http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sandved Posts tagged with 'sandved' at MetaFilter. Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:31:12 -0800 Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:31:12 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/25428/butterfly%2Dwings%2Dand%2Dother%2Dthings It took the Smithsonian author and naturalist Kjell B. Sandved 24 years to find all the letters that went into the <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?3A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">butterfly alphabet</a>. Along the way he found butterfly wings imprinted with <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?6A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">salutations</a> and <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?12A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">smiling</a>, <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?11A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">happy</a> <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?18A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">faces</a>, and <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?2787.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">threatening</a> expressions on <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?59A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">wings</a> and <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?48A.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">flowers with menacing <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/categories/openpic.htm?2781.jpg" title="this is a link to an image">expressions</a> that say "Do Not Eat Me". Explore the site yourself by <a href="http://butterflyalphabet.com/NatureImage/index.htm" title="a link to the inexhaustible gallery, which features images of wings with ampersands, hearts, percent signs, @ signs, numbers, more.">going directly to the gallery</a> without looking at all of the images I've linked to, or read the <a href="http://www.butterflyalphabet.com/story.htm" title="Sandved tells how, working at the Smithsonian, he chanced upon a butterfly and noticed that it had a design on its wing that looked exactly like the letter F. He took a snapshot of it, hung it on the wall, and looked at it for over a year, before idly wondering if there were other wings, with other letters. Along the way he became an accomplished photographer.">story</a> of how Sandved discovered his magnificent obsession.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25428 Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:31:12 -0800 alphabet butterflies designs kjellsandved letters nature patterns sandved smithsonian iconomy