Pacificklaus Best of 2022 Creative Content
It’s the end of the year, and that’s always a good occasion to look back and see what my creative output was in the last 12 months. Which videos, photos, blog posts and books did I come up with, and how well did they do? Here we go:
This is the video which got most views in 2012, big thanks to Jeffrey for coming on the channel and talking about the curious bubbles emerging from the sand in Apo Island:
The video above got the most views, however my personal favorite is the one below, another one of those featuring The John Belushi of the Coral Reef, a rare combination of underwater videography and comedy:
My photograph in Flickr with most views. This is a tiny mantis shrimp in the shell of a now-dead snail. Indeed this is a very artsy composition, an animal in an arrangement which you don’t see very often underwater:
This is my blog post which got most reads. I think it’s spot on: if you spearfish on scuba and you are poor, it’s probably really dangerous, if you are not poor, you are probably doing significant ecological damage. Why? Explained in the blog post in detail:
And … I published two books in 2022. One about the wonderworld of human neurobiology when underwater. There are interesting new results out, including some by my friend Dr. Gerald Pao, and they are explained in detail but easily understandable for the interested layman/laywoman in my book:
And of course, The Lives of Gobies, which is the outcome of a decade of photographing gobies, filming gobies, reading science papers about gobies and thinking about gobies:
