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Adios LA: Clever ‘Dear John’ Letter to Los Angeles

Artist Jon Jackson has had enough of his hometown of LA. Now it’s time to say Adios … You can slip out the back Jack or you can put up five 10 x 23 foot billboards in your neighborhood. Adios LA is a visual goodbye to the city Jon Jackson has called home for years [...]

Bleak Winter in Yosemite National Park

Videographer Henry Jun Wah Lee notes that this bleak, yet beautiful, video was: Shot over the 2011 New Year weekend when a winter storm arrived in Yosemite. Overcast skies the first day, followed by heavy snow on the second day, partly cloudy the third day and sunny the fourth day. You’ll see a mixture of [...]

Books & Bars: L.A.’s Thirst for Literature (and Style)

… there is currently a trendy movement occurring in Los Angeles that has seen the marriage of books and bars. That’s right – drinking establishments that have lined their walls, and shelves, with everything from hardbound classics and modern novellas to law encyclopedias and philosophical tomes. As for the current trend of styling everything from [...]

Photo of the Moment: Falling from the Sun Burst, Los Angeles

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Photo of the Moment: Stargazing at Mission San Miguel, California

© Kevin Cole

Snapping the Crazy Hills of San Francisco

BoingBoing points us to photographer Håkan Dahlström who snapped this interesting shot of the Russian Hill neighborhood in San Francisco: © Håkan Dahlström It’s simply a matter of perspective: Dahlström titled the camera to ensure that the cars (rather than the house) were level. Clever.

Photo of the Moment: After the Storm at Santa Monica Pier, California

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Photo of the Moment: Sunset Dog Sledding at Squaw Valley

© SteveJurvetson

The Unseen Sea of San Francisco [Video]

Over the course of one year, photographer Simon Christen shot a series of photos around the San Francisco Bay Area. The result is this beautifully serene time-lapse video. It’s like the west coast counterpart to the Alone in New York video we recently Twittered about. Don’t miss this one in full-screen HD if possible. The [...]

Napa Valley Zip Lines Coming Soon to … Napa Valley

Coming soon to California’s Napa Valley: zip lining. The wildly popular outdoor activity is coming to wine country courtesy of Napa Valley Bike Tours, who claim: The Napa Valley Ziplines course was designed specifically for first-timers. The first two zip lines will be the shortest and slowest of the course, designed to ease participants into [...]

Photo of the Moment: Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe, California

© the_tahoe_guy

Photo of the Moment: Three’s a Crowd, San Diego

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Photo of the Moment: Quarter Past 5 in Coyote Hills Regional Park

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Photo of the Moment: Take Me Out of Here, San Jose

© Shayan (USA)

Be Advised: The U.S. Government Frowns Upon Spreading Thousands Of Golf Balls Around National Parks

© BorisFromStockdale Although a seemingly self-evident proposition, some of our fellow citizens seem to have missed this particular memo. Not just missed it, but missed it to the tune of 3,000 golf balls spread around California’s Joshua Tree National Park over the course of a year. The “national” part of that label means it’s under [...]

Photo of the Moment: Should We Ask for Directions?, Death Valley

© .Bala

Photo of the Moment: Riders on the Sand, California

© mikebaird

Photo of the Moment: Ross Alley in Chinatown, San Francisco

© Mark Coggins “Originally home to gambling houses and brothels in the wild Barbary Coast days, Ross Alley is a very narrow throughway that has retained enough of its character to be featured in movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”

Signspotting: Puzzling Signage on Fisherman’s Wharf, California

© CarbonNYC A golden prize to the first one to correctly guess what the hell this represents.

36 Hours in San Francisco, California

The stores on Fisherman’s Wharf filled with shot glasses declare, “I left my heart in San Francisco.” Sadly, what many people see in the City by the Bay is little more than the trappings of tour buses and t-shirt vendors. But it doesn’t take much to venture away from the hawkers and to discover the [...]

High Speed Levitating Train from California to Las Vegas?

The first real maglev train in the United States – a modest proposal that has been in the works for years – is still facing stiff competition from the typical bureaucratic blockades. As a former California resident, I’m keenly aware that some kind of mass-transit method from California to Vegas has dotted the editorial pages [...]

Adrenaline Rush: The Geek Sport of Speedcabling

© Jaako Trust an IT guy to devise a new “game” that has people detangling Ethernet cables, and calling it a “sport.” Los Angeles native, Steven Schkolne, devised the game called “speedcabling” in which contestants were given a tangled mess of eight Ethernet cables and asked to detangle them. The contestant who detangles the cables [...]

Supernatural Travel: The Anti-Ghost Mansion of San Jose

A mansion in San Jose was built to confuse ghosts. It has one-hundred and sixty rooms, four-hundred and sixty-seven doors, and forty-seven fireplaces. But many of the cabinets open to blank walls. Stairways wind around in circles, or run straight into the ceiling. There is at least one door that opens up into a ten-foot [...]

Health Officials Looking for Passengers Infected with Rare Strain of TB

A 30 year old Nepal native from Sunnyvale, California might have infected other passengers on an American Airlines flight from New Delhi to Chicago, with a deadly drug resistant strain of Tuberculosis. Health officials are now searching frantically for other passengers who might have been sitting close to her on the same flight. The woman [...]

Photo of the Moment: Pigeon Point Lighthouse, San Francisco

© MumbleyJoe

4-Minute Road Trip: Los Angeles to New York City

Looking at the comments and author’s notes on YouTube, there’s a bit of confusion about who actually filmed this video. It’s pretty damn cool nonetheless. Update: This is a music video by director Michel Gondry. The song is called “Behind” by Lacquer.

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