{"id":12330,"date":"2007-04-26T07:19:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/check-out-the-thorax-on-that-guy.html"},"modified":"2007-04-26T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T07:19:47","slug":"check_out_the_thorax_on_that_guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/check_out_the_thorax_on_that_guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out the thorax on that guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a real lightweight when it comes to insects (for example, I could never <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonellis.org\/?p=35\">name my Flash rival after one<\/a> ;-)), but they do inspire  creative photography &amp; more: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Buzz-Intimate-Between-Humans-Insects\/dp\/0811837890\">Buzz<\/a><\/em> illustrates &quot;The Intimate Bond Between Humans and Insects&quot; via some amazing microscopic photography.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/reader\/0811837890\/ref=sib_dp_pt\/103-1848604-0986228#reader-link\">See inside<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/pingmag.jp\/2007\/03\/20\/codename-stripe\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Student photographer Lawraa shares a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/showmeeuphoria\/278635073\/in\/photostream\/\">shot of a praying mantis<\/a> apparently listening to Snoop (<em>&quot;Throw your prehensile appendages in the ai-ir&#8230;&quot;<\/em>) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/23\/wonderful_praying_ma.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Der Spiegel <em>had<\/em> a great gallery of shattered bugs, but now I&#8217;ve waited too long and it&#8217;s returning a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/fotostrecke\/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTk3NDImbnI9MQ_3_3,00.html\">404 error<\/a>.&#160; Dang&#8211;maybe it&#8217;ll turn up elsewhere, as the images were worth seeing.  The best the site will now give me is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/fotostrecke\/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MjEwODkmbnI9Mw_3_3,00.html\">pregnant cow scaring chubby cyclists<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Make any treat more mouthwatering with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/asobitsuchiya\/430210848\/\">sugar that looks like ants<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/03\/22\/sugar_that_looks_lik.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>In a similar vein, an ad campaign uses ants&#8211;&quot;the most credible ambassadors for sweetness*&quot;&#8211; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/sugar-free-ants.html\">show off sugar-free eats<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>[For more bug life, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/06\/angels_insects.html\">see<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/12\/mechanical_inse.html\">previous<\/a>.] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*Snuggle the fabric softener bear was apparently unavailable<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a real lightweight when it comes to insects (for example, I could never name my Flash rival after one ;-)), but they do inspire creative photography &amp; more: Buzz illustrates &quot;The Intimate Bond Between Humans and Insects&quot; via some amazing microscopic photography. See inside. [Via] Student photographer Lawraa shares a shot of a praying [&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\/12330"}],"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=12330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}