Jeff Carter
@radio-pinecone.bsky.social
Illustrator (ACCD ‘90), science buff & former art professor overthinking things at edge of Yellowstone Park. I play banjo a lot. Father to 4 powerful women. GenX.
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Jeff Carter
@radio-pinecone.bsky.social
· Nov 16
My very first post on BlueSky. I did this 48” x 120” oil painting of Lookout Point a while ago. This is still my favorite spot close to my home.
My favorite chapter in Tim Marshall’s book Prisioners of Geography (the British role James Clapper had) is the chapter on us! So many have no idea how lucky we are, nor what drives geopolitics.
This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My favorite chapter in Tim Marshall’s book Prisioners of Geography (the British role James Clapper had) is the chapter on us! So many have no idea how lucky we are, nor what drives geopolitics.
Another life drawing I did in my head drawing class.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another life drawing I did in my head drawing class.
Sometimes you see a photo that stops everything you’re doing just thinking about the effort to plan this.
“This striking photo shows a skydiver perfectly aligned with the sun's fiery surface, around 93 million miles … from Earth. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/cosmicbackground.io)”
“This striking photo shows a skydiver perfectly aligned with the sun's fiery surface, around 93 million miles … from Earth. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/cosmicbackground.io)”
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Sometimes you see a photo that stops everything you’re doing just thinking about the effort to plan this.
“This striking photo shows a skydiver perfectly aligned with the sun's fiery surface, around 93 million miles … from Earth. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/cosmicbackground.io)”
“This striking photo shows a skydiver perfectly aligned with the sun's fiery surface, around 93 million miles … from Earth. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/cosmicbackground.io)”
Aw man! My dad’s classmate from Art Center. Loved so much about Drew and his work.
Thanks for all the great memories, Drew. Godspeed. @drewstruzanart.bsky.social @thedigitalbits.bsky.social
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Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78
He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Aw man! My dad’s classmate from Art Center. Loved so much about Drew and his work.
Which song did you learn in school?
I liked “My home’s in Montana, I wear a bandanna,
My spurs are of silver, my pony is gray.
Whatever the weather, we travel together,
With foot in the stirrup, I’ll gallop all day.”
The best.
I liked “My home’s in Montana, I wear a bandanna,
My spurs are of silver, my pony is gray.
Whatever the weather, we travel together,
With foot in the stirrup, I’ll gallop all day.”
The best.
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Which song did you learn in school?
I liked “My home’s in Montana, I wear a bandanna,
My spurs are of silver, my pony is gray.
Whatever the weather, we travel together,
With foot in the stirrup, I’ll gallop all day.”
The best.
I liked “My home’s in Montana, I wear a bandanna,
My spurs are of silver, my pony is gray.
Whatever the weather, we travel together,
With foot in the stirrup, I’ll gallop all day.”
The best.
A pen and ink life drawing I did as a demo in my head drawing class.
September 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
A pen and ink life drawing I did as a demo in my head drawing class.
This is lovely. I saw this a year ago. I’m about done with my goal of watching every episode of TTZ. Rod Serling and my grandfather fought in the same battles in the Philippines during WWII, and the episodes in that setting are particularly powerful & has in an odd way connected me more with grandpa
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is lovely. I saw this a year ago. I’m about done with my goal of watching every episode of TTZ. Rod Serling and my grandfather fought in the same battles in the Philippines during WWII, and the episodes in that setting are particularly powerful & has in an odd way connected me more with grandpa
“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
September 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
Woo Hoo! Front row seats at the 5pm & four rows back for 8pm concerts of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones last night at the Warren Miller PAC in Big Sky just 40min North of my home. What a great night of Music I have loved so long.
September 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Woo Hoo! Front row seats at the 5pm & four rows back for 8pm concerts of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones last night at the Warren Miller PAC in Big Sky just 40min North of my home. What a great night of Music I have loved so long.
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As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
For some scientists fighting partisan attacks, the goal is to defend their work from political interference. But in retaliating, @katherinejwu.com reports, they also run the risk of advancing the narrative that they want to fight.
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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A year ago Blue Ridge Banjo Campers performed Cassidy Beenjtes’ arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue with Bela fleck, this year we did his Arr. of J.S. Bach violin Concerto in C.
The arts keep my peace, hold my hope, fuel my resistance, light my way and soothe every circling beast and bring me love.
The arts keep my peace, hold my hope, fuel my resistance, light my way and soothe every circling beast and bring me love.
Did this painting of George Gershwin when I was a student at Art Center. What a kick to play Rhapsody in Blue with Bela Fleck and a bunch of other terrific banjoists! Gotta have the arts! My life is a near circular Venn diagram of Art, Music, Science.
August 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A year ago Blue Ridge Banjo Campers performed Cassidy Beenjtes’ arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue with Bela fleck, this year we did his Arr. of J.S. Bach violin Concerto in C.
The arts keep my peace, hold my hope, fuel my resistance, light my way and soothe every circling beast and bring me love.
The arts keep my peace, hold my hope, fuel my resistance, light my way and soothe every circling beast and bring me love.
Happy Birthday, sir.
Thank you for 8 years with
0 indictments
0 lawsuits
0 rape accusations
0 articles of impeachment
0 violations of the espionage act
52.9% of the popular vote
1 Grammy
1 Emmy
1 Nobel Prize
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in 50 years on his watch. 🎂
Thank you for 8 years with
0 indictments
0 lawsuits
0 rape accusations
0 articles of impeachment
0 violations of the espionage act
52.9% of the popular vote
1 Grammy
1 Emmy
1 Nobel Prize
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in 50 years on his watch. 🎂
August 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Happy Birthday, sir.
Thank you for 8 years with
0 indictments
0 lawsuits
0 rape accusations
0 articles of impeachment
0 violations of the espionage act
52.9% of the popular vote
1 Grammy
1 Emmy
1 Nobel Prize
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in 50 years on his watch. 🎂
Thank you for 8 years with
0 indictments
0 lawsuits
0 rape accusations
0 articles of impeachment
0 violations of the espionage act
52.9% of the popular vote
1 Grammy
1 Emmy
1 Nobel Prize
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in 50 years on his watch. 🎂
Everybody know this is the problem. Fix it! Montana will start. transparentelection.org
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Everybody know this is the problem. Fix it! Montana will start. transparentelection.org
Aww Man . . . I ran a spotlight at one of concerts in 1984. I was a big fan and he was very generous with his time. I Loved his music.
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Chuck Mangione, 'Feels So Good' musician and bandleader, dead at 84
"Feels So Good" reached No. 4 on the Billboard singles chart in 1977.
abcnews.go.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Aww Man . . . I ran a spotlight at one of concerts in 1984. I was a big fan and he was very generous with his time. I Loved his music.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...
My favorite Saturn 5 Rocket photo. MaxQ during Apollo 6 All-Up unmanned test.
Fun fact: First Stage burned 30 rail-Road Tanker cars of Kerosine and Liquid Oxygen in a minute and a half! Over 6 million pounds of thrust put the stack 30 miles up and 30 miles down range before staging.
Fun fact: First Stage burned 30 rail-Road Tanker cars of Kerosine and Liquid Oxygen in a minute and a half! Over 6 million pounds of thrust put the stack 30 miles up and 30 miles down range before staging.
July 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
My favorite Saturn 5 Rocket photo. MaxQ during Apollo 6 All-Up unmanned test.
Fun fact: First Stage burned 30 rail-Road Tanker cars of Kerosine and Liquid Oxygen in a minute and a half! Over 6 million pounds of thrust put the stack 30 miles up and 30 miles down range before staging.
Fun fact: First Stage burned 30 rail-Road Tanker cars of Kerosine and Liquid Oxygen in a minute and a half! Over 6 million pounds of thrust put the stack 30 miles up and 30 miles down range before staging.
I was on the bird-app since 2009, walked away when the megalomaniac turned it into a dystopian mess to expedite turning the US into a dystopian mess. Blue Sky has become a great place to share what I love and find community in good faith with a cautious optimism that we can fix our dystopian mess.
July 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I was on the bird-app since 2009, walked away when the megalomaniac turned it into a dystopian mess to expedite turning the US into a dystopian mess. Blue Sky has become a great place to share what I love and find community in good faith with a cautious optimism that we can fix our dystopian mess.
My dad did the cover art for the LP record of the audio highlights of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 56 years ago today.
I was 7 & remember that night like it was only 15 years ago. 😀
By the time Gene & Harrison put over 100 Km on the moon buggy during Apollo 17, I was sure we’d be on mars by now.
I was 7 & remember that night like it was only 15 years ago. 😀
By the time Gene & Harrison put over 100 Km on the moon buggy during Apollo 17, I was sure we’d be on mars by now.
July 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
My dad did the cover art for the LP record of the audio highlights of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 56 years ago today.
I was 7 & remember that night like it was only 15 years ago. 😀
By the time Gene & Harrison put over 100 Km on the moon buggy during Apollo 17, I was sure we’d be on mars by now.
I was 7 & remember that night like it was only 15 years ago. 😀
By the time Gene & Harrison put over 100 Km on the moon buggy during Apollo 17, I was sure we’d be on mars by now.
I live in a town with hardly any 3rd Spaces. I want to fix that. “social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.”
This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
Seems bad.
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I live in a town with hardly any 3rd Spaces. I want to fix that. “social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.”
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Read this.
And then call your Senator and tell them to save NASA science.
www.planetary.org/articles/sci...
And then call your Senator and tell them to save NASA science.
www.planetary.org/articles/sci...
Scientists behind threatened NASA missions explain what’s at stake
Here is what they have to say, in their own words.
www.planetary.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Read this.
And then call your Senator and tell them to save NASA science.
www.planetary.org/articles/sci...
And then call your Senator and tell them to save NASA science.
www.planetary.org/articles/sci...
Walk with me where erosion has cut through a geyser basin along the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Breathtaking.
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Walk with me where erosion has cut through a geyser basin along the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Breathtaking.
When our institutions cannot or will not fulfill their responsibilities, our constitutional system of checks and balances has failed.
SCOTUS failed to enforce the emoluments clause, the presidential impeachment clause, and sec. 3 of the 14th amendment.
(Illustration Bruce MacKinnon 2018)
SCOTUS failed to enforce the emoluments clause, the presidential impeachment clause, and sec. 3 of the 14th amendment.
(Illustration Bruce MacKinnon 2018)
June 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When our institutions cannot or will not fulfill their responsibilities, our constitutional system of checks and balances has failed.
SCOTUS failed to enforce the emoluments clause, the presidential impeachment clause, and sec. 3 of the 14th amendment.
(Illustration Bruce MacKinnon 2018)
SCOTUS failed to enforce the emoluments clause, the presidential impeachment clause, and sec. 3 of the 14th amendment.
(Illustration Bruce MacKinnon 2018)
J. Scott Campbell’s portrait of the only elected POTUS receiving more than 51% of the vote since Eisenhower— twice! Is my favorite illustration of this former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Constitutional Lawyer, husband to Michelle Robinson and father of Melia and Sasha.
June 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
J. Scott Campbell’s portrait of the only elected POTUS receiving more than 51% of the vote since Eisenhower— twice! Is my favorite illustration of this former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Constitutional Lawyer, husband to Michelle Robinson and father of Melia and Sasha.
J. Scott Campbell’s portrait of the former editor of the Harvard Law Review, constitutional Lawyer, Melia and Saha and husband to Michelle Robinson
June 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
J. Scott Campbell’s portrait of the former editor of the Harvard Law Review, constitutional Lawyer, Melia and Saha and husband to Michelle Robinson
I like Ike. My grandpa cooked for him and played Santa Claus for Ike and Mamie’s kids. I will always be an Eisenhower Republican. If you know, you know.
June 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I like Ike. My grandpa cooked for him and played Santa Claus for Ike and Mamie’s kids. I will always be an Eisenhower Republican. If you know, you know.
The author of this melodrama (we produced live dinner theater for years) liked my logo for his show so much, he called me asking if he could keep it. (Of course!) What a fun summer that was.
June 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The author of this melodrama (we produced live dinner theater for years) liked my logo for his show so much, he called me asking if he could keep it. (Of course!) What a fun summer that was.