JOSEPH BEUYS - FELT TV 1970 Fluxus the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera. It opens with Beuys seated in front of a TV set showing a program which is invisible because the screen is covered by felt. The boxing-gloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair.

My Afghan friend Kakar has sent more cartoons and his story. I’ll post them from time to time.

It’s enraging that ‘leadership’ across the nation is muting black votes through blatant gerrymandering. It’s not just that. They’re messing with polling places too. One example in my own state is the removal of voting sites from NC network college campuses, including an HBCU, in the last election.

An inherent aloofness is the most tactful way to resist this noisy world

Artist: David Shrigley

The story feels tailor-made for Bluesky

Composite photo of the same kestrel in flight. 🪶

Numerous members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (which started under President Lincoln) have written an open letter about the firing. Read it and add your name to the list to support them: H/T @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...

We planted a Japanese Maple after work today - the beginning of an annual tree planting on May 12th for Joseph Beuys ++

Joseph Beuys was born 105 years ago today. His prescient views and complex teachings continue to inspire even now. 🔗 substack.com/@ambrocious/...

Joseph Beuys by Pierre Marjon, 1983 "Through performances, lectures, the distribution of multiples, and other activities, he hoped to generate a more democratic world in which everyone could be a creative participant rather than a pawn in the capitalist system." - Ken Johnson

Joseph Beuys by Leonard Freed Oberkassel, West Germany, 1965 "In matters of seeing, Joseph Beuys was the great prophet of the second half of our century." - John Berger

I have a lot to say about Joseph Beuys. Anyone who follows me knows that. But today I don’t really know where to begin. A simple ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag’ for now ++

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

I'm off probation tomorrow as I complete 1 year at the university. After I was DOGE'd from the US EPA along w/ thousands of probationary employees in 2025, my trust & confidence were shaken but I landed a job w/ an institution that aligns with my values. Fortunate doesn't even begin to cover it.

Nesting osprey pair - soon-to-be mama in focus. Note/PSA: Photo taken from a safe distance. The nest was built on a manmade platform off the ocean shore constructed specifically for these birds to use in Duck, NC. I have a decent zoom lens. Never approach a nest. 🪶

‘(Joseph) Beuys aimed to arouse a human consciousness that was trapped within the avidity of consumerism precisely because it had forgotten the fundamental principles of Mother Nature. Their souls reconciled, Man and Nature will form the new world.’ Lucrezia De Dominizio Durini, ‘Beuys’ Voice’ ++

Credit: David Barnes (The Bee with Wheels)

Releasing noncontextual information is the same as not releasing information, unless your aim is not to inform but to saturate the Friday rundown so that no one looks beyond that article.

‘Money & the state are the only oppressive powers in the present time…so we go radically another way & push against this. Radically.’ Joseph Beuys, 1979 ++ Beuys noted when interacting w/ Americans that we showed interest in revolutionary ideas but lacked focus to accomplish any meaningful change.

i just remembered that the reverend doctor king was murdered in memphis, tennessee; their legacy continues.

After starting at a newspaper in South Carolina 2010, I wrote in an introductory column that I was from the Appomattox area where the Civil War ended. The next day I had an email warning me not to say such things as many people in the South believed the Civil War never ended. Fast forward to 2026.

We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

X marks the wonder.

"The creativity of people is the real capital." ~Joseph Beuys The more I think about this concept, the more I see its worth. Creativity sparks progression, solutions & change in society. It inspires expanded consciousness. Money (& AI) shouldn’t make the world go round. The human spirit should.

It’s on the list. When I left the journalism field in 2017, I noticed how meaningful yet controversial stories were being buried because of their potential impact on advertising dollars. Capitalism crushed the integrity & community service focus that journalism once had. Greed extinguishes truth.

I met musician @laelneale.bsky.social & picked up one of her original paintings. It caught my eye, reminding me a bit of the medical crosses Joseph Beuys used in his work. I was stoked that both Lael Neale & Cass McCombs stopped in NC last night.

“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now!” ~ Man Ray (1890-1976) #Painting, ‘Silhouette,’ Man Ray, 1916.

Seashells are disappearing from a shallow birdbath I converted into a bee oasis they probably don’t need but they kept drowning in my other birdbath & that nearly stopped once I set this up. But I’m finding rocks & raisins in place of missing shells. Unsure if it’s a crow. It’s probably a crow.

Anxiety 2018 DinA4 #analog #watercolour #DinA4 #newromanticism #cologne #köln #whatthefuck #draining

‘In fact, it is absurd to think of a system in which self-determination living hand-in-hand with repression is capable of freeing people.’ Joseph Beuys ++ (1978) referring to the negative impact on culture & creativity in capitalistic societies driven by profit, power, ownership & wage dependency.

Connect all the dots with a continuous line. Could you have solved this problem? The children at Olive Garden School did it ! Thank you for supporting this little school project, led by our friend Mohammed, which promotes the right to education for children in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/1720...

"I wish they would take me as I am." Vincent van Gogh "Almond Blossom"

This isn’t just about districts, it’s about representation, resources, and whether our voices are heard at all. The fight for fair maps and true democracy is far from over. capitalbnews.org/supreme-cour...

War is the result of the power hungry, the fearful, the emotionally stunted or a combination of some or all of the above.

We watched a crow steal butter today. They poked their beak through the golden foil & triumphantly held up the light yellow cube they found. We believe they’ve done this before. (Grainy photo evidence included.) I was also fooled by a decoy swan w/ a moving neck. It’s been weird. Happy Saturday.

Leaves of a Japanese Maple that will go into the Earth on May 12. Starting this year, I’ll plant a tree annually on that date as an act of gratitude to the man who inspired hope & action as well as lit a fire within me. ‘The planting of a tree is a form of thinking made visible.’ Joseph Beuys ++

In her latest book, Nicole L. Woods details the career of Alison Knowles, the only female founding member of the international avant-garde collective Fluxus. Though this is the first major book about Knowles, critic Lauren Moya Ford felt little of the artist’s mysterious personal life is discussed.

What she liked was simply life. Virginia Woolf

22 school districts across North Carolina canceled class today due to the many requests from teachers wanting to participate in May Day. Pay our public school teachers better. They help build future generations. That seems pretty important, right? Fund books, not bombs.

The Iran war could have “dramatic consequences”, causing food shortages and price rises in some of Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, the head of the world’s largest fertiliser company has said. (Guardian)

‘Work only if you feel it sparks a revolution.’ Joseph Beuys

Rabbit rabbit ✨

“The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.” ~Edward Abbey, “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal” (1989). Image: LA Times/Getty.

Credit: David Shrigley

‘Protect the flame. Because if we do not protect it, the wind will put it out before we even know it - the very same wind that first lit it.‘ Joseph Beuys in his last public speech before his departure from Earth on 1.23.86 ++