Not So Funny – 40 Inventive Nature Principles
Kobus Cilliers | On 04, Mar 2020
Darrell Mann
1. Segmentation
2. Taking Out
3. Local Quality
4. Asymmetry
5. Merging
6. Universality
7. ‘Nested Doll’
8. Counterweight
9. Prior Counter-Action
10. Prior Action
11. Prior Cushioning
12. Remove Tension
13. ‘The Other Way Round’
14. Spheroidality/Rotation
15. Dynamics
16. Slightly Less/Slightly More
17. Another Dimension
18. Vibration/Resonance
19. Periodic Action
20. Continuity of Useful Action
21. Hurrying
22. ‘Blessing in Disguise’
23. Feedback
24. Intermediary
25. Self-Service
(with apologies to the #MeToo movement… although this could probably make a good campaign poster for them)
26. Copying
27. Cheap Disposable
28. Another Sense/Fields
29. Fluid
30. Thin & Flexible
31. Porous Materials/Holes
32. Colour Changes
33. Homogeneity
34. Discarding and Recovering
35. Parameter Changes
36. Phase Transitions
37. Relative Change
38. Enriched Atmosphere
39. Calmed Atmosphere
40. Composite Structures
Ah, the inventive genius of the natural world.
Or maybe the genius of the many photographers entering the annual animal comedy awards competition. See more of their amazing work at the rather splendid https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/, from where a lot of these images were borrowed.