Recently in biological body notation #3 Category

Once again, the bottom of the image represents the top of the tank and the top of the image represents the bottom of the tank.

Some additional realizations are that you see less paths near the bottom of the image because the shadows of the sea monkeys are larger and move across the paper more quickly due to the proximity of the light source, and thus are harder to document.

The water is becoming more murky as time passes, thus the introduction of some green into the composition, and I wanted it to be more apparent that the sea monkeys are moving through a medium.

...starting to make some artistic decisions...

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Yeast 1.mp3

So what I did here was record the sound of yeast bubbling for an amount of time. In order to hear it better I slowed the recording down quite a bit and also removed as much background noise as possible. The result is something that has a lot of distortion but it does represent an approximation of the rhythm and pitch of the yeast.

Just to clarify--All of the dots you see interspersed with the lines are points at which my mouse was at rest.

-Teréz

an explanation...
i have been observing my dogs, buddy and little bit. buddy (red) is a beagle basset hound and little bit (purple) is a beagle dachshund. as you can imagine, they look exactly the same only different sizes. the reason i decided to notate them was because i noticed a while ago they have very similar ways of moving. they are always attached at the hip and even sleep the same way, even when they are in separate rooms when they zonk out they end up in the same position facing the same compass direction. the way that i chose to notate these observations is called labanotation. as an undergraduate dance scholar i studied laban movement analysis. within this field there are different ways of looking at movement and entire written vocabularies to go with them. since i noticed that the movement they were exhibiting was so similar i decided the most interesting thing to note would be the differences in the way they moved, or their effort. the graphs above express the qualities of their movements as described in this graphic:

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