The patterns of light on the sea floor. They are called caustics: they are created by light refracted and reflected from the air/water interface. Water acts as a dynamic magnifying glass.

Free gift link 🎁! Interview with Melissa Bruntlett, author of Women Changing Cities and co-author of Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality @modacitylife.com

Brush up (and maybe donate to Wikipedia on Black Friday!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(...

“The model of the quarry revealed 426 moai in various stages of completion, 341 trenches cut to outline blocks for carving, and 133 voids in the rock where statues were successfully removed, plus five bollards that acted as anchor points for lowering moai down slopes.”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight will retire from the Los Angeles Times on Friday, November 28. As the paper’s staff art critic, he published exhibition reviews and commentary on the city’s arts institutions, writing for the publication for 36 years.

Zipora Fried Ocean of Work, 2025

Jonas Wood Japanese Garden with Moon and Stars, 2020 oil and acrylic on canvas 182.9 x 177.8 cm

563A Spectacles in the Small Face https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/spectacles-in-the-small-face

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan. And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

Cycling legend Major Taylor won the 1-mile sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of cycling world champion Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major! November 26 (1878-1932)

Mohammad Al-Fayoumi (Egypt, b.1963) : Omda (The Mayor), n.d. Bronze 28 x 41 x 27 cm

American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate. -The Editorial Board

The fourteenth of July in Etretat | Felix Vallotton

Boom! Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Nov. ‘25 📷 -gw

Ho-lee shee-it ..

St. Paul, this morning..

Mi cabaña. Lago George. Ca. 1922. Georgia O'Keeffe. 1887-1986, estadounidense.

'Lonely Flower' (1934) Paul Klee

Painting by Dale Bissland ‘Red Moon Rising’ 2024. Oil on panel. Size 60 x 48 cm. www.dalebissland.com/west-coast

the abstract portrait disaster area · memory of a story #markokoeppe #art #kunst #analogart #handmade #collage #abstract #outsiderart #collageart #contemporary #paperart #mixedmedia #minimal #popart #man #lost #dream #blueskycollage #cutandpaste #the_truth_is_dead

This piece is overripe for reinterpretation. Something perhaps including an edifice of illuminated smartphones and a fleet of armed drones, or commandeered Waymos.

Must see: @christogrozev.bsky.social reads live, on air, from notes he took from a Russian source *six* months ago outlining almost point for point what wound up in the Witkoff-Dmitriev text youtu.be/gCPj64KFYC8

Note that this was on a domestic flight www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

The Bicycle Race, 1962-63, Marisol Escobar aka Marisol

Cody, supercharged by Osha Newmann’s “Water Lady” at sunset, as winter solstice gains its grip. Albany, Cal., Nov. ‘25. 📷 -gw

Cladonia fimbriata, our Trumpet Lichen, seen Sunday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿

I whipped up a new post/newsletter extra for the Hayli Gubbi eruption. First time I've had to post an extra edition! #volcano #eruption eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

New blog post: An odd little outlier is a most charming place.

Petit matin. Dimanche 23 novembre 2025.

Gustav Klimt

'Mandala'. Max Ernst. 1965.

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Something led me tonight to Wharton Esherick's dictionary stand (via American Craft Council), which reminded me of his library ladder — one of my favorite things digital.craftcouncil.org/digital/coll...

Industrial Art News – Vol. 28, No. 5, August 1960. Cover design by Kazumasa Nagai designreviewed.com/artefacts/in...

La Réponse, Françoise Gilot 1965

Henrique Pousão Aguadora, 1883. Museo Soares dos Reis, Oporto.

Barbara Hepworth, English (1903-1975), The Family of Man (Figure 5, Parent II), conceived 1970, cast c. 1974, bronze with dark brown and green patina and polished bronze, 239.1 cm, private collection

French painter Albert Marquet, initially one of the original French painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. The Pont Neuf in Paris by night (1935) (The Samaritaine illuminated in the background)

Italian artist Ruggero Salvatore #ContemporaryArt

Huang Yongyu Autumn Lotus

🎁 “San Francisco transportation officials (have) had to suspend a popular request line for “traffic calming” on residential streets.. Too many people were filing applications for..literally any new infrastructure to make a street quieter and reduce the risk of crashes.” tinyurl.com/4z3bfwth

Very Chicago that few outside our town knew about Jahari Stampley, until he came "out of nowhere" to sweep the biggest jazz performance contest in 2023 (Herbie Hancock said he should be taking lessens from Jahari!); also that the band has his mom on bass, sax, keys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL_Y...

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Search 600+ cycling infrastructure documents from all over the world. Cycling knowledge at your fingertips. bicycleinfrastructuremanuals.com

Winter in Kragerø.1912. oil. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Andrew Wyeth, Northern Point (egg tempera on panel, 1950)

Packing churches on a Monday night to train up on defending neighbors and resisting Trump raids in Charlotte..

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford