Posts Tagged ‘ California ’

California Carnivores

Via CoolHunting: In our latest video we trekked out into the beautiful farmland outside Sebastopol, California to visit California Carnivores, North America’s largest carnivorous plant nursery. We spoke with founder Peter D’Amato about his personal history with these hungry plants, their cultural significance and what it takes to raise up fantastical plants from seed. Taking [ READ MORE ]

Drawn Today, Gone Tomorrow

Impermanent Sand Paintings by Andres Amador Via Colossal: San Francisco-area landscape artist Andreas Amador etches massive sand drawings onto beaches during full moons when his canvas reaches its largest potential. Using only a rake and often several helpers the geometric and organic shapes are slowly carved into the sand, often interacting with the physical topography [ READ MORE ]

Animated Hawk Migration

Via eBird: Swainson’s Hawk is the most migratory North American hawk. It breeds commonly on the Great Plains, as well as in grasslands and agricultural areas in western deserts and the Central Valley of California. From September to November it migrates in large flocks south through Mexico and Central America to its wintering grounds in [ READ MORE ]

Zombie Wedding

Wedding photos, jeeze they sure get boring. No, I’m not hatin on true love, but people, those overly heart-throbby airbrushed galleries make us want to puke. Thanks to this couple for keeping some humor, creativity and originality alive, even on the day of nuptials. Via YouMightLikeThis[ READ MORE ]

Jimmy Chin’s Yosemite Story

A really beautiful video following Jimmy Chin as he photographs a story of rock climbers in Yosemite for the cover/feature of National Geographic. Amazing camera work[ READ MORE ]

California, Still Leading

In an age of spineless US Senators, de-investments in education, and other critical causes being put on the chopping block, it's satisfying to hear that some states are continuing to show leadership. [ READ MORE ]

Secret 4th Generation iPhone Saga

Wow, talk about soap opera, the leak of the iPhone prototype made waves in the geek/tech community today. Gizmodo has a dramatic retelling of the tale, but the Cliffs Notes would summarize: •Young Apple engineer gets drunk at nearby German bar. •Young Apple engineer leaves hyper-expensive and highly secretive iPhone prototype on bar stool. •’Source’ [ READ MORE ]

understanding

I’m afraid if I’ve proved anything in my 26 years, it’s that I often don’t understand women, and they often don’t understand me.  But I think I understand trees. I like trees a lot. Especially the Redwoods[ READ MORE ]

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