Colors.
Been awhile since I broke out the copics.
Here is some of the stuff I’ll be taking to MCM tomorrow, not including stuff like books, prints, and other bits and pieces. Be sure to stop by table J9 nice and early before they all go!
I want those Coyote paintings. Want. D:
The “Game Center CX in USA” special is going to be released on DVD in August in Japan and oh my god look at the cover! When they asked for the rights to use my picture I didn’t think they’d slap the whole thing on the cover.
Available for preorder on Amazon.co.jp.
Here’s the whole story of how this picture first reached their hands.
space coyote and GCCX are my favorite things.
I see what you did there, ArenaNet.
This is one of the things I like about ArenaNet - subtlety. If they are going to reference something, they aren’t going to make it painfully obvious. (As pretty much every other MMORPG developer ever would.)
See, the charr /ponder emote was bothering me. I felt like I’d seen it before. And I had. It was the philosoraptor, of course.
Well played, ArenaNet. Well played.
Philosocharr.
Marvellous.
What more could you possibly ask for?
LOL! Awesome.
This is how you reference something in your game.
From Russia with love: The doting father bear who can’t help cuddling his cub
This is the touching moment a baby bear gets swept up in a big cuddle - from her affectionate father.
What makes the photographs, taken at a zoo in eastern Russia, so fascinating is that most male bears have nothing to do with their cubs and leave the rearing to females.
But Balu is more hands-on than most with four-month-old daughter Diva and is content to give her a proper bear hug.
He even appears to be blowing a raspberry on her tummy while mother Masha looks on. Keepers at Primorsky Zoo in Russia were stunned by Balu’s unusual devotion to his daughter.
Zoo director Elena Aseidulina, 34, who took the photographs, said: ‘The father, against all laws of nature, is very caring and loving with the cubs.
‘Normally, it is the mother that looks after the children, but Balu is the exception.
‘He is a real example of a good father.’
Balu and Masha have been living at the zoo since 2002 after they were rescued by Russian militia from poachers. The pair have settled in well - and are clearly enjoying their roles as parents.
Keepers also noticed that Balu has taken on nearly all the traditional ‘female’ roles carried out by brown bears - including teaching their young about the dangers of the world.
Miss Aseidulina said: ‘Balu taught Diva to swim in the pool - she looked to her mother for help but Masha was totally calm and obviously trusted her “husband”.
‘Balu would hold her under water to teach her that swimming is an essential skill for a bear - but he always knew how long she could stay under for, and would pull her out and keep her safe.
‘When Masha is feeding Diva, 14-year-old Balu waits patiently for his turn to play with her.’
The zoo director added: ‘Once, I saw him patting the mother’s paw as if to say “Hurry up, it’s my turn to play!”’
‘It always takes my breath away when I see them playing like this.
‘It just makes you realise that these animals have the same feelings as we do. I wanted to take pictures to show others how touching and heartwarming these animals can be.’
BEARS, YOU GUYS.
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
When Asians attack.
OH MY GODS JLAFKJkasefklawjEKLTAJ
HIS TECHNIQUE IS FLAWLESS
I WANT TO BE HIM OMG
i quit
moves
omfg
omfg compelled to reblog THEM MOVES :I ninja amazing
npr:
Ooooo.
Genetics of the Beautiful “Glass Gem” Corn
Corn gone viral? You’re looking at an ear of a corn variety called “Glass Gem”, grown by Greg Schoen of Seeds Trust. This is real corn! How does it grow this way?
First you have to understand a few things about corn. Each corn kernel is actually a sort of unique plant. A corn plant’s male parts (the “tassels”) sit at the top of the stalk, and drop pollen downward. Unfertilized ears (the female parts) catch the pollen with the sticky ends of their corn silks. Each corn silk (I hate when that gets in my teeth) grabs a pollen grain, shuttles it allllllll the way down inside the ear, eventually creating one kernel for each pollen-silk-ovum combination. It’s one of the more interesting and inefficient breeding schemes I know of.
If you’ve taken genetics, you know that the parents’ genes will combine by chance, leading to certain ratios of inheritance in the offspring. This is the basis of Mendelian genetics (great Khan Academy video here).
With corn, we’ve simply carefully bred all the interestingness out of them. Native Americans were used to multi-colored corn, because corn plants held many varieties of color genes that could combine at random. Now all we are left with are one-color clones.
This “Glass Gem” corn is the other extreme of the spectrum, a combination of corn color hybrid genes and random pollination. It’s almost too pretty to eat!
(via Discover Magazine)
