A Catalogue Of Sustainable Achievements
SuperForest I present to you “We No Speak American!” I want to share this with you for the sheer beauty and creativity displayed in this song. It is so darn fun! And because the video is so catchy you’re gonna get the song stuck with you too. So enjoy!
Much love,
Mathew
(Leaf like sea slug that uses photosynthesis, so COOL! via.)
Heyo SuperForest!
Our funky sisters over at Miracle Mile Mind (who I will be talking about in an upcoming post) recently shared this awesome find! …free your imagination… is an fantastic blog that highlights recently discovered or rediscovered species! For a nature geek like me it is the perfect place for me! The coolest of mammals, insects, arachnids, fish, sea animals, and everything else can be found at this awesome site! Go check it out! And if my enthusiasm isn’t enough to sway you here is part of one of their newer posts, one that I find extremely intriguing not only because of the animal found, but because it was originally found on my favourite little island: Lord Howe Island!
Giant Land Lobster Not Extinct…. yet!
7 January, 2010Excerpt from original article found at NewScientist.com. Find the full article and much more information there.15 July 2006 by Stephanie Pain
On 14 June 1918, the supply ship Makambo struck a submerged rock off Lord Howe Island, a volcanic dot 780 kilometres north-east of Sydney, Australia. The cargo was salvaged and taken ashore to the island, which is a semi-tropical paradise, lushly forested and rich in plants and animals found nowhere else. Unfortunately, the ship’s rats came ashore too. They spread rapidly, soon dispatching several island species, including a giant wingless stick insect, or phasmid. By the 1930s, the Lord Howe Island phasmid (Dryococelus australis) was written off as extinct.
By all accounts, it had been a spectacular insect, so big the islanders called it the land lobster. Females grew up to 15 centimetres long, with bodies as thick as a finger and long, stout legs equipped with hooks. The slightly shorter males had peculiarly massive thighs armed with evil-looking spines. They couldn’t fly but they could run surprisingly fast.[...]
How freaking cool is that?! For more whacky and crazy new species finds head over to …free your imagination… by clicking here!
Much love SuperForest,
Mathew
It’s the same story every summer. Every year, I tell myself, “This summer, you’re going to teach yourself to play the guitar.” Alas, my guitar still ends up collecting dust. Watching this little girl shred has got to be my tipping point. This year, it’s gonna happen.
Love!
That’s right, friends. YouTube just got interactive….kinda. After waiting for the video to fully load, you just click on the keys to create your sweet sweet tune.
You “tickle the ivories” when playing the piano regularly, so I suppose in cyber space you “clickle” them. (lulz, okay that sounds horrible)
(Thanks to The Next Web for the tip on tasty piece of the internet!)
SuperForest,
Prepare to have your mind blown as you watch this amazing video which covers all space in the known universe starting from the mountains of Tibet zoomed out all the way out to our cosmic horizon in time and space and all the way back.
Wow. Any sort of exclamation I could type here would be a severe understatement so I’ll just leave it at that. : )
(Brought to us by the American Museum of Natural History!)
Morning, SuperForesters!
A few months ago, I stumbled upon a project by Aaron Zinman titled “Personas“. According to its tag line, Personas helps us “see the way the internet sees you”. Almost immediately, I was struck by this wording. The way the internet sees us? Aren’t we the ones who are usually learning from and observing it? I never really thought of it from the internet’s perspective. And as freaky as that initially seemed to me, my curiosity got the best of me and I had to try it out.
Personas works in a pretty straight forward manner. Enter your first and last name, Personas scours the web in search of things related to your name, quotes from web sources containing your name start to flicker along the bottom of the screen, and it “characterizes” you by dividing that information up by category. In the end, laid out before you is an internet footprint of sorts.
Here is what resulted after entering my name:
And here is what resulted after entering “superforest”:
Yay! Interesting, no? Now, understandably, it isn’t very accurate, and often times it pulls from information from other names and things that have nothing to do with you but upon further reflection I realized that’s kind of the point…
In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
Amazing.
Gooood Evening, SuperForest!
It’s always very exciting to see the power of positivity and optimism spread across the web. We recently learned of the emergence of Gives Me Hope as a response to FMyLife, and just yesterday, I stumbled across SUCCEED Blog, which as the title suggests, is a response to FAIL Blog.
As stated on the site: Succeed Blog is, “A collection of the world’s most epic, awesome, mind blowing Succeeds.” Succeeds liiiiike…
Amazing! Because as clever as it may be to find humor in one’s failures, it is always more fun to celebrate their successes. Always. : )
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Good Evening, Friends!
Being that SuperForest is such a proud advocate of making things, I felt it was highly suitable to share with you all a website that boasts the handiwork of some of our fellow human beings. “There I Fixed It” is the ultimate source for project inspirations and fully exudes the “Do It Yourself” way of life.
For example, here we find a lovely car radio:
Newly upholstered couch cushions:
and the ingenious seesaw with armrests:
Yup, you’ll find it all (including lots of laughs). Hope you are all having a fabulous day!
With love,
Carla
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