#conglobulate

[logs-pods]

I know this is a very tricky question, but what's your favorite isopod? (Doesn't have to be one that you have, but you can pick from that if you want!) :)

Oh this is absolutely a difficult question but I love it.

Of the ones I keep, I really love the zebras and panda kings. Both have really lovely shape and striking colors. On the zebras I love how glossy and opaque they are, while the pandas are the opposite with transparent and matte exoskeletons.

(I wish I could say it was the pineapples but I haven't figured them out yet)

Of ones that I don't keep..

A. vulgare punta cana or gem mixes are so under appreciated to me. Basically one of the most common species but classic for a reason yk? (Image from smug bug)

I personally prefer species that conglobulate but breaking that trend is Porcellio werneri one of my big wish list bugs. (Image from smug bug)

[soupyguytime]

I hate that Japan makes the best toys and gimmick items but they're always limited run and impossible to get in the us.... I've missed out on rhino beetle pancake maker AND All the great hyperrealistic bugs including the dangomushi Magic Potion isopod conglobulating figure. My Pain

[processandenquiryrhianna]

Final 2D Series

These are my final 2D pieces, I could not decide on one, I felt my process so far has been about combining, that choosing just one would not be representational enough.

The first two are screen prints onto A4 cartridge paper, using the most common colours within my work so far. The imagery is a collection of the the shapes and collages I have created thus far. These felt like a natural conglobulation of my process, utilising the aspects I have felt were most successful within the screen printing experimentation.

The next two are monochrome screen prints, the left uses an image of the newsprint collage, which I love how it came out. The stark contrast came out nicely, though there was some detail lost within the smaller, more intricate sections, however this is to be expected when printing from a print. The right, is possibly one of my favourite prints to have come out so far. The crisp edges are something I struggled to get with printing, as it's not a process I've ever used before, so this one feels particularly accomplishing. It is a print of one of my paper collages, the favourite of the bunch.

The following two prints feel quite chic, I wanted these images to have a space of their own as they were a huge component when compiling the collages. Most of what I have done is on a small scale, referring back to the intricate individuality layers can have, building up to something new.

The last image is printed on acetate, arguably the most essential part to my progress throughout. The acetate was used to create collages, to create prints, and add dimension to the walls (my 3D finale). Being so involved, it deserves to be part of my series here, which the goal was to combine what I felt best represented by 2D pieces so far.

Overall, I feel complete with this as a representation of my 2D journey this year so far. Each part played a large role in the development process of my pieces, and I feel I would like to continue to explore how else they can be put to the test.

[nezumiko]

I recently learned the word for a rolled up pill bug is “conglobulated.” This would be enough all by itself, but then there is this precious cinnamon roll:

[scrumpyfan43]

scrobiculate conglobulators

[not-a-space-alien]

Apparently when a pill bug rolls up into a ball that's called conglobulation. I love that

[themuseandantarctica]

* 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒑𝒕. 4

change however necessary.

❝ no man ever believes that the bible means what it says ; he is always convinced that it says what he means. ❞

❝ the bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it. ❞

❝ it ain’t those parts of the bible that i can’t understand that bother me , it’s the parts that i do understand. ❞

❝ whenever we read the obscene stories , the voluptuous debaucheries , the cruel and tortuous executions , the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the bible is filled , it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of god.  it is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. ❞

❝ it’s absolutely blood amazing to thing that anyone could have believed that  —  absolute balls. ❞

❝ the total absence of humor from the bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ❞

❝ ye are the children of the lord your god : ye shall not cut yourselves , nor make an baldness between the eyes for the dead. ❞

❝ a man shall not take his father’s wife , nor discover his father’s skirt. ❞

❝ cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. ❞

❝ the driving is like the driving of jehu son of nimshi ; for he driveth furiously. ❞

❝ if i were reincarnated , i’d want to come back a buzzard.  nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him.  he is never bothered or in danger , and he can eat anything. ❞

❝ it is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated that moral character of the duck.  in a wild state , he is a faithful husband , but no sooner is he domesticated that he becomes polygamous , and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time. ❞

❝ a sparrow fluttering about the church is an antagonist which the most profound theologian in europe is wholly unable to overcome. ❞

❝ swallows certainly sleep all winter.  a number of them conglobulate together , by flying round and round , and then all in a heap throw themselves under water , and lye in the bed of a river. ❞

❝ swans have an air of being proud , stupid , and mischievous  —  three qualities that go well together. ❞

❝ if only i were a bird !  ah , but eating caterpillars ? ❞

❝ the mosquito is the state bird of new jersey. ❞

❝ a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us. ❞

❝ there are more books on books than on any other subject. ❞

❝ never lend books ; no one ever returns them.  the only books i have in my library are books other people have lent me. ❞

❝ outside of a dog , a book is man’s best friend.  inside of a dog , it’s too dark to read. ❞

❝ to be well informed , one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books.  to be cultivated , one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived , thought , and felt with style. ❞

❝ the reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ❞

❝ i don’t think any good book is based on factual experience.  bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ❞

❝ how long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it ? ❞

❝ some books are undeservedly forgotten , none are undeservedly remembered. ❞

❝ a classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ❞

❝ the worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. ❞

❝ all of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large american city in a single year.  not all bits have equal value. ❞

❝ the most difficult book i have ever read was a manual on the use of iron mangles by a. j. thompson. ❞

❝ there are only two kinds of math books.  those you cannot read beyond the first sentence , and those you cannot read beyond the first page. ❞

❝ one is never obligated to write a book. ❞

❝ everyone has a book in them and that , in most cases , is where it should stay. ❞

❝ there are books in which the footnotes , or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin , are more interesting than the test.  the world is one of those books. ❞

❝ and there are also many other things which jesus did , the which , if they should be written every one , i suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. ❞

❝ a book worth reading is worth buying. ❞

❝ the covers of this book are too far apart. ❞

❝ big book , big bore. ❞

❝ we have a world of pleasures to win , and nothing to lose but boredom. ❞

❝ a tremendous number of people in america work very hard at something that bores them.  even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day.  not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do. ❞

❝ boredom is the root of all evil. ❞

❝ is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves ? ❞

❝ the cure for boredom is curiosity.  there is no cure for curiosity. ❞

❝ boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since half the sins of humanity are caused by fear of it. ❞

❝ boredom is rage spread thin. ❞

❝ entertainment is , in fact , the biggest cause of boredom in the modern world.  the more man is entertained , the more bored he grows. ❞

❝ when i bore people at a party , they think it is their fault. ❞

❝ in zen they say : if it is boring after two minutes listen to it for four.  if still boring , listen for eight or sixteen or thirty-two , and so on.  soon we discover that it is not boring at all but actually very interesting. ❞

❝ boxing isn’t a metaphor : it’s the thing itself. ❞

❝ to me , boxing is like a ballet , except there’s no music , no choreography , and the dancers hit each other. ❞

❝ it’s just a job.  grass grows , birds fly , waves pound the sand.  i beat people up. ❞

❝ this boxer is doing what is expected of him , bleeding from the nose. ❞

❝ [name] , have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose ? ❞

❝ well , madam , have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose ?  boxing is my excuse.  what’s yours ? ❞

❝ sure , there have been injuries and deaths in boxing  —  but none of them serious. ❞

❝ the brain is a wonderful organ.  it starts working the moment you get up in the morning , and does not stop until you get into the office. ❞

❝ if the human brain were so simple that we could understand it , we would be so simple that we wouldn’t. ❞

❝ the evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man , it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use. ❞

❝ your brain , doctor , is a culture medium for question marks ! ❞

❝ if little else , the brain is an educational toy. ❞

❝ every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ❞

❝ bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ❞

❝ britain has invented a new missile.  it’s called the civil servant  —  it doesn’t work and it can’t be fired. ❞

❝ bureaucrats : they are dead at thirty and buried at sixty.  they are like custard pies ; you can’t nail them to a wall. ❞

❝ beware the barrenness of a busy life. ❞

❝ it is not enough to stay busy.  so , too , are the ants.  the question is what you are busy about. ❞

❝ the law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest.  that would seriously interfere with business. ❞

❝ i found in running businesses that the best results come from letting high-grade people work unencumbered. ❞

❝ the salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement.  it is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture to the individual to himself. ❞

❝ thought , not money , is the real business capital , and if you know absolutely that what you are doing is right , then you are bound to accomplish it in due season. ❞

❝ the successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. ❞

❝ a lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you’re a business failure. ❞

❝ they intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. ❞

❝ i understand small business growth.  i was one. ❞

❝ butterflies are creatures of little importance and have never played much part in international commerce , either of goods or ideas. ❞

❝ what the caterpillar calls the end of the world , the master calls a butterfly. ❞

❝ the butterfly counts not months but moments , and has time enough. ❞

❝ the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ❞

❝ the butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar. ❞

❝ cabbage served twice is death. ❞

❝ boiled cabbage a l’anglaise is something compared with which steamed coarse newsprint brought from bankrupt finnish salvage dealers and heated over smoky oil stoves is an exquisite delicacy. ❞

❝ a louse in the cabbage is better than no meat at all. ❞

❝ cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education. ❞

❝ the state of california has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity. ❞

❝ california is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. ❞

❝ hollywood is a place where people from iowa mistake each other for stars. ❞

❝ i love california : i practically grew up in phoneix. ❞

❝ there is science , logic , reason ; there is thought verified by experience.  and then there is california. ❞

❝ california is a fine place to live  —  if you happen to be an orange. ❞

❝ nothing is wrong with california that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure. ❞

❝ when i’m in canada , i feel this is what the world should be like. ❞

❝ when columbus made his well-remembered voyage to the caribbean , canada had been known to europeans for more than five hundred years. ❞

❝ very little is known of the canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the queen and illiterate sport fishermen. ❞

❝ it’s going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it. ❞

❝ canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly four thousand miles long.  st. john’s in newfoundland is closer to milan , italy , than it is to vancouver. ❞

❝ i don’t even know what street canada is on. ❞

❝ canada is the essence of not being.  not english , not american , it is the mathematic of not being.  and a subtle flavor  —  we’re more like celery as a flavor. ❞

❝ in any world menu , canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations  —  it’s cold , half-french , and difficult to stir. ❞

❝ we have never been a melting pot.  the fact is we are more like a tossed salad.  we are green , some of us are oily , and there’s a little vinegar injected when you get up to ottawa. ❞

❝ the beaver , which has come to represent canada as the eagle does the united states and the lion britain , is a flat-tailed , slow-witted , toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. ❞

[dr-ladybird]

GUYS

There is a cockroach species where the females PRODUCE MILK FOR THEIR BABIES from glands on their sides, and the babies just hang on till they’re old enough to look after themselves

And the females roll up into a ball when frightened, with ANY ATTACHED BABIES PROTECTED INSIDE THE BALL

And they have such big soft brown eyes

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beetlesinthebush.com/2012/05/27/holy-conglobulation-batman/amp/

i love u pillroach

[spacesunflcwer]

“In reality, analytical minds such as my own are forever shooting wildly off in all directions simultaneously. It’s like joyously hitting jelly with a sledgehammer; like exploding galaxies; like a display of fireworks in which the pyrotechnic engineer has had a bit too much to drink and set off the whole conglobulation at once, by accident”

— Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

[harrypotterhousequotes]

RAVENCLAW: “In reality, analytical minds such as my own are forever shooting wildly off in all directions simultaneously. It’s like joyously hitting jelly with a sledgehammer; like exploding galaxies; like a display of fireworks in which the pyrotechnic engineer has had a bit too much to drink and set off the whole conglobulation all at once, by accident.” –Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d)

[lillybean730]

the family roly polies belong to are called Armadillidiidae how could you not love that

​when they curl up it's called conglobulation

[lobitadluna]

Watercolor Conglobulate by LobitaDLuna

[archtangential]

Ligia sp., a littoral isopod. This one was large in my experience of sand lice/sand fleas, but marginal in comparison to the giant Bathynomus, benthic isopods, the largest extant on record being just over 3/4m. (!giant isopod) The order Isopoda contains the commonly encountered wood lice (rolie-polies, pill bugs etc) that proliferate forest floors, that can, unlike members of Ligia, conglobulate their bodies as a defensive mechanism. Isopods are unique among crustaceans for having exclusively terrestrial members, some even in deserts, though most members are consistently detritivores (please give alt examples if known). Also pictured is an example of plant parasitism, particularly common is the mid-atlantic region. (at Virginia Beach, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/archtangential/p/Burjvw2g3Ah/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y0ydgq3gxycb

[benjamin-dutton-studio]

Brain wave!

Brain Wave concept idea! 

To use the broken down pieces of Saint Smith to form a deconstructed ‘obsessive shrine’. I will draw and paint on various scaled paper and card images of Saint Smith and layer them onto of one another in the install room to form a conglobulate of ‘Smith’. With the destroyed body of Saint Smith laying in the centre. 

[lilyofficial]

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