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Chebucto Regional Softball Club

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futurebird@sauropods.win

@futurebird@sauropods.win
A forum for discussing and organizing recreational softball and baseball games and leagues in the greater Halifax area.
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  • Great.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @tankgrrl

    we don't talk about that movie around here ok

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  • Jonesy hanging out on the drafting table.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @tantramar

    He looks: sad, skeptical, hopeful but just a little disappointed.

    Cats have such expressive faces. I don't know if they are aware of this totally.

    Please give him whatever he wants.

    Uncategorized catsofmastodon ripleyandjonesy justjonesy

  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
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    @fraggle

    These ants are hilarious. They are so stubby I love it.

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @glitzersachen

    I just think that like his fish in "depth" they are stylized to look more like a machine.

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    Last week I wrote that Escher hasn't been positively regarded by art critics for years. But in the end he himself was his greatest critic. There are certainly e

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    Museum Escher in The Palace (escherinhetpaleis.nl)

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    The most famous ants of M. C. Escher, the ones on the Möbius strip, are in my opinion *not* living ants of any species but cute ant robots.

    They are highly stylized wile retaining some essential "essence of ant"

    (I would also like to point out that NO ONE has made a robot as good as these robot ants in real life. Show me that and I will be impressed forever.)

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    There is so much geometry in the exoskeleton of an ant. You could look at it forever and still not fully understand all of the ways it has been shaped by her purpose.

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    I've found the studies for the final drawing:

    In the second one you can see that the gaster is shaded as if it's a darker color than the body, which makes the "red wood ant" theory more likely IMO.

    The head is less stylized on the second drawing. I think he just got excited by the geometry of the ant's head and made it strange in a way that made it harder to pinpoint the species in the final drawing.

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  • @bryan
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @bryan

    But now she has four legs and a nose too... but then... what did I expect?

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  • he woked
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @senanthic

    This is the essence of "scrungly"

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  • Great.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    Great. Now I'm thinking about ants with teeth.

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  • "I can't leave work, two of my bosses have me pinned down"
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @thefyuuri

    Looks like you are petting a cat for the next few hours and not moving.

    Uncategorized wfh workfromhome wfhproblems workfromhomepro cats

  • Are teeth ever NOT creepy?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @apLundell

    And before you try to say "mandibles are creepy" consider that almost everyone has mandibles and teeth are not very popular by comparison.

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  • Are teeth ever NOT creepy?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @jf_718

    Pica's head is like a hamburger and opens up just like one... then it's full of teeth. Horrible.

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  • Are teeth ever NOT creepy?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @apLundell

    I can think of at least one.

    (Brother, you walked right into this)

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  • Are teeth ever NOT creepy?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @AT1ST

    Objectively creepy.

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  • Are teeth ever NOT creepy?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @minmi

    Exactly. I'm tired of people pretending like this isn't true.

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  • Are teeth ever NOT creepy?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    Are teeth ever NOT creepy?

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @deraffe

    This makes sense except for the head.

    Consider the carpenter ant queen, the drawing ... and Formica fusca

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    Looking at a bunch of Dutch ants I think it's most likely a wood ant, and he's just given her a big wide head because the head is the most fun part of the ant to draw. He's also made her all black rather than hint that she is bicolor... although some black wood ants do exist.

    The way he's rendered the geometry of her head is amazing.

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    In short, I think he drew this by carefully observing ants, perhaps with magnification, but not ants of just one kind. Escher liked to draw ants enough he may have done this from memory. She is very mysterious.

    Unless someone can point out who she is for me!

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