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Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo
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Brooklyn-based Colombian artist, educator, and parent. Professor of Integrated Design at The New School's Parsons School of Design. Director, DEED Research Lab focused on the indigenous and traditional artisan sector.
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This week’s #BlueSkyArtShow entry. Theme is #inside.

Photographed in Folégandros, Greece. #nofilter
Looking out to the sea through a wooden door that’s ajar. The sky is blue and the water below it, bluer.
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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The sun sets in #Atlanta, as seen in the penthouse recreation space of a senior living community.

My entry for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow, with the theme #vertical.

#nofilter
The sun sets in #Atlanta, as seen in the penthouse recreation space of a senior living community. You see a gorgeous sky through tall windows behind a ping pong table under an elegant chandelier.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
lawsonjaramillo.bsky.social
Here’s my entry for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow, theme #TheRoad.

#upsidedown #puddlegram of people working on a #Brooklyn #street

#nofilter
Upside down photo of people doing work in a road in Brooklyn, reflected in a big puddle.
September 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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nposegay.bsky.social
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Home

#colorphotography #architecture #lookingdown #stairwell #kids
Photo of two kids walking down a stairwell holding rainbow umbrellas
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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2020, epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. #Summer was a blur--schools had been closed for months already. With 5-year-olds at home, these were the moments that most nurtured us. This was the peak of “summer” that year, and which we hold with so much gratitude and love.

#BlueSkyArtShow
A color photograph of 4 kids playing at sunset in the water. One is jumping up, surrounded by 3 kids. You see the horizon and sunset colors in the sky in the background.
September 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I’ve always loved photographing #shiny surfaces in the built environment. Here, I’ve rotated this photo of an empty apartment with a shiny marble floor.

#florida #interiors #lookingout #bluesky #blueskyartshow
Rotated photograph of an apartment and its balcony looking out on a blue sky and tropical vegetation
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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votebiue.bsky.social
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
August 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Will you be joining us for this FREE in-person and virtual Awareness in Action teaching with Rebecca Solnit?

Rebecca is such a powerful and kind presence at Upaya. We are looking forward to gathering with you all!

Register online here: www.upaya.org/program/awar... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Fan of em dashes here! 🙋🏼‍♀️
clivethompson.bsky.social Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · Aug 26
Since "an abundance of em dashes" has become a tell for AI-generated writing ...

... I'm gonna re-up my essay: "In Defense of the Em Dash"

gift link: medium.com/medium-handb...

Just because AI over-uses 'em doesn't mean *we shouldn't too!*

it is a noble piece of punctuation

reason #1 (of 6)...
A screenshot reading: "1. Em dashes feel slightly *anarchic* People have a pretty good sense of the function of the various punctuation marks. The comma gives a short rest, while the semicolon joins two related ideas. The colon often introduces a list. But the em dash? It’s weirdly all-fungible. It can be used in place of all of those punctuation marks I noted above, as the Punctuation Guide notes: “The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation mark. Depending on the context, the em dash can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons — in each case to slightly different effect.” So it’s a shapeshifter, which makes it hard to pin down. Yet that also makes it exciting for me — because it suggests you can bust out an em dash, for, like, no reason at all except that you feel like it. As Ben Yagoda notes, “It’s the mark that — unlike commas, periods, semicolons and all the others — doesn’t seem to be subject to any rules.” Or as Kate Mooney of the New York Times puts it… […] the em dash is emphatic, agile and still largely undefined. Sometimes it indicates an afterthought. Other times, it’s a fist pump. You might call it the bad boy, or cool girl, of punctuation. A freewheeling scofflaw. A rebel without a clause."
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents."

a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
lawsonjaramillo.bsky.social
A #skyline for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

Inside or outside?
Trapped or free?
Fog or smog?

#nyc #photography
A gloomy photo of the NYC skyline seen through a metal fence
August 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Colorful #pieces for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

#craft #ribbon #yarn #multicolor #photography
Wooden shelves full of various colors and sizes of ribbon on spools Wooden shelves with bundles of yarn of all colors Wooden shelves full of bundles of yarn
August 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Here’s my entry for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme #Jagged.

#boy climbing a rock in Île d'Yeu, France

#photography #nofilter #bluesky
White clouds interspersed across a blue sky above the ocean. In the foreground, a large rock on a sandy beach. A boy is climbing the rock in an elevated crawl position
August 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The nerdy tattle-tale in me grew up to be an academic who loves calling out designers who plagiarize and culturally appropriate. The latest is #Adidas x #WillyChavarría. Here’s what I wrote (including learning resources!): deed.parsons.edu/2025/08/07/c...

#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches
Screenshot of a blog post that reads Cultural Appropriation? Willy Chavarría x Adidas’ “Oaxaca Slip-On” Statement from the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca (provided by Cultural Documentalist Laura Quiroz) On Sunday, August 3, 2025, designer Willy Chavarría unveiled his latest collaboration with Adidas—the “Oaxaca Slip-On” (see images here). While the shoe is being celebrated as a “nod to Chicano culture” and a “revival of Mexican tradition,” the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of the State of Oaxaca claims that Chavarría and Adidas have neglected to credit the Yalalag Community, “whose traditional huaraches were used as the aesthetic basis for the footwear.” This accusation of cultural appropriation is now being widely reported, including on CNN.com (August 6, 2025).
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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❤️ this: "Ea week we’ll take one platform fm the Google suite [+] treat it... like a performance venue, a poetic constraint, a sketch comedy prop... We’ll misuse features that usually go unnoticed: version history as revisionist memoir, autofill as ⏰ device, data validation menus w/ no valid options"
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August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What if "bicycle street, cars as guests" were the starting point for all streets?
July 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Yesterday, I had noticed these new dividers in NYC Union Square's turnstiles, so this morning I stopped to ask an MTA worker what they were for. She explained that they are to prevent people from jumping over as now, they don't have anything on which to hold. (And, that edge would hurt if grabbed!)
The backs of two people who are about to walk through a turnstile at a subway station in NYC. You can see the OMNY scanning screen and also large dividers between each turnstile. Close-up of a turnstile divider with a jagged edge, in polished metal.
July 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Re-working a case study for a journal submission and grateful to have stumbled on this out-of-print gem from 1972 -- Nigel Cross's "Design Participation" (proceedings from a Design Research Society conference). Great range of critique on #participatorydesign #codesign #designpractice.
Screenshot of a book cover in red background with white boxes in a grid (suggesting a facade) with one of them in red ornamentation.
July 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Here’s my entry for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme of #Alternating.

Alternating…
between inside and outside.
between water and sky.
between natural and constructed.

#photography #insideout #folegandros #greece #nofilter #bluesky
Photo of a window and through it you see a white concrete terrace and past it blue sea and sky.
July 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I missed this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow but the theme of #Smooth is such a perfect descriptor of today’s water on the #LongIslandSound. #paddleboarder #horizon

#nofilter #noedit
Photo of water and sky. In the distance you can see a very small paddle boarder
July 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Beautiful views of #Brooklyn and #Manhattan landing in #LGA earlier today. Son and I spotted these favorites
Small hand pointing out an airplane window to a coastal city in the distance
July 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.
A text input labelled "Amount" with "$80.32" written inside, but the eight has a larger circle on the top than the bottom and the three character has a larger curve on the top as well. Subtle but disorienting.
June 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM