if3Y09 - POISE

I have no idea. Why don't YOU leave a comment and tell us what you think happened here ?

IF3Y - 08 - SUBSTRACT

two wrongs make a right.

last week's illustration was what I considered my most achived work so far on this blog, and yet it didn't cause one single comment or reaction. this is confusing. not only for the obvious ego bruise, but it questions my very research in art. what if my final purpose as a creator is only destined to meet nothing more than indifference ?
not good for my abandon neurosis.

anyway. I can see the sun rising above my screen now on what should be a good day with a lot of work to do, a car with no brakes to fix, some groceries to do and some friends for food and vodka.
have a good one.

IF3Y - 07 - Legendary

ok, it's more mythology than legendary really. throw me a stone.
thank you Asja again for the textures. thank you Elysian Fields for the music.





I hope our american visitors will appreciate the fact that I went against my nature and hid the boobies. suddenly I'm not so sure. should I explain who/what medusa was?

YF3-6 INTRICATE

this week's topic asked for some good ol' school wacom scratching.
I googled to find some picture with the right pose but ended up sketching it from scratch (a-ha)
I used some of Asja 's wonderfull textures. I suggest you'd visit her art blog.
It's full of splendid photos and paintings.
other than that. well...
I need a beer and a good night sleep. I'll spend the evening listening to the new album by Elysian Fields untill my head spin, and next evening with Elysian Fields.

anynone needs a cool name for a garage band?

I went to visit a friend of mine who works in a tattoo shop, and looking at the little pots on his work table, I thought "what a powerfull name that is".
maybe I just spent too much time on my own today.

I'd beter hide this before connie finds it :)

IF3Y - 05 - BREEZY

Breezy Stories was a pulp magazine in the 40's (when girls had curves) or so it seems.
can you believe the blackbird singing outside the house is keeping me awake at night?
been up for 2 hours now and still an hour and a half before I can go and buy some breakfast. this is going to be a long saterday.

IF3Y -04 Instinct

Mammalian diving reflex
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The mammalian diving reflex optimizes respiration which allows mammals to stay underwater for a long time. It is exhibited strongly in aquatic mammals (seals,[1] otters, dolphins, etc.), but exists in a weaker version in other mammals, including humans. Diving birds, such as penguins, have a similar diving reflex. Every animal's diving reflex is triggered specifically by cold water contacting the face[2] – water that is warmer than 21 °C (70 °F) does not cause the reflex, and neither does submersion of body parts other than the face. Also, the reflex is always exhibited more dramatically, and thus can grant longer survival, in young people and animals.

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Upon initiation of the reflex, three changes happen to the body, in this order:

1. Bradycardia is the first response to submersion. Immediately upon facial contact with cold water, the human heart rate slows down ten to twenty-five percent.[2] Seals experience changes that are even more dramatic, going from about 125 beats per minute to as low as 10 on an extended dive.[1][3] Slowing the heart rate lessens the need for bloodstream oxygen, leaving more to be used by other organs.
2. Next, peripheral vasoconstriction sets in. When under high pressure induced by deep diving, capillaries in the extremities start closing off, stopping blood circulation to those areas. Note that vasoconstriction usually applies to arterioles, but in this case is completely an effect of the capillaries. Toes and fingers close off first, then hands and feet, and ultimately arms and legs stop allowing blood circulation, leaving more blood for use by the heart and brain. Human musculature accounts for only 12% of the body's total oxygen storage, and the body's muscles tend to suffer cramping during this phase. Aquatic mammals have as much as 25 to 30% of their oxygen storage in muscle, and thus they can keep working long after capillary blood supply is stopped.
3. Finally is the blood shift that occurs only during very deep dives. When this happens, organ and circulatory walls allow plasma/water to pass freely throughout the thoracic cavity, so its pressure stays constant and the organs aren't crushed. In this stage, the lungs' alveoli fill up with blood plasma, which is reabsorbed when the animal leaves the pressurized environment. This stage of the diving reflex has been observed in humans (such as world champion freediver Martin Štěpánek) during extremely deep (over 90 metres) freedives.

Thus, both a conscious and an unconscious person can survive longer without oxygen under water than in a comparable situation on dry land. Children tend to survive longer than adults when deprived of oxygen underwater.

When the face is submerged, receptors that are sensitive to water within the nasal cavity and other areas of the face supplied by cranial nerve V (trigeminal) relay the information to the brain and then innervate cranial nerve X, which is part of the autonomic nervous system. This causes bradycardia and peripheral vasoconstriction. Blood is removed from the limbs and all organs but the heart and the brain, creating a heart-brain circuit and allowing the mammal to conserve oxygen.

In humans, the mammalian diving reflex is not induced when limbs are introduced to cold water. Mild bradycardia is caused by the subject holding their breath without submerging the face within water. When breathing with face submerged this causes a diving reflex which increases proportionally to decreasing water temperature.[2] However the greatest bradycardia effect is induced when the subject is holding breath with face submerged.