War Never Changes

Left-hand-training journal entry #11: This time it's a copy of wikipedia's mimosa pudica article 🌸

I have made a new animated creature video!! I hope you like it!

does this in front of you

feeling like I'm running out of time

Cutie-pie of the sea (x)

*Update: this is not a real octopus but a spy bot for research. In a BBC vid(here), the spy bot helps an octopus to protect itself from sharks.

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

How to make a tiramisu, step 1: dip your lady finger finch in coffee

It's a bird soaking in coffee camouflaging as latte art (◡̀_◡́)

i like that they're called java finches cuz the brown ones look like coffee

These were the 6 different frames for Biski's blinking animation that I made in Clip Studio Paint. I realized later that 6 wasn't really necessary haha but I got to make a relatively smooth slow blink :D

sleeping biski ₍ᐢ..ᐢ⑅₎ 𐰁𝗓ᶻ

Painted this the other day (posted on Bluesky)! I thought Jaffle (the cat) looked so unique with his little diamond mark on his forehead I just had to draw him :D