“Here between sea and sea, in the fairy wood, / I have found a delicate, wave-green solitude”

[larryhammer]

There's something of a thematic throughline in these links:

A three-part essay series on costume design for heroic female characters: The Extrapolated Costume Design of Wonder Woman, The Referential Star Wars Costumes of Rey, and The Warrior Women of Black Panther and the Symbolic Approach to Costume Design. Would that more SFF writers put more of this kind of thinking into their worldbuilding. (via)

Natural selection in action: Post-hurricane lizards had, on average, feet better at holding on in high winds because the ones with smaller feet got blown away. (via)

Epic surf ride: 1 wave, ridden 1.5 kilometer for 2 minutes, through 8 barrels. Also available in POV cam. (via)

Or maybe that's just the wishful thinking of colons.

---L.

Subject quote from In the Wood of Finvara, Arthur Symons.

Comments

[sovay]

Natural selection in action: Post-hurricane lizards had, on average, feet better at holding on in high winds because the ones with smaller feet got blown away.

Whoa.

[larryhammer]

Note to self: if I'm a tropical lizard, make sure I can hold on in high winds.

[sartorias]

That surf one is wonderful, so relaxing to watch! My brothers used to do those, surf and surf and surf one line until they pulled out miles from their stuff.

[larryhammer]

Whee!

[asakiyume]

Wow, those surfing videos--just amazing. I watched the POV one first--what an amazing world: within the curl of a wave. And then the one taken from above that shows just how long and skilled his journey was.

[larryhammer]

Yup, yup.