Category Archive: monsters
Jul 09
Naked Mole Rat: Mole-Ratunculus
This illustration shows the amount of sensory attention the cortex of the naked mole rat devotes to various parts of its body. Barring a bag of mushrooms and some time spent under blankets with a bag of cheetos, it’s as close to the interior life as a naked mole rat as you’re likely to get.
Oct 16
The Infamous Tree Octopus
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May 20
Artificial Life: Synthia
Scientists have created artificial life. It’s just a simple little thing: A living cell powered by man-made DNA and constructed in a laboratory but it’s a rather large step towards . . . Well, opinion is mixed on that one. It ranges between UTOPIA! and IT’LL KILL US ALL! I don’t think it’s terribly important. …
May 03
Mum For the Child of a Mammoth
That’s an old Soviet cartoon about a baby mammoth who somehow avoids extinction then looks for it’s mom. Worth watching just for the swinging soundtrack. In other wooly mammoth news, scientists have discovered that these ancient beasts had a form of antifreeze in their blood. What’s next? Will they soon tell us what unicorn horns …
Dec 14
Spectator
eam5tx on Flickr – Photo Sharing!. If this also had a big mouth for eating, it’d be a psycho-biological 21st century western human.
Nov 01
The Monster and The Green Hill
pic nicked from here Once upon a time, below a blue sky in a yellow land, a monster named Albert lived on a green hill. Everything in the land was yellow. The trees were yellow, the ground was yellow and the buildings were yellow. The teeth, the eyes and the hair: yellow, yellow and …
PURCHASE
"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."
