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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Cairns Of Ocean Beach

Driving out of Ocean Beach the other day, I saw piles of stones that had been stacked, probably by one of the local homeless, mentally ill drug addicts. It was beautiful in a very sad way. A click on the image will give you a much better view. Enjoy?

5 comments:

  1. Having done a bit of rock-stacking with my daughters just a couple of weeks ago, I doubt that your average homeless drug-addict would have the persistence or steadiness of hand to do that. I suspect that it was done by the sort of high-school or college student who would also teach themselves to juggle or ride a unicycle over the summer.

    Heck, it might even have been done by a professional, as part of a show.

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  2. Maybe so, but it was done in an area loaded with the poor devils.

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  3. So it is StoneUnhinged? It fits with control theory. Now someone will need to knock it down in order to "fundamentally transform" it because "you didn't build that".

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  4. Anonymous8:51 AM

    looks like the town of Bedrock

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  5. It's almost like a human obsession-- my family has always called them "Shepherd's monuments" because all the old sheep herders would stack them. Go on a few generations and they can get pretty dang impressive.

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