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Juli McKenna Kearns
@idyllopus.bsky.social
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Author. Artist. Playwright (twas). Cinema analyses. Dem Socialist. She/her. Husband is a musician/engineer/producer. Son makes films and I sometimes assist. No AI. Atlanta GA. Plutonium-enriched childhood in WA.
My website: https://idyllopuspress.com
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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · Nov 9
On my profile picture. It's an image that I took and has been my choice to use across platforms for years. My initial processing was high contrast.

Imperial Rome Exhibit at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Mask of Tragedy, From the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence. 2006, processed 2016
A photo in which the Mask of Tragedy has been isolated from its surroundings and the tones processed so the black of the mask's open mouth stands out. This particular mask hints at under the cloth hat the horns of Dionysus.
Reposted by Juli McKenna Kearns
charlesornstein.bsky.social
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The Child Experiments with Riddling a Sphinx
2008
From the series "The Child Experiments"

#colorphotography #metropolitanmuseumofart #moma #sphinx
Sphinx is center, child on the right gazing up at it, querying. Sphinx of Hatshepsut New Kingdom ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Dead Horse Ranch Creek
2006

#blackandwhitephotography #arizona #deadhorseranch #trees #creek #landscapephotography
Creek wandering through Arizona woods
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Crowne Plaza, Downtown Atlanta, 2015

View from downtown to midtown.

#atlantaphotography #blackandwhitephotography
View through skyscrapers and midrises to a soliitary skyscraper in Midtown blocks away. (The view is much changed today.)
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Table 2015 2, Table Without Diners

#colorphotography #interiorphotography
Blurred photography of table in a reserved room at a club. The table is covered with a white tablecloth and there are empty glasses and crumpled cloth napkins on the table. Behind the table are three chairs with beige cushioning. Several tables in silhouette are before the table. Four pictures in identical frames are on the wall. A hint of a chandelier is in the left upper corner.
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Cactus and City Lights
2006

#colorphotography #desertphotography #cactus
Blurred and gainy photo of cactus against a night sky
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Midtown Atlanta, June 2013

#atlantaphotography #midtownatlanta #architecturalphotography
Sunlight glints of skyscrapers against a dark blue sky
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Silence of Cassandra, 2012
Animated Shorts Series
Digital painting

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting
Abstract human figure (stick figure type) with round eyes and mouth, hands upraised as if questioningly or pleading
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Museum Seating, Bench with Cushion, High Museum of Art
2019, processed 2025
I love museum seating.
#blackandwhitephotography #atlantaphotography #highmuseumofart #highmuseum
View of single bench with cushion.
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Museum Seating, Benches with Cushions, High Museum of Art
2019, processed 2025
I love museum seating.
#blackandwhitephotography #atlantaphotography #highmuseumofart #highmuseum
View of two benches with cushions in a T-shape
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d
My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused "anti-Christianity," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Americanism"
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Abstract 33.2, 2018
Abstracts 2 Gallery
11 by 14 inches

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting
Abstract of wash of grays upper canvas and more solid wash on lower canvas with two curved white lines.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Restroom and Water Fountains #2, Atlanta, 2019, processed 2025

#atlantaphotography #interiorphotography #blackandwhitephotography
Slightly-blurred medium-shot showing entrance to restroom on left and waterfountains, backed by tile, on right. The upper wall is textured with hexagonal shapes.
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Restroom and Water Fountains #1, Atlanta, 2019, processed 2025

#atlantaphotography #interiorphotography #blackandwhitephotography
Medium-shot showing entrance to restroom on left and waterfountains, backed by tile, on right. The upper wall is textured with hexagonal shapes.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Juli McKenna Kearns
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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"Canned corn is already cooked."
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Echolia, 2017
Digital painting
18 by 18 inches

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting
Two abstract figures, side by side, with a bright red line connecting their mouths.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Hallway at The High Museum, 2019, processed 2025

#highmuseum #atlantaphotography #blackandwhitephotography
6m
Looking out a dark room into a well-lit highway at the museum. No art visible, just blank walls.
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Walls at The High Museum, 2019, processed 2025

#highmuseum #atlantaphotography #blackandwhitephotography
Looking through several walls toward a hall, varying shades of dark to light gray, at the museum but no art work visible
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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unraveledpress.com
"The camp consists of temporary tent structures meant to house up to 5,000 detainees and relieve overcrowding at other Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities."
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reposted by Juli McKenna Kearns
propublica.org
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Abstract 30.2, 2018
Abstracts 2 Gallery
14 by 17.8 inches

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting
Canvas with rust reds at top merging into gradations of black all around.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Crane, Construction, Atlanta, 2016
Processed 2025

#atlantaphotography #midtownatlanta #blackandwhitephotography
Extremely grainy shot of crane against blurred background
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Construction, Atlanta, 2016
Processed 2025

#atlantaphotography #midtownatlanta #blackandwhitephotography
Crane before skyscraper against cloudy sky, grainy black and white
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Thank you to the Buried Alive Film Festival and Plaza Theater for a great experience.

"Intravenus" was nominated for best feature, score, sound, comedy, and budget to production. This is our wonderful trophy for best Budget to Production!

@eyeodyssey.bsky.social @martinkearnsatl.bsky.social
Trophy for "Intravenus", as described in the following ALT for text images. 1 - Isn't this a cool trophy? I love the fact it was made special for the Buried Alive Film Festival and that it represents a kind of demon television, with a hollow where the old-fashioned cathode ray tube should go, in which ia little battery-powered brain that changes color is housed. Inventive! A great design. They really put a lot of thought and effort into the festival, which was packed with people enjoying themselves. "Intravenus" was Aaron's film--he conceived of it and wrote it, then came to me for help as a co-writer, which I felt privileged to do, and then privileged to help co-direct and be one of the two cinematographers. But this was completely Aaron's film, I would never have conceived of anything like this myself. It was fun! And interesting too to see how solid the horror community is, and passionate about what they do. "Intravenus" was nominated for best feature, budget to production, comedy, sound and score. It was nice to get the score nomination because that recognized the hard work put into creating a textured sound environment that supported the dialogue-heavy film, with minimal music as the idea was not to influence with music, to depend upon performances, how we captured them, and the sound environment. We didn't expect to win anything as the film wasn't typical for horror/gore genre, yet we did. We were quite surprised to be awarded budget to production. As for our budget, which was next to nothing, we were "no apologies" in our approach that would depend almost entirely on acting how we captured it, editing and sound, minimalistic on the sets, props, costuming etcetera. Considering the talent we were up against, for this festival has an international draw, we were more than surprised to get the award, and happy as well because we were determined to get a good feature out of almost no money. 2 -It is crazy hard making a movie on almost no budget (in this case about $3400) because that means you do everything yourself. You exhaust yourself setting up, then exhaust yourself spending all day filming, then exhaust yourself tearing down. And we did this spread out over about five months, from the end of January to the beginning of June. It was a struggle just to schedule the two to five actors (usually five) for each shooting day on days we were able to schedule a space, and then pray that no one would become ill. We didn't have that many shooting days, and so the ones we did have were rigorous and tough on the actors with what needed to be done. We did have some rehearsals beforehand, a number of discussions, but mainly we put a lot of trust in our actors who were crazily good. And though we didn't have that many shooting days (I'm not pulling out the schedule to check how many) those months (and beyond, we completed it in August) were consumed by the film, editing, Aaron working on the score, Marty doing sound. One thing I'm not good at is taking photos to chronicle things, my mind is preoccupied with what's going on, so I don't have photos of the festival itself. Aaron didn't get any photos either, and neither did Marty (who was a huge part of the production, and did sound, so I'm happy also it was nominated for sound), so I'm not the only one at fault there. So much thanks to our actors, Rachel Walker, Brice Heller, Joshua Haire, Lawson Reis, Chandler Balli, Megan Poole, and Michael Lamb, to Zia Jacobs who did a lot of everything, including make-up, to Hazel Cline and Steven Cline who worked on props and a mask, to Kevon Ward who further assisted with make-up. They were dedicated and we were lucky to have such talented individuals involved. And many many thanks to the Buried Alive Film Festival for a great time! And to the Plaza Theater! It's lovely to view one's film at The Plaza! The Buried Alive Film Festival has been going on for eighteen years. Aaron got best local in 2023 for his short film "The Face of Oblivion", and I could swear the festival has grown even bigger in those two short years.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM