After this one, only 10 more prompts!!!
Project Dragonfly, at Miami University, promotes inquiry-driven reform, reaching millions of people worldwide through learning media, exhibits, and education programs.
From Luke Burns Enterprises: Dragonfly is a very small and compact browser. It uses very little disk space, but is capable of visiting any Web site on the Internet.
DRAGONFLY, a metabolic farm for urban agriculture 2009
The Dragonfly tube set was designed to build the lightest possible bicycle frames without sacrificing stiffness, durability and ride quality.
Dragonfly Symbol Native American Indians had a highly complex culture, especially those who lived on the Great Plains.
Definition: “A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, suborder Anisoptera (from Greek … anisos “uneven” + … pteros, “wings”, because the hindwing is broader than the forewing). Adult dragonflies are characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, sometimes with coloured patches and an elongated body. Dragonflies can be mistaken for the related group, damselflies (Zygoptera), which are similar in structure, though usually lighter in build; however, the wings of most dragonflies are held flat and away from the body, while damselflies hold the wings folded at rest, along or above the abdomen. Dragonflies are agile fliers, while damselflies have a weaker, fluttery flight. Many dragonflies have brilliant iridescent or metallic colours produced by structural coloration, making them conspicuous in flight. An adult dragonfly eye has nearly 24,000 ommatidia.
Fossils of very large dragonfly ancestors in the Protodonata are found from 325 million years ago (Mya) in Upper Carboniferous rocks; these had wingspans up to about 750 mm (30 in). About 3000 species of Anisoptera are in the world today. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions.
Dragonflies are predators, both in their aquatic larval stage, when they are known as nymphs or naiads, and as adults. Several years of their lives are spent as nymphs living in fresh water; the adults may be on the wing for just a few days or weeks. They are fast, agile fliers, sometimes migrating across oceans, and are often found near water. They have a uniquely complex mode of reproduction involving indirect insemination, delayed fertilization, and sperm competition. During mating, the male grasps the female at the back of the head or on the prothorax, and the female curls her abdomen under her body to pick up sperm from the male’s secondary genitalia at the front of his abdomen, forming the “heart” or “wheel” posture.
Loss of wetland habitat threatens dragonfly populations around the world. Dragonflies are represented in human culture on artifacts such as pottery, rock paintings, and Art Nouveau jewellery. They are used in traditional medicine in Japan and China, and caught for food in Indonesia. They are symbols of courage, strength, and happiness in Japan, but seen as sinister in European folklore. Their bright colours and agile flight are admired in the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the prose of H. E. Bates.” (Wikipedia)
The Dragonfly Foundation
Opera Dragonfly — our fully-featured suite of developer tools, designed to make your job easier.
The Dragonfly generates a silky extended top-end, contoured midrange and a bump at the upper end of the lower frequencies that thickens thin signal sources by Blue Microphones
Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and get familiar with your blog or website.
The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
We are also talking about this on Twitter and Instagram. Use the hashtag #CPP
Places
- Dragonfly Creek, a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, U.S. (google)
People
Fictional
- Dragonfly (AC Comics), a superheroine
- Dragonfly (Marvel Comics), a supervillainess
Transportation
- Dragonfly Trimarans, a line of trimarans built in Denmark
Aircraft
- Boeing X-50 Dragonfly, an unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle designed by the U.S. military
- Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, a US attack aircraft
- Castiglioni Dragon Fly 333 (Dragon Fly 333), an Italian helicopter
- DF Helicopters DF334 (Dragon Fly 334), an Italian helicopter
- De Havilland Dragonfly, a British aircraft
- Dornier Do 12 Libelle III (Dragonfly III), a German flying boat
- Flylight Dragonfly, a British ultralight trike design
- FlyTech Dragonfly, a remote-controlled flying toy ornithopter
- Moyes Dragonfly, an Australian ultralight aircraft
- Sikorsky H-5, a US helicopter sometimes called Dragonfly
- Westland Dragonfly, the UK version of the Sikorsky H-5
- Trek Aerospace Dragonfly, a VTOL aircraft
- Viking Dragonfly, an experimental equal-area canard airplane
Spacecraft
- DragonFly (spacecraft), an asteroid material-sampling spacecraft proposed by Deep Space Industries
- DragonFly (rocket) – a prototype reusable launch vehicle to test propulsive landings of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule, in a low-altitude atmospheric flight test program
Fictional
- Dragonfly (G.I. Joe), a fictional make of helicopter in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline
Computing
- DragonFly BSD, an operating system
- Dragonfly Project, a teaching website
- Opera Dragonfly, a web developer tool integrated in the Opera browser
- Dragonfly web framework, a web framework for newLISP
Film and television
- Dragonfly (1976 film) or One Summer Love, a romantic drama starring Beau Bridges and Susan Sarandon
- The Man from Hong Kong aka “The Dragon Flies” (1975 film), HK action film
- Dragonfly (2001 film), a film by Marius Holst
- Dragonfly (2002 film), a film directed by Tom Shadyac
- Dragon Flyz, an American animated TV series
- DragonflyTV, an American educational children’s series
- “Dragonflies”, an episode of The Mighty B!
- Dragonfly Inn, an inn run by Lorelai Gilmore in the TV series Gilmore Girls
Literature
- Dragonfly (Durbin novel), a 1999 novel by Frederic S. Durbin
- Dragonfly (Koontz novel), a 1975 novel by Dean Koontz, writing as K. R. Dwyer
- Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir, a book by Bryan Burrough
- Dragon-Fly, a journal and imprint of Lovecraft associate R. H. Barlow
- “Dragonfly”, a short story in Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Music
- Dragonfly (band), from Croatia
- Dragonfly Records, a record label founded by Martin Glover
- Dragonfly, female singer featured on Bob Sinclar’s 2012 song “Rock the Boat“
Albums
- Dragonfly (Ego Likeness album)
- Dragonfly (Jimmy Giuffre album)
- Dragonfly (Masami Okui album)
- Dragonfly (Strawbs album), or the title song
- Dragonfly (Ziggy Marley album), or the title song
- Dragon Fly (album), by Jefferson Starship
Songs
- “Dragonfly” (Fleetwood Mac song)
- “Dragonfly” (Hitomi Shimatani song)
- “Dragonfly”, by a-ha from Lifelines
- “Dragonfly”, by Trey Anastasio from Bar 17
- “Dragonfly”, by Blondie from The Hunter
- “Dragonfly”, by Clutch from The Elephant Riders
- “Dragonfly”, by Edguy from Tinnitus Sanctus
- “Dragonfly”, by Mahogany Rush from Mahogany Rush IV
- “Dragonfly”, by Yngwie Malmsteen from Fire and Ice
- “Dragonfly”, by The Nolans from Altogether
- “Dragonfly”, by Pentangle from Open The Door
- “Dragonfly”, by Shaman’s Harvest from Shine
- “Dragonfly”, by Red House Painters from Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)
- “Dragonfly”, by SMiLE.dk from Future Girls
Other uses
- Dragonfly (chess variant), a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling
- Bromo-DragonFLY, a psychoactive drug
- Dragonfly, a nightclub at St James Power Station, Singapore
I always enjoy these “creative prompt” posts, I learn so much! And as Librarian, I know the work involved in putting these together. Thanks, Jaye:)
I’ll have to try to find time to do this one as I love dragonflies. This is my favorite dragonfly reference: http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/angelsonyourshoulder/2011/11/waterbugs-and-dragonflies.html