Monthly Archives: April 2009
Fox, I’ve Got Good News… And Bad News.
Oh Norwegian Red Fox, you are one of the nicest-looking terrestrial mammals around, which is why I would probably risk having my arm gnawed off in a ravenous frenzy just to scratch you behind your perfectly pointed ears. So it … Continue reading
Crab-Darwin is Not Impressed With Puijila darwini
A recent discovery which would blow this mental defective’s mind (if he had one): researchers from the Carleton University, Canada, have uncovered a transitional fossil which reveals the evolutionary trail from land to sea of the pinniped mammal suborder, which … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Fossils, Museum Stuff, New Species!
Attn: Children of Winter
Fifty-nine. The number of films the prolific Warren Miller has made to date. Filmed in Japan, Austria, BC, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Vermont, Iceland and of course, Alaska, Children of Winter is the latest release from Warren Miller Productions. … Continue reading
Filed under Film
Splendour 2009
It is hands down my favourite festival of the year, and now the first lineup for the 9th edition of the Splendour Bender Weekender is up. It’s good. Not great. (Two of the headliners have already visited our shores … Continue reading
Luis Buñuel: Fo (Sur)real!
I have fairly scattered memories of my three years as an undergrad, but this image right here from Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou, the one of a fucking razor blade cutting across Simone Mareuil’s eye, the one that sends shivers … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Events, Film, Free Stuff
Leaf-Cutter Ants: Too Good For Sex, Apparently.
The thing I find most charming about insects that exist within a colonial structure is their unfalteringly self-sufficient nature. There are entire colonies of ants consisting of thousands of individuals, who plant and cultivate their own crops, and they arose … Continue reading
