{"id":2459,"date":"2020-04-22T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2021-01-03T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:55:04","slug":"developments-in-balsa-glider-taxidermy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Developments in Balsa Glider Taxidermy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The balsa glider is a wily and shy creature in the wild. Few corporeal entities have seen the delicate beauty of a freshly unwrapped gliderling catching its first updrafts among the Cherenkov tulips in their quasi-quantum development stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by this elusive species for some time and have spent some time developing a system to track, capture, and preserve balsa gliders in a state visually identical to their natural environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gliders are treated very humanely and respectfully throughout the taxidermy process. Though it does end with their dead little balsa frames suspended in a matrix of acetoxy silicone, balsa are intensely vain beings so they don&#8217;t actually mind being murdered as long as they know they&#8217;ll leave a beautiful corpse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have documented a few steps in the process. This image shows the my team of trained domestic gliders immobilizing a wild juvenile glider by laboriously explaining the concept of token currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_060353-1024x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_060353-1024x480.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_060353-300x141.jpg 300w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_060353-768x360.jpg 768w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_060353-1536x720.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a side-by-side of a real Cherenkov tulip and a decoy made to capture wild gliders, and subsequently used in the final glider display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"813\" src=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200402_085446661-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200402_085446661-1024x813.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200402_085446661-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200402_085446661-768x610.jpg 768w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200402_085446661-1536x1220.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200402_085446661-2048x1626.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the glider and tulip in the freshly poured astral preservative compound, which suspends physics indefinitely when properly cured inside a corectilinear third-order hypercylinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2462\" srcset=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-768x1029.jpg 768w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-1147x1536.jpg 1147w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-1529x2048.jpg 1529w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200405_130225-scaled.jpg 1911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an unnecessarily long video of the final taxidermied balsa plane with scene accents and lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Balsa Glider and Glowing Flower Thing\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B65mL2N-0wQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s actually one of the SPACE tubes at the end of the last post video, but I put it in a more permanent fixture and it&#8217;s got the tiniest balsa plane I&#8217;ve made yet and I thought it deserved more attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The balsa glider is a wily and shy creature in the wild. 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