Venus Flytrap Heist:
In einem Park in Willmington, North Carolina, haben sie rund 1000 Venusfliegenfallen geklaut. Gezielter Raub von fleischfressenden Pflanzen ist mir jetzt auch neu: More than 1,000 Venus’ flytraps stolen.
Ron Finley @TED2013: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
„Plant some shit.“ Und viel wichtiger: „I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality“.
“Growing your own food is like printing your own money,” [Ron Finley] says, to applause. Then he tells us why this really matters to him. “I raised my sons in South Central. I have a legacy here. I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality,” he says. “I am an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. A graffiti artist beautifies walls; I beautify parkways and yards. I treat the garden as a piece of cloth and the plants and the trees are the embellishment of that cloth. You’d be surprised what soil can do if you let it be your canvas.”
“Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city,” he continues. “Plus, you get strawberries.”
Marijuana from Space
Der ehemalige NASA-Wissenschaftler Dale J. Chamberlain hat früher Botanik-Systeme für die ISS und das Space Shuttle gebaut und Anbauverfahren für kommende Mond-Basen entwickelt. Jetzt wendet er dieses Wissen in seiner neuen „High Altitude School of Hydroponics“ (H.A.S.H.) für Homegrower in Colorado an. Kein Scheiß. Es gibt eintägige Seminare für Amateurgärtner sowie eine Master Class mit Abschluss für professionelle Dope-Bauern. Ich will da hin.
Chamberlain knows more about far-out farming than almost anyone. At the Kennedy Space Center in the early 1990s he studied horticulture for future lunar colonies. “I assisted in building a plant-growth chamber that is still on the space shuttle,” he says, explaining that low-gravity hydroponics left him uniquely prepared to handle Colorado’s new legal landscape. “[…]
“Will there be weed in space?” He inhales and holds it for a beat before answering. […] anyone who’s seen how astronauts go to the bathroom knows a bong in zero gravity could be very messy. Chamberlain is undaunted. “Anything can be engineered. I’m envisioning the filter in my mind now, you’d have to somehow strain the water from the air. It could be done, but there are better ways in space. They’d probably use a vaporator-type system or even edibles. The short answer to your question is: hemp in space!”
Meet the Former NASA Scientist Who’s Teaching Coloradans How to Grow Marijuana Legally (via Animal NY)
Psychic and the stolen haunted Bonsai:
Bonsai of the Dead: „A PROFESSIONAL psychic has been called in to help find a bonsai plant containing human ashes stolen from a Gold Coast nursery.“
Bonsai Cookies
Ich liebe diese Bonsai Kekse von Risa Hirai, die Dame stellt ihr Minibaum-Gebäck im März in der Gallery Tokyo Humanite aus.
Underwarter Bonsai
Makoto Azuma macht Kunst mit Blumen und Pflanzen und sein neuestes Dings ist ein Bonsai, der unter Wasser in einem Aquarium wächst, das seinen natürlichen Lebensraum (an der Luft) simuliert. Hat was von Space-Plants on Earth, oder sowas.
Botanical artist Makoto Azuma has been perennially experimenting with bonsai in search of new ways of viewing one of Japan’s oldest art forms. His latest endeavor is to recreate a sustainable bonsai within an underwater environment.
Deadwood is garnished with java moss to resemble leaves, and then secured within a clear, minimal aquarium. And to recreate the natural cycles that exist within nature, LED lights and CO2 emissions within the tank help stimulate photosynthesis. Finally, a filtration system keeps the water free of bacteria and other organisms.
Growing Kresse in your Keyboard
Ich bin der 200%igen Überzeugung, dass ich vor sieben Jahren als eins der ersten Postings hier auf Nerdcore schonmal ein dreckiges Keyboard mit Kressbewuchs gepostet hatte, allein: Ich finde es nicht. Und da mein Keyboard derzeit mal wieder fast genauso aussieht (minus the Kresse) und weil ich kann: Redditor Clit_Commander hat in der dreckigen Tastatur eines Kollegen Kresse angebaut: My collegue had a filthy keyboard and has gone to vacation, I did the only logic thing: I planted cress in the keyboard, hier das Imgur-Album. Alte Idee, schön ausgeführt.
[update] Hier das alte Posting von 2007 (ich dachte, das wäre früher gewesen): Tastenzüchtung (Danke Relax!)
Anna Garforths Cardboard-Bear
Schöne Arbeiten von Anna Garforth, die Typografie mit Moos oder aus buntem Klebeband macht. Und ich liebe ihren Bären aus bedruckter Pappe: „In Wandering Territory, a 3D digital model of a brown bear was converted into a 2D cardboard template before it was popped back into a sculptural form. its polygon sides unfloding like a map, illustrating the idea of migration and the contrast of the urban world against the curious animal’s natural habitat.“ (via Hifructose)
Edible Swamp
Miss Cakehead hat für ‘nen Event im Hoxton Street Monster Supplies Store einen essbaren Sumpf hingezaubert, inklusive Froscheier-Shots, eingelegten Enteneiern und Kakerlaken-Cupcakes. Fast perfekt, fehlt nur das Swamp Thing: Catering for Monsters with an edible Swamp.
Agriculture Casemod
Mike Schropp hat aus alten Computerteilen einen Acker-Casemod gebaut, auf dem er Weizenkeim anbaut. Die Temperatur des “Bodens” reguliert er über die CPU-Auslastung: Bio Computer (via Neatorama)
Anatomical correct He Shou Wu-Plant
Die He Shou Wu-Pflanze ist ein Aphrodisiakum in der chinesischen Medizin und neulich hat ein Bauer eine mit dieser Wurzel hier geerntet. Passt.
The root – from the He Shou Wu plant – is used in traditional medicine to rejuvenate virility and strength and is even said to turn grey hair back to black.
California Carnivores
Cool Hunting Video Presents: California Carnivores from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.
Sehr schöner Clip von Cool Hunting über California Carnivores, ein Laden für fleischfressende Pflanzen.
In our latest video we trekked out into the beautiful farmland outside Sebastopol, California to visit California Carnivores, North America’s largest carnivorous plant nursery. We spoke with founder Peter D’Amato about his personal history with these hungry plants, their cultural significance and what it takes to raise up fantastical plants from seed. Taking in the active plant life, we watched Venus Flytraps chowing down and a got a peak inside the stomach of an American Pitcher Plant.
The Adventures of a Space-Zucchini
Don Petit, Astronaut und derzeit auf der ISS, hat damit begonnen, die Abenteuer von Astro-Z aufzuschreiben: Eine Zucchini, die er grade im Weltall aufzieht. Und zwar aus der Perspektive des Gemüses. Ganz große Unterhaltung und nebenbei lernt man tausend Details über Space-Gärtnerei.
January 14
My gardener fusses with me several times a day. He checks that I have water, light, and with a hypodermic syringe, injects this tea concoction into the ziplock bag. It bathes my roots with a not so tasty drink however it does seem to contain the nutrients I need. I won’t complain; on expeditions into the frontier the food is often this way.January 15
My gardener fusses with my leaves. I am not sure if I like that. I now have four and I do not quite understand why he behaves this way. He sticks his nose up against them. Does he take me for some sort of a handkerchief? Apparently he takes pleasure in my earthy green smell. There is nothing like the smell of living green in this forest of engineered machinery. I see the resultant smile. Maybe this is one of my roles as a crewmember on this expedition.
Slavoj Žižek hates tulips
Youtube Direktflowers, via MeFi
Slavoj Žižek, Philosoph, Kulturkritiker, Theoretiker der lacanianischen Psychoanalyse und Comedian.
My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian. I think they are disgusting. Just imagine. Aren’t these some kind of, how do you call it, vagina dentata, dental vaginas threatening to swallow you? I think that flowers are something inherently disgusting. I mean, are people aware what a horrible thing these flowers are? I mean, basically it’s an open invitation to all insects and bees, “Come and screw me,” you know? I think that flowers should be forbidden to children.
