Prints of Help Japan, a beautiful, arresting image were available from SignalNoise but quickly sold out. Perhaps there will be more. More people want to help. More people want this elegant reminder.
There’s another red symbol of help. Donate to the Red Cross.
It’s funny the way the press talks. Always with the negative spin. How often do you see a headline that says funding for or profit from x is up? (Leaving aside for now stories about oil companies.) While the actual funding or profit might be greater than previously, the headline will say, “lower than projected.”…
In the spirit of Marie Antoinette, this year I let Dad dig his own while I watched from above. Not really, after a few minutes the guilt got to me and I joined him. Besides, I wanted to keep a few for dinner.Eventually almost everybody got their hands in the muck.A few years ago, when…
Why did the frog swallow the light bulb? To achieve enlightenment of course. Just one of the amazing photographs from National Wildlife’s photography contest.
From Scientific American Observations: Overfishing and pollution have pushed life in the high seas to the brink of collapse, according to a new report from the Global Ocean Commission. “The oceans are a failed state,” David Miliband, co-chair of the commission, told Reuters. … The report warns that a combination of technology and big fuel…
Ah, the piercing call of the string trimmer, a sure sign of spring. I’ve never embraced weed whacking. The smell of the gas engine, the weight on my shoulder … I finish the job sick and stiff necked. Plus I don’t like the way I think when I weed whack. Something about the vibration or…
Diver, cinematographer, and marine biologist Florian Graner knows well what lays beneath the surface of the Salish Sea. Florian lives on Holmes Harbor, and dives regularly from the beach off of his Whidbey Island neighborhood. He also dives and films in many other parts of the world, and has worked on films such as The…