{"id":542,"date":"2011-10-05T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=542"},"modified":"2011-10-05T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T20:06:26","slug":"david-liittschwager-and-one-cubic-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/10\/david-liittschwager-and-one-cubic-foot.html","title":{"rendered":"David Liittschwager and One Cubic Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/262\/2011\/10\/postlarvaloctopus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/262\/2011\/10\/postlarvaloctopus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a>What kinds of creatures can you find<\/strong> in one cubic foot of seawater? Or one cubic foot of rainforest? One cubic foot of the deciduous forest in Central Park?<\/p>\n<p><em>National Geographic<\/em> photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/photography.nationalgeographic.com\/photography\/photographers\/photographer-david-liittschwager\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Liittschwager<\/a> and his team set up a 12-inch cube with a green metal frame in <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/02\/cubic-foot\/wilson-text\/1\" target=\"_blank\">five different ecosystems<\/a> \u2014 on land and in water, in tropical climates and temperate ones. Then they started watching and photographing. The result is a fascinating photo project in which a thousand different organisms were documented and photographed over the course of three weeks, including the &#8220;post-larval octopus&#8221; above in a French Polynesian coral reef (the octopus is less than a half-inch across).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The interactive photos<\/strong> with this project are fascinating to dig into. Pull up the <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/02\/cubic-foot\/liittschwager-photography#\/explore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nat Geo site<\/a>, plop your kids in front of it, and let them click away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/02\/cubic-foot\/wilson-text\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s.ngm.com\/2010\/02\/one-cubic-foot\/img\/one-cubic-foot-615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/thekidshouldseethis.com\/post\/10757630753\" target=\"_blank\">The Kid Should See This<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kinds of creatures can you find in one cubic foot of seawater? Or one cubic foot of rainforest? One cubic foot of the deciduous forest in Central Park? 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