#Bonser

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Good Omens Concept art by Grant Bonser.

You can see here the originally proposed bat wings for Crowley and a much scarier Death design.

Wings were designed using feather and feather movement from swans.

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asking nicely for the other angle‼️ (photo by paul bonser/gettyimages)

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Herbert James Draper (1864-1920)

"Flying Fish" 1910

Flying Fish was Draper's only subject picture in the Academy of 1910, although he also showed a portrait of H. Cosmo Bonser. Simpler and, above all, smaller than the works by which he made his name, it was ignored by the critics, although their silence is also a sign that this type of academic, imaginative painting was rapidly becoming unfashionable.

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Hello! Why did penguins evolve to have black feathers if they live in icy (mostly white?) locations? I understand them having a white tummy because when swimming they could be more difficult to identify by a predator swimming below them? Thanks!

Love your blog!

Hello! So, here's what I learned at uni:

the widely-accepted reason penguins have black feathers is the same reason they have white tummies, but backwards. When swimming, they are more difficult to identify by a predator swimming above them! You can see similar countershading in sharks and dolphins, and also on land animals like mountain goats and lizards. Overall, it helps to make animals less obvious when viewing from the side, because it reduces the obviousness of their shadow.

As to why penguins have black feathers in icy, mostly white, locations (on LAND), you need to consider why it would be good to be white in an icy, white location in the first place!

Mostly, it would provide camouflage, which would protect from land predators! However, penguins don't really have any significant land predators in Antarctica. There are no polar bears, or big snakes, or even foxes or coyotes in Antarctica, so the penguin won't benefit from being camouflaged on land. Basically, there's no "selective pressure" for them to be all white!

some penguin chicks, however, do have to worry about a few predators, so they have a little more camouflage than the adult penguins:

What's more, there are likely advantages to black feathers in a cold environment like Antarctica! For example, in the sun, dark feathers absorb more thermal energy, helping to warm the penguin and maintain their body heat.

There may also be some stuff with black feathers being more resistant to wear/ friction drag in the water, but that's entering the realm of ongoing research, which I won't get into here.

Let me know if there's anything that needs clarifying!

(some citations if anyone wants further reading:)

Bonser, R. H. (1995). Melanin and the abrasion resistance of feathers. The Condor, 97(2), 590-591.

Ksepka, D. T. (2016). The penguin's palette--more than black and white: this stereotypically tuxedo-clad bird shows that evolution certainly can accessorize. American Scientist, 104(1), 36-44.

Rowland, H. M. (2009). From Abbott Thayer to the present day: what have we learned about the function of countershading?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1516), 519-527.

Zagrai, A., & Hassanalian, M. (2020, July). Penguin coloration affects skin friction drag. In 2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference.

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Dubois' bibliography: Fairy books (1)

I talked a LOT before of Pierre Dubois, his famous "Fairy/Elf/Lutin Encyclopedias", his collections of fairytales, and so forth and so on. And yes we have to agree that he has a very free, inventive, poetic style when it comes to retelling the various myths and legends surrounding the fair folk and other supernatural beings. As such, while his books are very entertaining and very beautiful, they are not to be used as a serious research material and can be quite misleading between Dubois' personal inventions, crafted genealogies and fictional history of "Elfland"...

BUT the wonderful and very pleasant thing with Dubois is that at the end of each of his Encylopedias he leaves us with a complete bibliography of all the books he used when writing them. I have rarely stumbled upon such complete bibliographies about the "fair folk", "good neighbor", petit peuple" and so forth, and while it goes a bit beyond what this blog is about (fairy tales proper), I still thought of sharing some of it here because my Dubois posts were all here.

Now, I can't share the entirety of the bibliography because it would be too big. However what I will share is all the books Dubois placed in his bibliography... in English. Indeed, Dubois reads the English and as such a good chunk of his bibliography is English-speaking (there are also some Spanish, Italian and German books in his lists). As such, if you are an English speaker you can easily go check these texts. (Note, this comes from his bibliography of his "Encyclopedia of Fairies", so that we stay within the "fairy tale" theme of this blog)

Tolkien's On Fairy-Stories

Beatrice Phillports, Mermaids

Richard Carrington, Mermaids and Mastodons

Gwen Benwell and Arthur Waugh, Sea Enchantress

The Lost Gods of England, Brian Branston

Wilfrid Bonser, A bibliography of folklore

Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese Mythology (also known as the History of Japanese Religion)

F. J. Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Moncure Daniel Conway, Demonology and Devil Lore

T. C. Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

N. Belfield Dennys, The Folklore of China [The book has the very unfortunate subtitles "and its affinities with that the Aryan and Semitic races", but it was written in the 19th century so...)

David Crockett Graham, Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao

Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology

P. Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts

John Rhys, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

Sir George Webb Dasent's translation of Popular Tales from the Norse

The Norse Myths (as rewriten by Crossley)

Delaporte Press' Great Swedish Fairy Tales, illustrated by John Bauer

Inger and Edgar Parn d'Aulaire, D'Aulaire's Trolls (also known as D'Aulaire's Book of Trolls)

The Florence Ekstrand edition of Theodore Kittelsen's Norvegian Trolls and Other Tales

G. Fox, The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region

Edward L. Gardner, Fairies

M. Geoffrey Hodson, The Kingdom of the Gods

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies

Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults

Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Age

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Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica), Texas © Richard Bonser

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Media Release:

GROUNDBREAKING NITV DOCUMENTARY SERIES OUR LAW EXPANDS ACROSS AUSTRALIA FROM THURSDAY, 9 MAY

Intimate and candid access to the First Nations officers changing police cultures from within.

The much anticipated second instalment of the powerful observational documentary series Our Law, which explores the relationship between police and First Nations peoples, will premiere on National Indigenous Television (NITV) and SBS on Thursday 9 May from 8.30pm.

Expanding from Western Australia and crossing state lines into New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Torres Strait for series two, the audience rides along with Aboriginal officers on the frontline in jurisdictions right around Australia as they attempt to change the system from within and break the cycle of Indigenous incarceration.

This eight-part docu series continues to break new ground, privy to frontline police operations, squad-car conversations, high stakes decision making and the powerful personal journeys of First Nations police officers and recruits around Australia.

In series two, Leroy Rundle and Ace Keirnan, who appeared as Western Australian police cadets in series one, face new challenges in their roles as a Recruit and a Custody Officer. The series also follows Sergeant Alan Kickett from West Australian Police; Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers (ACLO) Melissa Muter, Scott Mieni and Narelle Dickson from NSW Police Force; Sergeant Melissa Peters from Victoria Police; and Senior Constable Patricia Pedro, Constable Jarwin Blackman, and Constable Laurie Bateman from Queensland Police Service, as they work in various communities. The series is once again narrated by acclaimed Australian actor Deborah Mailman.

With its unique truth-telling, Our Law follows multiple stories and cameras are granted intimate and candid access as they follow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander police out on the beat in a diverse range of locations and communities around Australia, each with its own unique history, culture and policing needs. These locations include Perth and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Nambucca Heads and Redfern in New South Wales, Ballarat in Victoria, Caboolture and in Queensland, Thursday Island in the Torres Strait and more.

The original creative team returns for the second series, including director Perun Bonser (Star Dreaming, Noongar Footy Magic), and producers Taryne Laffar of PiNK PEPPER (KGB, On Country Kitchen) and Sam Bodhi Field of Periscope Pictures (Behind the Blue Line, Virtual Whadjuk).

NITV’s Head of Commissions, Marissa McDowell, said: “Our Law has unprecedented access as it follows 11 members of police services across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, the Torres Strait and Western Australia. The series demonstrates the importance of Indigenous police working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to build trust and bridge the gap of communication.

“This is a documentary for all Australians, so that Indigenous peoples are seen and heard, including those who work in the police system and those who engage with police. NITV has worked with the Our Law team to bring this vital series to a national audience.”

Series Director, Perun Bonser, said, “It is my hope that the series seeds critically important national conversations, which must take place now, if we are to establish a system of law that is fair for everyone. The responsibility of building a relationship between the police and Indigenous communities is on all of us.”

Our Law is a PiNK PEPPER Pty Ltd and Periscope Pictures Pty Ltd production for NITV. Principal production investment from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department, in association with NITV. Financed with support from Screenwest and Lotterywest.

Screen Australia’s Head of First Nations, Angela Bates said: “The First Nations Department is proud to support Our Law’s evolution over the last few years, a series that highlights the importance of First Nations police officers and cadets in breaking down barriers, creating awareness and understanding, and healing deeply fractured relationships. It skilfully navigates and weaves together the compelling journeys of these officers, while giving voice to the communities being policed. We're looking forward to watching season two, the stories and conversations that will come out of it, and the impact it has on Australian audiences”.

Screenwest CEO, Rikki Lea Bestall said: “Screenwest is proud to have supported Our Law from its inception as a groundbreaking half hour documentary to a full series and now a second series. PiNK PEPPER and Periscope Pictures are forces of nature who, together with director, Perun Bonser have once again produced a compelling series which will undoubtedly encourage deeper cultural understanding and healing amongst our First Nations community, the Australian Police and all Australians.”

Our Law Series 2 airs weekly on NITV and SBS on Thursday 9 May from 8.30pm with a double episode.

Our Law is also available to stream for free on SBS on Demand, with all episodes being released on 9 May. Captions in English and subtitles in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese will be available on SBS On Demand. The series will also be available with audio description for blind and low vision audiences.

View the Series 2 Trailer HERE

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ANY QUESTIONS JUST ASK

As I mentioned in previous entries, something I passionately followed up on was feedback from my supervisors, other team members, lecturers, friends and family throughout my journey. Feedback from others is so important I’ve realised as it is impossible to hold every perspective when reviewing your own work, and seeing a task or a piece of work from multiple perspectives is crucial to ensuring it’s a success. Getting on the front foot like this and seeking the creation of a regular feedback system for my work is a proven part of a prosperous work environment as Cheramie (2013) has found “Proactive behaviours have long been recognised as an important component to organisational success”. Further individual research by Böhm et al. (2019) found that seeking external feedback is not at all a necessity for success but it definitely improves future problem-solving and an individual’s comfortability in a workplace, it also has been shown to provide the feedback-seeking individual with a greater sense of independence and increases their maturity and experience level, allowing them to work autonomously in an earlier than those who do not seek external feedback and often learn at a slower rate. 

(Box, 2023)

As shown here in Darcy Bonser’s evaluation sheet, I was able to adjust to tasks and learn the best practices for completing them quite quickly, this is due to my outward persona and ability to connect with Darcy and my teammates which allowed me to continuously ask for feedback and ask important questions around the completion of each task. 

To me, receiving external feedback from those who are more experienced than you is truly an invaluable learning tool. After all, the best way to improve is to refine and reduce your weaknesses and feedback unlocks the key to being able to do so. It outlines exactly what you need to change/improve in order to douse that weakness and turn it into a strength which obviously improves your employability. Darcy included some points that I should look to build on which were: to continue to broaden my skill base, knowledge and connections. He added that if I do this, I will see greater amounts of employment opportunities and I wholeheartedly agree, this is outstanding feedback as it sets me down a specific track and shows me a goal at the end, giving me the motivation to complete and act on it. I’m massively grateful for all of those who have given me feedback and evaluations over the journey. 

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Bradley Road, Toston, Montana - Listed by Jenni Bonser, REALTOR®, Most Wanted Real Estate from 406Productions on Vimeo.

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Week 13: Michigan is bipolar, and it's rubbing off on me

Hello all.  This will be a shorter one, as I've just stepped away for a few minutes from our much anticipated Zone P-Day!  Everyone from our entire zone (there are only 6 in the mission) has come to Midland to hang out, which is pretty cool!  President Heap apparently never permits this, so this is quite historic!  Our zone has been doing really well the last few months, so he decided we deserve a reward.  Reuniting with my homie (and former Midland elder) Elder Bonser and nerding out has been fun.

Otherwise, this week has very much matched the weather phenomena for me.  The first four days of the week were some of the best of my mission thus far.  It was sunny and 78 degrees (F) and so was my soul.  I was busy, productive, and just generally having a great time.  The trees even started blossoming again, which left me quite pleased!

And then it literally started snowing overnight...right around the time when life got hard again.  The details of why aren't terribly unique or important, but man the whiplash of how fast that can happen is immense.  The highs and lows of mission life are unlike anything else I've ever experienced.  But, fortunately I learn a lot most days regardless of whether or not I feel like I'm having fun, and I found out a long time ago that I was meant to be here.  The variability in everything does help make each day unique, and I like that.

I wish I had more funny stories or something to share, but it doesn't always work out that way.  A lot of those tend to come from large missionary gatherings, so maybe there will be more next week!

Until then :)

-Elder Beren Mowrer

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turns out I was thinking of the baseball player Dick Pole. other great names include Rusty Kuntz, Boof Bonser, and Wonderful Teriffic Monds

“If you google ‘dick gay baseball’ you get a lot of porn”

Yeah

Yeah I’d expect so

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Grendel by Daniel Bystedt with Grant Bonser.

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‘Initially, our concept artist Grant Bonser designed bat-style wings for Crowley, but Gaiman preferred to have feathers for both the demons and angels.’

Oh my! I really like the fact that our boys both have feathered wings! Can you imagine bat-winged Crowley? It feels wrong to me for some reason :).