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    Private Life of Plans video

    This is a screenshot of BBC's video The Private Life of Plants.
  • mycelium rising
  • fungus
  • ecology
  • paddestoelen paradijs
  • growth
  • Mushroom

  • The Mold Fight Begins!

    Our first mold battle

    Our newest installation at the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition is a tiny agar-filled stadium where we will host mold fights. The first fight will be between our visitor Marco's bacteria and the...
  • book: David Arora

    Mushrooms Demystified

    This is the be-all and end-all of mushroom books

    Truly an encyclopedia of mushroom facts and lore, lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, literally everything you need to know about mushrooms, edible or not.

  • Mushrooms Ate My Furniture

    A design object that eats itself

    In the ultimate cyclical process, this garden furniture is embedded with mushrooms which decompose and eat away at it over time.

  • Mold That Eats Plastic

    This mushroom loves having plastic for dinner

    A little mushroom is making big headlines after it has been found to break down plastic faster and more effectively then its fungal and bacterial predecessors.
  • Yann Seznec, Patrick Hickey 1 Jan 2010

    The Secret Sounds of Spores

    Installation

    Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind. Shining a laser underneath a protected mushroom makes these spores...
  • project: 1 Jan 2012

    Coffee Grinds Mushroom Growing Infographic

    Growing oyster mushrooms on used coffee grinds

    Rather then sending our used coffee grinds to the landfill, we're taking them on a much shorter journey down to the Urban Mushroom Farm in the Mediamatic Bank.
  • book: Nina Lovering Marshall 1 Jan 1905

    Mushroom Book

    A popular mushroom guide

    A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties.
  • book: J.Baier, B. Vancura 1 Jan 1995

    Giftige Paddestoelen

    Leren kennen en determineren

    Het lange witte boek zit vol met illustraties van giftige paddestoelen. Je kunt op een eenvoudige manier lezen hoe je 160 gevaarlijke soorten kunt herkennen. Ben je van plan om de natuur in te gaan...
  • book: Jay Dayva 1 Jan 2003

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    The mystical mushroom enlightenment poems

    This artistic, illustrated volume is filled with information and insights, in a highly-enjoyable format. From the informative introduction, to the collection of 16 poems, this very unique book is one...

  • Bodies of Change Installation Process

    Building the installation

    This is the first in a series of articles tracking the construction process and growth of the Bodies of Change installation.
  • Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.
  • book: Mark Janssen 1 Jan 2011

    Handboek Paddestoelen

    Zoeken & bereiden voor gevorderden

    Dit boek is een vervolg op het 'Handboek Paddestoelen: Zoeken & bereiden'. Janssen vertelt in dit boek welke paddestoelen giftig zijn, hoe ze smaken en hoe je ze het lekkerst kunt verwerken in een...
  • book: Paul Stamets 1 Jan 2005

    Mycelium Running

    How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

    Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text...

  • Bodies of Change Mushroom Growth

    The mushrooms overtaking the body

    In the third installment of this series, we catch up with the mushroom growth that has been spreading over the mycelium shroud in the last six weeks.
  • book: John Cage 1 Jan 1967

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    Writings '67 - '72

    The book contains mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc., and includes "Mureau"- - composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
  • project: Antal Ruhl

    Mold Fight

    A battle to the death of mold vs. mold

    Can you beat the slime mold?

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...
  • book: Mark Janssen 1 Jan 2010

    Handboek Paddestoelen

    Zoeken & bereiden

    In het boek staan 40 wilde eetbare paddestoelen. Het beschrijft de kenmerken van deze paddestoelen in details: hoe, waar en wanneer te zoeken, hoe giftige paddestoelen te herkennen, hoe...

  • Grow Your Own Billboard

    Mycologist Patrick Hickey's living billboard for the film Contagion.

    Viral marketing has taken on a whole new meaning with this living billboard made from fungus and bacteria.
  • book: John M. Allegro 1 Jan 1970

    De Heilige Paddenstoel en het Kruis

    Paddenstoelen en religie

    De Heilige Paddenstoelen en het kruis is een studie naar de aard en de oorsprong van het christendom binnen de vruchtbaarheidscultussen van het oude Nabije Oosten.

  • Margarita and the Mycelium Factory

    My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters

    Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked...
  • book: Terence McKenna 1 Jan 1992

    Food of the Gods

    The search for the original tree of knowledge

    For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. This book tells you about the history of drugs in the East and West; from the...

  • Bodies of Change Growth

    Week 1 of growth

    In the second installment of this series, we watch the strange growth that has shown up on the mycelium shroud and it's not exactly what we were expecting!

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

    In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.

created Margarita Osipian modified Margarita Osipian

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