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Thomas Schmall
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Artist living in the #Netherlands.
Here with art and opinions.
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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · Nov 24
Time to jump to the sky - Word is, that it's nice for following and dropping #art.

Here is my last big piece, before a health-related painting break.
Hope I get the hang of it.

#イラスト #outside #pleinair #mixedmedia #watercolors #duinen #treepainting #noordzee #ink #inkdrawing #inkpen #paintings
Watercolor and ink painting on wood, depicting pine trees and flowers on dunes.
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anoxicart.bsky.social
get crunchied NOW
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
thomasschmall.bsky.social
Now even the @financialtimes.com is using AI generated slop as header images. Because clearly they can't afford or make a photo of a hand on a keyboard.

I guess I'll just have to get used to the slop-look everywhere.
😮‍💨

#AI #Slop #FT
FT times front page image - which is an AI generated hand on a keyboard.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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thepainteddairy.bsky.social
Oil on Panel "16 x 8"

$625.00 CAD Available

#canadaart #okanaganart #canada #okanagan #explore #promote
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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passivestar.bsky.social
ucupaint 2.4.0 is out with improved alpha workflow, better smart mask support, easier floater baking, decal constraints and more! ⭐
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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dailymothra.bsky.social
Today's Daily Mothra! 🦋

🎥 "Godzilla: Tokyo SOS" (2003)
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Highlighting fantastic palaeoartists:

渔火 on xiaohongshu, a mixed-medium artist from China. Magical depictions of theropods. Pictures are panels from their Spinosaurus comic.
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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muellershewrote.com
I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
thomasschmall.bsky.social
I didn't understand much of it - and still found this amazing².

m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6...
m.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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wallacepolsom.bsky.social
Yoshitaka Amano (b. 1952), “Circé” (1986), acrylic, colored ink, 56.6 x 76 cm.
October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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prune602.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Russia…

A gang of train bed linen thieves!

www.mk.ru/incident/202...
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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watanabetakao.bsky.social
Good morning! Today is the last weekend before my solo exhibition opens. This photo shows the venue from my last exhibition, and I'm already excited to return to that world!
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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thomaskole.bsky.social
It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think!

retratodetenochtitlan.mx

#tenochtitlan #cdmx #b3d #threejs
Tenochtitlan 3D viewer | retrato de Tenochtitlan
interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan
retratodetenochtitlan.mx
October 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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screenmedia.bsky.social
Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine photographed at RKO Studios in Hollywood on the set of the American psychological thriller “SUSPICION” (1941) with director Alfred Hitchcock. For her role as Lina, Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress & is the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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indivisible.org
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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danliimatta.bsky.social
artists, what's your favorite part to draw? quote this post!

mine: colorful plants, moss 🌱🥦
Petrol covered waters Mossy Forest Colorful Vista Flowers and a cat
October 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social
La ville derrière les volets
#Pastel on #Pastelmat
40x30 cm

The second #PastelPainting of my Parisian series. I've always been charmed by Parisian rooftops and chimneys. More versions of this #cityscape to come.

#pastelart #sunset #paris #art #painting #feance #rooftops
Pastel painting of a view on the Montmartre district at sunset from the window of an apartment in Paris, where I've been staying this summer. Vivid sunset colours in the sky and a more dimmed palette for the buildings (Siena, blue/gray and creme tones).
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
Watercolor painting by Rosalind Allchin. Blue flag iris seed pods. #botanicalart
A large watercolor painting of dried out seed pods surrounded by dead leaves. That doesn't explain the depth of colours in the browns or the movement in the composition. Beautiful.
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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hollyanderson.bsky.social
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
thomasschmall.bsky.social
Wow, what a fantastic podcast! The plot twist pivot from tariffs to AI ownership was great.

I only wished they skipped the 10min banter, because this one needed two hours more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklE...
#Economics #AI #Tariffs #Equality #USEconomy @justinwolfers.bsky.social @profgalloway.com
The Most Important Economic Debate of our Lifetime — ft. Justin Wolfers | Prof G Markets
YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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borowitzreport.bsky.social
“We gave you a 400-million-dollar 747. You’re not sticking us in some Idaho shithole.”
Qataris Reject Trump’s Idaho Offer and Demand Airbase at Mar-a-Lago
“We gave you a 400-million-dollar 747. You’re not sticking us in some Idaho shithole.”
www.borowitzreport.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social
Alice
#PanPastel on #Sennelier #pastel paper
40x30 cm

My daughter came to sit for a #portrait session at my local life model painting club. Lately I really like to #sketch or lay the base of a #PastelPainting with PanPastel (pigment powders pressed in a small pan that you apply with tiny sponges).
Lightly sketched portrait of my 19 year old daughter. Light warm brown background, blue/grey outlines, soft colour accents here and there. bright eyes and earrings.
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Just heard Drew Struzan passed away 😞 His incredible work has given me and countless others so much awe, joy and inspiration!

I had posters of his work as a teen, I began using color pencils because I thought he used them too. Always inspired by him. Just utterly heart broken.

RIP Drew Struzan.
Drew Struzan’s poster of Big Trouble in Little China Drew Struzan’s poster of Pan’s Labyrinth Drew Struzan’s poster of Blade Runner Drew Struzan’s poster of Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom
October 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM