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Only Bollards with @saintbollard

For more of Andrew Choate’s photos, follow @saintbollard on Instagram.

Bollards are stumpy concrete posts meant to prevent cars from driving into buildings or walkways. They are not typically described as cute or clever, funny or sneaky — or really as anything at all. But when Andrew Choate (@saintbollard) moved from South Carolina to Southern California, bollards became his muse. “I was attracted to their variety, and how neatly they lent themselves to formal composition,” says Andrew, who teaches creative writing at juvenile detention centers and uses his ripe imagination to articulate the purpose of his project. “Looking at the bollards as a kind of aesthetic and comic relief provides a way to see without hiding, a way to look that appreciates reality for what it is.”

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#dramaticsky

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I will miss you…

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Portrait of Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl by Charles Édouard Boutibonne, painted in 1865, and the dress she was wearing, which survives in the Hallwyl Museum.

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If you couldn’t tell already, NASA is having a great year. From Pluto to food grown in space, even in the face of budget cuts, the nation’s space agency had some stellar highlights. Most mysteriously of all, a spacecraft found two eerily bright lights on a distant dwarf planet.

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Ed Ruscha   Standard, Figueroa 19/30 14″ x 11″  Silver Gelatin Print 

MILK & HONEY Contemporary Art in California Exhibition Dates: NOW - September 4, 2015

Slow Culture Gallery 5906 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90042 @slow_culture

inquiries: info@slowculture.com

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“A photo I took at a fireworks display eerily looks like the beginning of an alien abduction.” (Source)

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“Respect to Nature.”

Humans adapting themselves to nature rather than forcing other species to adapt to us. This is what we must do in the Anthropocene. Trees are the most important three dimensional structures of many ecosystems, and they are the central design features of most permaculture gardens. They provide many products and services to other species, from housing to food (acorns, insects, pollen), shade and shelter from the wind. We ought to respect their importance.

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First very very wobbly 'attempt' at #signwriting.

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