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Winners of the 2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year awards

posted by Jason Kottke   Feb 15, 2017

Underwater 2017

Underwater 2017

In Focus is featuring some of the winning shots from the 2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year awards. The top one is Dancing Octopus taken by Gabriel Barathieu and the bottom one is by Qing Lin, who took the photo near Lembeh, Indonesia, which is home to some of the strangest marine life in the world.

If you look at Lin's photo of the clownfish for more than a second or two — pay attention...this is the nightmarish side to living on the reef that Pixar kept from you in Finding Nemo — you will notice not just three pairs of eyes but six pairs of eyes. In the mouth of each clownfish is a parasitic isopod looking right at the camera. The isopod enters the fish through the gills, attaches itself to the fish's tongue, feeds on the blood in the tongue until it falls off, and then attaches itself to the tongue stump. And the fish uses the isopod as a replacement tongue! Cool! And gross!

First trailer for Finding Dory

posted by Jason Kottke   Mar 02, 2016

Hmm. I... Hmm. Up until Wall-E, Finding Nemo was my favorite Pixar film. And...I'm not sure about this. (via trailer town)

That Time That Prince Ditched Questlove In Favor of Finding Nemo

posted by Jason Kottke   Jan 20, 2016

Questlove tells some great stories — I'm partial to the one about Will Smith's house — and this story about his attempt to DJ for Prince and how a Pixar movie intervened is top notch.

Making Nemo

posted by Jason Kottke   Sep 03, 2015

From 2003, a 25-minute documentary (plus a few extras) on how Pixar made Finding Nemo.

How far does Pixar go to get a movie made correctly? Far. For instance, everyone on the Nemo team got certified in scuba diving. (via @drwave)