REVIEWED: NOAA Weather Radio Pamphlet, 1985 EXPLAINED: What is "The Voice of the National Weather Service"? Who is Owlie Skywarn? Why did the Government Printing Office outsource an offset lithography job to Japan in the mid 1980's? Read here 🦉⛈️📻 → www.departmentofinformation.org/noaa-weather...

REMINDER: Campus will be closed Monday for Labor Day (except for mission-critical lab facilities and the South Lawn pool). Yesterday was the last summer Friday of the season. The fall calendar will take effect this week. Thank you.

For the Summer Solstice, we are soft-launching Beach Sounds, the follow-up to Pond Sounds from the Office of Public Awareness. 💦🌞🦩 Beach Sounds was recorded on location, deep in the backwaters of South Florida and coastal New York using field recorders. Stream or buy now exclusively on Bandcamp

In honor of Earth Day, we have begun rewilding some offices on the main campus. If you work in Building A and have not received a bee box—but would like one for your cubicle or workstation—please let your manager know. Happy Earth Day! #earthdayeveryday 🌎

Our Information Hotline is no longer in service due to the inside of the telephone lines being haunted. If you need to contact us please use email or write to us. Thank you.

We recently discovered a stash of loose vintage U.S. Forest Service pamphlets under the sofa mattress in the basement office of our Information Ambassador, Pokey the Pigeon.

Some clarity on our style guide.

We have greatly improved our Groundhog Simulator™ since last year. Its an ethical, non-harmful alternative to using real animals for forecasts. Some people even say it is more accurate. Our Groundhog used Computer Vision to see their shadow so it looks like we are in for another six weeks of winter.

1/2) Screen print by René Castro "I Am Ashamed, MLK". 1992. via Smithsonian 3) Photo by Grey Villet "MLK Trial Montgomery Alabama Integration". 1958, Montgomery, AL 4) Letterpress by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house. - MLK". 2005 #MLK

One of our unpaid interns found this pamphlet from 1978 underneath the office kitchen fridge while cleaning the drip pan after they spilled a tray of coffee all over the floor. In exchange for class credit and redemption we had them sterilize and photograph it for our consumer review series.

Reminder that our main campus, including the taco truck in the parking lot, the Xerox Climate Lab, and the library are all closed until January 1st, 2025. Please do not report to work or you will be escorted away on a golf cart by Herald, the security guard. #holidays #christmas #newyear

Have you seen strange lights in the night sky above New Jersey or the Tri-state area? Call our tip line to leave us a voice message of what you saw. Our Information Scientists will use the anonymous data in future experiments and consumer products. 1-844-DOI-9003 [email protected]

It’s that time of year again! We’ve enlisted our Head of Accounting and Budget, Officer Bill, to scrape together the absolute best public procurement notices, notices of intent, and/or requests for proposals from governmental, quasi-governmental, and non-governmental entities from 2024.

Please enjoy 15 minutes of mountain rain, wind, and crows (or perhaps ravens—we aren’t sure) from our latest digital audio release by the Department of Public Awareness, Division of Film, Radio, Television, and Books. (also available to stream on Apple Music and everywhere else) #nature #music #art

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Please vote! 🗳️ #election #art #design

Greetings, Pondsky. tomatolab.org/Pond-Sounds

It’s campfire season & whether you’re burning barrels full of confidential documents or old office furniture it’s important to practice fire safety. We've collected some of the best vintage Smokey Bear posters to kick off the season. www.departmentofinformation.org/smokey-bear/ #design #nature

Posting some of the best cubicles here

New 1972 LA USDA Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Prices Zine - 5.5’’x8.5’’ saddle stitched, ~38 pages - Silkscreened cover - Speckletone paper recycled and made with hydroelectric power from French Paper Co in Michigan - Plantable tomato seed paper tomatolab.org/market 🍅 🥑 📗 #art #design #food

To soft launch our new Information Ambassador, Pokey the Pigeon, we sent him to UN General Assembly Week. He doesn't have a UN ground pass so he will be on the sidewalk or across the street at the Ambassador Grill Bar. Please do not throw bread at him, there is an unpaid intern inside. #UNGA79 🇺🇳

New Release: Pond Sounds! #nature #ponds #frogs #science

Captured by Landsat 1, the first satellite of the US’s Landsat program, in the early 1970s at a scale of 1:500,000, these satellite images of Florida were printed onto huge poster panels. The resulting images, showing creases, tears, and textures are super cool. #space #art #nature #science #nasa

The first in a series of USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market Prices Report reproductions #art #design #farming #nyc www.departmentofinformation.org/1969-usda-nyc/

Some summer tomato inspiration from the lab. Pictured: - New Yorker Tomatoes - Matts Wild Cherry - Patio Hybrid tomatolab.org/Tomatoes #tomatoes #farming #nyc #growing

JD Vance HAS fucked a couch but ONLY for procreative purposes - which is why we’re calling on JD Vance TODAY to acknowledge his cruelly abandoned half-couch, half-man children.

The Absolute Best USDA Fruit and Vegetable Market News Reports Published Between 1954 and 1994 www.departmentofinformation.org/2024/07/the-...

Garbology | gar·bol·o·gy | noun Garbology is the study of trash and modern waste, focusing on its origins and serving as a major source of information on nature and human society. #garbage #history #education #science #art #learning #language www.departmentofinformation.org/2024/06/garb...

Saliendo de los archivos, lanzamos un adelanto de un documental sobre el momento en que filmamos a un hombre que vive dentro de un teleférico de la Ciudad de México.

To kick off our new visual series, Back to the Office, we are taking a stroll down memory lane. Which specific memory, you might ask? The one where you drove your Oldsmobile to a sleek, carpeted 1980s corporate office building on the edge of town near the mall & the interstate. #photography #art

Tierra natural grabaciones de campo volumen tres: El ecosistema urbano, Ciudad de México ya está disponible para streaming y compra digital. 💿🎧 open.spotify.com/album/1Bmyu2... #music #nature #ambient

To celebrate International Day of Forests we are releasing 20 minutes of forest footage from the Office of Public Awareness Division of Film, Radio, Television, and Books Rare Media Archives. Watch the entire clip at departmentofinformation.org/natural-earth #IntlForestDay 🌲

To celebrate International Day of Forests we are releasing 20 minutes of forest footage from the Office of Public Awareness Division of Film, Radio, Television, and Books Rare Media Archives. Watch the entire clip at departmentofinformation.org/natural-earth #IntlForestDay 🌲

Happy Lunar New Year! While cleaning out one of our supply closets this week, an unpaid intern found a box of old Time and Space Encyclopedias from the early 1990s. These are not for sale but if you want one try checking local used bookstores, libraries, or school dumpsters. #dragon #lunarnewyear

We have been diligently working to replace the groundhog with a more ethical holographic version. Unfortunately, it is broken and cant see its shadows. Please check back next year to find out if there will be an extended winter or early spring in your region. ❄️✨🦫✨☀️

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Made of colorful glowing shapes & often appearing overnight as stations would “sign off”, tv test cards entered the cultural imagination as hypnotic oddities but would come to fill a nostalgic void. What weird, luminous patterns do we use today to calibrate our realities & fill up our empty spaces?

Natural Earth Field Recordings Volume Two: Upstate New York and the Hudson Valley is now available to purchase in a very limited run of 12-inch clear vinyl with an accompanying foldout map & guide. 🌲🍁🌍 tomatolab.org/Natural-Eart...

Wow, what a year. With 2024 just around the corner we are looking back at some of the most exciting requests for proposals in government or quasi-government spaces in 2023. Here are 8 procurement listings & notices that absolutely blew our socks off. www.departmentofinformation.org/2023/12/8-pu...

The Department of Information is recognizing the 75th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights by offering free snacks to employees this week. Swing by the 4th floor kitchen between noon & 3 p.m. for free expired dehydrated space food. #HumanRightsDay www.instagram.com/reel/C0qQNn0...

Volume two of Natural Earth Field Recordings—Upstate New York and the Hudson Valley—is available now on streaming platforms tomatolab.org/Natural-Eart...