Creeping Garden (Paperback)

Jasper and Grabham Sharp

ISBN 10: 1903254787 / ISBN 13: 9781903254783

Editore: Fab Press, Godalming, 2015

Paperback. This lavishly-illustrated companion to the feature documentary The Creeping Garden is a layperson's entry point into the strangely fascinating world of myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime moulds. Neither animal, plant nor fungi, these alien-looking single-celled organisms are all around us in the natural world, shifting in form throughout distinct phases in their life cycle, for the most part invisible to the naked eye, but strangely beautiful in their foraging or reproductive stages. They creep around forests and grasslands across the globe almost imperceptibly, with an agency all of their own that some have described as intelligent. Overlooked for years by natural historians and the general public at large, only recently have small groups of scientists, artists and visionaries begun to find within their intriguing behavioural patterns extraordinary metaphors that seem to belong to the world of science fiction, inspiring practical applications such as powerful computing devices, transport network designs, robot controllers and even music. The Creeping Garden takes a closer look at this mysterious life form and the diverse and curious array of research it has inspired. Providing an insight into the modus operandi of the film's makers and the perceptual world of the organism, it brings the reader into a unique and irrational encounter in which time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781903254783

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This lavishly-illustrated companion to the feature documentary The Creeping Garden is a layperson's entry point into the strangely fascinating world of myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime moulds. Neither animal, plant nor fungi, these alien-looking single-celled organisms are all around us in the natural world, shifting in form throughout distinct phases in their life cycle, for the most part invisible to the naked eye, but strangely beautiful in their foraging or reproductive stages. They creep around forests and grasslands across the globe almost imperceptibly, with an agency all of their own that some have described as intelligent. Overlooked for years by natural historians and the general public at large, only recently have small groups of scientists, artists and visionaries begun to find within their intriguing behavioural patterns extraordinary metaphors that seem to belong to the world of science fiction, inspiring practical applications such as powerful computing devices, transport network designs, robot controllers and even music... The Creeping Garden takes a closer look at this mysterious life form and the diverse and curious array of research it has inspired. Providing an insight into the modus operandi of the film's makers and the perceptual world of the organism, it brings the reader into a unique and irrational encounter in which time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined.

Recensione: Imagine if Stanley Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull were tasked with making a 1970s educational piece about the pods from Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers and you're some way to understanding The Creeping Garden. --James Marsh, Twitchfilm

-Stupendously fascinating and individualistic masterpiece...be forever altered.- --Mitch Davis, Fantasia Montreal

-An essential reminder of how peculiar subjects can be as entertaining as any psycho thriller. Who knew fungal gunk could be so rapturous to behold?- --Steve Dollar, Indiewire

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Titolo: Creeping Garden (Paperback)
Casa editrice: Fab Press, Godalming
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new