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millipedes from wikimedia commons

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Daddy 🧍🏻‍♀️💜

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“Prey” acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70

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我做了一些手机跟pad可以使用的壁纸

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New pins available :D

Thank you for your patience! 5 new pin designs are now for sale!

www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Gatobob

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— The Dhammapada, translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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初心 (sho-shin) "Beginner’s mind"

Approach every task as if you were doing it for the first time.

"Sho-shin" is the zen attitude that by looking at every task with the eyes of a beginner, you can keep your mind sharp and open.

When engaging in something in which we consider ourselves an expert, there is the danger of becoming bored, jaded and cynical.

However, if we approach even mundane tasks from a position of playfulness and humble naivety we can rediscover our spark of interest, and perhaps think of new and creative ways to live.

This concept was popularised outside of Japan by the famous Zen priest Shunryū Suzuki's 1970 book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. 

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Spiny flower mantis

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get a load of that snout!

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Whale shark descends into the depths of the Indian Ocean

National Geographic | December 1992

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Paradise velvet ant, Ephutomorpha paradisiaca, Mutillidae

Photographed in Papua New Guinea by myrmecophil

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Another pattern is up in my shops (along with a couple of others I snuck in before that aren't patterns)! This design features prehistoric sea creatures, and is available on a bunch of products. This design is especially fun for ocean/marine life lovers, and I think also makes for neat bathroom decor depending on the product. Creature names will be in the tags!

Please check my bio for store links! :)

Traditional Sketch + Krita | 2020

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Photoluminescence

This particular type of luminescence is defined as light emission from any form of matter after the absorption of photons. Photoluminescence itself is often divided further into fluorescence and phosphorescence.

Fluorescence is typically considered to be a fast process, where light is re-emitted immediately after the radiation is absorbed. It is defined as occurring when an orbital electron of a molecule, atom or nanostructure relaxes to its ground state by emitting a photon of light after being excited to a higher quantum state by some type of energy. Often the excited state decay times are only a few nanoseconds.

Fluorescence exists naturally in many forms, in biological organisms such as fish, parrots, insects, and flowers, as well as many gemstones and minerals. Some artificial applications of it include fluorescent lamps, forensics (for viewing fingerprints, blood, fibers and other materials), and in road signs.

Opposite from fluorescence is phosphorescence, in which a material does not immediately re-emit the radiation it absorbs. The mechanism behind phosphorescence is actually rather complicated, involving spin physics, but a very simplified explanation is that the absorbed photon moves to an energy state of higher spin multiplicity and becomes “trapped”. This is what accounts for the longer time scales and is the explanation behind typical glow-in-the-dark toys (but not glow sticks - that’s yet another type of luminescence).

Sources: Photouminescence, Fluorescence, Phosphorescence

Image sources: 1 2 3

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