#jellyfish lampshades

[george-does-a-thing]

[krysmcscience]

Took the advice of various tumblr posts to sit down and make something instead of moping around about a certain impending fall of democracy, lol

This is going to be a print for one of the lolita dress designs I'm working on, called Deep Sea Stars. The standard colorway will be burgundy, but I liked the navy I picked out a lot, so that's the one I'm posting up for now. The dress design itself isn't ready for sharing, though, as it hasn't progressed past the sketch stages, and I have a weird issue around sharing my sketches for some reason. <:,)

Under the read-more are the jellyfish species I took inspiration from.

First is crossota millsae, which looks like a cute little alien spaceship to me, and:

Next is botrynema brucei (sometimes called the lampshade jellyfish), which I first came across on pinterest without any identifiers, and thus initially thought was a juvenile of another species until I poked around a bit more. So I also technically took inspiration from:

Halitrephes maasi, otherwise known as the firework jellyfish! I love these guys, they're so pretty~ I have another dress design that's entirely inspired by them, but neither the print nor the design itself are ready to be shared yet.

Anyway, off to go work on more jellyfish prints~

[kaberett]

@striniartglass jellyfish lamps.

[A cluster of eight glass lampshades in a variety of colours, shaped like jellyfish with dangling tendrils, illuminated against a dark background.]

[phthalology]

Lightfall negativity: 

There’s that moment where you descend into what you realize is the Ishtar Collective facility. A lot of world-building clicks into place at once: that Ishtar Collective did help create the Neomuni’s digital world, that Vex tech was indeed involved, that the thing that looks like a jellyfish emerging from an egg has something to do with the Traveler. The Traveler’s insides may indeed be organic! Maybe? 

But this is the negativity post. Because that one, final mission had a sense of atmosphere, place, depth, and stakes that the rest of Neomuna never did. The digital world was a cost-saving measure that made the city feel empty, sterile and uncanny. Making the Ishtar mission so good just made the rest feel so empty in comparison 

In general I have lost some enthusiasm for the “What is —??” discussions I loved about D2 because this expansion shook my faith that there are any canon answers. We never found out what the Veil is lol. We will never find out “what" the Black Garden “is”  

I can’t get over that they had Nimbus lampshade Destiny’s love for vague, important proper nouns in a campaign that used them nearly as much as the legendarily obscure D1 campaign

The Cloud Striders themselves — that dialogue, huh? It’s too goofy for a second-to-last campaign imo, too jarring. Rohan dies and I don’t feel anything because it’s cliche and because I don’t really think Nimbus feels anything 

Even their appearance is jarring. I worried that they would look like they belong in a different game and they do 

What is going on in their rib cage area specifically 

Neomuna’s existence also creates this general lack of urgency 

I love the concept of Osiris as the Guardian’s mentor but his dialogue barely actually related to what happened in the story, so it felt very empty 

A lot of my criticisms could be leveled at Destiny as a whole (Destiny is a silly franchise!) but there just wasn’t enough scaffolding holding it all up. I know this campaign was built out of a lot of changes related to Final Shape and Witch Queen, and I have sympathy for that, but the fact remains

I think this is the first D2 expansion I’ve ever truly disliked, the last major disappointment being Curse of Osiris  

I suppose this is probably hard to animate but was there supposed to be liquid in Calus’ goblet in those cutscenes?? 

[knitmylove]

made a jellyfish lampshade 🪼✨💞

[jue1concrete07]

is inspired by the form of jellyfish, observing their shapes and then summarizing and shaping them. Using industrial means to traverse the lake, contemplating this colorful and splendid world, they perfectly possess their own life force and beauty, representing beauty and form. The lampshade and bracket are made of coated steel, with a concrete material connecting the light source and the bottom bracket, subtly integrating into different environments, bringing users a visual meditation.

[smartdeco]

Lamp Shade - Ultraviolet Jellyfish

Art Print Lampshade designed by Jacqueline Hammond for Smart Deco: a boutique-style collection of functional art pieces that combine beauty with purpose. A professionally handmade, rolled edge, drum style lampshade made from a designer print fabric. The lampshade is styled with details taken from the artist’s original painting, giving it a colour-rich, painterly quality. Dimensions: diameter…

[raiding]

Next stop, Senselles, which auto(in)corrects to Senseless – which may be why there is a Senseless Gallery in Senselles.

Inside, the coffee game was upped by the services of a "professional barista" (aren't they all?) whose business card could be picked up at the counter. My order (in English) was relayed to him in French, which must be what makes him a pro. There was also a piece of carrot cake so good it didn't wait around to be photographed.

The art and the architecture were intriguing. One little room appeared to have been ripped open, and contained a lampshade that might be a jellyfish, if representational art is in this week, and appeared to be made from very old silk vests. No carved spoons (I keep looking), but you can have an iPhone cover made from any wood you like.

It was an unexpected find, off a typical Mallorcan village street. You're never far from a church. I waited to take my picture until the Amazon van driver had finished making a delivery by throwing the parcel up to a first-floor balcony. It took him several attempts. If the contents were fragile before he started, they no longer were by the time he'd finished.

This might explain why, when a delivery came for the gallery, both the barista and his multilingual supervisor rushed out to receive it and documented every stage of the handover with photographs. In all the excitement, I almost forgot to pay. When I did, I realised that professional baristas command higher wages than ensemaïdistas, even world champions.

[bjorkncaddel]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐉𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐘𝐅𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 were beautiful and the lights set added more charm to them, Neva giggled when one of them was near where she was and she read the warning about the species. ❛ Oh my! I didn't know some jellyfish live so short! 3 years! And others are immortal… ❜ She informed her as she read the info about them. ❛ They do look like odd lampshades but also are very distracting. ❜ She turned her head to Eleanor, to see if the other was enjoying too. ❛ Can I ask you something? ❜

Walking up to the jellyfish enclosure, Eleanor smiled, running a hand along the glass case. The luminescence of the jellyfish lit up the tank. She watched as they swam through the water and looked over at Neva. "I agree with you there," she said with a smile. She laughed at Neva's comment. "They do look oddly like lampshades."

[sweettartsbeboth]

currently reading an old national geographic issue from June 2000, and there's this article on jellyfish (the reason I dislike the ocean). Turns out that describing one jellyfish eating another jellyfish can be described as "a Christmas ornament making war on a Victorian lampshade. "

[imperatoralicia]

I spent the last couple of weekends decorating my apartment and took some cool, spooky pictures of the results. Enjoy! 

Also, here are links for where I found some of these nifty things: 

Papercraft jellyfish lampshade kits: Etsy

Rope lamp cord kit: Amazon

Black leaf ribbon: Etsy

How to steps for folding origami crows: YouTube

How to steps for folding origami bats: YouTube

[dragon-teapot]

[littlealienproducts]

Jellyfish DIY Lampshade by VasiliLights

[karlawithakcrochet]

The tentacles are made using a loop stitch so when one of my friends asked if the jellyfish could hold things I immediately had to demonstrate. #crochet #jellyfish #craft #lampshade #pink https://www.instagram.com/p/CMC-_Lor_Ai/?igshid=h0fwbxql07hg

[potholefullofsoup]

it’s a ufo. it’s a flying saucer. it’s a ten gallon hat. it’s a lens. it’s an eye. it’s a stingray. it’s a raincloud. it’s a jellyfish. it’s a sand dollar. it’s a camera obscura. it’s an angel. it’s an alien. it’s a horse. it’s a lampshade. it’s a cuttlefish. it’s a halo. it’s a coin. it’s a chimpanzee. it’s a record. it’s a film reel. it’s an acoelomate. it’s a balloon. it’s a wild animal loose on the set of a family show. it’s the past catching up to you. it’s the other shoe dropping. it’s a viewer. it’s an unwilling spectacle. and above all it’s a jean jacket.

[certified-diplodocus]

Sooo... jellyfish.

You may have seen this video circulating recently. The original was posted on Facebook by Scuba Ventures Kavieng; this is a colour-corrected edit [link to the original in the post source, because Tumblr is stupid about external links]. It caused a small stir on the internet after being tentatively identified as Chirodectes maculatus, a monotypic genus known only from a single small specimen captured and filmed in 1997, off the coast of Queensland. (That footage is sadly not available on the Internet.)

If you know a little about jellies, you’ll recognise this as a box jellyfish or Cubozoan. Box jellies are wonderfully interesting animals, and differ from the more familiar “true jellyfish” or Scyphozoa in a number of ways:

a more developed nervous system allowing more complex behaviour, including the capacity to learn from experience

true eyes (with retinas, corneas, lenses, the whole shebang)

the ability, unlike true jellies which mostly drift, to actively propel themselves around obstacles and towards prey

...a concerning trait in an animal most notorious for being extremely fatal to humans. (c.f. Wasp Jellyfish, Viper Jellyfish, the delightfully named Common Kingslayer, Irukandji*) * sting symptoms include excruciating pain and “a feeling of impending doom”, and let’s raise a glass to the researcher who first documented Irukandji syndrome by deliberately testing it on himself, a lifeguard, and his nine-year old son: “Eschewing animal models and laboratory studies (not to mention all common sense), Barnes took the two specimens, and proceeded directly to human experimentation.” please read the article linked in my reblog, it’s hilarious. (A lack of self-preservation is a trait apparently common to all jellyfish scientists - the 2005 article on Chirodectes maculatus notes that it failed to sting, or adhere to, the hand and forearm of an incautious volunteer.)

The point is that box jellies are deeply, deeply cool in every respect except basic body plan, which goeth thusly:

box

tentacle on each of the four lower corners

....and while many cubozoans find that four is not enough and multiply to get 4n tentacles, that’s about it. Ultimately, what you end up with is still just a translucent jelly box with string hanging from each corner, like a very sad, very dangerous piñata.

Compare scyphozoans / "true jellies": [top to bottom: Pacific sea nettles Chrysaora fuscescens aka windows screensaver, barrel jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo, sea cauliflower Cephea cephea, moon jelly Aurelia aurita, lion's mane jellyfish Cyanea capillata]

They may not be all that bright, but by god they’re fancy.

Now let's see the box jellies: [Bonaire banded box jellyfish, which rejoices in the name of Tamoya ohboya; sea wasp Chironex fleckeri; Copula sivickisi; Tripedalia cystophora]

And by cubozoan standards, it is big: according to the diver, "a bit bigger than a soccer ball" (which have a ~21cm diameter), which would make it larger than the 15cm in the original species description.

Where am I going with all this? My point, dear jelly lovers, is that Chirodectes maculatus took a body plan like an inverted plastic bag and made it into the fanciest, most ostentatious chunk of jelly that ever wobbled the seven seas.

Look at it. It’s like a 1970s lampshade set off to colonise the ocean. And isn't it just fabulous.

Please reblog the linked post for sources and further reading. All images via Wikimedia Commons (licensed with some version of Creative Commons.)