Otto Steinert | Communis

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Otto Steinert | Communis
‘Class Wars, the workers strike back
May the 4th be with you’
“Oblivious”
The Common whitethroat has found a high perch to his liking. Just as he starts to sing a low, steady hum becomes audibly in the distance. It grows louder and louder until suddenly 375 Clemens rushes past at almost 90 miles an hour. The train whips up a forceful wind, but the whitethroat keeps singing as if nothing happened. To him it’s just background noise. Clemens and his driver notice even less of the little bird. Two beings going about their life, so close yet oblivious of the other.
A quick sketch of an idea I’ve had for a while. I just love seeing how those little birds calmly continue singing while a 90-tonne steel monster thunders past at 140 km/hr.
Common Scorpionfly (Panorpa communis) - Cullompton Leat Fields, Devon - 18 May 2018 by Dis da fi we Panorpa communis can reach a body length of about 30 millimetres (1.2 in). The common scorpionfly has a black and yellow body, with a reddish head and tail. The male has a pair of claspers at the end of its tail (for holding the female during mating), giving it a scorpion-like appearance, although it is not a stinger. The adult is seen between May and September. [5] They eat dead insects (although they sometimes eat live aphids), sometimes taking them from spider webs[5] and plant sap.[8] Although fully winged, the adults rarely fly very far and spend much of their time crawling on vegetation in damp, shaded places near water and along hedgerows. Panorpa communis is an univoltine species. Eggs are laid in soil annually and the larvae both scavenge and pupate there. https://flic.kr/p/26oTWmw
"They told us wonderful things about communism and they were all false. They told us horrible things about capitalism, and they're all true."
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