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Dinosaur Teeth/Bone Under Microscope
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Found the USB Microscope I'd used for my prospecting tailings and put it to use looking at a few pieces of what I suspected were dinosaur teeth that I'd picked up Saturday with the daughter.
A zoom in on a serrated piece of tooth - about 15 mm across, and broken as it tapered up and down. The serrations suggest predation by land dinosaurs - think therapods.
The other side of the same tooth - the serrations are more clearly visible, they look like a mini-set of teeth (growing out from a tooth...) - the infinitely recursive fractal geometry of life...
Excuse the bits of wool - all specimens were carefully stored in my sketchy rave hoody. And in the process acquired a bit of extraneous wool.
Clearly defined serrations on a tiny shard of tooth (this piece of tooth was under a centimeter in length and half as wide. But the serrations were clearly visible, and the enamel-vs bone is not too tough to spot.
Zoom in on bits of lichen growing on a piece of dinosaur bone...
as above...
Close up, texture of fossilized bone
As above. Not sure if that bright green is mineral, vegetable or fungi.
Texture of tooth, enamel, but no edges to confirm.
Same as above, but some pretty/interesting patterns of weathering & mineralizations.
Now that I've found the 'scope I can look at all my dinosaur bones under it!!! And THEN won't this blog be exciting!!!!!
Symbols
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Reading 2 books at the moment:
- The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols - Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
- A Dictionary of Symbols - J.E. Cirlot
Both - as fascinating as dictionaries can be, a bit short of plot but that's to be expected. Both right up my alley, and thoughtfully analyze - with respect to Freud, Jung, and a host of other sources all the symbols we encounter in books, art, dreams, psychology, alchemy, magic, science and even day to day life...
Great, in that they awaken you to a whole world of meaning which you were always aware of, but unable to decipher.
Worth considering - that symbolic thought predates the written word, artwork and quite possibly even language. That all these things - painting, writing, etc - are attempts to interpret our most intuitive understanding of spirituality, ourselves and our place in the world.
Binaural Beats
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When I'm writing - it's often quiet, too quiet, hard to focus and I crave a little background music. Not "Muzak" - I abhor it, and while light classical sometimes does the trick I've been trying out some of the "Binaural Beats" videos on YouTube - listening with the headphones, strange - not music, more some sort of ... I dunno, low-tones, strange, as if someone went a little overboard on their new-age kick, imagine the lightest synth played at a quarter speed - yet it seems to work, and after an hour's writing or staring at the screen you take off the headphones and feel strangely discombobulated. It's almost a mental white noise...
I'm not sure that it's all that, but the experiment is free and it definitely can't hurt ...
Scrolls
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When I left he gave me that bag of scrolls - I mean it was a big bag, easily a hundred, double sided, the results of barely 2 weeks of work - if even.
I've started photographing and uploading them, they are fascinating (if a bit repetitive, ...); all of them can be substantially embiggened by right clicking and selecting "open image in new tab". When looking at them they're all in pairs - one side, then the other; only rarely is a scroll one-sided. And - I'd like to say - a lot of people would guess from his artwork that he's a dirty-old-man. He's not. I mean, he is, just not in that way, he's very respectful of women; clearly he's gotta have some sort of charm if any (or all?) of these women posed for him...
This job of digitally archiving them - and poorly, at that - it's a full time thing - I'm not kidding, already friends are advising me I have more bags of scrolls waiting, you're going to have to settle for the best I can do...
A Side
B Side
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