◬ I, Dragonfly

5 Sane & Silly Things Worth Sharing

coordinates: back at my kitchen table listening to David opine, this time in person

[beauty] Cyborg Cyrus makes fantastic self-portraits that make me wanna get out my hot glue gun and wire to decorate whatever’s closest at hand. via Synaptic Stimuli

[more beauty] Who made these circles in the Sahara? Just following this Vox reporter’s process of curiosity did something to my innards. He sent email after email on a wild goose chase through Algeria. How will it end? You’ll have to watch to find out.

[music] I made a stunning discovery by cruising around the IMDB page for Magic Mike XXL. The amazing vocalist who improvised songs turned out to be the amazing Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino. « mind blown »

[dance] I also discovered Dashaun Wesley, the dancer who has a storied career in the voguing scene in New York. He reminded me of the fantastic movie, Paris Is Burning, which chronicles the emergence of the drag scene in the 1980’s. Get your popcorn, queens.

[science] What makes the dragonfly the most effective predator on earth? The eye of the dragonfly has 30,000 lenses, can see in 360 degrees, and needs only 1 pixel of the 30000 to calculate how to intercept its target. 

Owing to its four wings, it can fly in slow-mo, hover, and even go backward.

The beautiful and overlooked dragonfly is the world’s most effective hunter. Most insects capture about 20-25% of their prey. The most successful land mammal, the African dog, succeeds 60% but only when they are in a pack. Dragonflies munch down an astonishing 95% of the time!

David and I are researching dragonflies as the biological inspiration for our new co-sensing cohort of men.

If being part of an 80-eyeball compound eye group for applied collective intelligence appeals to you, hit reply. It’s gonna be invite-only, but if this resonates we’d be pleased to see if you might be a good match.

Besos from Oaxaca,
Cris and Team Dragon