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Young DCXL VFT. Only a few years will tell whether it grows into the Super Sized Dionaea it's said to be.
Seen at California Carnivores.
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Young DCXL VFT. Only a few years will tell whether it grows into the Super Sized Dionaea it's said to be.
Elaine Morton peeks out of her venus flytrap puppet.
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FestiFools is a parade of giant puppets, a full-out street party, an outrageous public art event in downtown Ann Arbor — April 6 at 4pm.
Over the course of several weeks, I photographed the goings-on in the FestiFools studio. Puppet artists and builders included U-M students from Mark Tucker's "Art in Public Spaces" classes, as well as several groups of community volunteers.
I watched as clay, papier-mâché, bamboo, cardboard, metal, duct tape, and other materials conspired to form huge, whimsical, organic forms with pointy teeth and articulating joints. A cricket, a venus flytrap, a few Buddhas — all giant sized — came to life before my eyes.
I offer my deep gratitude to everyone who was working in the studio and put up with my photographic antics: I lurked around you with my camera, trying to frame the perfect shot. I killed the overhead, fluorescent lights, forcing you to pursue your artistic vision in low-light conditions (I learned that everything in the studio looked a lot more 3-dimensional when lit solely by the natural light coming in through the windows). You were great sports!
Exhibit at Sweetwaters through April 14.
123 W. Washington
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
1965 Konica Auto-Reflex SLR
Hexanon 52mm f1.8 lens
Orange Filter
Half-Frame mode
Kodak BW400CN film
Manual metered @180ASA
Developed in Jobo C41 Press Kit chemistry
@ normal times and temps.
Scanned on Epson V600 with
Lomography DigitaLiza
scanning mask.
Lightly edited with Adobe
PhotoShop Elements 9 for Mac.
Cook's Carnivorous plants was having a special where if you ordered at least twenty dollars worth they'd give you a free baby flytrap of their choice. I ended up with a Big Mouth. Hehe, it's teeny tiny right now. I hope it will get big. What a nice little surprise and an extra. I love companies that do stuff like that. Keeps me coming back.
Dionaea muscipula
Venus flytrap 'eats' insects and sometimes even small frogs that become trapped in its modified, toothed leaves. If the prey struggles, the trap will close even tighter.
Venus flytrap is a miracle of nature. People do not think of plants moving, but Venus flytrap can catch insects with its toothed modified leaves that snap shut when triggered by prey touching the tiny hairs on the inner leaf surface. Kew’s Director Joseph Hooker and Charles Darwin shared a keen interest in carnivorous plants. Darwin even described Venus flytrap as 'one of the most wonderful plants in the world'.
This work by Rhonda Surman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
© Rhonda Surman 2013
This Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) has caught something -- some small animal -- and has started to digest it. Here is the web of life in action.
Welcome to week nine of project fifty two. I've now resorted to taking pictures of toys from video games against plants on my desk. Mind you, this is a real Venus Flytrap which in of itself, is pretty darn cool.