Shorts
Description: The Puglian Rooster – Il Gallo Pugliese The rooster associated with Puglia is a traditional symbol of rural life in southern Italy. In local farming culture, the rooster represents dawn, vigilance, and new beginnings, as its crowing once marked the start of the working day. In Puglia, rooster motifs often appear in folk ceramics, decorative objects, and textile patterns. These colorful and stylized images reflect the region’s lively Mediterranean spirit and are sometimes seen as symbols of good luck and prosperity. Today, the “Gallo Pugliese” represents more than just a rooster—it symbolizes local pride, tradition, and the sunny rural character of Puglia.
Description: A cheerful, vibrant composition where each octopus shines in a different color. The playful colors harmonize as if the octopuses are dancing across the canvas. The clean, graphic style evokes both the charm of retro pixel art and the delight of a modern color palette, while the eye naturally follows the rhythm and movement suggested by the pattern.
Description: Tahlequah (born c. 1998), also known as J35, is an orca of the southern resident community in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. She has given birth to four known offspring, a male (Notch) in 2010, a female (Tali) in 2018, another male (Phoenix) in 2020, and an unnamed female calf in 2024. Her second calf, Tali, died shortly after birth and J35 carried her body for 17 days in an apparent show of grief that attracted international attention. Her fourth calf died within days of her birth and was also carried by Tahlequah.
Description: There are a few different methods used to catch tuna, and many of them result in unintentionally catching other species of fish or sea animals, such as turtles, dolphins, and sharks. These other animals, known in the industry as “bycatch”, are trapped in nets along with the tuna, or are hooked when they bite onto bait intended for tuna in longline fishing. Each year, hundreds of thousands of non-target animals die needlessly as a result of bycatch.
Description: The Egg Sack, roughly the size of a bird's egg, is able to sense the proximity of potential hosts, spewing a cloud of microscopic, insect-like spores called Motes into the air. The motes are able to group together, instinctively invading the host's body through open orifices, ultimately resulting in the gestation of a Bloodburster. The Egg sack is generally considered to be the first stage in the life cycle of the Neomorph species, and closely resembles the Glostrido tetani and Euniceral pathogenic fungi native to Planet 4.
