Tag: microphotography

Scapulomancing Hot Links

Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”

Ant baths.

Marli Toys.

GPS Doodles.

–And Yet Again

Map of Sounds.

Be the capybara.

The USS Harder.

Who’s That Lady?

Restored campers.

Create a password.

LBCP walks around.

Norty Blues Episode 69.

A Latvian Solstice serenade.

The Death of Poor Joe (1901).

The Witches Tower of Dayton.

Applaud as if your life depends on it.

Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].

Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].

Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]

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Abnegating Hot Links

Acilius sulcatus diving beetle male front tarsus 100x – Igor Siwanowicz (2016)

A Teenager In Love, The Regrettes (2018) Nice neopunk cover of Dion & The Belmonts’ 1959 hit; I looked for a live version; no dice. More about Lydia Night and the Regrettes here.

Training.

Not Woody.

Homo longi.

He sees you.

It’s to dye for.

Guess Which Hole.

Cats ‘n Cheesecake.

Headlock Maneuver.

Michael w/ laryngitis.

Where to go in Norway.

Things Go Better With Roy.

Giant microscopic puppets.

The Leicester Balloon Riot of 1864.

Analog screenshot [via Bunkerville].

Missing Missy is an internet classic.
Gary, Landlord of the Flies is another.

Crocodiles & the Battle of Ramree 1945.

The Fall of Minneapolis. THIS is important.

How to Play With Tom Waits [h/t Chuck C.].

AI robot reacts to mirror [via Memo Of The Air].

Justice for Damone, the story of the under-appreciated 5th Ramone, would make a great stocking stuffer.

[Top image: Front foot of a diving beetle found here. More info here.]

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Little Porky Peeper

In the mid-19th Century, not long after the invention of photography, John Benjamin Dancer (1812 – 1887) began printing tiny photographs onto glass slides at his studio in Liverpool, England. In Paris, René Dagron (1817 – 1900) wondered how to circumvent the need for an expensive microscope to view them. In 1859, Dagron patented the first Stanhope lens mounted with a mini-photograph.

He named it after the magnifying device invented 50 years earlier by Charles Stanhope, Third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816). In the late-18th century, Stanhope invented lenses which allowed all sorts of “viewers” to house images in secret. Stanhopes, also called Bijoux Photomicroscopiques, became known as ‘peep holes’, ‘peep-eye views’ or ‘peeps’.

And this little piggy had a secret…

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Predatory Polynoid Polychaete

[Predatory Polynoid polychaete (scale worm) image found in here. Related posts here.]

Dorkworm of the Deep

Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope. Nicholas Gayet 2015

Photograph by Nicolas Gayet of the Paulo Bonifacio lab was a 2015 FEI contest winner.

Polychaetes worms are fascinating. One species are called “Zombie Worms” and includes the Osedax mucofloris, discovered in 2005. Its name translates to “bone-eating snot flower.”

[Image found here.]

Sea Lice

Sea lice are actually jellyfish

The term sea lice was inappropriately coined by residents who suffered strange rashes after swimming in coastal waters in the 1950s, according to the Florida Department of Health. (There is such a thing as actual sea lice, it turns out, but they are tiny parasites that affect fish, not humans.)

The rash that humans tend to get, on the other hand, “is caused by miniature jellyfish larvae trapped under bathing suits when in the water,” states a 2017 brochure available on the Health Department’s website.

“If pressure occurs from exercising, surfboards, lying on the beach, etc., stinging cells are released and cause itching, irritation, and welts,” the brochure continues. The larvae also like to hang out in people’s hair, so the back of the neck—where hair hangs down and touches the skin—is a common place for lesions.

[Image found here, caption here.]

One more thing to keep you awake at night.

This handsome boy is called a Demodex. Its dimensions are approximately 0.3mm, which means you can’t see it living on your face. Especially on your forehead, nose and chin. He’s always there and it will be that way forever. At night, they vigorously mate on your face and then lay its eggs in the pores of your skin. Funniest thing is that the Demodex have no anal orifice to evict. They accumulate and build up to death bursting with… feces. Right on the face. Sweet dreams everyone!

[Image and caption found here.]

Holy Terror

That’s the everted scolex of a Taenia solium, aka, a Pork Tapeworm. How they were able to turn a scolex inside out, or why, is beyond my pay grade.

Teresa Zgoda won 4th Place in the 2017 Nikon Photomicrography Competition with that terrifying micro monster maw. [Found here.]

Two Horse Flies

Horsefly Wet

Horsefly Dry

Both are horseflies, and the top one is a liar. No matter how cute he looks covered in early morning dew, he’s gonna bite you, and the second one is going to laugh.

Yes, it’s true. Horse flies laugh and they know how to throw a trollface.

[Found here, via here.]

Update: Completely forgot The Friday .Gif Post last night. 12 hours of battling red tape at LADBS got me all bonky. Meanwhile, visit our .gif archives here.

Micro Velcro

Lotsa cool electron microscope images with color enhancement found here. Don’t miss the human tongue bacteria to see what’s tasting YOU.