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Here's last night's light show by the Santa Cruz boardwalk
November 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Here's last night's light show by the Santa Cruz boardwalk
5' tide in Seacliff, down from 5.5 high 30 minutes ago
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
5' tide in Seacliff, down from 5.5 high 30 minutes ago
Here are two series of recent paintings, Capitola beach concerts and seabirds ....
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Here are two series of recent paintings, Capitola beach concerts and seabirds ....
Halloween at the beach....here's a seagull dining on a seal. It's beautiful here 90% of the time but we often get a beachful of dead animals from smoke, other times they arrive in a wave as if something in the water killed a ton of birds or drove anchovies to leap onto the shore. Changing, aways.
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Halloween at the beach....here's a seagull dining on a seal. It's beautiful here 90% of the time but we often get a beachful of dead animals from smoke, other times they arrive in a wave as if something in the water killed a ton of birds or drove anchovies to leap onto the shore. Changing, aways.
Writing in 1830's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo wrote, "Every civilization begins as a theocracy and ends as a democracy." Yet, the history of great civilizations shows that every empire fails eventually, be it from pressures internal or external. Et tu, Brutu?
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Writing in 1830's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo wrote, "Every civilization begins as a theocracy and ends as a democracy." Yet, the history of great civilizations shows that every empire fails eventually, be it from pressures internal or external. Et tu, Brutu?
Another nice sunset in Santa Cruz
September 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Another nice sunset in Santa Cruz
A typical evening in Seacliff, Aptos CA. Yet to gerrymander or not is the question in CA, they say, even as they are being arrested, deported, deprived of tax equity and justice.
August 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A typical evening in Seacliff, Aptos CA. Yet to gerrymander or not is the question in CA, they say, even as they are being arrested, deported, deprived of tax equity and justice.
Seacliff CA moonrise
August 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Seacliff CA moonrise
Pelicans in central California
June 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Pelicans in central California
Painting again at Seacliff Beach
June 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Painting again at Seacliff Beach
Birds herding fish at Seacliff State Beach in California yesterday
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Birds herding fish at Seacliff State Beach in California yesterday
Aptos flowers en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_...
May 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Aptos flowers en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_...
Yesterday ended with another great evening painting at the beach
May 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Yesterday ended with another great evening painting at the beach
"I'm a fool for going to the beach while it's raining," I thought. Yet the rain produced a double rainbow over Seacliff State Beach.
April 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"I'm a fool for going to the beach while it's raining," I thought. Yet the rain produced a double rainbow over Seacliff State Beach.
Saw whales this last weekend at Seacliff State Beach. They were just past the breakers, in shallow water just past the sandbar, begging the question whether they were evading great white sharks, so common here yet generally unseen. Meanwhile seals and otters are regulars as shown here.
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Saw whales this last weekend at Seacliff State Beach. They were just past the breakers, in shallow water just past the sandbar, begging the question whether they were evading great white sharks, so common here yet generally unseen. Meanwhile seals and otters are regulars as shown here.
It's officially spring! Our plum trees have been smelling lovely; they were all over Japan, both pink and white types, goddess forbid we accept diversity, as I hiked over 100 miles/160k, making late winter smell wonderful, complimented by wintersweet, daffodills and this cumquat variant.
March 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It's officially spring! Our plum trees have been smelling lovely; they were all over Japan, both pink and white types, goddess forbid we accept diversity, as I hiked over 100 miles/160k, making late winter smell wonderful, complimented by wintersweet, daffodills and this cumquat variant.
Yesterday I visited Fat Dragon Temple, one of the 88 temples of Shikoku island's walk around the island. It's a cool slice of history from 1200 years ago. Yet there was only a skinny dragon, getting stabbed by a goddess. #japan @unseenjapan.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yesterday I visited Fat Dragon Temple, one of the 88 temples of Shikoku island's walk around the island. It's a cool slice of history from 1200 years ago. Yet there was only a skinny dragon, getting stabbed by a goddess. #japan @unseenjapan.com
When Trump was elected in 2016, it made me think the voters needed an engaging fun way to be informed and educated. They needed empathy without a lecture, ala SNL or Mad Magazine. My solution? Manga, or Japanese style comics magazine: play.google.com/store/books/... #comics #resist #Manga #trump
Santa Cruz Comics, Manga #1 by Douglas Bragdon - Books on Google Play
Santa Cruz Comics, Manga #1 - Ebook written by Douglas Bragdon. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take n...
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March 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When Trump was elected in 2016, it made me think the voters needed an engaging fun way to be informed and educated. They needed empathy without a lecture, ala SNL or Mad Magazine. My solution? Manga, or Japanese style comics magazine: play.google.com/store/books/... #comics #resist #Manga #trump
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When Trump was elected in 2016, it made me think the voters needed an engaging fun way to be informed and educated about the danger. They needed empathetic, to be woke, via SNL or Mad Magazine or the like. My solution? Manga, or Japanese style comics magazine: play.google.com/store/books/...
Santa Cruz Comics, Manga #1 by Douglas Bragdon - Books on Google Play
Santa Cruz Comics, Manga #1 - Ebook written by Douglas Bragdon. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take n...
play.google.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
When Trump was elected in 2016, it made me think the voters needed an engaging fun way to be informed and educated about the danger. They needed empathetic, to be woke, via SNL or Mad Magazine or the like. My solution? Manga, or Japanese style comics magazine: play.google.com/store/books/...
I ran a university internship at UC Santa Cruz in political art entrepreneurship, creating an anti-Trump manga(ala Mad comics) and publishing it in English and Spanish, a link to the latter follows: play.google.com/store/books/details/Douglas_Bragdon_Historietas_de_Santa_Cruz_Manga_1?id=gdQtEAAAQBAJ
Historietas de Santa Cruz, Manga #1: Reportaje especial: Hada y Troll by Douglas Bragdon - Books on Google Play
Historietas de Santa Cruz, Manga #1: Reportaje especial: Hada y Troll - Ebook written by Douglas Bragdon. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offl...
play.google.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I ran a university internship at UC Santa Cruz in political art entrepreneurship, creating an anti-Trump manga(ala Mad comics) and publishing it in English and Spanish, a link to the latter follows: play.google.com/store/books/details/Douglas_Bragdon_Historietas_de_Santa_Cruz_Manga_1?id=gdQtEAAAQBAJ
When Trump was elected in 2016, it made me think the voters needed an engaging fun way to be informed and educated about the danger. They needed empathetic, to be woke, via SNL or Mad Magazine or the like. My solution? Manga, or Japanese style comics magazine: play.google.com/store/books/...
Santa Cruz Comics, Manga #1 by Douglas Bragdon - Books on Google Play
Santa Cruz Comics, Manga #1 - Ebook written by Douglas Bragdon. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take n...
play.google.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
When Trump was elected in 2016, it made me think the voters needed an engaging fun way to be informed and educated about the danger. They needed empathetic, to be woke, via SNL or Mad Magazine or the like. My solution? Manga, or Japanese style comics magazine: play.google.com/store/books/...
@ohenrosan.bsky.social Hi BlueSky, I started walking Japan's Ohenro trail, 1200 kilometers/750 miles across 88 Buddhist temples in 2023, drawing each temple. As one priest at temple #51 said, it's not about just religion, history, or tourism, but promoting understanding and world peace.
March 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
@ohenrosan.bsky.social Hi BlueSky, I started walking Japan's Ohenro trail, 1200 kilometers/750 miles across 88 Buddhist temples in 2023, drawing each temple. As one priest at temple #51 said, it's not about just religion, history, or tourism, but promoting understanding and world peace.