Archive for July, 2010
Now I am not one to pay too much attention to the lives and deaths of celebrities (who the heck was Brittany Murphy anyway?) but when the name of one is mentioned in the same sentence as mold, I’ll bite. There are many articles floating around today discussing the possibility that mold played a part [...]
Tags: Brittany Murphy, celebrities, Hollywood, medical mycology, toxic mold
Thanks to a comment from Lisa who writes the Mycologista blog, I was pointed to a video called “Fly Amanita” by David Fenster. I can only post YouTube videos at Fungal Visions, so the best thing to do was write a brief post about it here. “Fly Amanita” features: The thoughts of an Amanita muscaria [...]
Tags: Amanita muscaria, Bob Cummings, Vimeo
It’s been awhile since I got around to uploading some new YouTube videos to Fungal Visions. I recently took the time to look over the most recent uploads to YouTube that had anything to do with mushrooms, fungi, or mycology. There is always a steady stream of such things. Most of them are not worth [...]
Tags: Berkeley, Biofuels, Chlorophyllum, Fungal Visions, lecture, mushrooms, mycoremediation, video, YouTube
It’s not everyday you come across a weird and entertaining movie featuring yeast. We received one from Netflix the other day (my daughter seems to have a knack for selecting unheard of, unusual, and darned entertaining movies). I’m talking about Gentlemen Broncos starring Michael Angarano, Jemaine Clement, Sam Rockwell and Jennifer Coolidge. The film was [...]
Tags: entertainment, movies, science fiction, yeast lords
I think it was on a cooking show on the radio the other day (or maybe just a news report) that I heard that a fungal disease was playing havoc with basil plants in some parts of the U.S. I figured it might be worth looking into. Sure enough, a Google news search for “basil” [...]
Tags: basil, downy mildew, Margaret McGrath, Peronospora
The Telluride Mushroom Festival in Telluride, Colorado (where else?) will be held from August 26-29, 2010. This, dubbed the 30th Annual Celebration of All Things Fungal & Entheogenic, features guest speakers Paul Stamets, Gary Lincoff and Daniel Winkler, among others. From the Festival website: A four-day intensive with workshops, slide-shows, films and lectures in Colorado’s [...]
Tags: Colorado, Daniel Winkler, Gary Lincoff, Paul Stamets, Telluride Mushroom Festival
A nice op-ed piece appeared on July 2, 2010 at the website of the New York Times. Not your typical, “this is what it is like on a morel hunt” piece, Anthony Doerr (seemingly writing from McCall, Idaho) gives us glimpse into what a pleasant diversion from the troubles of the world can be had [...]
Tags: essay, morels, mushroom hunting, nature walk
