
Nastic movement experiment Experiment to see how much a young coral tree will adapt to shortened days. The plant was placed in a darkroom and an artificial light was used to simulate daylight. Doing this, the normal 24-hour cycle could be reduced to less than 10 hours. After that the plant seemed to get confused and different leaves were responding differently to each other. At that stage I felt sorry for the plant and returned it to natural light. The plant recovered its rhythm in less than a normal day. Detailed description: After 5 months of growth, indoors in natural daylight, folding the leaves down every evening, I needed to know what influence time, rather than light, had on the nastic movement. While in mid evening. 22:30, I took the smaller of the two saplings and placed it in a darkroom in total darkness. This video shows the coral tree sapling, illuminated only by infra-red light,start raising its leaves at about 01:20 - just as it normally would do. By the time daylight would normally arrive, 07:10, the leaves were positioned as they normally would have been, but that is were the upward movement stopped. The leaves remained in this half-raised position until, after 24 hours, I succumbed to a strong sense of being cruel and turned on an artificial light. After more than 24 hours in darkness, and 14 hours after they would normally have raised to greet the daylight, the leaves remained in the half-raised position. Now at 22:30 I turn on an artificial light. Notice how the leaves rise and ...

Oxalis Nastic Movements This video shows the nastics movements that the Oxalis plant undergoes in response to blue light, white light, and touch.

Zombie walk 2008 I meet this super cute girl on Perfect match site and took her to the Vancouver 2008 Zombie walk held here in Vancouver art gallery The Route Official route - walk time approx. 45 mins: The Gathering will begin at noon on Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, (fountain side). The Walk will begin at around 1pm. 1. Circle the art gallery 2. Leave East via Robson 3. Turn right/South on Granville 4. Follow Granville to Davie 5. Up Davie to Burrard 5. Left onto Burrard 6. Across the Burrard Bridge. 6.Terminating at Vanier Park for group photo and zombie picnicing 2:30 - 3 PM (est.) - Zombie Picnic at Vanier Park for mass photo, nasty nibbles, and zombie socializing. BYO-Brains. If you don't feel like shambling, meet us there with blood blankets and messy snacks! Just added this video to my personal blog

Nastic Movement Coral tree saplings fold their leaves down tightly in the evening, and then raise them again to meet the new day. This video shows three days of action taken at one frame every ten minutes. Notice how the leaves start rising before two o'clock in the morning, hours before it starts getting light - indicating that it is controlled by time rather than light. Yet if artificial light is turned on while the leaves are moving down, they start to rise - showing that there is a degree of light sensitivity. During the day the leaves appear to be shaking due to breeze - but it is dead calm and at normal speed no movement can be detected. Night images are iluminated with infra-red.

Vancouver zombie walk 2008 I meet this super cute girl on Perfect match site and took her to the Vancouver 2008 Zombie walk held here in Vancouver art gallery The Route Official route - walk time approx. 45 mins: The Gathering will begin at noon on Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, (fountain side). The Walk will begin at around 1pm. 1. Circle the art gallery 2. Leave East via Robson 3. Turn right/South on Granville 4. Follow Granville to Davie 5. Up Davie to Burrard 5. Left onto Burrard 6. Across the Burrard Bridge. 6.Terminating at Vanier Park for group photo and zombie picnicing 2:30 - 3 PM (est.) - Zombie Picnic at Vanier Park for mass photo, nasty nibbles, and zombie socializing. BYO-Brains. If you don't feel like shambling, meet us there with blood blankets and messy snacks! Just added this video to my personal blog

Zombie walk 2008 Day of the living dead! I meet this super cute girl on Perfect match site and took her to Vancouver 2008 Zombie walk held here in Vancouver art gallery The Route Official route - walk time approx. 45 mins: The Gathering will begin at noon on Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, (fountain side). The Walk will begin at around 1pm. 1. Circle the art gallery 2. Leave East via Robson 3. Turn right/South on Granville 4. Follow Granville to Davie 5. Up Davie to Burrard 5. Left onto Burrard 6. Across the Burrard Bridge. 6.Terminating at Vanier Park for group photo and zombie picnicing 2:30 - 3 PM (est.) - Zombie Picnic at Vanier Park for mass photo, nasty nibbles, and zombie socializing. BYO-Brains. If you don't feel like shambling, meet us there with blood blankets and messy snacks!

Zombie walk 2008 day of of the dead! I meet this super cute girl on Perfect match site and took her to the Vancouver 2008 Zombie walk held here in Vancouver art gallery The Route Official route - walk time approx. 45 mins: The Gathering will begin at noon on Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, (fountain side). The Walk will begin at around 1pm. 1. Circle the art gallery 2. Leave East via Robson 3. Turn right/South on Granville 4. Follow Granville to Davie 5. Up Davie to Burrard 5. Left onto Burrard 6. Across the Burrard Bridge. 6.Terminating at Vanier Park for group photo and zombie picnicing 2:30 - 3 PM (est.) - Zombie Picnic at Vanier Park for mass photo, nasty nibbles, and zombie socializing. BYO-Brains. If you don't feel like shambling, meet us there with blood blankets and messy snacks! Just added this video to my personal blog

time lapse: protective leaf movements of oxalis acetosella this short time lapse clip shows nastic leaf movements of oxalis acetosella, which are triggered by sudden direct sunlight. on the base of each of three leaflets, turgor controlled pulvinar cells function as a hinge to increase or decrease the leaf angle of the leaflets. such protective leaf movements can be triggered by a number of exogenous factors such as light (photonasty), temperature (thermonasty) but also by internal factors. more information:

Zombie walk 2008 Vancouver I meet this super cute girl on Perfect match site and took her to the Vancouver 2008 Zombie walk held here in Vancouver art gallery The Route Official route - walk time approx. 45 mins: The Gathering will begin at noon on Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, (fountain side). The Walk will begin at around 1pm. 1. Circle the art gallery 2. Leave East via Robson 3. Turn right/South on Granville 4. Follow Granville to Davie 5. Up Davie to Burrard 5. Left onto Burrard 6. Across the Burrard Bridge. 6.Terminating at Vanier Park for group photo and zombie picnicing 2:30 - 3 PM (est.) - Zombie Picnic at Vanier Park for mass photo, nasty nibbles, and zombie socializing. BYO-Brains. If you don't feel like shambling, meet us there with blood blankets and messy snacks! Just added this video to my personal blog