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Well, this shoot was going nowhere good. Chris couldn’t even tell if his suit was on. It all just mysteriously blended together like that night when he & Brad drank a bucket of margaritas at Hamburger Mary’s. OMG. Madness 2 every degree.
Ok. Where was the photographer? This was unprofessional. Chris could totally b nude right now.
Chris never did blend in.
Chris’ was getting upset. He just bought those swimmers too.
UGH! They weren’t easy to find the first time. If it weren’t for the sale sign, Chris never would have never seen them at the Speedo Plant Print Plant Factory Store.
The weirdest part was his unit was also missing. How the hell did that fall off? And, how did he not feel something like that?!?
Mystery abounded.
Chris tried to remain calm. What he needed to do was come up with a plan.
After taking two deep breaths Chris decided to give himself two more minutes of searching. If his suit or his balls didn’t show up then he’d call in his boyfriend Brad for help.
Chris then looked up at the sky, crossed his fingers, and hoped to Cher. Sure enough, Chris’ swimmers showed up less than a minute later when he stood up in the shallows and put his hands on his hips.
Ta-da!!!
Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland creates creepy mirrored sculptures out of acrylic glass that makes them blend into their surroundings until your perspective shifts and they suddenly catch your eye. Source Source 2
Aragorn would disappear into this armchair. poof
Japanese Design, 1994 Utsly Gutsly armchair designed by Hironen
Tis I. The ginger in camo that crossed ur path in the hallway.
A project I haven't gone back to and finished yet. Sometimes I feel possessed to attempt camouflage that doesn't look terrible, and I think this is the closest I've gotten so far, but oh man is it tedious
Seeing Without Eyes
The octopus has a unique ability. It can change the color, pattern and even texture of its skin not only for purposes of camouflage but also as a means of communication. The most intelligent, most mobile and largest of all mollusks, these cephalopods use their almost humanlike eyes to send signals to pigmented organs in their skin called chromatophores, which expand and contract to alter their appearance.
A new study by UCSB scientists has found that the skin of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can sense light even without input from the central nervous system. The animal does so by using the same family of light-sensitive proteins called opsins found in its eyes — a process not previously described for cephalopods. The researchers’ findings appear in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
“Octopus skin doesn’t sense light in the same amount of detail as the animal does when it uses its eyes and brain,” said lead author Desmond Ramirez, a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB). “But it can sense an increase or change in light. Its skin is not detecting contrast and edge but rather brightness.”
As part of the experiment, Ramirez shone white light on the tissue, which caused the chromatophores to expand and change color. When the light was turned off, the chromatophores relaxed and the skin returned to its original hue. This process, Ramirez noted, suggests that light sensors are connected to the chromatophores and that this enables a response without input from the brain or eyes. He and his co-author, Todd Oakley, an EEMB professor, dubbed the process Light-Activated Chromatophore Expansion (LACE).
In order to record the skin’s sensitivity across the spectrum, Ramirez exposed octopus skin to different wavelengths of light from violet to orange and found that chromatophore response time was quickest under blue light. Molecular experiments to determine which proteins were expressed in the skin followed. Ramirez found rhodopsin — usually produced in the eye — in the sensory neurons on the tissue’s surface.
According to Oakley, this new research suggests an evolutionary adaptation. “We’ve discovered new components of this really complex behavior of octopus camouflage,” said Oakley, who calls cephalopods the rock stars of the invertebrate world.
“It looks like the existing cellular mechanism for light detection in octopus eyes, which has been around for quite some time, has been co-opted for light sensing in the animal’s skin and used for LACE,” he explained. “So instead of completely inventing new things, LACE puts parts together in new ways and combinations.”
Octopuses are not the only marine mollusks whose skin can sense light, but scientists don’t know yet whether the skin of those other animals contains the light-sensitive opsins. If they do, Ramirez wants to understand how these two groups are related.“Do they all come from the same ancestral source or did they evolve multiple times?” he asked. “What kind of behaviors do the different groups share and what kind of behaviors does the skin sensing light underlie?”
Ramirez and Oakley are conducting new experiments that will seek to answer those questions and more.
The Euthalia Aconthea (The Common Baron) is a nymphalid butterfly (but the above pictures are of the caterpillar stage) that is native to India and other parts of South East Asia. It flies(glides) with stiff wing beats and is a master of camouflage in its caterpillar form. It positions its body perfectly in line with the patterns on the leaf.
Camo leggings by SuperHot, faux leather top by Honour UK and chrome heel patent boots by Pleaser.
It’s been snowing all day, so here’s an A-10 in winter camo.
Got another (lifer) today American Bittern in Knox County Maine! 06-12-2021!