Another Useless Tumblog

Random Shit w/ no sense

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this guy is a kind of genious

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(via Retro Thing: Green Machine Vs. Big Wheel - Road-Ready Plastic Tricycles)

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Just uploaded this never published photo in my online shop of Rodney Mullen that I shot one late night in El Segundo in 2012. Photo: Grant Brittain 

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joshuapollina: via @koolmoeleo

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Why is this the first I’m seeing of kittyzilla? o__O

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lol this cat is fucking crazy

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THE QUIET LIFE SUMMER 2013

- JOSH

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always great stuff with one of the best photographer of real life ever seen

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another useless tumblog. aka random shit

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A pickled “black devil” anglerfish… a.k.a Melanocetus johnsonii!

We recently came across this magnificent anglerfish sample while given a tour of the Scripps Fish Collection by their Collection Mgr, HJ Walker. 

The female anglerfish is a veracious predator that lives 1,000 to 3,000 meters below the ocean’s surface. She attracts prey by dangling and twitching a glowing orb in front of her gaping mouth. This lure is actually a modified dorsal fin spine containing bioluminescent bacteria inside a soft tissue bulb at the tip of the spine. When male anglerfish are born, they don’t have a digestive system and swim around sniffing out a female. Once attached, the male’s fins, gills, eyes, and many internal organs degenerate and it shares blood vessels with the host female. Eventually the male degenerates into nothing more than a pair of gonads that releases sperm when the female releases hormones into her bloodstream that signals she is ready to release eggs. 

In “Hen’s Teeth and Horses Toes” Stephen Jay Gould comments on this unusual cohabitation: “In some Freudian sense, what male could resist the fantasy of life as a penis with a heart, deeply and permanently embedded within a caring and providing female?”