And while you’re celebrating…
7:50 pm, December 23rd, 2009 by ina
…please stay clear of dangerous radioactive growths.
(photo: Backhouse Images)
America kicks Ass
12:34 am, December 20th, 2009 by ina
This photo captures the beauty of patriotism.
And yet it fails to convey the true scope of this display. For the owner of this front yard, as well as his almost next door neighbor on Fremont Avenue in Alhambra (California), created an amazing audio landscape to make their Christmas light frenzy even more vigorous.
For a taste of holiday Casio vibe, please check out Video 1, for a more country attitude please see Video 2.
Video 1: Christmas Lights and Casio Sound on YouTube
Video 2: Christmas Lights and Country Sound on YouTube
(photo and movies: Backhouse Images)
Why I don’t care about Global Warming
8:51 pm, December 19th, 2009 by ina
Habitat loss is a myth.
These photographs prove it - wasting enormous amounts of coal-generated electricity to light insanely bright Christmas displays does NOT harm polar bears. See how happy they look in their Alhambra refuge?
(photos: Backhouse Images)
This is confusing
12:13 am, December 19th, 2009 by ina
The owner of this front yard in San Marino (CA) put up a sculpture of a fat man in a skintight red suit and sunglasses looking for a parking spot for his chopper. Christmas time is weird.
(photo: Backhouse Images)
Pet Peeve
9:45 pm, December 17th, 2009 by ina
In these hectic and consumerist times, this canine nativity scene is a timely reminder of what Christmas really should be about: little cartoon dogs with floppy ears.
(photo: Backhouse Images)
We don’t get Snow, Man!
8:21 pm, December 16th, 2009 by ina
Hey there, giant white figure remotely resembling a snow man with gloves!
You must feel uncool for being a fake snow sculpture on a South Pasadena lawn. We don’t get snow in this part of California. Ever. In fact, we don’t really get any decent precipitation at all. But that’s a different story. Anyway. You are probably sick of the humiliation that comes with being out of place and you are plotting your escape as I am typing this.
Hope you make it. Before you go, please turn off any outsize plastic candy sticks you happen to bump into.
Thanks much and good luck, your Ecomorons
(photo: Backhouse Images)
Let the Sunshine in…
1:40 pm, August 31st, 2009 by ina… and ride a flower bike. As they do in Berlin, Germany. We saw this one in full bloom at the Hackesche Höfe.
(photo: Backhouse Images)
Insane Lights – The Wilderness Climax
3:42 pm, January 4th, 2009 by ina
Who would want to camp in a National Park right in the Mojave Desert WITHOUT electric Christmas lights???
These folks wrapped their trailer with fairy lights at Ryan Campground in Joshua Tree NP. Happy New Year!
(photo: Backhouse Images)
Plastic Monsters Take Utah
12:06 am, December 29th, 2008 by ina
In the rural town of Springdale, Utah, the month of December has brought change of a special kind: Oversized, menacing plastic monsters illuminate the quiet streets at night. Residents say the strange figures started to appear shortly after Thanksgiving. People in this close-knit community at the gateway to idyllic Zion National Park now fear that the abominable snowman and his henchmen might have chosen Springdale as their permanent headquarters. Whence the monsters hail from has not been determined yet.
(photos: Backhouse Images)
Bright Lights replace McCain/Palin
10:33 pm, December 28th, 2008 by inaThese are the most glaring Christmas lights I have ever seen.
They have a blinding effect from about 80 meters (about 87 yards) away. Fascinated, I braved the onslaught of photons and, squinting, checked out the display from up close. The secret of its insane brightness seems to lie in a layer of shiny metal to reflect the glow of oldfangled mini light bulbs (see pic below).
There is a little back story to this display. Before it appeared, a McCain/Palin sign adorned this front yard in South Pasadena, California. In late November, the sign was replaced with these lights.
Now, is that good or bad?
(photos: Backhouse Images)