Archive for the ‘video’ 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
I love TED talks. I just saw a new one featuring Eben Bayer of evocativedesign, creator of MycoBond, an organic adhesive that turns mycelium and substrate into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation. The company’s ecocradle is a foam packaging material and greensulate is an insulating material. I previously wrote about evocativedesign in First [...]
Tags: evocativedesign, Greensulate, MycoBond, mycoplastic, TED
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
The Santa Cruz Fungus Fair, which took place this past weekend attracted a good bit of press from various outlets (some before, some after). Read all about it: Fungus Fest celebrates all things mushroom Thousands of people headed to Santa Cruz, CA this weekend for the annual fungus fair. “The fascination starts with the food [...]
Tags: California, Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Yes this weekend, January 9-10, 2010. It’s the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair. According to the website some of the highlights are: Lectures by prominent mycologists and basics of mushroom identification in our popular Mushrooms 101 class. Dr. Tom Volk, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, a very popular and knowledgeable professional mycologist, will discuss the wonderful [...]
Tags: California, Colorado, NAMA, Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Every household needs a few wooden mushrooms to spruce up a bookshelf, awesomize a nick-knack display, or just to leave laying around someplace. Lots of places sell wood-turned mushrooms. Here are three guys who show how to turn some yourself on a wood lathe. Turning a Mushroom This is a tutorial illustrated with photos from [...]
Tags: crafts, turned mushroom, wooden mushroom
Anyone who has had the slightest interest in mushrooms over the years no doubt knows of the theories connecting aspects of the Christmas tradition with Amanita muscaria. I figure today is as good a day as any to make mention of it. How credible are these theories? Well, reasonably so in my opinion, although it [...]
Tags: Amanita muscaria, Christmas, ethnomycology
A reader sent in a tip (thanks!) on this strangely entertaining cartoon called “Shrooms” (what other name is there for a whack mushroom cartoon?). The website is Weebl’s Stuff and the toon is described as A full length version of the Mushroom Song from 8-Bit Pwny Club since so many of you requested it. Animated [...]
Fungal Visions is a site devoted to YouTube videos about fungi. The latest addition is an awesome demonstration of how to make a realistic paper mushroom. It looks like you’ll need the right kind of paper. This paper folding video was originally spotted on a twitter post. Although the video is titled Perfect origami mushroom, [...]
Tags: Amanita phalloides, Fungal Visions, mycology videos, origami, paper mushrooms, video
A very nice animated video of Aspergillus conidiophores appears at YouTube courtesy of Lariontsev. He must be Russian. BTW, I have started a site called Fungal Visions that features nothing but fungal videos from YouTube .
Tags: animation, Aspergillus, condiophores
