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A lumberjack created more than 200 sculptures in Wisconsin's Northwoods
- fasthands9 1y agoThis is my favorite type of art.
- seemaze 1y agoI always forget how terrible the modern ad supported web is until I travel without a dns ad blocker..
- FridayoLeary 1y agoHe's a lumberjack and he's okay... (sorry, i couldn't hold myself back)
- Uninen 1y agoOff-topic but this is one of my pet peeves of the modern web; some of the images on the page are ridiculously gigantic. We've had awesome publishing software for two decades with the very basic feature of optimizing published images but somehow nowadays it's totally acceptable to publish an article with several 10+ Mb images.
- simulator5g 1y agoShut the fuck up, compression is bad
- recursive 1y agoCalm down. Compression lowers data requirements. That's a good thing.
- celeritascelery 1y agoI am here for the pictures
- mminer237 1y agoEspecially egregious given how web standards and software make it pretty easy to make images show the ideal size always
- oregano 1y ago"Unable to read or write, he taught himself to form these sculptures using wooden structures at their core wrapped in mink or barbed wire, covered in layers of cement..." I want to understand how in the world did this man come to the decision process of using either mink or barbed wire? Seems like concrete must adhere to them both quite well?
- recury 1y agoIt’s aluminum/zinc wire or wire mesh from the Illinois Mink Wire company. Not made of minks.
- oregano 1y agoThank you! I wonder how many people read this and have the correct context.
- orthoxerox 1y agoThis explains... a lot. I thought he hunted them and used their carcasses.
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- FuriouslyAdrift 1y agoI had a 100s of Beavers moment, there. Thanks!
- downboots 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebar
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoSomeone should add the word "mink" to that page lol
- calrain 1y agoWhat a wonderful legacy. I'm using this as a reminder to continue to purge the useless and focus on things that matter.
- RyanOD 1y agoI second this sentiment. Life is just too short for the useless...though sometimes that's hard to remember / know.
- all2 1y agoI had a thought in the same vein while I was driving home; would I miss youtube if I never watched it again? There are creators on there that I thoroughly enjoy. Dunno.
- bhaney 1y agoThe danger with this is that you might change your mind about what matters later in life, only to find that you've long since "purged" it.
- calrain 1y agoThat's what experience and growing is all about. It's good to change.
- robotnikman 1y agoI have never heard of the Wisonsin Northwoods until now, but I think I now know where I will want to live if I ever secure a remote position again. That place is beautiful...
- UltraSane 1y agoIt is very pretty but it it gets VERY cold in the winter!
- devkit1 1y agoSo very much so. I lived my teenage years in the northwoods of Wisconsin. I absolutely loved it but it is not for everyone. It is beautiful, and there is so much to do if you are an outdoorsy person. But you need to be prepared for below zero Fahrenheit temperatures every year. Sometimes it can be for weeks straight, at some points reaching as cold as -20F, -30F or colder. I used to joke that it wasn’t cold until you feel your nose hairs freeze together when you inhale. Also, unfortunately in recent years the deer tick and Lyme disease prevalence have greatly increased, though vigilant checking and washing are very effective at mitigating that risk. Another fond memory I have from there is that the view of the stars and the auroras are an incredible sight to behold. The light pollution is near zero.
- UltraSane 1y agoIt isn't really cold until you need two pairs of long underwear and snow pants or two pairs of jeans. And you wear your cool weather coat under your winter coat.
- bluGill 1y agoCold depends on what you are doing. When lumber jacking you need about the same amount of clothing at -25F as you would sitting in a chair outside at 60F - your safety gear alone is close to too hot (though when this guy was lumber jacking they didn't have modern safety gear and would have considered themselves "too manly" to wear it anyway).
- robertclaus 1y agoIt's always exciting to see my state come up in a quirky but warm story like this!
- 31337Logic 1y agoI love this man's face!!
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- aaroninsf 1y agoA neighborhood favorite: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mary-nohl-house https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mary-nohl-house
- vermooten 1y agoNature isn't good enough, so he had to vandalise it.
- ge96 1y agoThat skin surface bothers me, trypophobia vibes