Some interesting and inspiring things...

[gnommi]

...that with a bit of luck might keep us going til the sun comes out again come Spring.

Geoffrey Haberman's metal insects (mostly creepy brass mantids, SO COOL).



John Paul Miller's irridescent enamelled insect-themed jewellery



(More photos here)

Food that is more like some kind of sculpture at the soon-to-be-dead El Bulli
(more pictures and descriptions here)


This is "snails on a tin", apparently snail eggs/caviar on a metal plate.

More metal insects and other metal sculptures by Elizabeth Goluch.



More insectoid (this time fin de siecle) jewellery by Lucien Gaillard.



Bizarre Japanese imaginary dead things that never lived.



And special mention to Wesley Fleming whose gorgeous glass critters got me going on beadwork and indirectly my beetles ages back now.



I've quit FaceBook and feel better for it (and I think nobody noticed, hehe), work is by turns frustrating and invigorating but always exhausting. Final draft of my trefoils paper went out to co-authors today, for submission to Gastroenterology. Think it will liklier end up in J Pathol or Biochem J but meh, beggars can't be choosers.

I just need to keep going 'til the sun comes back.

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[nmg.livejournal.com]

I've quit FaceBook and feel better for it (and I think nobody noticed, hehe)

Oddly enough, I noticed it about half an hour ago; the email I sent about Burns Night went to your old hotmail address. As far as I can work out, this was because the Facebook app on my phone removed you from my address book when I last synced with FB, and then my laptop removed you from my master address book on the laptop when I synced with that. This is almost exactly the wrong thing to do.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

O_o iiiiinteresting!
when is Burn's Night? it's going to be the weekend that we are hoping to go to London to see Tim and Maraca as they breeze through from Berlin on the way to Andorra isn't it!?

very good to see you chaps over the hols as always, house is a tip at the moment due to LOLplumbing but you should visit soon! We'll even try to watch the stuff you lent us first hehe. We did see Moon and enjoyed very much. Have managed a couple of Beiderbecks but SO. MUCH. JAZZ. Still Threads, Edge of Darkness and Scanner Darkly to go!

[tlrmx.org (from livejournal.com)]

Scanner Darkly is pretty cool. Did you see Linklater's previous attempt at the same computer-assisted rotoscoping of a whole movie? Waking Life. I don't know, it might annoy the hell out of you. But it seemed the right way to present those stories. I think I got a lot more out of Scanner Darkly as a movie than as a novel.

Also it takes a certain kind of crazy person to go "Hey, that was hugely more labour intensive and expensive than I expected, so let's do it again"

I still need to give you your Xmas present (silly as it is).

[nmg.livejournal.com]

We're planning for the 22nd January - the hobbit should have received the mail.

re: the Beiderbecke, it's *good* jazz. And even if you don't like the jazz, you still have Alan Plater's dialogue.

[educatedpork.livejournal.com]

The mantid and the fly are absolutely incredible!