matrix3 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Also from The New Scientist Picture of the Day, but a little more grisly. Click to see the pic, but here's the description: After these ants are infected by the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the insects abandon their nests for the underside of leaves. Before they die, the rainforest-dwelling ants bite tightly onto leaves. The fungus then glues the dead ant to the leaf and ejects its spores into the forest via a stalk through the ant's head. A new study (PLoS-ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004835) finds these dead ants clumped together in forest "graveyards", rarely visited by living workers. That gives me a great, creepy idea for a fantasy Hero adventure. The PC's are traveling through a forest, when they encounter bodies glued to trees, with bulbous stalks sprouting from heads and/or chests...a fungal version of the alien chest burster... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Also from The New Scientist Picture of the Day, but a little more grisly. Click to see the pic, but here's the description: That gives me a great, creepy idea for a fantasy Hero adventure. The PC's are traveling through a forest, when they encounter bodies glued to trees, with bulbous stalks sprouting from heads and/or chests...a fungal version of the alien chest burster... Hey... I'm getting movement ahead and behind.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures I've been learning how to make jewelry. Here's some of my attempts... Here's a few more of my recent attempts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures ...And a few more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures ...And another batch (been busy!)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures from The New Scientist Picture of the Day. . . . Short on virgins in the Kuril islands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures I found a new location for my still-in-planning Urban Fantasy campaign: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures That would make a smashing bazaar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures It's lovely, repped! This just might show up in a future session of my Shadows Angelus III campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Dang, I have to spread rep before giving it to teh bunneh again. Great necklaces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures An amputee decided to put a tatoo on the stump. Possibly uncomfortable image, so I'm spoiler-ing it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Dang' date=' I have to spread rep before giving it to teh bunneh again. Great necklaces. [/quote'] Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Pictured: Giant blue whale floats belly-up after being killed in a tragic collision with a ship. To give a sense of scale, the ship is 84' long, meaning the whale is around 72' long. More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192028/Pictured-The-largest-animal-lived--tragically-run-passing-ship.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Some cool He Man/She-ra re imaginings. This one as well http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/073/d/3/he_man_teaser_style_by_nebezial.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures This one as well http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/073/d/3/he_man_teaser_style_by_nebezial.jpg Commentary on the TV series: Interesting how both prime baddies in the two series were both "male" (judging from the artwork -- I never watched either show). Equal rights doesn't extend to being the top Villain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures A neat Billy Mays tribute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Commentary on the TV series: Interesting how both prime baddies in the two series were both "male" (judging from the artwork -- I never watched either show). Equal rights doesn't extend to being the top Villain? it was the 80s and a kids show. it was lucky they made She-Ra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures My city skyline being attacked by angry gods, a few weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Looks like somebody was having an Origin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures If he gets both Lightnining and waterbreathing powers he'd better buy personal immunity on the lightning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Ronald Dejarnett is the U.S. Navy sonar technician that snapped this pic of an F-22 going boom boom over the Gulf of Alaska. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Ronald Dejarnett is the U.S. Navy sonar technician that snapped this pic of an F-22 going boom boom over the Gulf of Alaska. Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Picture taken by me of a sculpture in the garden between the National Museum of Natural History and the National Gallery of Art (June 30, 2009). Why is this neat? The neat part is figuring out which part is angled which way.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Picture taken by me of a sculpture in the garden between the National Museum of Natural History and the National Gallery of Art (June 30, 2009). Why is this neat? The neat part is figuring out which part is angled which way.... Hmm...looking at the ground and the shadow, I think the middle part is pushed away from the viewer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Hmm...looking at the ground and the shadow' date=' I think the middle part is pushed away from the viewer.[/quote'] You are correct sir. It's not a flat surface, and it's not angled towards you, but away. Hmm... I need to find some of my other images that people might like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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