#sea urchin
Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats
IT GETS BETTER
In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there’s people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.
i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.
Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn
May I present my 4 year old bastard insisting on wearing my very buoyant thermometer
The audacity of this prickly man.
Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats
IT GETS BETTER
In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there’s people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.
i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.
Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn
May I present my 4 year old bastard insisting on wearing my very buoyant thermometer
The audacity of this prickly man.
The sea urchin wearing the thermometer be like:
Did you know that sea urchins in the wild wear shells, rocks, leaves, and algae as hats? It’s theorized that they use the hats to help weigh them down and to protect them from predators. They might even help protect the urchins from UV rays and help camouflage them.
In aquariums apparently urchins kept taking parts of the exhibit to use as hats - including items like baby corals. To help keep the exhibits intact, staff started printing small 3D hats for urchins. These hats were not only functional - but made aquarium urchins so much more fashionable than their wild friends.
Extraordinary embroidery on Deepika Padukone’s 2019 Met Gala dress.
The Zac Posen dress was covered in 408 3D-printed embellishments.
‘Posen teamed up with GE Additive and Protolabs to create a number of 3D-made looks and accessories for attendees including Jourdan Dunn, Nina Dobrev, and Katie Holmes for last night’s soirée. The designer first started working with GE a year ago and the pieces were manufactured in Pittsburgh, WWD reports.
Padukone’s metallic pink lurex jacquard gown contained a complex, layered skirt spotted with 408 sea urchin-inspired baubles that were and hand-sewn to the fabric. The adornments were created using stereolithography, a 3D printing technique where a structure is constructed layer by layer using a liquid substance that’s solidified by a laser. After the accessories were created, they were metal plated and painted. The process of creating these decorations took over 160 hours.’ Harper’s Bazaar
These sticker sheets are now available in my Etsy shop They are the perfect size for sealing envelopes!
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