My orchid does not display the advanced and a little smug mimicry of this wild cultivar (evolved, coerced to look like something it’s never seen) but I can certainly see the family resemblance.
Saturday 11 August 2012
resupinate
After some months of dormancy, my little orchid again budded and came into full bloom. These flowers have a very specific and peculiar architecture, and there are more kinds of orchids than there are different species of birds and are closely related to asparagus. Resupination refers to the structurally downward facing dog yoga pose that the parts of the flower assumes as it develops and suggests being upside down, though almost all flowers grow this way so I wonder upside down to what.
catagories: ๐ฑ, environment
Friday 10 August 2012
sing-a-long
A group of artists have collaborated to create luggage-labels for all the des-tinations mentioned in the folk standard “I’ve been Everywhere,” covered by Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. There are some really brilliant designs and I certainly would not mind seeing this group applying themselves to bigger undertakings.
dbase or paying peter to rob paul
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia is again bringing scrutiny on itself by putting on airs of vigilantism and proceeding with the purchase of more data CDs from Swiss banking institutions with information on German account holders.
catagories: ๐จ๐ญ, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐, ๐ฅธ, economic policy