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About Amphibians: A Guide for Children, written by Cathryn Sill and illustrated by John Sill, 2000.
Oda Iselin Sønderland, “The Will”
watercolour & gouache on paper, 2024
Oda Iselin Sønderland (Norwegian/Irish, 1996) - Vessel (2020)
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Raku pottery javelina figurine
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Fiona Apple // Seattle 1997-03-21, photo Scott Flanagan
Japanese poster art for Braindead (1992), illustrated by Hajime Sorayama
Gray Long-Tongued Bat (Glossophaga leachii) get a little drinky, family Phyllostomidae, Nicaragua
photograph by Jose Gabriel
by Gilbert Williams - Homeward Travelers
This painting of a cave bear, at the Chauvet Cave in France, was drawn with 14 lines around 32,000 years ago. The artist used a technique known as 'stump-drawing' - the use of fingers or a piece of hide to paint the muzzle and to emphasize the outlines of the head and forequarters
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In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral noticed after a hunting trip that burrs from burdock plants stuck to his pants and his dog’s fur.
He took the seed and looked at them through a microscope to find that this seed attaches to animal fur via the hooks on its surface to improve distribution.
Source: All of Nature on Blogspot
These hooks would latch onto anything loop-shaped, such as the fibers in his pants and his dog’s tangled fur. This inspired him to come up with the ‘Velcro’.
Velcro is a bio-mimicry of this burrs with small flexible hooks attached on its surface to attach to fluffy surfaces.
Although it goes by the name Velcro the generic name is a hook-and-loop fastener)
And depending on the load that needs to be held there are different types of hooks that are available:
The sound that the velcro makes when you rip it apart is oddly satisfying. It is made when the loops are ripped apart from the hooks.
It was always in my head that the hooks or the loops would break whenever you would rip it apart. But turns out, they are extremely flexible.
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For a long time I believed that this was the end of the story and that’s how far we had gone. But recently when I was trying to mount a board to the wall, I came across the 3M dual lock fasteners.
These use a mushroom shaped hook on both the sides to snap together in place.
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And evidently it turns out the mushroom fastener design were inspired from dragonflies who used it for stability during mating (check source video above for more).
This is great, but since this is made of plastic this surely would fail at higher temperatures. You need something robust to handle higher temperatures, and this is where the Metaklett comes into the picture:
A square metre of this fastener, called Metaklett (made of steel), is capable of supporting 35 tonnes at temperatures up to 800 ºC, (Video)
There is something exotic in the blend of nature and technology that is manifested in the Velcro, I just cannot put my hand on what it is.
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William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero
fetish images: marquis competition 1995 - marquis magazine
Common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) during breeding season in Canada
by Dash Huang
German Schandmaske (Mask of Shame) in the shape of a wolf’s head.
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Rinat Voligamsi (Russian, 1968), Mushrooms, 2020. Oil on canvas, 60 х 80 cm.
Heeyoung Noh (Korean, 1995) - Be Quiet! I Won't! (2025)