more of my qpöbby photos

Stumble Upon, you’ve done it once again. Without you I would have never read about this on boingboing.net. It must be one of the coolest things I’ve ever read; pretty sure the Kush I just smoked helps a bit, but please. Read it yourself.

A wasp steers a roach by its antenna after injecting a venom into the escape reflex zone of the roaches brain. WHAT? … And this is only the beginning. The roach basically ends up as the new home of a soon-to-be wasp.

Reading this I wonder if anyone ever recorded this. Please let me know if you have ever witnessed this. At least I wanna see the wasp riding the roaches back.

To make it scientific let’s read the full explanation by Parasite Rex author Carl Zimmer.

The wasp slips her stinger through the roach’s exoskeleton and directly into its brain. She apparently uses sensors along the sides of the stinger to guide it through the brain, a bit like a surgeon snaking his way to an appendix with a laparoscope. She continues to probe the roach’s brain until she reaches one particular spot that appears to control the escape reflex. She injects a second venom that influences these neurons in such a way that the escape reflex disappears.

From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord. The wasp takes hold of one of the roach’s antennae

I just wiped the tears of laughter from my face so I could share this incredible video of my Governer from back-in-the-day. Here is Arnold in full sleaze mode as he takes us to Rio during the Carnival, sharing the festival’s delights and his love for women and their ‘assets’. Please watch the full video..you REALLY don’t want to miss any of this.

Photographer Alec Soth received International honors in 2004 with his images of life on the Mississippi which became the hit of the Whitney Biennial in New York. That same year, his book, Sleeping by the Mississippi was published to widespread acclaim. “Shot over a period of five years, Sleeping by the Mississippi is a trip along America’s ‘Forgotten Coast’, the neglected bank’s of the country’s longest river.” Soth captures landscapes, interiors and portraits, alluding to religion, race crime, sex and death. He vividly exposes lost hope, loneliness and underlying dreams of the people he meets and photographs.

This series has been ranked with the greatest representations of the United States, including Walker Evan’s photos of the depression and Robert Frank’s harsh vision of the 1950’s.

Bonnie (with a photograph of an angel), Port Gibson, Mississippi 2000

Sugar’s, Davenport, Iowa 2002

In 1983 British impresario Malcolm McLaren released Duck Rock, an album which mixed up influences from Africa and America, including hip-hop. The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip-hop to a wider audience in the UK. Two of the singles from the album (”Buffalo Gals” and “Double Dutch”) became major chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic.