Certificate of Participation : Bridging the gap in Fisheries Science EducationCertificate of Participation : Bridging the gap in Fisheries Science Education
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I've always been a little obsessed with jellyfish. They look like they were designed, not born. 🪼
Turns out someone agreed with me in 1904. The biologist Ernst Haeckel spent years drawing sea creatures under a
microscope for Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), and every plate looks like a page from a jeweler's
sketchbook.
So I trained a custom Recraft Style on ten of his plates and designed a 2026 high-jewelry collection: a pendant, a ring,
a brooch, a cuff, an earring, a necklace and a watch.
And each piece has a secret. It projects the creature it was born from, as a glowing hologram. ✨
I teach non-technical people how to use tools like Descript, YouTube and AI, and I've noticed that every new tool spawns a new species of behavior.
In the Library of Congress I found Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904), a set of chromolithograph plates by Adolf Giltsch that turned boxfish, spiders and hummingbirds into symmetrical scientific specimens.
I built a Recraft Style from three of those plates, cropping out the captions and page edges so it learned only the stipple, the ochre and rust palette and the cream paper.
Then I used it to document the wildlife of the modern workday, from the Muted Ostrich to the Inbox Hydra, as if a 1904 naturalist had discovered them.
It's a field guide to the creatures we've all become, one I wish existed when I started teaching people to stop doomscrolling and start creating.