This Song At 5am Before Rowing

i’m so sorry i don’t have any of the magpies or spinifex pigeons but i have some other quirky australian bird photos i have taken…

one time a kookaburra swooped my friend and stole her food, and another time my friend fed a seagull some chicken. also the black swans sometimes attack people

hiiiii u seem rly cool!! :) birds are awesome, my grandmother always leaves out food for the magpies that come to her garden and now they come to her house every single day. there is also a random crow nest in a tree at her house and it’s so cool bc it’s made out of all sorts of trinkets and wire and stuff they’ve taken from her garden. the coolest birds i’ve ever seen are spinifex pigeons tho.

anyway i hope u have a good day/evening/night!!!!

THATS SO COOL OMGGGGGG

Pls get a photo for me if you can babes that would be sick omgg

Thank you for reaching out!! I just got to work so we're gonna see how it goes

I've been on a hiatus from bird photos in the blog but theyre coming back soon dont worry!

heheeee i love vampire squid 😍

fun fact despite the name vampire squid, they are not actually squid but a whole separate series of cephalopod

it’s so gorgeousss 😍😍 i love siphonophores

Up close and personal with the angler siphonophore. 🎣

Siphonophores are close cousins of jellies. They’re fragile creatures composed of individual, specialized parts connected to each other in a chain. Some parts pulse and steer the colony, others stun and ingest prey. Siphonophores thrive in the midwater where there aren’t any sharp surfaces to damage their delicate bodies. MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, have revealed a surprising diversity of siphonophores in Monterey Bay, and we’ve learned they’re important predators in the ocean’s depths.

We’ve discovered several remarkable new siphonophore species, including this especially cunning predator—the angler siphonophore (Erenna sirena). In a dazzling display of predatory prowess, it dangles luminescent lures that mimic crimson crustaceans and attract unsuspecting fishes (wait until the end to catch a glimpse of these). Zap! When a curious lanternfish gets too close, the siphonophore’s tentacles deliver a powerful sting and snare a meal.

a little drawing i did 🫶🪽 inspired by some random image on pinterest that caught my attention

not super detailed, just a quick little doodle, but it made me happy 🌷

wishbone, the album. august 15th. “this song” out in a week.

over the past two years, i’ve been secretly writing songs. after shows in the basements of the venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, in narrow gaps between tours— i’d come back home and write all the things i felt nobody wanted to hear. maybe even the things i didn’t want people to hear.

i didn’t tell my friends. i didn’t tell my label. after all, i didn’t know i was making anything, and i had no plan to release any of it. but over time, i began to feel something i’d never felt before. i started to need the music. i listened in airports, in long cab trips, blaring in the shower. in heartbreak, then in joy. i started to play it for my friends, and they started to need it too. in car ride requests with the windows down, in a split pair of wired headphones on the subway home. it became an egregiously niche soundtrack to our own lives in real time, singing just for us.

it felt like the music was reminding me who i am, at an experimental time in my twenties where “who i am” had no definition at all. my driftwood childhood in texas. my lucid summers in london. my blue striped bed sheets in my college apartment. i played the songs to the very first person i’d ever made music with, @thedanielnigro, and i began to record. i didn’t know why i was recording, i just was. i didn’t know what story i was telling, i was just living in it. slowly i started to see myself in full picture. the slivers of myself i’d always been, but never faced. the songs i’d always been writing, but never singing.

before i knew it i was surrounded by an album.

that album is wishbone.

you can preorder the album now. music produced by the people who make my favorite music: @thedanielnigro , @ethangruska , noah conrad, elvira anderfjärd and @lukakloser . album cover shot by the great @dillonmatthewc who shot my first album. embroidery by my best friend ashley. every song written by me in my bed in my pajamas. there’s so much left to say, but i’ll say it in the music.

-conan

p.s. a wishbone never breaks even.

awwww she’s adorable!!! she looks so majestic

so many people have dogs named ziggy, one of my friends irl also has a dog called ziggy

There’s a “cat checkpoint” post going around, so this is a

Reblog with the last picture of a dog in your camera roll.

rowing regatta update nobody asked for 😍

i had my VIII race and it went pretty well and we came 3rd!! we lowkey crashed into the pontoon at the start line tho…

it was only a 1km race but i still felt rly tired after bc i just recovered after having the flu…

then as soon as i got back in from my VIII race i had to get to my quad race and i was meant to be 3 seat but the girl in stroke reeeeallyyy didn’t want to be stroke seat so we swapped

we did so well in that race!!!! we came 2nd and we all rowed in time and with really good technique and no crabs!! and my coach told me she might put me in stroke seat more often.

alsooooo there was this really pretty girl in stroke seat for our biggest rival school…. we actually made eye contact and we congratulated each other after our races

after that my friends and i bought food and smoothies from the food stalls and helped with boats and derigging

while i’m writing this we are on the bus back to the boatshed. it’s like an hour long.

1 more regatta until head of the river!!!

i’ve lived in a small australian city all my life but my family is from holland and england, so i have a weirdly english accent compared to my friends and sometimes i randomly sound really english???

my sister told me i sound like Zelda from totk when i sound english

i've started talking rlly british lately for some reason, to the point where my (english) dad is commenting on it...

(it’s these damn marauders i swear)

basically it’s the last rowing regatta of the season and it’s the biggest rowing event of the year!!! :D

a lot of people come to watch and it’s our last chance to try to win! my club is currently second (i think)

2 DAYS UNTIL HEAD OF THE RIVER IM SO SCARED BUT SO EXCITEDDDD

a necklace i made 🐚🌊🐟

the shell is some random small abalone shell i found in Shark Bay a few years ago, it’s been sitting on my desk ever since and now i finally have a purpose for it 😊

kind of inspired by chloe moriondo’s album ‘oyster’ 🫶🌊