{"id":3658,"date":"2011-03-13T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2011-03-13T22:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:28:01","slug":"lampwork-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3658","title":{"rendered":"Lampwork insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s combine \u00a0two recent themes: internet-as-connection-engine and internet-as-repository-of-just-about-anything-imaginable! Last night Wesley Fleming favorited some of my photographs of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/sets\/72157608782644548\/\">Blaschka&#8217;s work<\/a>; as I always do, I backtracked to see what sorts of things he&#8217;d posted to Flickr. Turns out he&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesleyfleming.com\/index.htm\">amazing lampworker<\/a> himself. I don&#8217;t know why it never\u00a0occurred to me that folks were still making lampworked representations of nature &#8211; my ex (among many artistic talents) made beautiful lampwork beads. I&#8217;ll put it down to the\u00a0impossibility\u00a0\u00a0of successfully thinking from a fire hose; there&#8217;s so much cool stuff going on that keeping up with all of it just ain&#8217;t going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mr. Fleming&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We&#8217;ll start with a favorite &#8211; a leafcutter ant (timely, too &#8211; there&#8217;s been a link to a leafcutter nest casting and excavation making the rounds).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Atta (leafcutter ant) by Wesley Fleming, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wesleyfleming\/5363357265\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5288\/5363357265_e39700b8fa.jpg\" alt=\"Atta (leafcutter ant)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Japanese Hornet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vespa mandarinia (Japanese hornet) by Wesley Fleming, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wesleyfleming\/5368837220\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5241\/5368837220_d2c46ae8b0.jpg\" alt=\"Vespa mandarinia (Japanese hornet)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And a variety of stag beetle that&#8217;s, as far as I know, new to science, Lucanus alces &#8211; the Moose Beetle.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lucanus alces (moose beetle) by Wesley Fleming, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wesleyfleming\/5363363197\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5247\/5363363197_6818126c55.jpg\" alt=\"Lucanus alces (moose beetle)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me that thumbnail dart frogs\u00a0might\u00a0make good lampwork subjects. Quite a few of them have a very shiny, almost metallic, body color with dark spots or blotches seeming to float above in a separate layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s combine \u00a0two recent themes: internet-as-connection-engine and internet-as-repository-of-just-about-anything-imaginable! Last night Wesley Fleming favorited some of my photographs of the Blaschka&#8217;s work; as I always do, I backtracked to see what sorts of things he&#8217;d posted to Flickr. 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