Archive for the ‘Interview’ Category
I recently learned about a new mycology-themed film called Now, Forager produced by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin. Jason is the newsletter editor for the New York Mycological Society. Cortlund and Halperin are experienced filmmakers and judging by the trailer (see below) this looks to be a quality project. The story follows a husband and [...]
Tags: Foraging, mushroom films, Now Forager
It is possible that leaving an agar plate laying around the lab for a month could produce something akin to art. Or, microbes can be deliberately arranged on a nutrient surface to produce interesting images a la Nial Hamilton. Then again, when it comes to Petri dish art, there is no reason why any living [...]
Tags: art, biology-inspired, Klari Reis, Petri dishes
Mushrooms are cute. At least some of them are. And whether people like to eat them or not, and whether or not people understand their ecological importance, almost everyone will agree that they make darned good fantasy creatures and scenery. They make for some pretty cute dolls too. The Cute Shrooms of Mushroomland Some of [...]
Tags: animation, mushroom dolls, mushroom film, mushroomland, Natasha Guruleva
A couple of months ago, I ran across a UK-based website–The Glow Fungi Project. The site and the project is from a company called NIPHT (Novel Imaging and PHotonic Technologies–”nifty” for short) out of Edinburgh, Scotland. The company began offering kits of bioluminescent fungus in 2009 and plans to continue to provide kits for outdoor [...]
Tags: bioluminescence, bioluminescent fungi, fungi kits, Glow Fungi, glowfungi, NIPHT, Panellus stipticus, Patrick Hickey
Table lamps that look like mushrooms are nothing new. Several versions of such lamps are available, and they are usually intended as small table lamps or accent pieces. However, a post at Geeky Gadgets caught my interest in a floor version of a mushroom lamp from Australian designer Simon Duff. Duff is known for creating [...]
Tags: Australia, mushroom floor lamp, mushroom lamp, Simon Duff
Jackson Pollock dripped paint on canvas. Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and the other cubists broke the world into little rectangular planes. Andy Warhol set up a few soup cans. Niall Hamilton has his own style of art. A Petri dish of agar is his canvas, spores are his paint, and a sterile loop is his brush. [...]
Tags: art, fungal art, microbial art, Nial Hamilton
No, being a mycophilelatist is not an immoral activity. It’s a term describing one who collects mushroom topical stamps. There are a small number of people in the stamp collecting world who specialize in mushroom topicals. Topicals are stamps that have specific pictures on them or are themed on a certain “topic” like trains, bugs, [...]
Tags: catalog, mycophilelaty, stamps
With a name like Spore Liberation Front, it’s hard to tell what this outfit might be up to. A lot of people might wave their hands and say “they’re just a bunch of ‘shroom heads, who think they can change the world.” Well, they would be right about one thing–they are trying to change the [...]
Tags: Cascadia, mycoremediation, radical mycology, Spore Liberation Front
“Fun Guy” is right right up there with “Fungus Amongus” (oops) on my list, but hey–that’s my problem. My problems aside, you really should check out the Penn State Fun Guy. A new addition to the mycoblogosphere, Penn State Fun Guy recently appeared on the blog roll at the Cornell Mushroom Blog. I got a [...]
Tags: blogs, mycoblogosphere, Penn State Fun Guy, research
There is this band from Texas, see. They are Fungi Girls (no girls included). They do like mushrooms though. Bassist Skyler Salinas recently took a moment to answer a few questions about the band. MycoRant: Tell us a bit about the band. Skyler: We’re a band of kids from suburban and rural Texas that make [...]
Tags: Fungi Girls, music
