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A blog about photography, featuring landscape, nature, abstract and macro subjects, plus articles on art, music and books (oh, and coffee!)


Southland Institute
Through engaging questions of how approaches of progressive, critical, queer, and antiracist pedagogical traditions might be applied to interdisciplinary programming in typography, graphic design, and critical art-making, we are working to assemble a growing toolkit of pedagogies -- all of which are intended to be used, shared, recombined, interpreted, and questioned -- as part of the perpetual project of exploring approaches to sharing and transmitting knowledge.
Why Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Matters Today
The photographer’s seminal monograph had a seismic impact on photography conventions and American culture.
Introducing the Oakland Review of Books Syllabus
How do you really know this place?

An appreciation for (technical) architecture
Posted on Saturday 28 Mar 2026. 995 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.

Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Jason Eskenazi, a photographer and former security guard at the Met, collected responses to the foundational book’s indelible pictures.

Ratioed — dame.is
I began this social art experiment in June 2025 and have “performed” it periodically since. My intent was to explore what it would look like to use a social media post as a medium for art (not for sharing art). Because I used Bluesky, the social data underlying this art projec…
Creative Computing in Education Course Showcase
This event will showcase creative computing final projects from a College of Staten Island course that explores how P-12 in-service teachers can use code for artistic expression. These projects will […]

New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal
William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today?

Palaeoverse Lecture Series: Dr. Natalie Cooper - Hack-a-thons: what, why, and how to run them
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.

Attending my first #IC2S2 at Burlington, VT! I’ll be presenting my poster on July 30 (Thursday), 1:15-2:15 pm at Davis Center @uvmvermont.bsky.social If you are attending @ic2s2.bsky.social & interested in bias auditing, please stop by. Thanks @vcsi.bsky.social for sponsoring registration #ic2s22026
Hey y'all, I'm gonna be doing a weekly newsletter where I'll be detailing things on the comics + art scene here on bluesky + across the atmosphere. I'll also include a weekly showcase for artists looking to get more exposure here. You can't nominate yourself, but if you have artists you think should