Coral Slab - IR by TwoPynts

Photography • Objects • posted on May 21, 2008

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Description

"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!" ~ Daniel Dennett

The founders of the Japanese Yamato settlement have their graves on the Morikami Gardens' grounds. In front of these graves are large stone slabs. I was standing above one the other day when I realized it wasn't stone at all, but rather cut coral. -----

Thanks for your curly comments on my previous upload, Organic ----- Sony DSC-P200 (IR Converted w/B+W 092 Filter) & PhotoshopCS. (1130) Morikami Japanese Gardens, Boca Raton, FL, USA 2008 Sponsored by: Kramer Kreations

Comments (26)

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uk601

1:43PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

wow.. this looks fantastic! A wonderful photo.

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MaraP

1:58PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Fantastic texture!!

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StandsInAwe

1:59PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Never looked at coral in this light before... Wonderful colors, it's almost an abstract... good shot.

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FriedaFelicia

2:19PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Wow, this is truly fascinating.

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carlx

2:44PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Superb textures and details!!!

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awjay

3:02PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

super paterns

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ToniDunlap

4:22PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Fascinating!

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jocko500

5:03PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

wow that some find. super looking

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RobyHermida

6:04PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Gorgeous!

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Optiramma

6:23PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

fantastic texture...like something alien and ancient, very cool!

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hotracer2

6:25PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!:):):)

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jif3d

8:43PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

Maybe the coral grave stones have something to do with the Asian love of sushi ? As for eating your own brain...PASS ! Kool IR & ~Cheers~

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npauling

9:16PM | Wed, 21 May 2008

An intrigueing capture with great markings.

MrsLubner

1:23AM | Thu, 22 May 2008

Brain coral is my favorite coral. It is a fascinating pattern. This is marvelous and what a great find!

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Gor111

4:36AM | Thu, 22 May 2008

A fascinating photo you have taken and posted here!!!

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dcarvell

8:37AM | Thu, 22 May 2008

lovely!

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igorsv

11:24AM | Thu, 22 May 2008

Very interesting work and the story. This pattern looks like a maze that I want to explore. Regards, Igor.

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mark.spooner

3:10PM | Thu, 22 May 2008

Nice capture.

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goodoleboy

3:10PM | Thu, 22 May 2008

Simply and superbly amazing in its tortuous structure!

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Nambara

3:36PM | Thu, 22 May 2008

Fantastic image. The text perfectly combines.

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sharky_

8:06PM | Thu, 22 May 2008

My imagination grows wild on this one. Very interesting. Aloha

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huismus

9:43AM | Fri, 23 May 2008

Beautiful capture!

Hopalong

7:09PM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Patron saint and universal mascot of bureaucrats everywhere, the sea squirt is the only animal that can manufacture cellulose. When it finds the right place to sit, also like bureaucrats, it digests its own brain. At that point its purpose in life it to eat, excrete, and reproduce. Since it is hermaphroditic, reproduction is as easy as sitting on the xerox machine, but the larva need a brain again to swim off to the next bureau, which they infest, repeating the process until the fall of the Government through now perfect incompetence. Now and then the curious mimic, pseudo-Tunicata Bushensis, gets elected President, having destroyed its rudimentary brain with alcohol and cocaine. This pseudo-Sea Squirt is the decider who gratuitously invades Iraq and attacks Iran, hastening the economic bankruptcy and forcible overthow of the Sea Squirt bureaucratic colonies. This point is graphed at the crossover point between Bureaucracy and Chaos, when Chaos becomes preferable to Universal Predation.

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