Mark S Bailen
@marksbailen.bsky.social
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Writer, illustrator, fake-nature photographer fakemountain.com
Well, I finally wrote a romance story… it’s in the following anthology and to read it, you might want to throw a few bucks at their kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
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Bad Romance: An Anthology of Trash Couples
The 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsecink/bad-romance-an-anthology-of-trash-couples
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Japan and all its wonderful fake nature. . .
fakemountain.com
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Fake Mountain – the website of Mark S Bailen. . . writer, illustrator, and fake-nature photographer
https://fakemountain.com
2 months ago
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New story at Nature Futures!
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Posted a little montage of wildvertising at LAX. . .
fakemountain.com
4 months ago
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I have a new piece up at McSWEENEY's!
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/peo...
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People Are Dying to Eat at Our Insufferable Pop-Up Restaurant
Hooray, you’re on the list. Take this buzzer, stand across the street in that puddle, and wait for a little shock. The estimated wait time is six h...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/people-are-dying-to-eat-at-our-insufferable-pop-up-restaurant
7 months ago
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Spent a few weeks hanging out in Sydney. . . more at
fakemountain.com
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9 months ago
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I spent a week a few weeks in New Zealand where I learned about a pernicious invasive species: Lord of the Rings Film Locations. More at
fakemountain.com
10 months ago
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reposted by
Mark S Bailen
The New Yorker
10 months ago
In Zed Nelson’s photographs of zoos, aquariums, resorts, and other artificial settings, the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.
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The Futility of Simulating Nature
In “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-futility-of-simulating-nature?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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posted some fake-nature pics (
fakemountain.com
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10 months ago
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So my wife and I braved the lush plastic jungle and now I’m convinced. . . Rainforest Cafe is a portal to hell.
fakemountain.com
12 months ago
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Went to Kansas this weekend and took a lousy photo of a Pony Express Rider (little smudge on the right). . . not sure how he’s gonna get around that fence.
about 1 year ago
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www.noemamag.com/how-to-build...
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How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMA
A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive.
https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-build-a-thousand-year-old-tree/
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Mark S Bailen
Ecotone Magazine
over 1 year ago
Mark S Bailen’s short story “Bears Discover Time Travel” is free to read online for the next two weeks!
ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/bear...
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Bears Discover Time Travel - Ecotone
First of all, nobody gets eaten by a bear in this story. Nor does a tree fall on anybody. That’s not what this story is about. And I apologize for
https://ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/bears-discover-time-travel/
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Here's a snotty little kid reading my picture book, Earf. Love when I get pics like this! BTW, Ingram is now letting folks buy direct, so you don't have to go through Amazon (cheaper too):
shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params...
over 1 year ago
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In the Atocha train station in Madrid, we found the platform that leads to Jumanji.
over 1 year ago
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Vertical garden at CaxiaForum in Madrid. What an amazing work of art, like a living tapestry.
over 1 year ago
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After leaving Berlin we spent a few days in Madrid where I took a lousy photo of Guernica. This is a famous painting by Picasso with a long political history that delves into how the horrors of war are viewed by outsiders. Fascinating to see how people react to this painting today.
over 1 year ago
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Bison at the Berlin Zoo. . . with odd-looking totem poles? And Pacific NW tribal art? Um. . . okay.
over 1 year ago
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No nature for you. . .
over 1 year ago
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Lousy photo of favorite exhibit at the Berlin Zoo, a wonderfully messy fake mountain atop which mountain goats skirted dangerously on the edges of little cliffs. The critters were very active and I watched them for a long time. If you look close at the photo, you can see 4-5 of em.
over 1 year ago
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Bear discovers mini-monolith at the Berlin zoo. . .
over 1 year ago
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warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/boei...
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Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast
Through Boeing Wonderland's clever visual trickery, vital West Coast warplane plants were made invisible to prying enemy aerial eyes.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/boeing-wonderland-the-fake-cities-on-americas-west-coast/
over 1 year ago
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The inside of the Empire of Cats at the Berlin Zoo had this modern concrete brutalist bunker feel, with spurious explosions of nature.
over 1 year ago
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The fake sky at Charlottenburg Palace. Back in the day, the skies were much more intense, full of trumpeting cherubs, golden crowns, and epic battles. Our present-day skies need to up their game.
over 1 year ago
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Tour guide at the Brandenburg Gate talks about military states, forced occupation, and damage that can occur from bombing campaigns. Luckily we don’t have to worry about these problems today.
over 1 year ago
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Here’s a lousy photo of a small section of the Tempelhof, an old airfield turned into an over-900 acre park. These dudes were playing a massive game of four-square.
over 1 year ago
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I love little hidden urban green spaces, the wilder the better. And
#Berlin
was full of these.
over 1 year ago
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Another pic from
#Berlin
. . . Learned what you get after passing through Checkpoint Charlie. A Big Mac.
over 1 year ago
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visited Berlin recently and learned what was behind the Berlin Wall. . . KFC!
over 1 year ago
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