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Ian Willey
@ianwilley.bsky.social
Artist, designer, technician and tutor, helping people of all ages to make things.

ianwilley.artstation.com
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#FallFriday on a Tuesday
In honour of it being skating season, a reminder that The Fall is good music for figure skating, and more teams should do that.
youtu.be/CiL06yHiMwo?...
2015 Russian Synchronised Skating Team dance to 'The Joke' by the Fall
YouTube video by Grant Philpott
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Drone from below
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“And I really think this computer thing is getting out of hand
And I think this tech pilot isn't going to land”

🖥️ 📉 💥

#Techlash
#Boomerslop
#FallFriday

youtu.be/Hx0TxCpfYZs?...
Auto Tech Pilot (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*

www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I have been making classroom equipment for the Science department.

A set of fulcrums:
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hungry skulls
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Happy Hallowe’en
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I guess the AI results for “The pearl with the girl earring” were too weird?
October 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The beach entertainment economy of Scheveningen uses shipping containers as sea-weatherproof equipment storage and as large scale windbreaks.

Ugly and out-of-place looking in the daytime, they become almost beautiful at night.
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Bit of a De Stijl binge at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am kurious oranj
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#fallfriday

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October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Reposted by Ian Willey
Endlessly reusable UK TV listing:

Zack Polanski is joined in the studio by a veteran journalist who published vast amounts of jaw-droppingly homophobic drivel in the 1980s and 1990s (which hasn't stalled their career because they're posh) to be cackled at for being "woke"
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Scheveningen beach at night.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Can’t see Labour having the wit/smarts to execute this.

The Green Party on the other hand…
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ok ALDI, what’s this new ciabatta ingredient?
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
When you live on the flight paths to Heathrow and City Airport and up the road from Biggin Hill, Sky Cards can become a mildly intense Augmented Reality game.

✈️ 🚁

#SoMuchStuffInTheSky
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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decades of sophisticated political philosophy dedicated to the criticism of rights discourse, theories of alienation from “organic community,” and advocacy for post-liberal forms of “counter-politics” have all led to Donald Trump posting an AI video of himself as a king shitting out of a plane
October 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Saw “One Battle After Another” last night.

My three word review is
“Hipster Mad Max”.
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
@rickyhaggett.bsky.social

How quickly can you throw together a Sumo wrestlers passing around a giant bagel” game?
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
October 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Dolmen Airman
October 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Zoot Woman - Grey Day
YouTube video by WallofSoundRecording
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...
Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates
Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...
denvergov.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Always wise to direct your woodland queries to a bunny, man.

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Oi! @willsergeant.com ! Any idea what these are mate?
October 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM