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Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

In the deep midwinter… I think I made this last year.

I love the #ShittyCameraChallenge because it forces me to think differently. The Nikon Coolpix S10 I used was found in an antique mall for $20. The in-camera monochrome setting had me looking for light and contrast. If you're learning, you're winning. (stolen from @mammalssuck.bsky.social)

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 21 our winter solstice: This is a linocut print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a procession of Kolędnicy, or Kolęda carollers through the woods to honour the sun at Winter Solstice. The tradition, also known as Koliada or kolędowanie, dates to pre-Christian times 🧵

Collage of some of my photographs ...

A major part of why just sitting back and voting blue no matter who doesn't work is that the next election relies on people believing that stuff will get fixed. It's going to be very hard! And there's no reason to think people who won't fight now will actually follow through on fixing things later!

Winning elections is the means which allows you to do things in office. But DC Dems and their enablers have invented this looking glass approach where winning elections is the ends, and their actual principles, the governing they actually do (or try to) is a totally malleable means. And that's death

“Winter Morning Blues”

"Capitalism Destruction Shop"

I’m doing two personal fundraisers and this is the other one. If you can help, please do.

Wild hares came out every evening in the Gothenburg suburb we stayed in #WeekYforYearPast #AlphabetChallenge 📷

scratch #art #photo #photography #temple #lanterns #Tainan #EastCoastKin #nightphotography ©️skinskin

This is why "vote blue no matter who" is bullshit. It absolutely matters "who."

My #1 coping mechanism for bad times is doing something nice for something and I hope more people discover it

Paradise Valley, Detroit, seen on a John Lee Hooker album cover that captures the neighborhood before it was demolished for construction of the Chrysler Freeway and “urban renewal” in the 1960s. More info: www.segregationbydesign.com/detroit/hast...

pages from My Midnight Elsewhere 🎨🖍🐈

60 seconds of West Coast Zen

last night in Tribeca #photography

#ArtAdventCalendar Found these standing by the riverfront road in Peoria, IL. Dec 7, 2019

A moment of winter Zen with this black-backed woodpecker working away on a balsam fir. #birds 🌿

We thought we bought a holiday wreath. Apparently Pepper thinks we bought her a new cat bed.

I think there could be major improvement there by adding more crosswalks, with stop signs, and eliminating the turn lane. You could fit a median for pedestrian crossing along a huge portion of it

I drive into Point Loma every day for my daughter's school and Rosecrans needs a major overhaul. So much of the local business is cut off from the surrounding neighborhood by the insane raceway that street operates as.

Feasting 🪶

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 5. American Goldfinch glowing in the prairie. 🪶

The sun through frost

The remains of the Ironweed flowers, still looking lovely. #ArtAdventCalendar #BloomScrolling #NativePlants 🌿

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 Behold the vacant eyes of the bird skull. 2023 #linocut #printmaking #art #artsky #traditionalart #prints #blockprint

Look down, Philadelphia 2025 E-300 Olympus, kit lens, b+w “sepia” mode! #ShittyCameraChallenge #Olympus

lay my body by the cherry tree it’s high time we fed the vultures too Susan Burch, USA Tanka Society of America BHS Awards 2023 Honorable Mention #TankaThursday apple/fruit #tankapoem #5lines #micropoetry #tanka

I take another bite of the apple, the gibbous moon wanes a little —M. Kei #TankaThursday apple/fruit #tanka #5lines #TankaPoem

russet gold a bit of bite she has a bible open on her knee

apples all over the market the holidays

fall-winter a peanut butter chocolate on her tongue

Her sharp knife quick to peel, core, slice the red apple we talk of childhood fears how I blocked my ears against the fairy tale First Prize, 2012 Tanka Society of America International Tanka Contest Carol Purington #TankaThursday apple/fruit #TankaPoem #tanka #micropoetry

social club PV. #photography #humansonbluesky #visualnarrative #imagemaker #urbangaze #eastcoastkin

Fall and winter combine to make something pretty. #photography #leaf #snow #nature

"Corn ethanol requires millions of acres that could instead be used for food crops or more efficient energy sources. One recent study found that solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

San Diego

Meal Train for A Wonderful Encinitas Family in need mealtrain.com/4g4e28

Fittingly, ACT UP veterans have made this point themselves about the many connections between our struggles, as they discussed in this important piece earlier this year by @madycast.com

First Snow... #Photography #Toronto #EastCoastKin

I 100% believe this. Obamacare getting healthcare to 20 million people saves about 30,000 people's lives a year. Or about a 9/11 worth of lives EVERY MONTH, in perpetuity. This would be bigger than that.

David Byrne

#haiku fog between the trees smooth as pearl

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

to the bones