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a project in Ithaca NY where local artists paint utility boxes in their style... this is one my friend did.

http://ryanbcurtis.com/home.html

and here is some of his other work.
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This one deserves its own post imo. I lived in Boston for a year, and our apt had a wide-open view of the Bay ... pretty much the only good thing since the neighborhood was ~meh~. Across the water was a power plant with one big stack, and in the winter sometimes its thread of smoke would be capped by the one cloud in the sky.

This is a similar effect ... but ... SpiderPig. cn

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I love clouds.
These have tentatively been called asperatus.
They make for very dramatic skies ... like being underwater during a huge storm.
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They appear to populate a continuum between mammatus clouds on the one hand
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and arcus or shelf clouds on the other.
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To me, both sorts have an apocalyptic feel. cn
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Meet the Peacock spider (Maratus volans) a species of jumping spider native to eastern Australia. Only 5mm in length, it is only the males that have this bright colouring.

The males also have extensions on their abdomen that can be folded down. They use these to display their colours and markings to females, earning them their name of 'peacock'. The male will first raise his abdomen, then raise his flaps forming a veritable field of colour. The male will then vibrate his raised legs and tail and dance from one side to another in an attempt to impress the female.
 
... even if that's the .49AE I wouldn't trust a semi-auto as bear medicine. Of the big-bore handguns, there's only one *real* .50 ... the .500 Linebaugh, bore diameter .50; bullet diameter .511. cn

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It'll snap back some, so a good two-handed grip.

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