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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat May 21, 2022 8:09 pm

^^ I don't know why that extraordinary "cthonic" figure is not better known. Not only is it an amazing technical feat, it's highly original, deeply archaic, and weirdly modern. Eerie and disturbing and yet kind of funny. (Giambologna must have enjoyed the prospect of making the giant's nostrils smoke.)

Reminds me of Michelangelo's last sculptures, where the living bodies are still half-trapped in the stone and trying to get out, struggling to be born (I don't think these works are "unfinished"):
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Re: Pictures NOT of your locale

Postby Gnomad » Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:04 am

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Grasshopper infected and consumed by Cordyceps fungus
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Re: Pictures NOT of your locale

Postby Harvey » Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:11 pm

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Re: Pictures NOT of your locale

Postby Harvey » Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:31 pm

I had a notion the fungus is wearing the little grass hopper like an environment suit for a while, to wander around, perhaps even sensing through its host, exploring, joyriding. Perhaps there's a subtle and/or co-operative relationship between grass hopper and fungus?


https://www.inverse.com/article/38278-z ... ant-brains --- Just had a little look around. Apparently they plug directly into the muscles leaving the brain intact...

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Re: Pictures NOT of your locale

Postby Gnomad » Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:41 am

Yeah, that is the most interesting part of it.
Sheldrake also writes about this very thing in Entangled life, thats why I posted the pic.

The fungus even guides the ant to a very specific place where moisture conditions are optimal for spore release, then cause the ant to bite down hard to keep it in place while the fungus releases spores to complete the cycle.
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Re: Pictures NOT of your locale

Postby DrEvil » Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:10 pm

In case you missed it: The Last of Us just started on HBO. Cordyceps starts infecting humans. Things don't go well.
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Re: Pictures NOT of your locale

Postby Harvey » Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:13 am

Giving it a miss.
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