These Stars Are Projectors

This week I don't have much to offer. Still no pictures, and not too many plant updates. Dom and I got more venus fly traps this weekend since the bugs are going to start coming out soon. We fed one of them a spider a few days ago and today it finally opened back up to reveal a small, shriveled spider carcass. Pretty fucking awesome. The only other news is that I ordered 20 tillandsia plants from ebay and are expecting them to come in the mail tomorrow or the next day. I'm pretty excited because then I will finally be able to start my next project: the lightbulb terrariums. The roots in the plants I had gotten before were still too long and the plant already died. I'm hoping I will have better luck with smaller plants that don't get their nutrients form the roots.

On another note, I have been really interested in astronomy lately. Each day I try to memorize a new constellation, where it is in the sky, and the important stars in the constellation. I'm hoping maybe one day I will be able to use them to direct myself at night. I think a lot of cultures have found ways to use nature to their advantage. To work with it instead of against it. That's what trying to do. I'm learning how to can food, how to ferment food, how to use plant materials to create dyes, what plants are edible and what ones are not, and other useful skills. In such an unpredictable world I think nature is one of the few things we can always count on to be there, and even that I'm getting more and more unsure of.



Some pretty quality graphic design. I really enjoy good, clean, educational graphic design that still maintains some personality. This would fit into that category.