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Laughing Mantis Studio

Art inspired by biology, created by a biologist

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Aug 12

“Daffodil,” Daniel D. Brown, 2007, photo manipulation

LaughingMantis2D Digital Artdaffodil, flower, Photography, Photoshop

photo + photoshop

Aug 12

“Pond Turtles,” Daniel D. Brown, 2007, Photo Manipulation

LaughingMantis2D Digital Artanimals, Photography, Photoshop, turtles

photo + photoshop

Aug 12

“Moonlit Night #1, 2, 3 &4,” Daniel D. Brown, 2007, Photo Manipulation

LaughingMantis2D Digital Artmoon, night, Photography, Photoshop

Just some random pieces I made playing with a few long exposure shots I took on a full moon night.

"Moonlit Night #1"
“Moonlit Night #1”
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“Moonlit Night #2”
MoonlitNight3_DanielDBrown_2007_600
“Moonlit Night #3”
MoonlitNight4_DanielDBrown_2007_600
“Moonlit Night #4”

 

Aug 12

Seahorse 2

LaughingMantis3D Digital Art2D Digital Art, 3D, animals, computer animation, Maya, Photoshop, seahorse

Seahorse2, originally uploaded by Irradiatus.

Modeled and textured in Maya, painted in photoshop

Aug 12

“River Sunset #1 & 2,” Daniel D. Brown, 2006, digital

LaughingMantis2D Digital Art2D Digital Art, landscape, Photoshop, sunset
Digital paintings I did back in the day with a stylus. Don’t even remember what software I used.
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“River Sunset #1”
"River Sunset #2"
“River Sunset #2”

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Daniel D. Brown, Ph.D. | Senior Research Scientist | Breast Cancer Research
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This piece has been going on in the background (in This piece has been going on in the background (in my stories) for a full 6 MONTHS! I finally got the the finishing stage of this front foreground, which is about half the size of the full piece. Still a long ways to go for completion, though at least the individual pieces are all cut for the background half. Here I’m applying oil, which will be soft and matte when dry, on the pieces surrounding those already finished with either gloss or satin polyurethane. … #fantasy #woodworking #magic #woodart #scrollsaw
Another year, another friend becomes a doc and rec Another year, another friend becomes a doc and receives a handmade plaque! Congrats to Abdalla Wedn, Ph. D. For successfully defending his dissertation on invasive lobular breast cancer! @abdalla_morsy00. Built from curly maple, yellowheart, black walnut, and American cherry.
10am-2pm. @pittsoos 10am-2pm. @pittsoos
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis). Based on a ph American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis). Based on a photo I took 14 years ago, I designed and built this “wood intarsia” piece for an upcoming “Sustainable Art Expo” hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Student Office of Sustainability (@pittsoos). Made from mostly reclaimed and scavenged woods: American Holly, Black Cherry, Black Limba, Black Walnut, Claro Walnut, Curly Maple, Ebony, Elm, Koa, Northern Catalpa, Pecan, Tuliptree, Wenge, Yellow Pine, White Mulberry, Unknown tropical hardwood. The holly is dyed yellow and some of the walnut ebonized with homemade iron acetate (steel wool + vinegar) for the feathers. Special thanks to my friend, fellow scientist, and woodworker Paul Jasper (@copper_pig_fine_woodworking) for sending me some beautiful scraps, including that koa backer. … #sustainableart #birdlover #goldfinch #woodart #birdart
My wife @tam_a_ryn painted a new sign (on the back My wife @tam_a_ryn painted a new sign (on the back of the old one. It’s reversible!). I designed and built this little native seed library in the winter to hand out seeds from many of my ~30+ natives. But the thing with native plants is that many if not most of the seeds require some degree of cold, moist stratification to germinate (because they evolved to sit in the snow and avoid sprouting until winter is thoroughly over). So you need to plant them in the fall/winter (or use various methods to trick them). I put out dozens of seed packets in the winter, and thankfully they were all taken with plenty of time for their new owners to begin stratification before spring. If I waited until now to give them out, they wouldn’t germinate until next year. So now that it’s empty, it’s become an actual free book library until my next batch of seeds are ready, at which time I’ll just reverse the sign. … #woodworking #freelittlelibrary #nativeplants #scrollsaw
Jumping on the GenX nostalgia bandwagon because wh Jumping on the GenX nostalgia bandwagon because why the hell not. Seriously, this is almost every single photo I could find of me in the 90s. There simply weren’t cameras around 95% of the time! When they were, unless you printed duplicates, you weren’t sharing the photos. So I’m not really in my albums. It’s crazy that I hosted multiple grunge/punk shows at my dad’s auto body garage, yet I don’t have a single photo from any of them (or the countless shows, hangouts, and parties from high school/college)! But honestly, I couldn’t be more thankful of that. I experienced my teens without the pressure and anxiety of sharing them widely. It was hard enough being a weird-ass awkward teen, trying to find my tribe and figure out who I was. I can barely imagine how different it would have been with cellphones and social media ever-present. I didn’t even get my first cell phone (old school dumb Nokia) until my second year of graduate school!
Propagation tube holder and a couple coasters knoc Propagation tube holder and a couple coasters knocked out for a friend
Two cancer scientists I work with will be leaving Two cancer scientists I work with will be leaving the lab soon to continue their journeys. Both of them have gone out of their way to be good friends and colleagues. Daisong @daisongliu_ always supports my art here, and is just generally an incredibly nice, engaging guy. Yian @yiany2325 and I have worked closely on a couple projects (and will hopefully be published together soon!) and she even brought me back a little droid from Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge when she visited. So I figured the least I could do was make them a little something. Two pencil holders cut from the same piece of black walnut that was cut down in my neighborhood years ago. I wish you both all the success in the world!
Since my feed basically just functions as a portfo Since my feed basically just functions as a portfolio these days, I figured I’d get this squirrel box on here. Multi-tiered inside, with covered entry to deter predators like raccoons. All scrap fence cedar. I mounted it to receive morning sun facing east with the tree blocking prevailing winds. BUT I couldn’t really get it as high as I’ve seen recommended (it’s probably like 15’). So it may not get used as a nest. We’ll see! It will definitely be used as a sunning platform. It was fun to build either way. We’ve had a family of squirrels living in our backyard since 2017, and have seen quite a few generations since then. They typically only live 1-2 years because of predation, but can live much much longer. We had 1 female for several years and we knew each other well. @tam_a_ryn was the first to get her feeding from her hand in the line days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest tenants were born last spring (the most habituated is “Greedo” - shown in the last clip).
I made some super quick ornaments today featuring I made some super quick ornaments today featuring current pups Kylo & Chewie, former passed on pup Bandit, and late cats Miles, Nina, and Dizzy. I miss them all! Also fun fact: “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” by Zeppelin is about Robert Plant walking his dog Strider (unsurprisingly named after the Lord of the Rings character, aka Aragorn). The final shot is how they were made: some cheap laser prints, a piece of tulipwood aka “poplar” (not a poplar), and some ModPodge. Two perpendicular coats makes it look a bit like canvas and gives nice texture. Cut out on scrollsaw. … #petornaments
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