The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has cloned five ancient redwood stumps to create 75 saplings. After 2 years of propagation, the saplings were planted in the Presidio in SF in the hopes of creating a supergrove. I'm intrigued by the science behind this project. The short film Moving the Giants tells the story of Archangel scientist David Milarch an arborist on a quest to archive the genetics of the world’s largest trees before they’re gone.
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Jamel Shabazz has been photographing Brooklyn since he was 15. His Instagram feed full of images of 1980's NY is a love letter to that time, the city and its people. He's working on a new book titled, "The Book of Life." I can't wait to see check it out.
Related: New York's Summer of '78
It's always hard to find vintage pictures of kids with their toys. I found this image from 1907 in the Library of Congress. This photo of Cheyenne girls playing displaying their dolls and doll-sized teepees is unusual in its casual empathy.
I wondered about the context of the image and found the photographer Julia Tuell was a young missionary assigned to the Lame Deer Agency in Montana. I haven't found a good complete archive of her photos, but many are striking in their intimacy such as this image of Cheyenne sun dance ceremony preparations. Scans of two of her photobooks can be found at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West: Julia Tuell 1, Julia Tuell 2. It's important to remember that adults in the community would have lived through Custer's massacres and were entering a period of bewildering change and oppression. Imagine the impression made by a Cheyenne-speaking white woman carrying a large Kodak camera.
]]> Filed under: photographyMore NASA dust devil images. HiRise dust devil images.
]]> Filed under: spaceEast Texan historian Bob Bowman lists a few including:
Chickenfeather
Pinetucky
Yard
Grannie’s Neck
Lick Skillet
Weeping Mary
Cuthand
I also like the cities named after other places:
Africa
Asia
Athens
Brooklyn
Geneva
Old Boston
Palestine
Moscow
And then there are the weird ones:
Birthright
Black Ankle
Bobo (on the famous Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo & Blair [or alternately Wells] line)
Cheeseland
Coke
Climax
Ebenezer
Holcomb Store
Jumbo - Named for the elephant.
Latch
Mim's Chapel
Mutt and Jeff
Old Dimple
Quicksand
Rambo
Tinrag
Twin Groceries
Uncertain
Weeping Mary
Who'd Thought it
-by Linda Pastan
]]> Filed under: notedG: "I'm feeling gothic."
R: "Very gothic?"
G: "So very gothic."
R: "I was mildly gothic, but now I'm so completely gothic."
G: "I wear black lipstick."
R: "I wear black eye liner."
G: "We scowl repeatedly, call us the gothic bros."
R: "Yeah. My hair is oh so long."
G: "and tangled and greasy.... And we read Harry Potter obsessively."
R: "We have a black charred hearts."
[chuckles]
]]> Filed under: on kidsThe Man without Fingernails
Sushi in School
At School We Need a Robotics Class
Deadly Kitties
Diseases
Every Kid Should Have A Ball
Stop Wars
Mutations and the Disabled
Freedom for All People (Stop Racist People)
Recipe for Alien Soup
Pelican Jokes
What if I was a Penguin
Death Poem
My Little Owl Friend
Describe Your Shoe
Poseidon, Zeus, Hermes, Achilles, and Hercules (My Hermit Crabs): If they could speak
]]> Filed under: on kidsI'm a big fan of Ferit Kuyas's work. His new book on Guatemala City will be out soon. I'm excited.
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