Emily the Spider book!!!!!
I'm kickstarting a free book about Emily the Spider!
We want to make a free book that teaches people about the amazing lives of spiders.
This is the story of a 152 day romance I had with a tiny spider on my back porch who I photographed every day for the duration of a summer. I photographed her web construction and maintenance, the myriad of things she fiercly killed and ate, her numerous attempts to have children and find a mate, and how she lived her tiny life in a space I thought of as mine, but soon came to realized belonged to her just as legitimately.
Thousands of people followed along on-line to the soap opera that was this spider's life as I posted about her on this LJ. And it was during this time photographing Emily (the spider) I met Dr. Catherine Scott, an arachnologist and behavioural ecologist whose research is focused on the behaviour and communication of black widows and other spiders and who filled in the many, many gaps in my knowledge.
I learned that Emily was an Uluborade, popularly known as a feather legged orb weaver, who are the only non-venomous spiders.
Emily the spider. You may clickenzee to embiggen.
Emily and her web design.
I learned that some spiders decorate their webs, for reasons nobody really understands, and I watched Emily do this over and over.
This narrative of the life of a spider will include my photos and observations, and genuine expert spider text from Dr. Scott and, I think, at the end of it, you'll spend more time looking at small places, finding big rewards.
I'm looking for $500 to pay Dr. Scott to write about the science of spiders. Anything above that, we'll split. The final (e) book will be available for free to anyone who wants a copy.
Kickstarter is here.
The more money we have, the more time we'll be able to spend working on this and the better it will be. We're counting on your investment to make a book that we can give away to people for free.
Here are some excerpts from the book as it exists now.
We want to make a free book that teaches people about the amazing lives of spiders.
This is the story of a 152 day romance I had with a tiny spider on my back porch who I photographed every day for the duration of a summer. I photographed her web construction and maintenance, the myriad of things she fiercly killed and ate, her numerous attempts to have children and find a mate, and how she lived her tiny life in a space I thought of as mine, but soon came to realized belonged to her just as legitimately.
Thousands of people followed along on-line to the soap opera that was this spider's life as I posted about her on this LJ. And it was during this time photographing Emily (the spider) I met Dr. Catherine Scott, an arachnologist and behavioural ecologist whose research is focused on the behaviour and communication of black widows and other spiders and who filled in the many, many gaps in my knowledge.
I learned that Emily was an Uluborade, popularly known as a feather legged orb weaver, who are the only non-venomous spiders.
Emily the spider. You may clickenzee to embiggen.
Emily and her web design.
I learned that some spiders decorate their webs, for reasons nobody really understands, and I watched Emily do this over and over.
This narrative of the life of a spider will include my photos and observations, and genuine expert spider text from Dr. Scott and, I think, at the end of it, you'll spend more time looking at small places, finding big rewards.
I'm looking for $500 to pay Dr. Scott to write about the science of spiders. Anything above that, we'll split. The final (e) book will be available for free to anyone who wants a copy.
Kickstarter is here.
The more money we have, the more time we'll be able to spend working on this and the better it will be. We're counting on your investment to make a book that we can give away to people for free.
Here are some excerpts from the book as it exists now.
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