Huge fan of James Newton Howard and I always find myself playing his scores for SIGNS and THE VILLAGE around this time of year.
Samples here.
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Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts
Friday, October 2, 2009
Now Playing: The Village
Honorable
Well, the results are in and Tin Man came in fifth place. My lowest yet. Ironic since I actually thought he was a little more mainstream than previous years which placed higher. The viewing public voted and have spoken - and I have the light blue Honorable Mention ribbon to prove it.
He made two children actually cry. That's a pretty cool prize.
See the winners:
First Place.
Second Place.
Third Place.
Fourth Place (Honorable Mention).
Fifth Place (Honorable Mention).
Thursday, October 1, 2009
8 Eyes
Like most arachnids including scorpions, spiders have a narrow gut that can only cope with liquid food and spiders have two sets of filters to keep solids out. They use one of two different systems of external digestion. Some pump digestive enzymes from the midgut into the prey and then suck the liquified tissues of the prey into the gut, eventually leaving behind the empty husk of the prey. Others grind the prey to pulp using the chelicerae and the bases of the pedipalps, while flooding it with enzymes; in these species the chelicerae and the bases of the pedipalps form a preoral cavity that holds the food they are processing.
The stomach in the cephalothorax acts as a pump that sends the food deeper into the digestive system. The mid gut bears many digestive ceca, compartments with no other exit, that extract nutrients from the food; most are in the abdomen, which is dominated by the digestive system, but a few are found in the cephalothorax.
Truly the finest prop spider I have ever seen.
Image source.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Mold
After recently experiencing the sting of a lunch theft, this is looking pretty attractive.
Side effect: Appetite loss.
PerpetualKid.com
Indian Corn
Corn kernels have different colors because of genes that control color. Each kernel is an individual with its own set of genes, like an embryo. Kernels are siblings housed on the same ear and so naturally have many different colors. By naturally, I mean, through the course of natural selection. One-color ears are unnatural products of human selection.
Livestock feeders prefer vitamin-rich yellow kernels, Southerners like white kernels, and Native Americans favor blue. Years of deliberate selection, careful pollination, and storing of seeds produced these single-color corn ears.
Livestock feeders prefer vitamin-rich yellow kernels, Southerners like white kernels, and Native Americans favor blue. Years of deliberate selection, careful pollination, and storing of seeds produced these single-color corn ears.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Spooky Story Time
This reminded me of those grade school days in October when the teacher would turn out the lights and play an old scratchy record or read a spooky ghost story to the class.
Click the image to listen:
Monday, September 28, 2009
Bradbury's Mars
Simply stunning work from an old favorite (with a new website) - Raymond Chase.
ChaseIllustration.com
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