Julie Heffernan is a California born, New York resident. Her paintings were described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as “a new kind of history painting.” Her works are full of an ancient mythological symbolism but with...
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Here’s a fine example of human ingenuity. If you give someone enough time and resources they’ll come up with something impressive. Nitt Witt Ridge is the name given to a ramshackle piece of...
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I’m a fan of flags, but I don’t know much about them though to be honest. I enjoy flags in a childlike, “oooh look at the shapes and colours” sort of a way. I...
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Thanks to Sam Orchard for pointing me in the direction of this teeny, tiny nugget of joy. I can’t be 100% sure this is real but I think it is? It’s basically a...
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The following video went online back in 2011. It’s amazing, let me set the scene: It’s a lovely sunny day in Santa Cruz; everyone is having a wonderful time on the water. All of a...
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Fields of crops aren’t normally a tourist trap, but the floral crops of Carlsbad, California are a different story. Each year their wealth of ranunculus flowers bring in bus loads of gawping wonder chasers. They...
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Meet The Mobula Ray Mobula ray (Mobula mobular), also known as flying ray, devil fish and my favourite – giant devilray, are huge epipelagic batoids. Basically underwater bats. They aren’t well understood and are relatively unstudied....
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In my experience cats are ambivalent at best. Cats aren’t the kind of creature to jump in and save your life, they’re not even the kind of creature that would care if you died....
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It’s nice to see a bit of evidence that humans aren’t all evil to the core. This photo was posted from Santa Monica, California. Reddit user Kidderboots found this note under his windscreen wiper when he walked...
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Thieves robbed some laptops from a charity – Sexual Assault Services Centre in San Bernadino County, California that looks after people who’ve been sexually abused. Once they’d realised what they had done they took the stuff back...
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