incredibly flexible chicken

I shouldn’t be promoting Mercedes Benz but this commercial is pretty creative. Even the most common animal that we take for granted are amazing.

Why bees are disappearing

 

how animal sounds in different languages

I need to do one with the Vietnamese onomatopoeias

Here’s a great compilation in text by Derek Abbott. No Vietnamese in it either though.

cicada

A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away.

– Matsuo Basho

water buffalo in Sapa

North Korean agriculture propagandas

Perhaps because of the number of outspoken Vietnamese blogs on wordpress, it is blocked here in Vietnam, making it harder and harder for me to update efficiently.

As opposed to (or hand in hand with?) censorship, I find propaganda drawings fascinating. Here’re a few beautiful ones from North Korea:

vaccine the cows

let’s extensively raise goats in all families

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fish farming

Grippe Aviaire

DJ Lewis from Côte d’Ivoire

guess who came to visit today

this is a first.

i was in my studio working when i looked up and saw him perching on the gate, looking at everything quizzically.

when i came closer to take a picture he spotted me and took off. 😦
now i want one!

bacteria in fluids

A friend who studied biotech upon seeing me watch videos of bacteria multiplying and swimming about on the surface of fluids told me in college they once bought sugarcane juice from across the school and analyzed a sample under the microscope. She hasn’t been able to drink the juice since. But since we haven’t heard of anyone getting food poisoned from sugarcane juice we decided Vietnamese people’s stomach are pretty tough.

That reminds me of one summer, a day after coming home from a year in Japan I got seriously food poisoned after going out for breakfast with my cousins and brother. We ate the exact same food at a place we go to often. Everyone was perfectly fine except me. My uncle shook his head and said, “Your stomach has degraded, no longer good.” The real problem was my stomach not the food.

In any case, I’d still drink sugarcane juice on the street, especially since these day they always make sure to place a sign “nước mía sạch” – “clean sugarcane juice” next to it. And clips of bacteria under the microscope are fascinating! They move in such erratic manner but on the whole create different currents spinning in and out.

flea circus