Fluorescent Keychains - 5 Days til Launch!
about 2 months ago
– Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 12:04:35 PM
Thanks so much for your feedback on the guitar picks! It's great to hear there are guitar players (and mandolin players!) following Deadly Tangle.
Next up, I'm excited to share the four Fluorescent Keychain designs!
To make the keychains, my drawings will be printed onto fluorescent acrylic, also called live edge acrylic, which comes alive with an impressive glow under UV light (black light) - such as in a night club or UV night at a climbing wall!
Coming from biotech, I knew Crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) had to be one of the four keychain designs. This jellyfish is found off the west coast of North America and is where green fluorescent protein (GFP) was originally isolated from, the green glow that you so often see scientists engineering into other organisms - there's glowing green silkworm silk on the cover of last month's issue of National Geographic!
Crystal jelly flashes blue to scare away predators, so this is the blue keychain. GFP gives this blue a greenish tinge apparently, so the ribbon structure of GFP is the green keychain.
Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) also flashes blue, but I was looking for an orange candidate. As the colour of this jelly is largely bright orange, Atolla jellyfish takes the orange keychain spot.
Lastly, Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) glows a bluey purple (mauve) colour at night - the Mauve stinger is the pink keychain.
Two designs will be unlocked at the start, and the other two unlocked at stretch goals. Which is your favourite? The two most popular designs will be unlocked first. I made a poll...
P.s. While I'm on the subject of fluorescent proteins, the Discosoma coral (great name!) was where the original red fluorescent proteins were isolated from to use alongside GFP in biotech research (dsRed, if you know them). Discosoma will be a red fluorescent sticker freebie for Returning Backers.
Next up, I'm excited to share the four Fluorescent Keychain designs!
To make the keychains, my drawings will be printed onto fluorescent acrylic, also called live edge acrylic, which comes alive with an impressive glow under UV light (black light) - such as in a night club or UV night at a climbing wall!
Coming from biotech, I knew Crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) had to be one of the four keychain designs. This jellyfish is found off the west coast of North America and is where green fluorescent protein (GFP) was originally isolated from, the green glow that you so often see scientists engineering into other organisms - there's glowing green silkworm silk on the cover of last month's issue of National Geographic!
Crystal jelly flashes blue to scare away predators, so this is the blue keychain. GFP gives this blue a greenish tinge apparently, so the ribbon structure of GFP is the green keychain.
Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) also flashes blue, but I was looking for an orange candidate. As the colour of this jelly is largely bright orange, Atolla jellyfish takes the orange keychain spot.
Lastly, Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) glows a bluey purple (mauve) colour at night - the Mauve stinger is the pink keychain.
Two designs will be unlocked at the start, and the other two unlocked at stretch goals. Which is your favourite? The two most popular designs will be unlocked first. I made a poll...
P.s. While I'm on the subject of fluorescent proteins, the Discosoma coral (great name!) was where the original red fluorescent proteins were isolated from to use alongside GFP in biotech research (dsRed, if you know them). Discosoma will be a red fluorescent sticker freebie for Returning Backers.
