The Last Bird Hovel?
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
This may be the last bird hovel extant.
Bumblebee
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
In the Sixth and B community garden in the East Village. In general bumblebees are so laid-back that you can get within inches of them without ruffling their cool. But they are capable of stinging.
Simon’s Cat ‘Fly Guy’
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Iron Dragons
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Ironwork dragons on East Second Street in the East Village.
Con Ed from Third Ave
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
The old Con Ed tower peeking between the new construction on Third Avenue.
Teethy
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Humboldt Squid
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Wildlife experts aren’t sure why dozens of huge Humboldt squid washed up on the shores of La Jolla, California early Saturday morning.
Residents noticed the squid roughly 15 minutes after a 4.0 magnitude offshore earthquake shook the area.
Self described “squid nerd” – “Captain Scott Cassell, President and CEO of Undersea Voyager Project. Since 1977, Scott has accumulated over 12,000 hours of drive time. He is a USCG Qualified Submersible Pilot/Captain with over 1200 dives. A former Advanced Diving Medical Technician Instructor (1 of 10 in the USA), Commercial Diving Instructor, and Hyperbaric Medical Technician Instructor he taught for years at the College Of Oceaneering. He is also a PADI Instructor.”
During the talk Cassell speculates that the massive bloom in the Humboldt squid population is the result of the decimation of their predators: sharks and tuna. On his first dive with the squid, his shoulder was dislocated and his eardrum burst as he was dragged down to 70 feet below the surface. Now he wears chain mail armor and plates over his wrists to prevent the squid snapping his arm bones like twigs, and he is tethered to prevent being dragged below. He doesn’t explain it, but in the video he is wearing a cast on his right arm.
underseavoyager.org
Humboldt Squid in Orange County cannibalizing a jigged companion (notice the light stick) with annoying Lone Ranger soundtrack.
Chains
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Part of a new Tats Cru mural in the East Village.
