I apologize for being MIA last week. It was a tough week. I am back in the saddle, so get your paints, colored pencils, crayons and needles out!
The bloom is off the rose
Definition: “Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant” (Wikipedia)
algae bloom
Bloomberg Business, Financial and Economic news (a stretch, I know)
blooming garlic
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/or your blog.
We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP
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.
Biology
- Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant
- Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system
- Bloom, a collective noun for a large group of jellyfish
- Epicuticular wax bloom, a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax, occurring on the surface of many fruits
- Bloom syndrome, autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predispose patient to a wide variety of cancer
Technology
- Bloom (bloomery) (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery
- Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting
- Bloom Energy Server, a home solid oxide fuel cell manufactured by the Bloom Energy company
- Bloom filter, a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set
- Bloom (shader effect), a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games
- Bloom (test), a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin
- Blooming (CCD), an effect that happens when a pixel in a CCD image sensor is overloaded
- Blooming (directed-energy weapon), an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air
- Thermal blooming, an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams
Art and art conservation
- Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting materials such as crayons, oil pastels, and wax-based coloured pencils
- Saponification in art conservation, a chalky white efflorescence on old oil paintings
- Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting
People
Places
- Bloom, Kansas, United States
- Blooming, Oregon
- Bloom, Wisconsin, United States, a town
- Bloom City, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
- Bloom Township (disambiguation), multiple places in the United States:
Music
- Bloom, an album by Billy Pilgrim, 1995
- Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album), 1996
- Bloom (Beach House album), 2012
- Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album), 2004
- Bloom (Jeff Coffin album), 2005
- Bloom (Eric Johnson album), 2005
- Bloom (Lou Rhodes album), 2007
- Bloom (The McDades album), 2006
- Bloom (EP), by G.NA, 2012
- Blooming (album), album by Ami Suzuki, 2010
- “Bloom” (Gigolo Aunts song), 1991
- “Bloom” (Gain song), 2012
- “Bloom”, a song by Radiohead from the album The King of Limbs
- “Bloom”, a song by Scale the Summit from the album Carving Desert Canyons
Entertainment
- Bloom (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy
- Bloom (film), award winning Irish film
- Bloom (Winx Club), a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series
- Bloom (software), a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch
- Bloom County, American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
- Club Blooming, a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- The Brothers Bloom, a 2009 movie
- Bloom.fm, a music application and streaming service
Businesses
- Bloom (store), a U.S. supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
- Bloom Brothers Department Stores, a defunct chain of department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland
- Bloom Cigar Company, a Pittsburgh cigar store
- Bloom Festival, Ireland’s largest gardening show
- Bloom’s restaurant, England’s longest-standing kosher restaurant
Other uses
- “Blooming”, a less offensive version of the term Bloody
- Chocolate bloom, the appearance of a white, mouldy-looking film on chocolate
- Bloom’s Taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives