blindsided

A few exciting things have happened over summer, one of which was my lovely boy interviewing Justin Vernon himself for Dazed and Confused magezine. Please take a look, an unbridged version and other lovely bits are available here.

Duprat, who was born in 1957, began working with caddis fly larvae in the early 1980s. An avid naturalist since childhood, he was aware of the caddis fly in its role as a favored bait for trout fishermen, but his idea for the project depicted here began, he has said, after observing prospectors panning for gold in the Ariège river in southwestern France. After collecting the larvae from their normal environments, he relocates them to his studio where he gently removes their own natural cases and then places them in aquaria that he fills with alternative materials from which they can begin to recreate their protective sheaths. He began with only gold spangles but has since also added the kinds of semi-precious and precious stones (including turquoise, opals, lapis lazuli and coral, as well as pearls, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds) seen here. The insects do not always incorporate all the available materials into their case designs, and certain larvae, Duprat notes, seem to have better facility with some materials than with others. Additionally, cases built by one insect and then discarded when it evolves into its fly state are sometimes recovered by other larvae, who may repurpose it by adding to or altering its size and form.

This has been dormant for a long time but it's about time to shake off the cobwebs, here is what has been keeping me glued to the laptop whilst I've been away.


http://www.navyandbrown.blogspot.com/
http://seasideair.blogspot.com/
http://darjeelingdreams.blogspot.com/
http://www.thevamoose.com/blog/ - http://thevamoose.tumblr.com/
http://www.foxtailandfern.com/ - http://foxtailandfern.tumblr.com/
http://harpy.tumblr.com/
http://maggieontherocks.tumblr.com/
http://churchofkatemoss.tumblr.com/
http://suchaplaceasthis.tumblr.com/

x

http://atlas-song.tumblr.com/

you can generally find me here now

state of nature

down in a rabbit hole

a little something from college,






inspired by this

a tunnel from my window to yours,

And if the snow buries my, my neighbourhood.
And if my parents are crying
then I'll dig a tunnel
from my window to yours,
yeah a tunnel from my window to yours.
You climb out the chimney
and meet me in the middle,
the middle of the town.
And since there's no one else around,
we let our hair grow long
and forget all we used to know,
then our skin gets thicker
from living out in the snow.

You change all the lead
sleepin' in my head,
as the day grows dim
I hear you sing a golden hymn.

xxx