Back in 2003, when the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) – a facility that had operated for over 90 years and touched the lives of countless patients and employees – was slated for demolition, visual artist Anna Schuleit was commissioned to create a fitting memorial.

With a limited budget and a three-month deadline, she and a huge team of volunteers created Bloom, filling the space with grass and 28,000 potted flowers.

Christopher Jobson of the art website This Is Colossal asked her to share her experience, and a series of photos of the extraordinary 4-day event which had never been seen online before.

READ ON: Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (This Is Colossal)

We’re going to be…

Oh.

Cork Offshore Successfully Flows Oil And Gas (Breaking News)

Proud parent Michael, writing to Pleated Jeans sez:

“Last year my 6-year-old son was asked, ‘What would you do with a leprechaun if you caught him?’ This is what he drew. He’s holding the snare while a helper does the deed with a spear.”

No crock of gold for you, sunshine.

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BeetleCam is the invention of UK photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas: their solution to the challenge of filming lions and other dangerous African wildlife up close.

The brothers also sell the little 4WD armoured tanks with a DSLR camera mount for £1250 a pop.

The Adventures Of Beetle Cam (Burrand-Lucas Blog)

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Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan has been thinking about them. And not in a nice way, either.

Banks will have to be more aggressive in repossessing properties in the buy-to let sector, the Governor of the Central Bank Patrick Honohan warned while ruling out a widespread debt forgiveness programme as unaffordable.

Speaking this evening in Limerick, Mr Honohan stressed that although public policy should aim to avoid the repossession of family homes “where this is unnecessary” when it came to investment properties “there are many circumstances in which there is less reason to be inhibited about repossessing”.

Call For ‘Aggressive’ Action On Buy-To-Let Repossessions (Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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At Cheltenham yesterday:

[Jockey and royal ex-boyfriend] Richard Johnson [riding Wishfull Thinking during The Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase] falls at the first post taking out a photographer at the process

 

Somebody (possibly Irish) then shouts “Well done”

(Horse, jockey and photographer left moderately unscathed)

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