neat little refuge among grime #watercolor #urbansketching #art

some photos from new york’s north country

enjoyed reading this one. it’s a balanced of snapshot of burlington, compared to the rabid “online a lot” accounts hating on homeless, intent on scaring people away from venturing downtown.

been off the art habit for too long that i was starting to get itchy. here’s one of my favorite barns. i fear it’ll be torn down soon because it’s so very close to the road, leany, and clearly not in use. #watercolor #paint #art #vermont

snapped a bunch at these beauties. the lower bulk of them were so chock full of definition.

listening to ram das on the way to a kurt vile show felt right. kurt’s energy is so low-ego, he radiates letting-go to the crowd through his slacker unconcern

I picked up A Separate Peace from the banned book section in barnes & noble for a recent travel, and bookmarked some pages...

Is there hope for humanity? An anthropologist's perspective:

good news, I saw an owl today.

our name is Broiler Chicken Consumer Litigation and we are here to 🤘🏻 Crossposted with @openvibe.social

not a bad idea 💔 Crossposted with @openvibe.social

went to colorado for a music fest this weekend with some old buds. en route on a train, i sketched, quietly self-congratulating myself for not doom-scrolling. then proceeded to rush off at my stop, forgetting my phone. ooooh the terror. an unknown city with no address to the airbnb 1.5 miles away.

i need to set up a structure to pushback on UXers using a/b tests as a crutch for decision paralysis. they often get proposed when we can’t reach consensus and ‘the data’ becomes the decion-maker, sidestepping ownership.

bluebird nesting box update

one of the features that drew me to this place was the arched doorway, that and the built ins, which are probably less impressive when illustrated. #watercolor #urbansketching #art

phew, the powerful concoction of art + poetry givebutter.com/c/red-white-...

still going strong with this one. highly recommend The Way for meditation: thewayapp.com only downside is constantly being reminded of that fastball hit from the late 90s.

iNaturalist continues to be a non-enshittified, bright spot in the internet. I’ve used it off and on for over a decade, recently using it to help identify a skull I found in the woods. Twas a bears!

The early 20th century was a period of class war unlike any in US history. Labor uprisings and bloody reprisals by oligarchs and their private armies resulted in national chaos. The cartoonists of The Masses were there to document it all. This is their story. THE DISSIDENTS, coming in Sept.

On this day in 1935, FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of 2,000 WPA posters known to exist—publicizing community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs—the Library's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Wrapped up the april art fundraiser with this one of my stairs at night. I have a whole new respect for smooth, analog, painted gradients.

Painted at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens "The Retired Landscaper" 9" x 12" Gouache Sold 🔴 #pleinair #artistsonlocation #gouache #pleinairpril #truck #landscaper @warriorpainters.bsky.social

Sometimes I browse the local classifieds for ideas

"A great poem is the poet cries meaningfully assembled in the discovery of their reason for being, fragments stitched into knowledge, a communication at its most condensed. Data is the opposite of a poem, countless cries with no occasion" via a lucky lil library find: Bottoms Up & the Devil Laughs

Here’s a #watercolor of a random swath of a yard I pass daily with the pup. I liked how the mountain is just hinted at by the angle in the distance and the little sign about #Vermont being a brave little state.

A quote from Summer of Soul, the doc about the Harlem Cultural Festival in '69, sums up my feelings about this moon trip. Just can't do it. "The cash that you wasted, as far as I'm concerned, could have been used to feed poor Black people in Harlem, all over the place."

“IBM was in some ways bigger than the war. Both sides could to not afford to proceed without the company's all-important technology. Hitler needed IBM. So did the Allies.” This book about their punch card machines is a doozy.

i would trade The App Economy for the green tech economy in a heartbeat. give me useful technology, please

a still life with photos during the process. #watercolor #urbansketching #art wescarr.com/blog/art/bed...

Couple recent ones #watercolor #urbansketching

creepily hanging out with Brooklyn at the town garage #watercolor #urbansketching #art #vermont

wow excellent comics journalism here, and styled nicely for a phone too.

cripes. i found a used popcorn maker for $3 at restore a day after ordering a used one online. i need to tend to my dwindling patience vine during our days of collapse.

posted. a black and white field drawn from a drive-by photo i took. #watercolor #art #vermont #ink wescarr.com/art/img/KV5A...

sort of relishing in the rabbit hole of Eyes Wide Shut fanaticism after a viewing last night.

Friends. I’m participating in an art fundraiser again that supports #vermont asylum seeking families. Sign up to get fresh watercolors via email a few times per week during april. 🙏🏻✊🏻🎨 www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...

as our snows melting, i’m going through a few i didn’t post, like this one trekking up a logging road towards mt. mansfield. #art #watercolor #ink #vermont

quick study of a public restroom sign from a quick trip to canada. sigh, they’re everywhere up there 😔 #watercolor #art

💯 there’s also her 2024 collection of stories about the ongoing Iranian Revolution (which i need to check out.) www.sevenstoriespress.co.uk/books/woman-...

I don’t want revenge. I want everyone to be free.

bro, why do you hate freedom?

pleasantly surprised to see the meditation app the newest dense discovery recommends, the way, is a product of Henry Shukman. his memoir, the only spiritual book i read last year, stuck with me. its accounts his path to zen mastery through the lense of an accomplished writer poet.

Siiiiigh, relief. The hardship of Gravity's Rainbow is over. Rarely did I "lose myself" in the reading, as it required such attention to it's windings and references far beyond me. No the author demands an active reading, which strains and drains and pains.

“Right now we are vulnerable to hasty substitutes for the collapsing old story that offer temporary relief from the bewilderment and vertigo of the space between.” charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/reality-is...

the more i slog, the more book gives. today, it’s learning of the cartel responsible for limiting the lifespan of lightbulbs. the gross international coordination increases this stories smarmy factor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus...

Church St., Burlington, VT 1/30/26

When researchers say it’s more expensive to means test than to simply provide benefits, they’re not kidding!

my, look at this hand-painted, data-rich touring site. it's open sourced too. it's amazing for a fan and hope more bands hop on board. mapster.website