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Nazis, Replicants, and Suspicious Dogs – Growing Up in Philip K. Dick’s Eerie World
Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of the sci-fi visionary, talks about bringing her father’s cautionary tales to life with vibrant new adaptations of his lesser-known books, such as Man in the High Castle.
by Brangien Davis
Always love hearing more about adaptations of his work.
These gorgeous examples of decorated paper come from A Specimen Book of Pattern Papers Designed for and in Use at the Curwen Press (1928). While this paper most commonly would have been used as endpapers, Paul Nash explains in his introduction that he chose “pattern paper” as a more general term since this paper would also be used for book covers and jackets.
The 31 samples included in this book range from florals reminiscent of wallpaper to bold modernist wood engravings. They were designed by artists Lovat Fraser, Albert Rutherston, Margaret Calkin James, Thomas Lowinsky, E.O. Hoppé, Edward Bawden, Paul Nash, Enid Marx, Eric Ravilious, and Harry Carter.
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Bactris major is a small to medium sized (1–10 m tall) spiny palm.The fruits are eaten or used to flavour drinks.
© The Field Museum, CSB43143, Photographer Bror E. Dahlgren.
Bactris major, flower, detail.
South America British Guiana
4/1/1923
the translucent skin of the northern glassfrog (hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni) allows us to see its internal viscera, and, in the case of the fifth photo, a mother’s eggs.
and yet, it is the male glassfrogs who alone provide the parental care, as the females flee the scene once the eggs have been delivered. it for this reason that these protective male glassfrogs can be extremely aggressive.
to date, there is no clear explanation for the evolution of this transparency. most frogs are not transparent, as this would expose organs to the deleterious effects of sunlight and heat.
but the transparent underbelly of the glassfrog is covered in light reflecting organelles called iridiphores which could give the glassfrogs the ability to optimize their internal homeostasis.
some suspect this abdoninal transparency helps the glassfrog to blend into its environment, though no evidence as yet supports this crypsis hypothesis.
photos by (click pic) alejandro arteaga, nicholas reusens, thomas marent, pete oxford, heidi and hans jurgen koch, joel sartore and geoff gallice
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Åkrafjorden Hunting Lodge in the Mountains of Norway by Snøhetta
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