Friday, May 22, 2009

Isopod Week! Well, Isopod Friday anyway...

I don't actually have a week's worth of Isopod paintings. In fact, as of this moment, I only have one, half-finished isopod painting. Here it is, in progress, it still has a ways to go, but it's Isopod Friday, I gotta show something!



I'm doing a job about giant isopods, pill-bug-like crustaceans that live on the ocean floor. So I have a bunch of giant isopod images on my desktop. Like this one:



Or this one:



Pretty creepy huh?



According to Wikipedia: In Northern Taiwan and other areas, they are not uncommon at seaside restaurants, served boiled and bisected with a clean lateral slice. The white meat is similar to crab or lobster in texture.

Yummy!
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4 comments:

  1. bloggeratfMay 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    I feel like they are going to lath onto my brain stem and start telling me what to do....

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  2. Emnia ElfMay 22, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    Oh horray! Awesome paintings! Hey.... They'd make a great 70's horror movie! I can see it now:
    "Isopods From Outer Space"!
    (making fun of Teenagers From Outer Space.... I don't know if anyone from here has seen it, but Isopods remind me faintly of that movie...)

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  3. edithMay 24, 2009 at 1:27 PM

    Those walking stilt fish are pretty creepy, too. Are those real? They look like the stilt-bunnies from the Dark Crystal.
    I miss Jim Henson.
    But I still have you.

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  4. NathanMay 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM

    Oh yeah--those are called Tripod Fish. They don't walk, they just balance. Pretty weird. But I know the Dark Crystal animals of which you speak. I used to pretend I was one of those whenever there was a pair of crutches around to mess with.

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