Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
1690 Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who does Rube Goldberg one better. While Goldberg’s creations were spectacularly clever and astoundingly useless, they were very much artifices: without a human creating them, they wouldn’t exist. Your typical Rube Goldberg device Continue reading Beach creatures
San Diego has a desert climate. It isn’t just slightly short of water; it has virtually none. The average yearly rainfall is just nine inches. There are virtually no sources of fresh water; virtually all fresh water is piped in Continue reading Greener San Diego
8832 This sign, posted on a San Diego, California, trolley stop, equates feeding birds with litter. If feeding is litter, this suggests you probably don’t want to try eating a snack on the trolley, or breast feeding an infant. Photo Continue reading Feeding is now litter
9220 These rainbow lorikeets, from Australia, are more than willing to come and land on you, if you are willing to feed them. They are energetic birds, so prefer energetic food, such as sugar water. This photo was taken at Continue reading Alliteration of lorikeets
In our quest to get back to nature and a highly processed, untouched-by-human-hands world, we offer this: The collection of words on the packaging makes no sense, beyond an obvious, overly anxious attempt to seem hip and “natural.” If the Continue reading All natural organic citrus aloe vera
This sign was posted on an overly ornate chair in a shop inside the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport terminal: The sign poses a number of important questions: The chair was one of those ridiculously ornate iron chairs you stick out on Continue reading Vampires in the airport
NI2009, the 10th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, was held in Helsinki, Finland, from June 28 to July 1, 2009. The following three photos, taken June 30 with an iPhone, were taken during a conference dinner in a park not Continue reading Park in Helsinki, Finland
An updated version of this page can be found here. And now we present a movie: March of the penguins http://www.kljcharters.com/penguinmarch/ Brought to you in living color. [Update] And now on YouTube:
Stellwagen Bank is a National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts, headquartered in an old Coast Guard station in Scituate. This visit was during a frozen February 2001. Photos from Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, 2001.