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markoneinfour.bsky.social
Hello. I would like to celebrate the lost art of the compilation album as an eye and ear opening path into pleasures previously unknown. It might be a sampler, it might be a mix album but it's a person's singular vision of a particular genre or theme. Thread below of some favourites
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
portiathecrab.bsky.social
Throwback to when I needle punched some mould in my foundation year.

#mould #textiles #art #slimemould
Needle punched yarn into a dark purple fabric. The main body of the yarn is off-white, but there are long tendrils of brown coming up through the middle like hairs. It is shaped like mould. It is still within it's embroidery hoop. Needle punched yarn into a dark purple fabric. The main body of the yarn is off-white, but there are long tendrils of brown coming up through the middle like hairs. It is shaped like mould. It is still within it's embroidery hoop. Needle punched yarn into a dark purple fabric. The main body of the yarn is a blue and brown gradient, but there are long tendrils of brown coming up through the middle like hairs. It is shaped like mould.
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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trahias.bsky.social
Christopher Burk (American Artist, born 1978)
"Obscured Nocturne ll", 2018.
Gouache on Paper, 12" × 9".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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lensandpedals.bsky.social
A long walk home yesterday in a delightful snowstorm. I passed this person on their own walk going the opposite way. After they passed I turned and took this photograph .

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10

#Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis
A black and white photograph of a person walking across an old bridge lined with curved lights toward a city scape in falling snow.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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yellowjackinit.bsky.social
Stick a fork in me and shred my flesh for a Chicken Salad.
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
portiathecrab.bsky.social
What if I died here?

#lichen #mould #annihilation
A yellow/orange lichen spreading radially, coral-like in shape, from the crevice beside a painted-over rivet, found in Ganaoque in Canada on a bridge. A yellow/orange lichen spreading radially, coral-like in shape, from the crevice beside a painted-over rivet, found in Ganaoque in Canada on a bridge. A yellow/orange lichen spreading radially, coral-like in shape, from the crevice beside a painted-over rivet, found in Ganaoque in Canada on a bridge.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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brymo.bsky.social
I really like the color and textures of this photo!

#278 taken 7:12 pm
#photography
#art
#abstract
#abalone
Macro photograph of an abalone shell
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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jlalibs.com
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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nigelgraz.bsky.social
OC 🕷❤️‍🔥
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
Liverpool. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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intothehinterlands.co.uk
It's felt like this all week down here in the West Country. Water everywhere, low grey skies, and both seemed to stretch out endlessly.

This is in fact the Ceredigion coast taken a couple of summers ago. Nevertheless it feels apt.

#landscape #photography #cymru
Looking across a grey green sea to an empty horizon
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
still thinking about these battling chairs in nantes and whether they are still locked in struggle
small metal chairs on their front legs wedged up against a small chess table surrounded by the violence of small sharp long shards of stone floor seething toward the middle under the table with moss between the shards making the effect more frenetic
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Best lighthouses I saw in Malta.
lighthouse in a stone circle with stone pathway to it, with a red top like a rubber nipple, but more like the rubber nipples in ren & stimpy when the horse said call the police than like you know feeding a baby with a bottle. A similar lighthouse to the red one earlier, but with a green nipple at the top. a squat, girthy lighthouse on a kinda cliff not a lighthouse but I'm sure that boat seeing that weird three pronged fish sculpture thought oh yeah that's the shore i should avoid that also i'm a boat i don't have a brain so i probably will beach myself right next to that thing because i just don't know any better
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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trahias.bsky.social
Artist: John Fabian Carlson (Swedish-American, 1875-1947)
Title: "Autumn Beeches" (ca.1908-15)
Medium: oil on canvas (101.6 x 132.08 cm)
Collection: Dallas Museum of Art, United States.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
This story is getting wilder - not only is it a known solitary spider species living communally, but it's cohabiting with a second species, a type of commensalism(?) not before observed. Would be very interested to see if the species are cooperating with weaving/hunting, and how that works.
hailseitan.bsky.social Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · Nov 6
@aptshadow.bsky.social Children of Time as prophecy?
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · Nov 6
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
One thing at Utopiales...they kept introducing me as the Pope of Weird Fiction and I had to keep saying no no this is purely a secular and non-hierarchical enterprise...
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
portiathecrab.bsky.social
Obsessed with these trippy trees in a canyon in Canada. The forest was so dense and covered in moss and lichen, it was like it was melting, refracting even.

#trees #canada #surreal
Very tall pine trees with a yellow-green lichen hanging from every inch of wood. The forest is dense and only more trees can be seen in the background.
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
FULLY GREEN

Come for a wander with me,
through green woodland
down to a wondrous sea
through landscapes both hollow and still
listen to the call of the wild

#Autumn #Blueskyartshow #leaves #photography #woodland #tree
#poem Francis H Powell
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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lordfuckpuppy.social
ive been really enjoying these night walks and shooting with torchlight

#art #photography
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
today's first moment of calm...
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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lorilevin.bsky.social
Toulouse-Lautrec #morningart #art #horses
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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spilledpixel.bsky.social
sharks!
#pixelart #ドット絵
pixelart of various sharks
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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crittercrafterally.bsky.social
Bird and blooms 🌼 From my sketchbook

#Sketch #Sketchbook
Ballpoint pen sketchbook drawing of a spherical songbird with a human head perched on a branch with small flowers
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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spyglassart.bsky.social
Lighthouse love.

#art #illustration
An illustration of a blue and white lighthouse on a sea shore with a brick wall at the bottom and seagulls in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM