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trying to keep up with #inktober - here's the first batch

what a positive vibe for a rock show. @cheekface was a hoot @ @highergroundmusic

it hurts to lose our indie club 🫡

painted some boats on our last trip to the camp this year #watercolor #sketch #art

i don’t get many designer newsletters, but when I do, they’re from a Dan

thought i’d do more painting on this trip. been hauling my materials around. i don’t think artists can also be readers. my book draws me in during downtime.

car-centrism is getting out of control here

noticing far fewer obese people at Polish beaches as well as inland. i think the reasons have to do with infrastructure: very walkable cities, less fast food, less eating out in general, and the big one - cleaner food. rules that can stand up to big food.

malls stand out here. they’re full of stores, people, and look like what america’s malls would if ours never died. like many of the interesting things here, it’s because poland joined the capitalism game late. if they indeed are following the same path, their malls won’t be around long either.

visiting poland reminds me homelessness isn’t a requirement of a city.

Hallam had a heavy, wise answer when asked what success looked like if the resistance wins. he said you flat out cannot ask that without doing the spiritual work to deeply commit to the cause, otherwise you’ll burn out if your headspace is too individual. great talk. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSJ...

neat little refuge among grime #watercolor #urbansketching #art

some photos from new york’s north country

enjoyed reading this one. it’s a balanced of snapshot of burlington, compared to the rabid “online a lot” accounts hating on homeless, intent on scaring people away from venturing downtown.

been off the art habit for too long that i was starting to get itchy. here’s one of my favorite barns. i fear it’ll be torn down soon because it’s so very close to the road, leany, and clearly not in use. #watercolor #paint #art #vermont

listening to ram das on the way to a kurt vile show felt right. kurt’s energy is so low-ego, he radiates letting-go to the crowd through his slacker unconcern

Is there hope for humanity? An anthropologist's perspective:

our name is Broiler Chicken Consumer Litigation and we are here to 🤘🏻 Crossposted with @openvibe.social

not a bad idea 💔 Crossposted with @openvibe.social

i need to set up a structure to pushback on UXers using a/b tests as a crutch for decision paralysis. they often get proposed when we can’t reach consensus and ‘the data’ becomes the decion-maker, sidestepping ownership.

bluebird nesting box update

one of the features that drew me to this place was the arched doorway, that and the built ins, which are probably less impressive when illustrated. #watercolor #urbansketching #art

phew, the powerful concoction of art + poetry givebutter.com/c/red-white-...

still going strong with this one. highly recommend The Way for meditation: thewayapp.com only downside is constantly being reminded of that fastball hit from the late 90s.

iNaturalist continues to be a non-enshittified, bright spot in the internet. I’ve used it off and on for over a decade, recently using it to help identify a skull I found in the woods. Twas a bears!

The early 20th century was a period of class war unlike any in US history. Labor uprisings and bloody reprisals by oligarchs and their private armies resulted in national chaos. The cartoonists of The Masses were there to document it all. This is their story. THE DISSIDENTS, coming in Sept.

On this day in 1935, FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of 2,000 WPA posters known to exist—publicizing community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs—the Library's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Wrapped up the april art fundraiser with this one of my stairs at night. I have a whole new respect for smooth, analog, painted gradients.

Painted at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens "The Retired Landscaper" 9" x 12" Gouache Sold 🔴 #pleinair #artistsonlocation #gouache #pleinairpril #truck #landscaper @warriorpainters.bsky.social

Sometimes I browse the local classifieds for ideas

Here’s a #watercolor of a random swath of a yard I pass daily with the pup. I liked how the mountain is just hinted at by the angle in the distance and the little sign about #Vermont being a brave little state.

A quote from Summer of Soul, the doc about the Harlem Cultural Festival in '69, sums up my feelings about this moon trip. Just can't do it. "The cash that you wasted, as far as I'm concerned, could have been used to feed poor Black people in Harlem, all over the place."

“IBM was in some ways bigger than the war. Both sides could to not afford to proceed without the company's all-important technology. Hitler needed IBM. So did the Allies.” This book about their punch card machines is a doozy.

a still life with photos during the process. #watercolor #urbansketching #art wescarr.com/blog/art/bed...