Houdini repairing damage after his bower was raided
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Galamudera
A small image (presumably from a contact sheet) taken by czech Dr Jirí Baum when he travelled around the world and visited Australia in 1935. Dig that plant pattern in the background.
glove map
George Shove, map of London on a glove created for the 1851 Great Exhibition Featured in Maps: Finding Our Place in the World from The National Archives of the United Kingdom
wire Sunday 27 January 2008
Sims metals scrap metal trucks load their ships day and night. Stirling Bridge accumulates small scraps of wire and metal that we find as we walk across the bridge. The quantity is extraordinary.
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I still want to do this
Another idea that I couldn’t do for The Systems of Nature was to collect up all the published information about bowerbirds and to use biological software that plots the relatedness of things to be able to draw a sort of evolutionary chart of bowerbird research. This type here always reminds me of dandelions.
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previous bowerbird artworks
Sandy checking out the camera.This is a shot of the installation in the fieldwork/fieldwalking show taken inside the hide of the 63 minute loop video projection. It was shown in the semi show in 2004 and again in 2007 at the fieldwork/fieldwalking show at the conclusion of the PhD of the same name.
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bird banding being undertaken at Broome Bird Observatory
A bowerbird just before being released after banding by Class A birdbander Naoko Takeuchi (photo taken at Broome Bird Observatory). Note quite boxy wide head and comparatively long neck which is also obvious in flight.
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Clifford and Dawn Frith’s new book
Have just discovered that Clifford and Dawn have written a new book Bowerbirds: Nature, Art and History to be published in December. It even has a whole section on the history of bowerbird discovery and bowerbirds and human culture. They have done my work for me!
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