cute animals, among other things she/her
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Adorable Ceramic Creatures Water Your Plants for You
Do you always forget to water your plants? With the help of Giant Peropon Planters, it’ll never happen again. The ceramic creatures—dogs or cats—come equipped with everything you need to grow greens. Most notably, they’ve got long, felt tongues that stay fixed in a water tray to keep your plants appropriately hydrated. Get the kits through Firebox.com
A black cat, in theory, should retain its midnight shade for the rest of its life. So, imagine the surprise that a man named David had when Scrappy, his beloved furry friend, started seeing spots.
As the cat turned seven years old, his fur began sprouting white patches among his previously all-dark coat. This phenomena was most likely due to vitiligo, a rare skin condition that causes this brilliant marbling in feline fur. Despite the scary-sounding diagnosis, however, Scrappy remains a happy and healthy senior cat. (Source)
PAULA BONET ILLUSTRATION
The Spanish illustrator Paula Bonet (facebook) has gained international recognition with her delicate and highly personal work.
Arbre de vie
WIP in french : http://www.helenem.fr/l-arbre-de-vie-wip
Illustration - PS CS6 & Intuos 5L HélèneM ©2013 - All rights reserved - Tous droits réservés
Cette illustration est une oeuvre originale et aucun droit de diffusion, copie, modification, impression n’est cédé
This illustration is an original work, do not use, redistribute, modify, clip, tube or copy
Cover art and design for The Lost Machine, 2010.. Ink on paper.
Horrific Buttons. Interior illustration. Ink on paper.
Lumsden Moss. Interior illustration. Ink on paper.
Starling. Interior illustration. Ink on paper.
Spectrum 21, End of the End of Everything
Victo Ngai
I am very honored to have 8 pieces be selected into this year’s Spectrum 21 illustration Annual.
Among them is a new piece called “End of the End of Everything” for Tor.com. It has also been selected into Communication Arts 22 Illustration Annual. The illustration is for a wonderfully scary horror novelette by Dale Bailey. It sets in pre apocalyptic earth and the stories revolves around suicidal parties, libertine orgies and amputation performance art. I don’t think I have ever been so shaken by a short story like I was by this one.
The Tiger Beer art is nominated as one of the medal finalist in advertisement category, woohoo!
My big thanks to the judges and congrats to all the winner. Thanks again to my art directors Aviva Michaelov (NYTimes), SooJin Buzelli (PLANSPONSOR), Irene Gallo (Tor), Jordan Awan(New Yorker), April Montgomery (Computer World) and Dylan Davies (Rothco)!
As stated by Huffington Post
Researchers are now determined that plants have the ability to respond to being chewed.
Basically, plants in the study were able to “hear” themselves being eaten, creating a type of defense mode against their prey, the caterpillar.
Using a laser microphone, the scientist were able to record the vibrations and sounds of caterpillars chewing on plant leaves. The scientists played them to the plants before caterpillars had a chance to nibble. As it turns out, when plants were exposed to these chewing vibrations for a few hours, they reacted by producing increased amounts of mustard oils — which caterpillars hate!
So technically they can hear (hear as in sense) themselves being eaten alive!
Many articles are springing up with “bad news for vegan community” based on this finding, but researchers only said that this finding will help find new ways to defend plants against pesky insects.
From here, researchers plan to find out how exactly these vibrations are able to be sensed by the plants as they’re being munched on.
This is both terrifying and yet, immensely intriguing.
Poison Ivy as a kindergarten teacher
no, but really: flytraps use up a LOT of energy closing their traps. You know a lot of other plants that move that much? Tricking them into closing when there isn’t food there is indeed mean.
B-but… they’re plants… they’re devoid of sentience, right? They don’t “feel,” they’re more like little wind-up machines. Right? They don’t act on instinct, they’re… well… traps. You can’t actually be mean to a plant. Right??
I’m of the opinion that meanness is about the nature of the action, not awareness on the part of the target of the action.
Tricking them into closing their traps is actually harmful to them, since the energy expended in closing and then re-opening the trap isn’t replenished by having a tasty insect to digest.
I’m of the opinion that meanness is about the nature of the action, not awareness on the part of the target of the action.
Also, please note that Flytraps only have about 6 closes in them and then they die. You are effectively shortening their life.
they can also take revenge on you buy tricking you into feeding everyone around you to them and then growing to an unmanageable size and eating you too, in an attempt to teach the audience a lesson about greed
it is COLD i do NOT want to get out of bed, i wish to REMAIN in my hedonistic slothful blanket nest and NEVER leave
