{"id":11334,"date":"2006-12-27T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T08:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/mechanical-insects-more.html"},"modified":"2006-12-27T08:13:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T08:13:57","slug":"mechanical_insects_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/mechanical_insects_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical insects &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting design\/photography bits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graham Owen creates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarexpert.com\/fishing\/more-fly-tying.html\">insanely realistic flies<\/a> for fishing. &#160; (I&#8217;ve spent a good part of the Christmas break cat-fishing; wonder what Graham could do in the way of a felt mouse.)&#160; He even offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarexpert.com\/fishing\/tutorials\/housefly\/realistic-fly.html\">step-by-step tutorial<\/a> on creating flies.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/amazing_fishing_flies_5208.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And if that&#8217;s not realistic (or weird) enough for you, there&#8217;s Mike Libby&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insectlabstudio.com\/index.php\/item\/282\">Insect Lab<\/a>,&quot;an artist-operated studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/insect_lab_5223.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of animals+electronics, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poaa.nl\/popup_image.php?pID=499&amp;image=0\">Woofer<\/a>&#8216;s name works on two levels.&#160; I wonder if he&#8217;s related to <a href=\"http:\/\/motionographer.com\/2006\/11\/26\/le-soupe-europe-2-tv\/\">this pup<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/\">Cai Guo-Qiang<\/a> gets crazy with animals real (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/project_detail.php?id=196&amp;iid=962\">dead wolves<\/a> a go-go; an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/project_detail.php?id=180&amp;iid=806\">unfortunate tiger<\/a> going out like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Sebastian_(Mantegna)\">St. Sebasian<\/a>) and imagined (explosive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiguoqiang.com\/shell.php?sid=6&amp;pid=66\">dragon skeleton<\/a>) [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2006\/12\/22\/cai-guo-qiang\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The <em>NYT<\/em> features some beautiful shots of northern Japan&#8217;s disappearing world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2006\/12\/24\/world\/20061225_JAPAN_SLIDESHOW_1.html\">draft horse racing<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/08\/pimp_my_wildlife.html\">previous bits<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting design\/photography bits: Graham Owen creates insanely realistic flies for fishing. &#160; (I&#8217;ve spent a good part of the Christmas break cat-fishing; wonder what Graham could do in the way of a felt mouse.)&#160; He even offers a step-by-step tutorial on creating flies.&#160; [Via] And if that&#8217;s not realistic (or weird) enough for you, there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}