#sandmats

[rattyexplores]

Two different Euphorbias

Top images - Euphorbia maculata Bottom images - Euphorbia prostrata

20/03/23

[prettycreepyprettycrawly]

Snazzy little plant, unique to Monterey <3

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[phantomdecibel]

I keep seeing the “animation is not a genre it’s a medium” post and it’s like. whoo!! hell yeah love the animation-positive energy!!! I just can’t. bring myself to reblog it yet bc the urge add my unasked for possibly incorrect opinion to the post is overwhelming cause like guys. it’s definitely not a genre yeah, that’s the wrong word, but it’s not a medium either. in animation, and just art in general ‘medium’ refers to what the art is made with, and that applies to animation too; it is not ‘made with animation’, it is animated. medium is like, paint or clay or pencil on paper or ink or collage etc etc – all of which are forms of animation. stop motion (which is more of an umbrella for moving something little by little) can be done with sooooo many different mediums! you’ve got claymation which is probably the most well known type of stop motion animation, you’ve got sandmation, pixelation, ink on glass, paint on glass, and a hell of a lot of others I don’t know the technical names for, like animating with pastels or charcoal. and also scratch/paint on film, which isn’t stop motion really, but still a really neat form of animation. there could definitely be another definition for ‘medium’ that I just couldn’t find, but as far as I can tell that’s it. in art the word medium refers to the materials a piece was made with, and ‘animation’ is not a material. tbh I’m not quite sure how animation would be classified, in one succinct word, other than just like,, “a form of art✨✨”, which is why I didn’t want to add this directly to the original post (and also I was a tad afraid this has come off slightly passive aggressive which is not my goal in the slightest I just woke up literally ten minutes ago and am not a morning person). but just, to me, referring to the whole of animation as a medium kinda sorta has the same. vibes ig. as referring to it as a genre? just like. to me specifically, I’m definitely not speaking on behalf of all animators, but calling it a medium kinda. lumps it all together? everything unique and different about the different things you can do with animation and different mediums in animation, calling it one medium sorta takes away from some of that, to me. idk man maybe I’m harping on nothing, but it just rubs me the wrong way. like I guess ‘medium’ could be a. semi-accurate descriptor if you’re only referring to one form of animation like idk. digital, but even that has so many facets that count as different forms of animation – traditional 2D, 3D, tweening and different editing techniques, to name a few. Point Is: there’s a lot that can be done with animation, using different mediums, which is kinda the beauty of it and calling it one medium kinda takes away from it, to me. “animation” is an umbrella term for making an image move, and it contains a variety of different ways you can do that, as well as other umbrella terms. I mean, you wouldn’t call “art” a medium; it refers to a whole bunch of different things, like painting or writing or photography etc etc. hell – even painting and writing are umbrella terms, referring to the different types of those things! under painting you’ve got acrylic, watercolour, oil, etc, and writing you’ve got things like prose fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, biographies, etc etc. when you’re referring to an art piece’s medium, you tend to get a bit more specific than just calling it ‘an art thing I did using materials’. this is important to me bc it’s literally my major haha. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[just-your-average-cryptid]

Weed ID!

Because the logical response to construction outside is to go look at the plants chilling in the sand they’ve built up

First up: graceful spurge! This one hopped into an empty porch pot lol, but there’s some bigger ones on the curb

Other names: fluxweed, garden spurge, graceful sandmat

This plant is supposedly native to my area (Florida iydk, and supposedly bc that can be a tricky question to answer and sometimes the internet is wrong.) It’s a perennial plant with toxic sap, so not prone to getting munched by animals. Apparently it’s an ornamental plant as well, though I’ve never seen it anywhere but a roadside.

BABY TREE ALERT! This here is a young Southern live oak! Probably the offspring of the tree that used to be here; it got run over :,(

These are definitely native to the southeastern US and get pretty big once they’re grown up! Sadly I don’t see that happening for this lil guy… not sure if we can do anything to keep it there

Caesarweed! Also called a Congo Jute for… some reason

This one is invasive :/ their actual home is tropical Asia, but they’re found all over the world to varying degrees of environmental impact. It’s a perennial and also a crop, though that’s been overtaken by the invasiveness issue.

Fragrant flatsedge! Smell not verified at the time of writing

Also called calingale, nutgrass, yellow nutsedge

Native to the general US, this plant can actually be an annual or perennial depending on the climate, which I think is pretty neat!

Lilac tasselflower! These haven’t bloomed yet, but the whitish-purple dots are the buds :)

These are native to China and the general west-pacific, but they aren’t considered invasive here in the US afaik. The leaves are actually edible, and the flowers are quite nice despite their small size.

That’s it for Weed ID, but should I do this more? This was actually kinda fun :D and now we all know some new plants!

[mildly-inappropriate]

W jaki sposob dzialaja bentonitowe maty

Metod na ochronę ścian, fundamentów i innych konstrukcyjnych elementów przed wilgocią jest całkiem sporo, różnią się one poziomem skuteczności, ceną i sposobem montowania. W ostatnich latach coraz większym zainteresowaniem zaczęły się cieszyć bentonitowe maty, jakie ze względu na szereg zalet sprawdzają się doskonale w dużej ilości rozmaitych zastosowań.

Składają się one z dwóch warstw geotkaniny, pomiędzy którymi zostaje umieszczona warstwa bentonitu. Materiał ten ma bardzo ciekawe właściwości, gdyż wchłania on sporą ilość wody. To będzie powodować jego napęcznienie i zamianę w żel, a równocześnie dobre uszczelnienie zabezpieczanej powierzchni.

Tego typu maty muszą być kładzione w odpowiednich warunkach klimatycznych, ale później straszne im nie będą nawet silne mrozy i ulewne deszcze. Jeśli ktoś chce się dowiedzieć czegoś więcej w tym temacie, to może w wyszukiwarce podać hasło sandmat. Pośród wyników z pewnością znajdzie strony, jakie mu dostarczą wielu informacji o tej technologii.

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[birdsy-purplefishes]

#PsathyrotesRamosissima / #Turtleback With a a cholla, an ocotillo, some cryptanthas and plantains, and a very red sandmat. #velvetturtleback #psathyrotes #asteraceae #californianativeplants (at Ocotillo, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXoVb4So5w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[choukhmer]

ស្មៅ​ទឹកដោះខ្លា​ក្រហម

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[freshsliceofbread]

Good morning everyone! Despite waiting for my new light I’m feeling pretty good! 

[mydaystan]

My bags ready, I'm on my way !!!

LET'S GO !

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[dogbite142]

Fendler’s Sandmat I can across in Bonita Canyon in Cibola National Forest yesterday. Still has yet to bloom and bud flowers. It can be found on cliffs, ledges and rocky banks (where we found it) in the 4 corner areas, TX and WY. Still will have to do some more research to find details about this stunning soul we share this life with. #142 (at Cibola National Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVH-ghClKOIccb_o5K4IijLNWTUoEWbEWk9NE0/?igshid=jefrhapahww2

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Prostrate Sandmat

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[theemperorsfeather]

It’s really interesting working with people who have more years of experience in the industry than I do, and an interest in native plants, and who I got to inform of the name and native status of one of the “weeds” we were pulling today (I uhh kind of left some of them alone which may not have been just fine to have done; we didn’t get that area entirely weeded anyway). Yes, that weedy-looking thing is native here (to most of the continent in fact. No I don’t know what insects pollinate it. Very small ones, probably. (It’s called horseweed or Canadian fleabane, and the flowers are small and not very showy.)

Since getting home, I’ve sat down and (finally) looked up an ID for another weedy plant that’s growing in my yard, which we pulled up today, because, you know, it is definitely not that specific non-native similarly-shaped plant, so what the hell is it. It’s another native, also quite widespread. (Thyme-leafed sandmat or thyme-leafed spurge, I think - it looks a hell of a lot like another small spreading native spurge and ALSO like a non-native spurge, but at least the non-native one is kinda hairy if you look closely at the stems.)

ANyway. Not every weedy-looking plant that takes hold in disturbed areas or bare patches of soil or sidewalk cracks is actually a non-native species.

[someonetookmyusernamegoddam-blog]

succulent names are wild like 

there’s one called a “rattlesnake sandmat”

my next DnD item, bluff lettuce

and let’s not forget that sherlock guy, beavertail pricklypear