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Showing posts with label animal architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal architecture. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 November 2021
Sunday, 23 February 2020
Pack rats
Pack rats are nest builders. They use plant material such as twigs,
sticks, and other available debris. They are particularly fond of shiny
objects. A peculiar characteristic is that if they find something they
want, they will drop what they are currently carrying—for example, a
piece of cactus—and "trade" it for the new item. They can also be quite
vocal and boisterous. Getting into everything from attics to car
engines, stealing their ‘treasures’, damaging electrical wiring, and
creating general noisy havoc can easily cause them to become a nuisance
A pack rat midden is a debris pile constructed by a woodrat. A midden may preserve the materials incorporated into it for up to 50,000 years, thus may be analyzed to reconstruct their original environment, and comparisons between middens allow a record of vegetative and climate change to be built. Examinations and comparisons of pack rat middens have largely supplanted pollen records as a method of study in the regions where they are available.
The pack rats will also use plant fragments, animal dung, and small rocks in building the den. The vast majority of the materials will be from a radius of several dozen yards of the nest. Woodrats often urinate on the debris piles; sugar and other substances in the urine crystallize as it dries out, creating a material known as amberat, which under some conditions can cement the midden together, and can encase plant fragments, pellets and other debris in an amber-like matrix. The resilience of the middens is aided by three factors. The crystallized urine dramatically slows the decay of the materials in the midden; the dry climate of the American Southwest further slows the decay; and middens protected from the elements under rock overhangs or in caves survive
https://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-record-keeper.html
A pack rat midden is a debris pile constructed by a woodrat. A midden may preserve the materials incorporated into it for up to 50,000 years, thus may be analyzed to reconstruct their original environment, and comparisons between middens allow a record of vegetative and climate change to be built. Examinations and comparisons of pack rat middens have largely supplanted pollen records as a method of study in the regions where they are available.
The pack rats will also use plant fragments, animal dung, and small rocks in building the den. The vast majority of the materials will be from a radius of several dozen yards of the nest. Woodrats often urinate on the debris piles; sugar and other substances in the urine crystallize as it dries out, creating a material known as amberat, which under some conditions can cement the midden together, and can encase plant fragments, pellets and other debris in an amber-like matrix. The resilience of the middens is aided by three factors. The crystallized urine dramatically slows the decay of the materials in the midden; the dry climate of the American Southwest further slows the decay; and middens protected from the elements under rock overhangs or in caves survive
https://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-record-keeper.html
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
"You can follow the tunnels made by the worms,"
he said, referring to tracks in the panel made by wood-eating larvae
similar to those found in other sections thought to be part of the same
Cimabue artwork. "It's the same poplar panel," he added.
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Friday, 2 November 2018
Friday, 5 October 2018
Monday, 27 August 2018
bone assemblage // winner winner chicken dinner
From the early 1990s, the influence of phenomenology (e.g., Heidegger 1962, Merleau-Ponty 1962) on landscape archaeology (e.g., Tilley 1994; see Bru ̈ck 2005 for review) informed dis- cussions of perceived ritual landscapes in which the identification of animal-related episodic events/gatherings such as feasting (e.g., Dietler 1996, Dietler & Hayden 2001) and the subse- quent structured deposition of animals and animal body parts (Hill 1995) marked a developing concern with the social role of animals in prehistoric food practices.
...
questions of the disassembling of the animal body and
therefore to the histories that the body produces through its interspecies entanglements
Archaeology and
Human–Animal Relations:
Thinking Through
Anthropocentrism∗
Brian Boyd
Brian Boyd
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Friday, 15 June 2018
weasel breaks cern
When the machine shutdown, investigators discovered the charred remains
of the weasel next to a 66kV chewed cable which powers the equipment. 2016
Killdeer: A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada’s biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected. The bird – which enjoys protected status in Canada – had laid four speckled eggs on a cobblestone patch, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting grounds.
It had already been damaged by ploughing, but permission to excavate a listed site was granted because of damage by more recent trouble makers – badgers which were burrowing out the entire site, and kicking out human bones as they dug.
2019 slug breaks railway
Its electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.
Killdeer: A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada’s biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected. The bird – which enjoys protected status in Canada – had laid four speckled eggs on a cobblestone patch, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting grounds.
It had already been damaged by ploughing, but permission to excavate a listed site was granted because of damage by more recent trouble makers – badgers which were burrowing out the entire site, and kicking out human bones as they dug.
2019 slug breaks railway
A power cut that disrupted rail traffic on a Japanese island last month was caused by a slug, officials say.
More
than 12,000 people's journeys were affected when nearly 30 trains on
Kyushu shuddered to a halt because of the slimy intruder's actions.Its electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Nitáówahsinnoon
Nitáówahsinnoon covered over half of present-day Alberta, most of Montana and parts of Saskatchewan. And while the Niitsítapiiksi (in this context, the Blackfoot) shared the land with all other ksahkomitapiksi or earth beings (plants, rocks, and animals), they shared the cosmos with the spomitapííksi or above beings (spiritual beings, celestial beings, and birds), and the soyíítapiksi
or under-water beings (fish, amphibians, reptiles, water birds and
mammals) (Blackfoot Gallery Committee, 2001). Many of the stories and
ceremonies of Blackfoot-speaking peoples originate in the sky, and many
ceremonies revolve around bundles, which contain parts of animals and
plants from all of the realms.ii
These bundles and their contents stand in for the extended network of
animate, inspirited kin from all the realms. The bundles serve to
remind human beings that their survival depends upon alliances formed
with other beings in times past, social contracts still in force. The
origins of these kinship ties and the ongoing web of reciprocities and
interdependent responsibilities they evoke are recalled through song
and stories (Ingold, 2000). Through ceremonies and ritual, as well as
through more mundane practices of visiting and feeding, these alliances
are continually renewed (Heavy Head, 2005).
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Some times there was paint marks upon it.
Reclining Bear used the term in the general sense meaning the people of those three tribes. Continuing, he said:
“This stone is a big one. It is a little distance from the water of the Cannon Ball. It is as big as a log house, where it stands. It has many marks upon it. The marks are made by the spirits. When we came near to it, we sung songs and acted very respectfully then. We camped on the water and not too near it.
Then when we were ready, some old man carried a pipe to it. He carried the stem in both hands in front of his body. He extended it toward the sky and toward the holy stone then. There he sat down and smoked with four draws through it. He placed the pipe there. He poured out some tobacco there. He sung a good song then. He wanted plenty of buffalo and he wanted the people to live a long time. He sung that way. He went away from there.
The next day he went again. When he went again there were other marks upon the stone. Some good men would tell what they meant to the people. Some times there was paint marks upon it. The marks were made by spirits.
They were never the same marks like they were before. It told us what to do. It said when to strike the enemy. It told where the buffalo had gone to. If the people did like it said, they were all right.
One time it sung a song with words. We saw an old woman walk into it one time. She went right in it. She was gone. It is very holy. It was there when we came across the Missouri. I think it had been an Arikara stone. I think they found it first. The put things there, too. No one would strike an enemy around that place. Every one was safe there. There were always many presents there. There were weapons and things to eat and valuable cloth on sticks. There were buffalo heads there, too, for meat to come around. It is very holy. It is there yet. I do not want to talk much about it.”
“This stone is a big one. It is a little distance from the water of the Cannon Ball. It is as big as a log house, where it stands. It has many marks upon it. The marks are made by the spirits. When we came near to it, we sung songs and acted very respectfully then. We camped on the water and not too near it.
Then when we were ready, some old man carried a pipe to it. He carried the stem in both hands in front of his body. He extended it toward the sky and toward the holy stone then. There he sat down and smoked with four draws through it. He placed the pipe there. He poured out some tobacco there. He sung a good song then. He wanted plenty of buffalo and he wanted the people to live a long time. He sung that way. He went away from there.
The next day he went again. When he went again there were other marks upon the stone. Some good men would tell what they meant to the people. Some times there was paint marks upon it. The marks were made by spirits.
They were never the same marks like they were before. It told us what to do. It said when to strike the enemy. It told where the buffalo had gone to. If the people did like it said, they were all right.
One time it sung a song with words. We saw an old woman walk into it one time. She went right in it. She was gone. It is very holy. It was there when we came across the Missouri. I think it had been an Arikara stone. I think they found it first. The put things there, too. No one would strike an enemy around that place. Every one was safe there. There were always many presents there. There were weapons and things to eat and valuable cloth on sticks. There were buffalo heads there, too, for meat to come around. It is very holy. It is there yet. I do not want to talk much about it.”
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Thursday, 1 February 2018
animal architectures
resin print of mouse neurones // university of lethbridge digital physicalisation lab
beaver sculpture // lethbridge wetlands
Thursday, 4 January 2018
bitter cold
Earlier this week, king penguins at the Calgary Zoo in Canada's western
Alberta province were kept in their indoor shelters to avoid the bitter
cold.
Sunday, 30 July 2017
Sunday, 2 July 2017
Monday, 29 May 2017
pigification
Circe turns Odysseus' comrades into swines | od199gen: "Now when she had given them the potion, and they had drunk it off, then she presently smote them with her wand, and penned them in the sties. And they had the heads, and voice, and bristles, and shape of swine, but their minds remained unchanged even as before." (Hom.Od.10.236).
Pigificator
is a human to pig transformation machine
which allows you to turn anyone you want
into a nice fat sow.
“He has a way with accessories… and it’s not only him… The Fortune Teller’s turban! The Witch-Doctor’s skull stick! The Ubangi’s lip plate! The Snake Lady – her anaconda is a boa! The Alligator Man – what a purse he would make! Freak fashion… the Mule-faced Lady. Ostrich girls… “It’s like I always say clothes make the inhuman.” [McCormack , 20]
Friday, 12 May 2017
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Victor Alexander Sederbach
27 figures were commissioned in 1755 by John Ivory Talbot to decorate the interior of his newly built Gothick Great Hall. The figures were made and fired in the grounds of Lacock by Austrian sculptor Victor Alexander Sederbach.
Pevsner // On these brackets and in these niches stands the extraordinary statuary of Victor Alexander Sederbach, a pleasant, modest man and a cheap sculptor. Beyond that we know absolutely nothing about him. His Christian names sound North-East German, his surname South German or Austrian, and the statues in Austrian abbeys are indeed perhaps the nearest comparison to these wild, violent, and unrefined mid-C18 pieces. They are made of terracotta, and it has been suggested that Sederbach was perhaps a Hafner, i.e. stove-maker, and not a sculptor. (The Buildings of England: Wiltshire)
The Foreigner who has been here ever since May has executed his Performance in a very Workmanlike manner and your Niches are filled by a set of Inhabitants worthy such Repositories. I presume you are acquainted with the method of making Models for Statues. He proceeds on the same principles, only Bakes them afterwards, by which means they become of a Red Colour and ring like a Garden Pot … I fancy Lord Shelburn will employ him on his arrival at London, where he goes next week; however, as so many of your friends are Connoisseurs, I would advise them seeing his Performances, which are both Easy and not Expensive. His name is sonorous, no less than Victor Alexander Sederbach and yet lodges at one King’s a grocer in Green Street, near Castle Street, Leicester Fields. I am sorry he did not show all his Performances to the Gentleman you sent a note by, but on asking the Reason, was told that someone the day before had Broke a Figure, which made him extremely Captious...
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