17 5 / 2013
found a sketchbook under my bed and found this drawing in it
I feel like there’s a lesson I could learn here,
hmm.
(via illustratedladies)
16 5 / 2013
I bumped my knee on the corner of your coffee table on my way out last Saturday. On Monday the bruise had already begun to fade. My capillaries mend fast it seems, and now three days later there remains only the faintest imprint of a green crescent. When pressed upon, I still feel the slightest twinge of pain, but that too will soon be gone.
Pain has always been much more memorable to me than pleasure, as I imagine it is for most people. The cuts and bruises I’ve received during my short life are still tangible to me now, though some have imprinted themselves, leaving for me a convenient reminder of past hurts. Pain has always left parting gifts to me - it leaves vibrations in its wake that linger for hours or days, lying quietly at the edge of consciousness. There is no need to try to visualize what transpired. I need only to touch lightly at the wound and feel that dull ache, that proof of reality, to remember.
Perhaps that is why I watch the progress of this bruise with such disappointment. To remember the width of your back or the warmth of your body requires a certain amount of effort, but to prove to myself the mere reality of your existence requires only a touch on the leg.
02 5 / 2013
A Predatory Tunicate (Megalodicopia hians) closing its maw.
Video Souce
This blog is going to be dedicated to weird organisms making repetitive motions from now on.
30 4 / 2013
The Worm Troll – by Sam Alden
Good read. Pretty short, too.
Sam Alden’s an exceptionally good comic writer and illustrator. Check out his blog here.
29 4 / 2013
A question I still have trouble answering most days.
(Source: monstertreeart, via illustratedladies)
19 4 / 2013
Quino
ed: Even the Picasso got tidied up.
15 4 / 2013
15 4 / 2013
me & daniel drew this togther in memory of MSN Messenger which was shut down yesterday after 14 years~ R.I.P. 1999-2013
I really miss those old chat icons.
(via fishspeakers)
15 4 / 2013
I’m going to get all of my teeth removed and just use dentures from now on.
15 4 / 2013
Female Flies Expel Sperm and Eat It
by Tanya Lewis
Female Ulidiid flies have a kinky habit: After mating with a male, they expel his sperm and eat it.
The odd behavior may help these lady flies choose which guy flies will father their young, researchers reported online today (April 11) in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Studying a species of “picture-winged fly,” known as Euxesta bilimeki, researchers found that 100 percent of the 74 fly couples they studied spewed out ejaculate after mating. Further study revealed that 25 percent of females harbored no sperm afterward. The findings suggest the fly dames were able to control how much sperm to expel in order to select which males fertilized their eggs…
(read more: http://www.livescience.com/28660-female-flies-expel-and-eat-sperm.html)
(photo: Elliotte Rusty Harold)
I wish humans could do this. Very useful mechanism.
