90-Year-Old Tortoise Legs Were Eaten By Rats Gets Prosthetic Wheels

After the vicious attack, a local vet worked to save the 90-year-old pet tortoise's life named Mrs. T in Pembrook, but was anxious that would not be able to survive without her mobility. When the tortoise was hibernating for the winter, she ended up losing her front legs. A rat had eaten both legs up to the elbow joint, after breaking in to the garden shed where she was sleeping. We were afraid she may have to be put down. Its owner, Jude Ryder, feared the worst. 

A £1,000 vet bill did little to increase the situation. That is when the Ryder family turned to their mechanical engineer son Dale for help; he glued wheels from a model aircraft onto the tortoise’s shell, making her twice as fast. Using the wheels from a model airplane, Dale attached them to Mrs. T's shell with resin, facilitating her to move around freely and leave interesting tracks in her wake. Dale had received Tortoise as a gift when he was only eight years old, and she was already in her 60s.  Now it was like fitting her with a turbo charger and she’s going double the speed she used to. Tortoise is still quite young for a when  she could go on for another 50 years all she needs is a new set of tyres every now and again. Rat attacks on tortoises are not rare. Because Britain’s oldest tortoise, 130 year-old Thomas, died from a rat bite in 2013.

It was like fitting her with a turbo charger and now she's going double the speed she used to. She uses her back legs to push herself along and it seems quite happy, but it's problematic to tell with a tortoise.

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Mystical Photographs of Illuminated Forests in the United Kingdom by Ellie Davies

The London-based abstract photographer Ellie Davies fascinates us with surreal portraits of forests that glow magnificently with mystical fairy lights and ominous waves of mist.  He creates her enchanting shots in natural areas throughout the United Kingdom. Therefore, with the woods as her canvas, fireflies appear to brighten desolate clearings, and cascading showers of stars dust intensely lit patches of trees. Ellie Davies makes the pensive illusions by combining photographs of the natural world with pictures captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

She says, I like to explore images that juxtapose human and natural elements, calling devotion to the sharp divide between personal identity and interconnectivity. Though, she does this by positioning out-of-place elements within the context of her landscapes. The majestic forests are potent symbols in folklore, fairy tale and myth, places of enchantment and magic as well as of danger and mystery.  In more recent history they have come to be associated with psychological states relating to the unconscious. Therefore against this backdrop, my hard work explores the ways in which identity is formed by the landscapes we live and grow up in. Source: My Modernmet

An Artist Creates Intricate Scenes by Snipping Away at Paper

Artist Maude White snips away tiny bits of paper to expose extraordinarily intricate scenes. Maude White actually based in Buffalo, New York, brings inspired animals and imaginary panoramas to life with her lacy, hand-cut designs. Though, she calls her technique “paper carving.” In her work, most of creations are cut from plain white paper in crisp straightforwardness, but she also crafted a handful of projects from faded road maps. From her lacy flimsy pages, birds spread their wings, elephants dance, and dragon’s rear to life. 

She says that since she was a child, it has been looking for concealed beauty in unexpected places.  I was so impressed with underneath objects, or through them. I have always strong self-aplomb that if you really do hard enough, you will see somewhat precious and new, or, maybe, a bit extremely ancient and sacred.” She found that the faultless medium for conveying these hidden messages is through creating with paper. I feel that there are very few things in the world as dependable and constant as paper. Because paper is everywhere, and it has been telling countless stories for centuries.Source: My Modernmet

Japanese Craftsman Masterfully Restores Old Book into Like-New Condition

If you have ever bemoaned that a treasured a book was falling apart, then you will relish seeing how this Japanese craftsman masterfully restored a tattered 1,000-page dictionary near perfect condition. Well, this is an episode of the Japanese show called Shuri, “Bakaseru” means “The Fascinating Craftsman” featured Nobuo Okano, an artisan who specializes in old books. Thus during the ten minutes long segment, the craftsman demonstrates how the well-loved English-Japanese dictionary was brought back to new life. It has had fairly a history and served the owner from his junior high years through his adult life. Now that his daughter is entering college, he wants to pass the book along to her.

Okano starts the restoration by cleaning all of the old glue from the book’s spine and repairing pages of maps included in it. Though they cannot be returned to a untouched condition, they are glued to paper and now have a solid base. Then, he comes the most tedious part of the whole process. Okano unfolds hundreds of bent page corners with a tweezers, separately ironing each of them flat shape. Once that’s he done this part, the book is looking much in a better shape, but there’s still much work to do. The tips of the pages are stained with purple ink, and so he uses a guillotine book cutter to trim those unsightly edges. Moreover constructing a fresh cover is the last step, and he embellished it with the salvaged title piece of the original book. The process ends of episode expressions the happy and thankful customer giving the dictionary to his daughter. If you want see the video below to see just how Okano completed this incredible restore, please click on the below link.

 Source: My Modernmet