By Neale Van Fleet on August 1st, 2023
While this looks like a mushroom, Ghost Pipe is actually a rare type of non-photosynthesizing plant. Instead of using the sun to make its own energy, it taps into the underground mycelia of fungi in the forest and takes its energy from them. This is a rare find, and the first I’ve found near my country cabin.
By Neale Van Fleet on August 1st, 2023
On a more difficult note, friends of Elsewhat Vanessa and Sylvan had a hard and enlightening talk with the Practicing podcast about how hard it is to raise a child with a rare genetic condition. I’ve been hearing about their struggles for a few years, but never in one detailed and in depth conversation. A tough listen.
By Neale Van Fleet on July 31st, 2023
By Neale Van Fleet on July 31st, 2023
Next year, exactly on my birthday of April 8th, 2024, a total eclipse will pass over much of North America, including my home city of Montréal. An important thing to note with solar eclipses is that it’s essential that they be seen from the ‘path of totality’ and not just near it.
The next eclipse to be anywhere near this part of the world looks to be in 2048, so be sure to be ready to see this one.
I was reminded of this by the excellent SpacePod podcast.
By Neale Van Fleet on July 29th, 2023
Found in an alley in Montréal’s Rosemont neighbourhood.
By Neale Van Fleet on July 29th, 2023
My friend Vinny is making tiny poems you can get in your inbox. Like this one:
an absence remains a presence
for the void they leave behind
always has their shape
or
one mysterious day
we’ll return to
being physics and chemistry
after our moment
as biology
By Neale Van Fleet on July 28th, 2023
Pleasing light and textures found in the corner of a studio sale.
By Neale Van Fleet on July 28th, 2023
An abstract video by me, trying to explore a look and feel which is more colourful. In 4K with no sound.
By Neale Van Fleet on July 27th, 2023
A piece by Montréal street artist Other, which has been propped up into a window in the Mile Ex neighbourhood. Other is part of a small group of artists who tend to use paint pastels, often doing their work on the side of freight trains.
By Neale Van Fleet on July 27th, 2023
Friend of Elsewhat Jason Roberts, author of the amazing A Sense of the World, gave a great talk at the Long Now about what happens when something is so utterly obvious that history fails to properly record it. Plus he provides his tongue-in-cheek solution to the problem.