Awe shoot, thanks so much. It’s very much a passion project and I enjoy pretty much every aspect of it. I’m really glad you like the videos so much.

I feel like I’m honing the craft. I hope to keep this up, and I can’t wait to see how new microbes with music videos will look in the coming years.

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I agree. I had one super asshole on my team a while back and it was hell. I dreaded every meeting. Once he left I realized how much I enjoy everyone else on my team. Lot of really great folks.

Haha I definitely see that. I do like to try and make folks humanize microbes. It’s quite fun as an art project. This video wasn’t necessarily that, but often it doesn’t take much more than just focusing on one subject for a while lol.

Fair enough. I thought folks would see the title as obviously impossible, but it’s hard to predict that kind of thing.

For sure!

I follow you on Peertube, thought someone was stealing your vids and putting them up on YT.

Lol! I need a place to share my vids to folks like my mom who have no chance of getting on peertube. I love that you thought the YouTube account was stealing.

What is the name of the instrument you used? Is that the one with an antenna where you move your hands in the air?

It is not a theremin, but I totally see the similarity. It’s actually an MS-20 mini which is a remake of a classic 80s synth. I am just using it with the portamento knob turned up. FYI portamento is the fancy music term for sliding between notes.

Lastly, I’m really glad you liked the song and video!!

Ah lately I’ve been titling my videos [subject creature] [feeling the music I wrote is trying to convey].

I don’t think nematodes are social enough nor have memory such that they could remember that something cares about it.

This fella is for sure slower than I usually see for nematodes. I looked it up and it looks like microworms are a type of nematode. I have some other footage of nematodes and they are usually thrashing about quite violently. And 100% these guys are bigger than what I usually look at. I like the sense of scale this video brings since a lot of bacteria and some protozoans are in the shot with this big fella.

Hope fixing everything goes well! Thanks so much for hosting and maintaining peertube.wft!! I really appreciate being able to post my videos there.

Blombo for the win

Jiquid?

Johio?

Username checks out.

Edit: oh I just checked this users history. This account exists to harass goat. Oof.

Cunk is likely the greatest philosopher of our time.

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Isn’t that something only congress can do?

I have not had much lapsang, but if you like woody flavors then this is a great tea. I may even recommend camphornought over this one. Camphornought feels better balanced to me while hitting similar notes. You can definitely brew this in a metal strainer, I would just recommend doing a rinse of the leaves first. That just means steeping the leaves in hot water for 10 seconds then tossing that water before doing your main brew.

Edit: also check out my review of pine darts. That is a lapsang smoked puerh!

Ah I didn’t realize that aligning the condenser could help. I’m going to try that. I tend to get gradients in my background on higher magnifications as well, but since I do more artsy things I tend to use that to my advantage with rhienburg illumination mixed in. It can look quite nice.

Looks great! I feel the pain on trying to get higher magnification darkfield to work lol.