Azby Brown
@azby.bsky.social
Artist, designer, author. Lead researcher for SAFECAST, promoting openness and citizen science for environmental monitoring.
Join us in Berlin this week for more utopienale 2025 events. ⠀
UPCOMING EXHIBIT:⠀
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“Exiles of the Psyche”⠀
Installations, video, and soundscapes.
Azby Brown & Gaston Meskens⠀
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5 - 7 September 2025 / free admission⠀
Floating University⠀
Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin⠀
⠀
www.utopienale.org⠀
UPCOMING EXHIBIT:⠀
⠀
“Exiles of the Psyche”⠀
Installations, video, and soundscapes.
Azby Brown & Gaston Meskens⠀
⠀
5 - 7 September 2025 / free admission⠀
Floating University⠀
Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin⠀
⠀
www.utopienale.org⠀
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Join us in Berlin this week for more utopienale 2025 events. ⠀
UPCOMING EXHIBIT:⠀
⠀
“Exiles of the Psyche”⠀
Installations, video, and soundscapes.
Azby Brown & Gaston Meskens⠀
⠀
5 - 7 September 2025 / free admission⠀
Floating University⠀
Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin⠀
⠀
www.utopienale.org⠀
UPCOMING EXHIBIT:⠀
⠀
“Exiles of the Psyche”⠀
Installations, video, and soundscapes.
Azby Brown & Gaston Meskens⠀
⠀
5 - 7 September 2025 / free admission⠀
Floating University⠀
Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin⠀
⠀
www.utopienale.org⠀
Utopienale IV started this weekend, with events in Berlin and Havelberg. One early highlight was:
CONVERSATIONS
‘Utopienale in Exile’ – a day at Lake Wannsee
At the Cordts Art Foundation, Berlin
www.utopienale.org
CONVERSATIONS
‘Utopienale in Exile’ – a day at Lake Wannsee
At the Cordts Art Foundation, Berlin
www.utopienale.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Utopienale IV started this weekend, with events in Berlin and Havelberg. One early highlight was:
CONVERSATIONS
‘Utopienale in Exile’ – a day at Lake Wannsee
At the Cordts Art Foundation, Berlin
www.utopienale.org
CONVERSATIONS
‘Utopienale in Exile’ – a day at Lake Wannsee
At the Cordts Art Foundation, Berlin
www.utopienale.org
Great meme, but pretty sure the Latin phrase will confuse the goons pictured.
August 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Great meme, but pretty sure the Latin phrase will confuse the goons pictured.
This episode of NHK Nichiyo Bijutsukan devoted to Kenjiro Okazaki and his major solo exhibition at MOT in Tokyo includes a segment in which I describe structural and color aspects of his paintings. I hope it will be rebroadcast and an English-language version produced.
www.nhk.jp/p/nichibi/ts...
www.nhk.jp/p/nichibi/ts...
July 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This episode of NHK Nichiyo Bijutsukan devoted to Kenjiro Okazaki and his major solo exhibition at MOT in Tokyo includes a segment in which I describe structural and color aspects of his paintings. I hope it will be rebroadcast and an English-language version produced.
www.nhk.jp/p/nichibi/ts...
www.nhk.jp/p/nichibi/ts...
Late-night sunset on the Baltic Sea near Finland.
July 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Late-night sunset on the Baltic Sea near Finland.
The first #nokings demo was held in Tokyo ten hours ago, thanks to time zones which put us 16 hours ahead of the US east coast. About 16 resident US citizens assembled in Shibuya to peacefully protest and engage passersby.
June 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The first #nokings demo was held in Tokyo ten hours ago, thanks to time zones which put us 16 hours ahead of the US east coast. About 16 resident US citizens assembled in Shibuya to peacefully protest and engage passersby.
Time zones put Tokyo 13 hours ahead of the US east coast, and the first of the global June 14th "No Kings" demonstrations was held there just hours ago. About 15 resident US citizens protested peacefully in front of Shibuya Station. (photo: Wendy Bigler)
June 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Time zones put Tokyo 13 hours ahead of the US east coast, and the first of the global June 14th "No Kings" demonstrations was held there just hours ago. About 15 resident US citizens protested peacefully in front of Shibuya Station. (photo: Wendy Bigler)
The National Partnership for Reinventing Government, under Clinton and Gore, was the most successful gov't reform effort in U.S. history. Eliminated >100 programs, 250,000 fed'l jobs, consolidated >800 agencies, done carefully to maintain institutional knowledge, limit disruption- h/t Laurie R. King
March 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The National Partnership for Reinventing Government, under Clinton and Gore, was the most successful gov't reform effort in U.S. history. Eliminated >100 programs, 250,000 fed'l jobs, consolidated >800 agencies, done carefully to maintain institutional knowledge, limit disruption- h/t Laurie R. King
I've been past this corner of Ginza many times but only noticed this amazing tree today....
It refuses to die...
It refuses to die...
March 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I've been past this corner of Ginza many times but only noticed this amazing tree today....
It refuses to die...
It refuses to die...
I'll add that California, Texas, and New York each have an economy larger than Russia's as well. It's truly a pipsqueak nation. Russia's nuke threat so far has only functioned as a fig leaf for grifters and appeasers....
March 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'll add that California, Texas, and New York each have an economy larger than Russia's as well. It's truly a pipsqueak nation. Russia's nuke threat so far has only functioned as a fig leaf for grifters and appeasers....
The plum blossoms (ume) blooming in our living room smell heavenly.
February 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The plum blossoms (ume) blooming in our living room smell heavenly.
The 200-year-old shinden (main worship hall) of our local Shinto shrine in Yokohama is having seismic reinforcement work done, so they converted a room in the adjoining residence into a temporary ceremonial hall. It's beautiful, and highlights the adaptability of traditional Japanese interiors.
February 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The 200-year-old shinden (main worship hall) of our local Shinto shrine in Yokohama is having seismic reinforcement work done, so they converted a room in the adjoining residence into a temporary ceremonial hall. It's beautiful, and highlights the adaptability of traditional Japanese interiors.
This is how the Gulf of Mexico looks on Google Maps in Japan, and probably everywhere else in the world that is not the US. The idiotic new coinage is sequestered in parentheses.
February 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is how the Gulf of Mexico looks on Google Maps in Japan, and probably everywhere else in the world that is not the US. The idiotic new coinage is sequestered in parentheses.
Amazing find. Have you seen the 1945 painting by NAKAMURA, Ken'ichi at MOMAT in Tokyo, 「北九州上空野辺軍曹機の体当りB29二機を撃墜す」[Sergeant Nobe's Suicide Attack on Two B-29's Over Kitakyushu] ? It stopped me in my tracks first time I saw it... for the desperate myth-making as much as for its Monet-inspired colors.
December 20, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Amazing find. Have you seen the 1945 painting by NAKAMURA, Ken'ichi at MOMAT in Tokyo, 「北九州上空野辺軍曹機の体当りB29二機を撃墜す」[Sergeant Nobe's Suicide Attack on Two B-29's Over Kitakyushu] ? It stopped me in my tracks first time I saw it... for the desperate myth-making as much as for its Monet-inspired colors.
Visiting Kishomonjin Shrine in Tokyo for the first time recently, I was amazed to find this gigantic, centuries-old ginko tree there in its full golden autumn glory. It was designated a natural landmark of Tokyo as far back as the 1930’s. People pray to it for help with childbirth and child-rearing.
December 1, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Visiting Kishomonjin Shrine in Tokyo for the first time recently, I was amazed to find this gigantic, centuries-old ginko tree there in its full golden autumn glory. It was designated a natural landmark of Tokyo as far back as the 1930’s. People pray to it for help with childbirth and child-rearing.
I was served a beautiful autumn appetizer in Nara recently: kaki (persimmon) with maguro (tuna), ikura (salmon roe), yose-dōfu (soft tofu), and shungiku (chrysanthemum greens). The chef has a great sense of color!
November 26, 2024 at 1:31 AM
I was served a beautiful autumn appetizer in Nara recently: kaki (persimmon) with maguro (tuna), ikura (salmon roe), yose-dōfu (soft tofu), and shungiku (chrysanthemum greens). The chef has a great sense of color!
Spent some time in the vast and ancient Okunoin Cemetery on Mount Koya recently. It was a rainy day…
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Spent some time in the vast and ancient Okunoin Cemetery on Mount Koya recently. It was a rainy day…
More views of "Carrying civilization forward into the future," at the Old School Institute for Contemporary Arts in Havelberg, Germany.
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 AM
More views of "Carrying civilization forward into the future," at the Old School Institute for Contemporary Arts in Havelberg, Germany.
"Carrying civilization forward into the future," which I curated at the Old School Institute for Contemporary Arts in Havelberg, Germany, as part of Utopienale III, on view through Spring, 2025: Wolf Guenther Thiel, Kurt Hofstetter, @tinkebell.bsky.social, Gaston Meskens, Lado Khartishvili, & more
November 18, 2024 at 3:58 AM
"Carrying civilization forward into the future," which I curated at the Old School Institute for Contemporary Arts in Havelberg, Germany, as part of Utopienale III, on view through Spring, 2025: Wolf Guenther Thiel, Kurt Hofstetter, @tinkebell.bsky.social, Gaston Meskens, Lado Khartishvili, & more
Noh actor Manjiro Tatsumi performing "Umeme" at Kofukuji Temple in Nara.
November 18, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Noh actor Manjiro Tatsumi performing "Umeme" at Kofukuji Temple in Nara.
Hi everyone! Nice to see a bunch of old friends here.
June 13, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Hi everyone! Nice to see a bunch of old friends here.