The Beginning of a Baby Bat

and huge news!

I started this painting of a bat embryo last week. I haven’t finished it yet because I have been extremely busy learning how to DJ in preparation for a gig DJ-ing the local high school dance this weekend. The dance was postponed last minute due to several inches of snow falling overnight. So back to bat embryos for me!

(I made this hat!)

I was drawn to this pose of this bat because it seems so emotional. After a long week of, say, trying to figure out why DJ-ing is so complicated, just as a random example, I can totally relate to this bat.

“ughhhh I am stressed!”

After I made this drawing, I did some research into how bat embryos form. I learned about how different molecules being released at specific times will trigger the extension of hand bones that eventually form the bat wing. I learned that the funny looking bat nose is actually called the ‘nose leaf’. It forms before the wing. The nose leaf helps increase the difference between sounds reflected from peripheral objects and objects that are directly in front of the bat. A couple weeks ago I saw a clip of one of my fave comedians, Chris Fleming, talking about how bats scream to get around.

Fun stuff.

So anyway, I have huge news!

You can now buy my art online!

I am so, so, so excited about this.

mickeyfishbackshop.com

I’ve finally finished building an online shop for the prints I sell at local art fairs! Plus, I’ve been looking for a way to raise some funds to support the victims of the genocide taking place in Palestine. I’ll be donating 35% of profits from sales to various humanitarian aid groups. I have more information about that here.

Recent Daily Drawings:

Science Communication I’ve Been Admiring:

All this thinking about bats has reminded me of a philosophy paper I was assigned in college. It is a fun, though super dense, exploration of the idea that our experiences shape our perspectives. Here is a good article breaking down what he’s getting at.

“We can imagine what it might be like to be nocturnal, to have webbing on our arms, to be able to fly, to have poor vision and perceive the world through high frequency sound signals, and to spend our time hanging upside down.”

“But even if we can imagine all of these things, it only tells us what it is like for me to be a bat, or for me to behave as a bat behaves. It does not tell us what it is like for a bat to be a bat.”

On a totally separate note, I also learned about this sea slug that uses chlorophyll (the green stuff in plants) to photosynthesize (eat sunlight). Like, what?

Have a great day!

- Mickey

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