the concept may be old, but i think it’s still very funny!
(thanks to barbara for the links)
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playing around with a new close-up lense today, i got a chance to witness a spider construct its own new web.
crawling around in a spiral between the “matrix strands”, it attached the sticky strand it continuously produced – sometimes by just “bumping” the matrix with its opisthosoma (where the spinnerets are), and sometimes by handling the strand with its (far) back legs.
very fascinating to watch. [more...]
in october 2004, i decided to let my hair grow for an entire year.
we all know the horrific outcome of this plan… :-)
i started documenting this “project” from the beginning – here’s a collage of self-portraits:
if you don’t know me – don’t worry, i’m back to normal now. ;-)
this will be the last post concerning my july spain holiday…
photos of a second trip into the hinterland with anton – with xativa [G] as the main destination – are online now, those of a short trip to altea/calpe* [G] will be there soon are online now as well.
you can even see xativa’s castle on google local: [G]
* mullets seem to be “in” in spain. we’ve encountered lots of people with mullets – on this trip there even was a mullet dog!
[view photos: trip to xativa]
[view photos: trip to altea & calpe]
there are LOTS of roundabouts in spain! when we drove home from xativa, however, we encountered the two biggest ones i’ve ever come across: [more...]
while i was in spain, i decided to make a time-lapse video of the (apparent) movement of a star-constellation in the night sky.
unfortunately i couldn’t include the northern star this time, showing that all the stars seem to rotate around it. i think i’ll do this in another video sometime.
given the preconditions (location and timeframe), the big dipper (ursa major, grosser wagen) [wikipedia: de en] was the perfect motive.
 the movement of the big dipper in the night sky |
