Do you love diverse webseries, sci fi and Sean Persaud? And have money you are not in need of? Go check it out now. They’re in their final days! Don’t put it off like I did!
NB: I did not design this badge. It is an edit. Please don’t think I designed it. I don’t know who did, but it was someone from the Personal Space team and not me.
Some time ago I said I`m making my Varda cosplay, remember? Here it is, finally ready. Just need to do some minor alterations for photoshoot. Me and my friend made Manwe and Varda costumes for original costumes stage contest, so our choose of fabric depends on how it looks in stage lights in the first place (shiny!). The whole silhouette inspired by the aesthetics of Art Nouveau (as pretty much everything I do).
“An epileptic scientist and a neurotic widow learn to accept their personal tragedies”
There’s also a dinner party during a hurricane during which Reagan has to be talked out of suicide.
Featuring Ronald Reagan, Broderick Crawford (playing against type as a artist–while All the King’s Men was still in theatres), and directed by Don Siegel.
Bizarre 1949 film based on a novel by Philip Wylie–who coined the mother-hating idea of “Momism.“ Ponderous. Note the ten minute difference between preview and release times–not a good indication. Ugly misogynistic tenor, even with Kathryn Scola script
Wait, what? He told us that Personal Space would launch his acting career!
“Actually, notwithstanding its pretensions to profundity, the story unfolds on a note of romance and emotion rather than of genuine intellectuality. It is, essentially, a woman’s picture.”
I don’t think Charles L. Franke wants to start a debate about pretentiousness. Also, dude, tag your spoilers. (Directing that at Franke, not the OP.)
Maybe it’s because of I’m of a certain age, yet have spent a fair amount of time lately hanging out with twentysomethings on Tumblr, but I find the concept of the shift handoffs on Overture compelling. These people presumably trained together on Earth before they went into cryo. Shiftmates no doubt trained together a lot, but those in the same discipline would have done extensive discipline-specific training as well. So they would have known each other, probably formed friendships. Then they get frozen, and when they wake up there’s their friend, only now the friend is 25 years older.
I relate to the older side of that interaction. I know the show probably focuses on the younger characters’ stories; webseries skew toward younger actors for obvious reasons. But I’m excited that this show also plans to explore the inter-generational drama of its premise, and that in turn makes me happy for a chance to learn more about First Shift’s backstory.
Overture has come a long way. On top is our current model. Below is our original concept art model, from October 2014. If our Kickstarter reaches its goal, this is the kind of dedication to detail and improvement you can expect from the Personal Space team.
Ball Gall on a Goldenrod Solidago spp. Asteraceae (Aster) Family
In the photo above, you can see the hole created by a Eurosta solidaginis, Goldenrod Gall Fly. The inside is empty: if you cut it open, you will see a tunnel exiting from a central chamber with no insect inside.
Galls are abnormal growths that can arise in all
parts of a plant caused by insects. Galls usually do not injure their hosts to the point where the
entire plant is debilitated. These creatures produce
galls to provide food and shelter for themselves. [x]
Among goldenrods, there exists three types of galls – each caused by a different insect and each differ in shape. The gall shown above is a ball gall, named for its spherical shape. The ball gall is sometimes called an apple gall for its reddish-purple hue. The other two types are the spindle gall and the rosette gall.[x]
Gall Formation + Goldenrod Gall Fly Life Cycle
In late spring, after mating, the female Goldenrod Gall Fly (Eurosta solidaginis) deposits her eggs, via her ovipositor, onto the young leaves of a goldenrod, near the apical meristem.
About ten days later, the eggs hatch and the hungry larvae eat their way several millimeters from the oviposition site
into the stem (at the apical meristem) and form a chamber where
they spend their hours eating the plant’s living cells. The ingestion leads to the excretion of significant amounts of metabolic
by-products that stimulate the abnormal formation of a ball gall, likened to a tumor.
In autumn, the growing larvae, about a quarter-inch in length, tunnel towards the gall’s exterior but do not break it, preparing an exit route come spring. They return to the main chamber where they prepare for the winter season: their metabolism slows and glycerol, an antifreeze, is synthesized (along with sorbitol and trehalose) and it replaces their internal water.
Come winter, the gall of the senescent goldenrod shelters the larvae, although the gall provides very little insulation (see Irwin & Lee (2000) below).
The warm days of spring stimulate the larvae from their slumber, pupae form, and after a few days, adult flies exit from the pre-made tunnel, through the thin-walled porthole now hard and brown (as seen above).
The non-feeding adult Goldenrod Gall flies live for about ten days. During that time they do not eat (they have vestigial mouthparts) and solely live to mate and lay a new batch of eggs on a goldenrod stem.
A low metabolic rate during the winter months conserves the energy, achieved during the past summer and autumn by continuously eating, of the Goldenrod Gall fly, enough energy to mate and lay viable eggs. The low metabolic rate is induced by cooler temperatures (around 0°C), average to the region. Winters with above average temperatures increase the insects’ metabolic rate and proves detrimental in the spring when fecundity decreases as a consequence.
Figure 1 Summary of the data from the article by J. T. Irwin & R. E. Lee (2000).
Photographs taken on Thursday, April 20, 2016 along the Applewood Hills Trail, Mississauga.
