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The Most Loved Photos of October (24 Photos)

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Two photos side by side: Giambologna's huge bearded stone giant, the Apennine Colossus, crouching over a rocky grotto in Italy, and an old child's bicycle half swallowed by a tree trunk on Vashon Island, Washington.

October’s photos, ranked by reader Loves

Every photo on Street Art Utopia has a Love button. These are the photos readers Loved the most in October, highest first, all from posts we published that month. We left out photos already used in a Most Loved list and took no more than three from any one post. First up: a child’s bike that a tree on Vashon Island slowly swallowed.

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An old child’s bicycle stuck in a tree trunk on Vashon Island, Washington, with the handlebars and front wheel on one side of the trunk and the back wheel and its fender on the other

🚲 The Bike in the Tree — Vashon Island, Washington, USA 🇺🇸

Handlebars and the front wheel stick out of one side of the trunk, the back wheel out of the other. The tree stands in the woods near Vashon Highway SW on Vashon Island, and in 2009 the bike was about a dozen feet up.

💡 Myth Fact: Islander Don Puz left the bike in the woods in 1954 and forgot about it. The story of a boy who went off to the First World War and never came back is not true, and the bike was almost certainly moved after Puz left it. It inspired Berkeley Breathed’s picture book Red Ranger Came Calling (1994).

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsBike in the TreeVashon, United StatesVashon IslandChild’s bicycle1HistoryLink associates the bicycle with Don Puz and 1954.historylink.org2KUOW reported that Jeff Ammon replaced missing handlebars and a wheel.archive.kuow.org20132 JanReported by ABC News201320 SepPhoto uploaded by this date201410 SepLocal KUOW report202424 MarVisitor account published; visit and photo dates unstatedRead the full file →

📷 Photo and cover crop: rev.sherm / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

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Giambologna's Apennine Colossus at Villa Demidoff near Florence: a huge bearded stone giant crouching on a rocky grotto, his beard and hair of dripping stone, among dark trees.

🗿 “Apennine Colossus” — By Giambologna in Vaglia, Italy 🇮🇹

In the wooded park of Villa Demidoff, north of Florence, a bearded giant crouches on a rocky grotto, his beard made of dripping stone. Giambologna made him around 1580, and he is about 11 meters (36 ft) tall.

💡 Chimney Fact: The giant is hollow, with rooms on three levels. A small room in his head had a fireplace, and its smoke was meant to come out of his nostrils.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsColosso dell’AppenninoGiambologna · VagliaMedici garden at Pratolino10+ metres tallRestored 20141La Nazione reported in 2014 that a three-year restoration had cleaned, consolidated and protected the giant’s whole “skin”.La Nazione2According to the park owner, Francesco I liked to fish through the giant’s eyes, then glazed like windows and now walled up.Città Metropolitana di Firenze20149 MayPhotographed by Sailko · camera date201419 OctPresentation announced after a three-year restoration20238 OctPhotographed by Rhododendrites · camera date20264 SepPark owner’s page still presents the giantMore photos2023 The whole giant and the grotto belowPhoto: Rhododendrites / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)Read the full file →

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Dozens of old gravestones stacked in overlapping rings around the base of the Hardy Tree, an ash in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London, behind black railings

🪦 The Hardy Tree — St Pancras Old Church, London, UK 🇬🇧

In this 2007 photo, old headstones lean together in rings around the base of an ash in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London.

💡 Tree Fact: In the 1860s, part of the churchyard was cleared for the Midland Railway, and the young Thomas Hardy, then an architect’s assistant, oversaw the removal of burials. He is widely believed to have stacked these stones. But former Camden archivist Malcolm Holmes traced their inscriptions to St Giles in the Fields burials and found they could not have arrived before 1877, long after Hardy had left for Dorset. A 1926 photo shared by the Thomas Hardy Society shows no ash, so the tree came later. It fell in December 2022; a beech was planted elsewhere in the gardens in April 2024. The stones are still there.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsThe Hardy TreeLondon, United KingdomSt PancrasGravestones1According to the Camden New Journal, an ash grew through a ring of relocated gravestones.camdennewjournal.co.uk2Camden Council says a fungal infection was identified in 2014.news.camden.gov.uk200730 MarAsh and gravestones photographed202227 DecFall reported202228 DecCamden confirms the fallen tree202412 AprNew commemorative beech planted nearby; original ash remains goneRead the full file →

📷 Photo: David Edgar / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Four see-through human figures made of welded stainless-steel nuts stand in a row on a terrace above a turquoise bay in Saint Barthélemy.

🔩 Steel Lace Figures — By Jean Martin in Saint Barthélemy 🇧🇱

Four figures look out over a Caribbean bay, and the bay shows through them. Each body is built from stainless-steel nuts, in a series the gallery calls Steel Lace. Martin, a French welder turned artist, lives on the island; his gallery describes the figures as made from 20,000 stainless-steel nuts, each welded by hand.

💡 Material Fact: The nuts are the same high-grade stainless steel used to build superyachts, welded together one by one.

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Huang Yong Ping's giant aluminum sea serpent skeleton standing in shallow water at Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, its open-jawed skull nearest the camera and its spine running out toward the horizon.

🐍 “Serpent d’océan” — By Huang Yong Ping in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France 🇫🇷

A skeleton 130 meters long lies on the beach where the Loire meets the Atlantic, its skull raised and jaws wide open. Huang Yong Ping made it from aluminum for the 2012 Estuaire festival at the tip of the Pointe du Nez-de-Chien.

💡 Tide Fact: The tail sits at the low-tide line and the head at the high-tide line. At low tide you can walk all the way around it; at high tide only the head and the tops of the vertebrae show.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsSerpent d’océanHuang Yong Ping · 2012 · Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, FranceAluminium skeletonEstuaire 201234 foundation micropiles1Thirty-four micropiles, each 140 mm in diameter, anchor the sculpture into rock.ETPO project sheet2Its spine echoes the Saint-Nazaire Bridge, while its pose recalls the coast’s fishing cabins.Le Voyage à Nantes201214 JunLe Monde: installed at Mindin202211 AprTenth-anniversary coverage202524 SepTown confirms maintenance on site202627 JunDated photo by Philippe Pouvreau (Flickr)202620 AugVisitor feature; photo date unknownRead the full file →

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Two photos of the Mud Maid at Heligan: a sleeping woman lying on the woodland floor with a body of moss and a tuft of grass for hair, shown green in summer and covered in snow in winter.

🌿 “Mud Maid” — By Sue and Pete Hill at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, England 🇬🇧

The Mud Maid sleeps on the floor of Heligan’s Woodland Walk, her body covered in ivy, with moss creeping over her face. Sister and brother Sue and Pete Hill made her in 1997, and grass, ivy and moss grow and wither on her through the year. The two photos show her in summer and under snow.

💡 Name Fact: She was first planned as a mermaid. According to My Modern Met, the tail was dropped after a member of the restoration team called her a “mud maid.”

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsMud MaidSue and Pete Hill · Lost Gardens of Heligan, CornwallWoodland WalkMade 1997 (My Modern Met)1According to My Modern Met, she was shaped on a wooden frame made from scraps found on the estate.My Modern Met2Heligan says re-using materials from the estate reflects how the Mud Maid and Giant’s Head were made.Lost Gardens of Heligan201630 MayPhotographed by Daderot202011 JunMy Modern Met on how she was made202522 JulVisit report with photo · Walking Ways20252 OctHeligan names her makersRead the full file →

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A single small white house sits alone on the green slope of Elliðaey island, ringed by dark sea cliffs, in Iceland's Westman Islands

🏝️ Elliðaey — Westman Islands, Iceland 🇮🇸

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsElliðaey Hunting LodgeVestmannaeyjar · IcelandElliðaeyWestman Islands1According to Heimaslóð, a two-storey wing was completed in 1987.heimaslod.is2According to Heimaslóð, the demolished 1953 section was replaced in 1996.heimaslod.is1953Lodge section built1987Attached two-storey wing completed1994The 1953 section demolished1996Replacement section completed202116 SepLodge complex photographed from the air202517 Jun“The Lodge on the Elliðaey”, photo by Thierry de Boulard (Flickr)Read the full file →

A lone white house on a grassy island with sea cliffs on every side and no permanent population. It is a hunting lodge built in 1953 by the Elliðaey Hunting Association, and social media keeps calling it the loneliest house in the world. 📷 Photo: H0rdur.kristleifsson / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

💡 Myth Fact: Björk does not live here. The rumor comes from a 2000 offer of a free home on a different Icelandic island with the same name.

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3D pavement painting by Lydia and Vanessa Hitzfeld at Valoisplatz in Wilhelmshaven, Germany: a mermaid with a pearl crown rests her arms on a rocky edge of a painted turquoise pool, her pink tail curling behind her while two costumed people stand on it.

🧜‍♀️ Mermaid — By Lydia and Vanessa Hitzfeld in Wilhelmshaven, Germany 🇩🇪

A mermaid rests her arms on the edge of a rock pool that is not there. The pool is paint on the paving of Valoisplatz, and the two people standing on her tail show the scale. Lydia and Vanessa Hitzfeld made it for the 14th International StreetArt Festival Wilhelmshaven in summer 2026. It was the festival’s largest motif, and the artists told the local paper they wanted to document the closeness to the North Sea. Photo by Rabbithole Photography.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsMermaidLydia and Vanessa Hitzfeld · 2026 · Wilhelmshaven3D pavement paintingValoisplatzStreetArt Festival 20261The artists mixed their own paint from pigments and a light binder, so the picture would not last long.NDR2NWZ called the mermaid in her water-filled pool the festival’s largest motif.NWZ202624 JulAnnounced, motif a surprise202631 JulNDR: being painted20262 AugNWZ: largest motif20263 AugNWZ: pond and mermaidRead the full file →

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A living tree whose trunk has been grown into the shape of a standing person with legs and raised arms, its leafy branches spreading above like hair.

🌳 A Tree Grown Into a Person — By Pooktre (Peter Cook and Becky Northey) in Australia 🇦🇺

Nothing here was carved. The tree was shaped as it grew into two legs and two raised arms, and the branches above became the hair. According to the photo’s description, the tree was planted in 1998 and photographed in 2009.

💡 Tree Shaping Fact: In Australia, Peter Cook and Becky Northey refined their own techniques for shaping trees into figures of people, chairs and mirror frames.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsPerson TreePeter Cook and Becky Northey (Pooktre)Grown, not carvedPlanted 1998 (Commons note)1LawnStarter describes Pooktre as gradual tree shaping, with trunks or branches trained to grow together.LawnStarter2Atlas Obscura says the pair shape trees into people, chairs and mirror frames.Atlas Obscura2009Photographed by Pooktre201713 DecAtlas Obscura shows the photo202429 AprLawnStarter credits the makersRead the full file →

📷 Photo: Pooktre (uploaded by Blackash) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

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Aerial view of a forest planted in the shape of a guitar, its outline and strings made of rows of trees, surrounded by green farm fields in Argentina.

🎸 The Guitar Forest — Near Laboulaye, Argentina 🇦🇷

From the ground it is a line of trees on a farm in the Pampas near Laboulaye, in Córdoba province. From the air it is a guitar about a kilometer long. Pedro Martín Ureta and his children began planting it in 1979 as a tribute to his late wife, Graciela.

💡 Forest Fact: The guitar is made of about 7,000 cypress and blue eucalyptus trees. Ureta was afraid of flying and never flew over the forest himself.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsLa Guitarra de ÁrbolesPedro Martín Ureta and family · 1979 · General Levalle, CórdobaLiving treesFamily memorial1The planting commemorates Graciela Yraizoz, the creator’s wife.viapais.com.ar2An April 2026 report describes the family maintaining the planting.batimes.com.ar1979Planting began · history recorded by NASA20072 NovTerra satellite image acquired201427 AprNASA publishes Guitar Forest202314 FebVía País profiles the memorial planting202630 MarAFP aerial photograph, reproduced in Buenos Aires Times202616 AprFamily maintenance reportedRead the full file →

📷 Photo: Marco Guoli.

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A stone Buddha head held in a tangle of tree roots at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand, with a low chain fence in front

🙏 Buddha Head in the Roots — Wat Mahathat, Ayutthaya, Thailand 🇹🇭

Only the face is free. The rest of this sandstone head is wrapped in the roots of a fig tree at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand’s old royal capital.

💡 History Fact: The Burmese army attacked and razed Ayutthaya in 1767. How the head got into the tree is unknown; one common belief is that it broke off during that attack and the roots grew around it later.

💡 Visitor Fact: Thailand’s tourism authority asks visitors not to take photos while standing over the Buddha’s head, so people squat for the picture.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsBuddha Head in the RootsMaker unknown · Wat Mahathat, Ayutthaya, ThailandSandstone headWat MahathatUNESCO site since 19911Visitors are advised to squat for photos so they do not look down on the Buddha.Atlas Obscura2Prachachat calls the root-covered sandstone Buddha head the highlight of Wat Mahathat.Prachachat200625 MayClose-up by McKay Savage20109 MayNational Geographic Photo of the Day201323 AugWhole tree, by Diego Delso20206 JanHead in the roots, close202331 DecPrachachat on the temple202518 NovHead still in the roots202610 MarKhaosod: still drawing crowdsRead the full file →

📷 Photo: Horiuchi / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

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The Earth Goddess at the Atlanta Botanical Garden: a giant woman covered in green plants, with long hair of red, yellow and green plants, pouring water from her hand into a pool.

🌺 “Earth Goddess” — By Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia, USA 🇺🇸

About 25 feet tall and covered in roughly 17,000 plants, the Earth Goddess rises from the Cascades Garden and lets water run from her hand. She arrived in May 2013 from Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal in 23 fully planted pieces for the Imaginary Worlds exhibition, and the garden kept her in its permanent collection.

💡 Garden Fact: Her hollow body holds the irrigation system, split into 13 zones so the gardeners can water different parts, such as the fingertips, separately. She is sheared about every two weeks to keep her shape defined.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsEarth GoddessMosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal · 2013 · Atlanta Botanical Garden25 feet tallCascades Garden18,000 annuals (garden)1Welders built her frame from thin rods and sheet steel, covered it with a liner and filled it with soil.Atlanta Botanical Garden2According to Atlanta magazine, she came from Montreal in 23 fully planted pieces and was craned into place.Atlanta magazine201427 JunPhotographed by Eric Yarnell202319 MayAtlanta magazine: 10 years old202628 AprVisitor account · Grantham Garden ClubRead the full file →

📷 Photo: Eric Yarnell / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Jon Foreman's Mushroom Path at Druidston Haven in Wales: flat beach pebbles balanced on thin upright sticks in winding rows across wet sand, like a trail of stone mushrooms.

🍄 “Mushroom Path” — By Jon Foreman at Druidston Haven, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Flat beach stones balanced on thin sticks wind across the sand like a trail of mushrooms leading back to the sea. Foreman made it in 2024 at Druidston Haven. It lasts only as long as the stones stay balanced.

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Come in to Light by Daniel Popper in Tulum, a giant wooden figure among palm trees pulling its chest open into a planted green passage, with a visitor standing inside the opening.

🌿 “Ven a la Luz” (“Come into the Light”) — By Daniel Popper in Tulum, Mexico 🇲🇽

A wooden giant sits among the palms and pulls its own chest open. The gap is a planted passage, and visitors walk straight into it. Popper built Ven a la Luz in 2018 for the Art With Me festival; it is 33 feet tall. It stands at Ahau Tulum, a beachfront hotel on the Tulum–Boca Paila road.

💡 Sculpture Fact: Ven a la Luz was the first of three Popper giants built around the same open-chest pose. A later one, Thrive, was unveiled in 2020 at the Society Las Olas residential building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsVen a la LuzDaniel Popper · 2018 · Tulum201833 feet1According to the artist, the work was created for Art With Me in 2018.danielpopper.com2Ahau dates its permanent relocation to October 2021.ahautulum.com2018Created for Art With Me · artist project record202113 SepClosure and relocation plans reported2021OctPermanent relocation dated by Ahau20219 NovReopening inside Ahau reported20258 JulGuide documents the sculpture-park locationRead the full file →

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A golden-brown dog on a leash stands on its hind legs at a bright yellow wooden cabinet full of sticks under a sign reading Doggie Stick Library with red paw prints.

🐕 Doggie Stick Library

A yellow cabinet, rows of sticks on wooden pegs and a hand-painted sign with paw prints. The borrower in the photo has already picked one out. Take a stick, bring it back later, maybe a little shorter.

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Small stone church and monastery buildings with red-tiled roofs on top of the Katskhi Pillar, a limestone column with a long metal ladder up its face, rising out of green forest in Imereti, Georgia

⛪ Katskhi Pillar — Imereti, Georgia 🇬🇪

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsKatskhi Pillar MonasteryKatskhi · Imereti · Georgia40 m monolithImereti1The limestone pillar rises about 40 metres.georgia.travel2Kutaisi tourism says visitors are not allowed to climb the pillar.kutaisi.travelBy 2009State-funded restoration reported complete202517 JunPillar and summit buildings photographedRead the full file →

A limestone column about 40 meters high with a small monastery on its flat top. Nobody made a documented climb to the top until 1944. 📷 Photo: Alexkom000 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

💡 Hermit Fact: The monk Maxim Kavtaradze lived on top for 20 years, coming down only twice a week. Visitors have not been allowed up the ladder since 2012.

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Thomas Dambo’s wooden troll Jeppe Væktæppe, with a grinning face and spiky hair, stretches low across the forest floor near Voldum, Denmark, one large hand resting by a tree next to two small children.

🌲 “Jeppe Væktæppe” — By Thomas Dambo near Voldum, Denmark 🇩🇰

A wooden giant crouches between the trees, and the two children standing by its hand show just how big it is. Thomas Dambo made Jeppe Væktæppe near Voldum, close to Aarhus. Dambo says the idea came from playing peekaboo with his toddler twins, which makes this forest encounter feel a little less alarming.

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Nello and Patrasche by Batist Vermeulen: a child and dog sleep beneath a blanket of cobblestones in Antwerp.

🤝 “Nello & Patrasche” — By Batist Vermeulen in Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

A child and dog sleep together beneath a blanket made from the cobblestones of Handschoenmarkt, the square in front of Antwerp’s cathedral. Vermeulen based the work on Ouida’s A Dog of Flanders. Visitors can walk right over them, and since 2022 LED lighting has kept the pair visible at night.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsNello & Patrasche — Batist Vermeulen, AntwerpBatist Vermeulen · 2016 · AntwerpAntwerpWhite marble20161The sculpture was installed on Handschoenmarkt in 2016.VRT2LED lighting was added in November 2022.VRT2016Installed on Handschoenmarkt, according to VRT’s 2023 account20227 NovLED lighting switched on; reported by VRT the following day202316 JulBlack-marker vandalism documented in VRT’s 17 July report; later condition not verifiedRead the full file →

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Banksy installation at Dismaland in Weston-super-Mare: Cinderella's white pumpkin coach lies overturned with fallen horses, Cinderella hanging limp from the window while photographers fire their flashes.

🎃 Cinderella’s Coach — By Banksy in Weston-super-Mare, England 🇬🇧

Midnight came, and so did the press. The pumpkin coach lies on its side, the white horses are down, and Cinderella hangs out of the window while a pack of photographers keep shooting. The Art Newspaper read the scene as a nod to the death of Princess Diana. It was one of ten Banksy pieces at Dismaland, his “bemusement” park in Weston-super-Mare.

💡 History Fact: Dismaland was open for 36 days in August and September 2015, with 58 artists and about 150,000 visitors. When it closed, its timber and other materials were taken to Calais and used to build shelters in the migrant camp.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsCinderella’s CarriageBanksy · 2015 · Weston-super-MareLife-size (Daily Beast)Dismaland, 2015One of ten Banksy pieces1The Daily Beast called it a life-size crime scene replica with Cinderella in place of Princess Diana.The Daily Beast2After Dismaland closed, its timber and materials were cut up for shelters in the Calais camp.NBC News201521 AugThe Art Newspaper201521 AugDaily Beast: Diana scene201522 AugTime: the diorama201526 AugCritics on the castle201527 SepDismaland closes201516 OctMaterials go to CalaisRead the full file →

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A gap at the foot of a brick garden wall in Barnes, London, with small steps in front and three blue hedgehog-shaped plaques reading Please Keep Open above it.

🦔 Barnes Hedgehog Highway — Barnes, London, UK 🇬🇧

A hole at the bottom of a garden wall, two little steps and three blue hedgehogs asking you to keep it open. The door is for hedgehogs moving from garden to garden at night. Barnes Common’s history of the project says founder Michel Birkenwald and his friend Robin have drilled more than 1,000 holes in Barnes and Sheen, each with a plaque asking people to keep it open.

💡 Hedgehog Fact: The doors are small. Smithsonian reported that Wildlife Watch recommends a hole of roughly five inches square.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsBarnes Hedgehog HighwayBarnes Hedgehogs · Barnes, LondonHoles the size of a CDOver 1,000 holesPart of Barnes Common1Founder Michel Birkenwald began by asking his neighbour to cut a hole the size of a CD in his fence.Barnes Common2Barnes Common says he and his friend Robin have cut well over a thousand holes in the area, including Mortlake, Putney, Sheen and Richmond.Barnes Common201815 FebHedgehog crossings · Atlas Obscura201815 Oct100 highways · IFAW award202024 DecAbout 800 holes · The Guardian202225 JulOver 1,000 holes · Hedgehog Street202321 JanThis passage · Commons photo, camera dateRead the full file →

📷 Photo: The wub / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Four views of Luis Arencibia’s Neptuno del Puntón off Melenara Beach in Telde, Gran Canaria: one large photo of a wave breaking around him with only his head, arm and trident above the spray, and three smaller views of the figure on its rock in the surf.

🔱 “Neptuno del Puntón” — By Luis Arencibia in Telde, Gran Canaria, Spain 🇪🇸

Neptune stands on a rock just off Melenara Beach, and in a big swell the Atlantic swallows all of him but his head, arm and trident. Gran Canaria’s tourism site dates his inauguration to September 1, 2001.

💡 Nerd Fact: In November 2010 the waves tore off Neptune’s right arm and trident. The 2017 repair added an internal structure to the arm so the waves would not snap it again.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsNeptuno del Puntón (Neptune of the Puntón)Luis Arencibia · 2001 · Telde, SpainBronzeInaugurated 2001Repaired April 20171La Provincia says the sea tore off the right arm and trident in November 2010; they were put back in April 2017.La Provincia2According to La Provincia, a crane with a 50-metre arm lifted the welders out to the statue.La Provincia201720 AprArm and trident welded back on · La Provincia201721 AprNeptune whole again at Melenara · Canarias7202516 JanMelenara beach and its Neptune · Atlántico Hoy20258 FebCalled the world’s most fascinating sculpture · La ProvinciaRead the full file →

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Pale stones arranged in graduated rows form a nearly closed ring on wet sand at Poppit Sands, with the sea behind them.

🌊 “Direct” — By Jon Foreman at Poppit Sands, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Smooth stones form a nearly closed ring across the wet sand at Poppit Sands. Their size changes along the curve, giving Foreman’s “Direct” a sense of movement without anything actually moving.

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A handwritten note on the glass door of The Next Page bookshop in Calgary asking people to open the door carefully because a bat is sleeping on it, with a small brown bat clinging to the wooden door frame on the left.

🦇 Sleeping Bat Warning — The Next Page in Calgary, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦

“Attention. Please open the door carefully as there is a bat sleeping on it.” The arrow points left, and there it is, hanging on the wooden frame of the bookshop at 1217A 9 Avenue SE. CTV News reported in October 2021 that an Alberta wildlife group rescued the bat.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsSleeping Bat SignThe Next Page · 2021 · Inglewood, CalgaryLittle brown myotisRescued by AIWC1The wildlife group sent a volunteer because the bat was too cold to fly; staff found it in good health.DiscoverAirdrie2It was to spend the winter at the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation near Madden and be released in spring.CTV News Calgary202112 OctCTV: bat rescued202114 OctShelf Awareness item202116 OctWintering at AIWCRead the full file →

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A tall tree stump carved into a druid-like human figure in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore

🌳 Druid Hill Park Stump Sculpture — By Mark Acton in Baltimore, Maryland, USA 🇺🇸

Chainsaw artist Mark Acton turned this weathered stump into a druid-like figure, with the old roots still spreading into the park.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsThe Green ManMark Acton · 2012 · Druid Hill Park, BaltimoreWest end of Druid LakeChainsaw carvingRed oak (Baltimore Sun)1The city cut the red oak down because of termite damage, so Acton had to hollow out the stump, according to the Baltimore Sun.Baltimore Sun2According to Baltimore Fishbowl, Acton was enlisted by the Friends of Druid Hill Park, and his first sculpture was inspired by the Green Man.Baltimore Fishbowl201228 NovBaltimore Fishbowl on the new carvings201220 DecBaltimore Sun, day before dedication201319 OctBlog photo of the fresh carving201610 Jul3D scan published201724 MarBaltimore Heritage photo201726 MarChuck Ditzler’s photosRead the full file →

📷 Photo: Baltimore Heritage / Eli Pousson, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

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🎮 A Geisha With Neon Hairpins Wears a Video-Game Kimono — By dankitchener in Villeurbanne

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