chasing Linnaeus

Picture one of those Victorian explorers: some guy sailing the globe, tromping through jungles, climbing volcanoes, discovering new species.

Now throw him into the 21st century.

Seeking this essence of exploration, romance and adventure is what I call “chasing Linnaeus.” This blog is a visual and textual exploration of the motifs and moments that might be involved in such a pursuit.
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inkah:
”Women must give birth, men have to be tattooed,” says one Samoan tattoo song, expressing an age-old idea of equality between the sexes. Both must endure pain. In traditional Samoan society all young males had to be tattooed when they reached their late teens. Otherwise they were not considered real men. Nowadays, the custom is no longer general, but it is still associated with manhood and male prestige, and hugely popular.
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Colonial Sea Squirt (Didemnum molle)
Although it appears to be a solitary sea squirt, this species lives in urn-shaped colonies that share a single exhalent siphon. The colony is dotted all over with the inhalent siphons of the tiny zooids—the individuals that make up the colony. The colony’s green color results from the presence of the symbiotic cyanobacterium Prochloron.
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One of my favorite organisms on the planet. 
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(via textures)
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phoco:

bright blue turquoise on Flickr.