“Bioacoustics”, Medieval Photoshop, and White Castle Fry-Cook Robots

I bring you the finest reading material in my weekly “Linkfest”

Melting apple sculptures by Yosuke Amemiya

Monday arriveth, and so does the Linkfest.

I won’t even do my usual throat-clearing preamble.

Let’s just get to the reading material, shall we?

1) 🍎 Wooden sculptures of melting apples

Yosuke Amemiya has been making these gorgeous wooden sculptures of melting apples — above — for almost twenty years.

As Colossal writes …

An apple oozing into a flat puddle or a round bulge is likely a sign of softening and rot, although the fruits carved by Yosuke Amemiya retain their supple, juicy freshness despite their melting appearance. The artist, who moved to Yamanashi, Japan, from Berlin a month ago, shapes succulent pieces and paints their likeness with reds, yellows, and speckles of brown discoloration. He’s amassed dozens of the intriguing fruits since he began creating the pieces in 2004 — originally he used FRP and plastic before switching to wood — and likens the process to “trying to create human universality through the apple.”

2) 🎙️ “Bioacoustics”: Listening to nature as a form of…