Nicholas Redding

My watercolour painting of the Alvar Aalto house in Helsinki. Painted 10 years ago today.

Speaking of which: I'm delighted to have a story in ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (Apex Books), out this fall. "Butterfly Pavilion" originally appeared in the wonderful @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

make the people who shelled out £18m for his art pay for the upkeep

In Hillsboro, Crash Landing Fest hosts local bands on the wing of a flightless Boeing 737.

RIP Glen Hansard. This is the first thing that came to mind when I heard the news. He just gives himself totally over to it. Like he’s coming out of his skin.

🎶 I don’t believe in modern love (purge on time) (get me to the purge on time 🎶

Rest in peace Lou. Someday a real rain is gonna come youtu.be/Jv6_69AHHls

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers Demos (Full Album) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZDH...

“Are you not entertained?!” European Starling flexes atop an Ocotillo 🪶

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Exclusive: "Honestly, f**k AI" - Bonne Animation is a new indie studio launched by a group of CalArts grads with an unwavering philosophy: human-made animation, carefully selected scope and scale, and global collaboration. www.cartoonbrew.com/studios/bonn...

Dagens upplyftande länk mitt i allt elände. För er som blir glada av att höra Nick Lowe snacka om att spela gitarr. youtu.be/4SSd-iuiPLM?...

The publishing contract for all of my solo Top Shelf books expires on Jan 1st— I already have plans underway for COME AGAIN, but if you see any of these books in the wild, you should grab em while you can! SWALLOW ME WHOLE is sold out & only about 100 copies of ANY EMPIRE left.

Lower the maximum wage.

maybe the most brutal strikeout in baseball history

OUCH!

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968

youtu.be/nKZcneJWh-A

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Karen Mathison Schmidt, Almost Spring, 2011 acrylic on cradled Gessobord 8 x 10 inches

The "civil rights era" never ended. You are still in it. Black people are still asking for exactly the same things that they asked for in the 1960s: police reform, voting rights, and fair access to employment. And the exact same proportion of white US voters oppose it with both votes and violence.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

'Moonlight.' (1928) John Keats wrote in praise of a creative faculty called negative capability; in art it happens when painters know how to stay back, leaving their work open, unsolved, holding unknowns. Emil Carlsen was very good at it.

Is there a field biologist in the Portland, Oregon, area who wouldn't mind being in a bear suit for an hour in the woods on August 4. For science. DM me.

Background paintings from Castle in the Sky (1986), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli Pieces painted by Nizo Yamamoto, Toshiro Nozaki and Mutsuo Koseki

Soon, Chris Ware USPS stamps.

Cosmo has a message for today. More fun, less fascism. #nokings

From: The Mermaid (1996), dir. Alexander Petrov, Panorama Animated with paint on glass

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai's pastel 'A Park at Night.' (c1892) represents a nocturnal landscape, only the lights suggest the presence of houses and roads - trees looking like a photographic negative, are bright against a black background and add a mystical touch to the picture.

in case you missed it, we have a new LP coming out May 2nd. it’s called “At Peace”. Our buddy Randy put together this version of a lyric-video for it. Thx Randolph! youtu.be/IaczEDfTE3M

Here's the piece if you want more than theTL;DR version above! www.ft.com/content/e2dd...

found this on spotify and ported it to apple music. seven hours of 60s psychedelic rock. it's beautiful music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Bad umpire calls are part of the human aspect and charm of baseball.

Fjords of Southern Iceland, 2017 #landscape #photography #iceland

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