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Mycology Videos by David Fenster on Vimeo

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 (also known [...]

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Five New Vids at Fungal Visions

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 [...]

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Santa Cruz Fungus Fair Rundown

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 thing and [...]

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Santa Cruz Fungus Fair This Weekend

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 world of [...]

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Wooden Turned Mushrooms

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 woodworker Larry [...]

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Christmas and Mushrooms

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 is [...]

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Strange Fungus Cartoon Music Video

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 by [...]

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Introducing Fungal Visions

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, [...]

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Nice Conidiophore Animation

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 .

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