High tide (folly) being installed at southern forest arts in Northcliffe

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

I can understand developers, mining, the fossil fuel and gambling lobbies capturing the Labour Party, but the meth lobby?????

Red water flowing through Mammoth Cave on Wardandi Boodja

For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.

Read more: theshovel.com.au/2025/10/28/t...

Terra fires

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

New edit of die back (a collaboration with Annette Nykiel) features phytophthora bodies)

Transversal — a show of expanded, experimental video and projection opening Thursday night

People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!

Three police officers struggle to handcuff inflatable penis

Getting ready for shear zone open studio this morning. Wondering what this project plan drawing will end up like. Wayfinders by Sarah Tomasetti, blank paper and moss covered limestone rocks by Perdita Phillips.

Can’t wait for the technocrats to say that forests should be deleted because the haven’t met their KPIs www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If anyone is in Walyalup/Fremantle this Sunday 19 October we are having an open studio 10-12 for Shear Zone

Australian ravens razzling the bottlebrush blossom

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct. theconversation.com/and-then-the...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Stereographs made as part of Lithic Traces in the Archive (my Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria)

Our first letter to the forest has arrived: this one by Jane Donlin. Dear forest, with awe and gratitude

Will you send A letter to the forest? You are invited to write a letter to the forests of Southwest Western Australia for inclusion in a book to be bound in the forest, near Northcliffe, Western Australia.

From the government that now does #unscience

Having flashbacks to undergrad in the sciences (my visual arts undergrad school operated in the sheds that the gardeners left when they got new facilities)

Very rarely have butcherbirds here… only one visits, and very occasionally Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out

Tonight! Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance, with Nohad ElHajj, activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, artist Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman + writer Tom Jeffreys. It's free to join. Don't miss it! wld.zone/politicsofwalking @babakfakhamzadeh.com #WALC

Trying to think up a name for this work in two parts (spiv I and spiv II). One of each pair was buried for 172 days. Still feel very geological or pedological — plus form of shear or distortion???? Any suggestions?

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

The unthinkable (lithic traces in the archive)

“Authors and illustrators sit at the heart of an industry that contributes over $2 billion to the Australian economy. Instead of considering ways to legitimise the theft of their work, we should be exploring how to protect their rights." @asauthors.bsky.social www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-opp...

23 April 2024

Stromatolites! In 3D! Paleoproterozoic Nash Fork Formation in the Snowy Range, WY skfb.ly/pzFB8

#DonTheCon loves to act like he’s the smartest person in the room… yet every time, he reminds us how clueless he really is. #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpLiesMatter #ImpeachTrumpNOW

Test bookwork #bookart #artistbook as part of workshop with Bronwyn Rees at Swan River Print. It has temporary tape and still have to work out what to do with a couple of (currently) empty pages (too much contrast with the other pages).

Talk on Tuesday. RSVP adp-comms.sydney.edu.au/pub/pubType/...

Camouflaged sculpture

Concept… reality. “gathering transience”: site specific work (in progress) for COME TOGETHER | Right Here, Right Now. Group exhibition and program of site specific and participatory art and art making

Pigeon noseitis

Melbourne before the moon rises

We feed you. They hunt us.

Made a stereograph (photo pair) and it works!

Feeling topical…

Musk duck party! 🎼🎧👂🏽on

"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.

Pyrocumulonimbus on the horizon. Prescribed burns in the jarrah forest: industrial forestry, neoliberal managerialism meets climate change.

Part of 15 minutes of mimicry by a female Superb Lyrebird this morning in Royal NP. Here, she's doing Australian King Parrot, New Holland Honeyeater, Pied Currawong and Eastern Whipbird interspersed with natal calls like the "whistle song" "churring" and "clicking" sounds. #birds #birding #nature

Performative Stupidism doesn't just target celebrated trees: it's the essence of Trumpist politics. Gleeful destruction that revels in the pain of decent people.

Blowies