Screencap from instagram re: Earth Day event at Finders Keepers show

Insert 25 cents to Feel Something (brilliant title!) @chriscombs.net

www.instagram.com/p/DXKDrJWkUvZ

“Finders Keepers” @thedcarts.bsky.social
“Elysium” @chriscombs.net

Sculpture by @chriscombs.net
Evokes the early days of the internet

Systems Management Sculpture in a diverse “Continuum.” Also: Tawny Chatmon’s exaltations; Rosemary Feit Covey’s excavations; Matthew Curry’s gestures; Eric Johnson chronicles a disappearance; and Scott Davis disorients

A nice review of the Athenaeum sculpture show in Alexandria with work by @chriscombs.net and @jackiehoysted.bsky.social
You can visit until Sunday 3/8

Hammond GEODE by @chriscombs.net at the AU Museum #art #sciart

Aw!! ❤️
Many thanks to you both!

I certainly don't mind that it looks a bit like a Van de Graaff generator or a Tesla coil!

But sorry to say that the destruction is fictional—and cyclical...

Art installation mostly made of metal with a large shiny orb and a control panel with a red button

The Orb is an art installation by @chriscombs.net . When you press and hold the red button, it slowly destroys a chatbot 😈

"Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something" artcade machine YouTube video by Chris Combs, Art & Machines

And here's a video.

CFEVA at The Science Center @ 3600 Market Street

Future Continuous

Guest Juried by Lauren Sandler, CFEVA Visual Artist Fellow

On View January 22-March 20, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 22, 5-7 PM

3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

A radiant cat looks upwards against a blue sky backdrop, as seen in a bulbous lens. The lens is set in a metal ring in a decrept blue-painted machine.

The decrepit machine turns out to be a sort of vending machine, hand-lettered with "Tired? No pep? Feet hurt? Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something."

Philly, my cat machine is coming to you!

"Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something" is in a CFEVA show opening January 22. (I'm sorry to miss the reception!)

Future Finds cargo.site

They will debut in "Future Finds" at Bathers Library in Oakland CA, opening 1/17 5-8PM.

A shiny aluminum peanut, a cast of a styrofoam peanut, rests on black fabric. It is S-shaped and a lot of its textural detail is captured in the casting.

Four metal peanuts on fabric. Slight variations are visible in them, such as a tighter or looser "grain" from the original foam; so, too, can you see a cleanly cut metallic edge where each peanut was cut from sprues during finishing (a hand done process)

Nine small jewelry boxes hold one peanut each, along with paper slips reading "FOREVER PEANUT, CHRISCOMBS.NET"

Styrofoam peanuts never do seem to go away, do they? So I thought it would be nice to make them even more permanent.

I melted E-waste hard drive cases and household waste to make these lost-foam "Forever Peanuts" during our last Otis Street Arts Project aluminum pour.

ACO Artist Discussion with Chris Combs - JJ Bruns

I'm doing a fun zoom convo about my artwork and methods on Saturday morning (U.S. East Coast time). It's about 40 mins of me showing images and then a good 20 mins of open q&a. www.jjbruns.com/aco-chris-co...

ACO Artist Discussion with Chris Combs - JJ Bruns

I'm doing a fun zoom convo about my artwork and methods on Saturday morning (U.S. East Coast time). It's about 40 mins of me showing images and then a good 20 mins of open q&a. www.jjbruns.com/aco-chris-co...

In a brick-lined planter along a quiet breezeway, two periscope-like grey pipes erupt from the ground like brontosauruses. They each are painted industrial grey and are roughly person-sized. From this angle, the closer "Periscope" reveals a bulbous screen that is displaying a watery natural scene.

From a few feet away, their setting is more apparent. They are at two different heights, pointed, as if curious creatures, in two different directions.

A close-up view shows another natural scene, this time showing a swamp. There is a hood over the end of the artwork, akin to a traffic light or signal. It has big chunky bolts.

A side view shows the artwork's proximity to a central square within its host development.

Here's my first permanent public artwork, "Periscopes." When you look through its bulbous lenses, you see scenes that might seem faraway, such as heron stalking their prey; but all of the footage was filmed (by me) within 10mi of its site at Buzzard Point in southwest Washington, D.C., USA.

of course--children can step on the ledge to view the shorter one

Forever ever! Ish!

Here's a video view that gives you a sense of what it's like to peer in the screen. The scenes are fairly still, changing every 30-60 seconds; not dynamic enough to watch like a video per se, but more like an ever-changing picture frame.

Permalink with more videos: chriscombs.net/2025/09/24/p...

I worked with a team to install this artwork at "The Stacks" on Wednesday. Steelwork by Steven R. Jones.

In a brick-lined planter along a quiet breezeway, two periscope-like grey pipes erupt from the ground like brontosauruses. They each are painted industrial grey and are roughly person-sized. From this angle, the closer "Periscope" reveals a bulbous screen that is displaying a watery natural scene.

From a few feet away, their setting is more apparent. They are at two different heights, pointed, as if curious creatures, in two different directions.

A close-up view shows another natural scene, this time showing a swamp. There is a hood over the end of the artwork, akin to a traffic light or signal. It has big chunky bolts.

A side view shows the artwork's proximity to a central square within its host development.

Here's my first permanent public artwork, "Periscopes." When you look through its bulbous lenses, you see scenes that might seem faraway, such as heron stalking their prey; but all of the footage was filmed (by me) within 10mi of its site at Buzzard Point in southwest Washington, D.C., USA.

dismayed by recent moderation decisions on this platform and will be cooling down my participation here for a while.

atproto/bsky is about as decentralized as my nervous system.

and there is clearly a right side of history and these mod calls are not on it

Find me on masto, mastodon.art/@combs

Copter spotter screenshot of USPP helicopter doing very loud loop de loops over my neighborhood

Why is a U.S. park police helicopter doing circles over my house at 0315 @cmzparker5.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social

How And Why Series : Wonder Books New York : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A collection of all (I think) of the books in the series. I scanned a few, but I found the others across the net in a few places. Thought it would be good to...

(from archive.org/details/HowA... - if you grab the full collection, use the torrent, it's huge!)

A child balances a log while crossing a river against a backdrop of smokestacks, trash, rusting machine carcasses, and pollution as a few wild plants and creatures try to flee on the illustrated cover of the "How and Why Wonder Book of the Spoilt Earth," a 1972 science book for kids with a slightly discordant title.

Today's mood

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Been there!!

it's eel-ectric! boogawoogawooga

ahhh yes the printer is the perfect model and position for each page to fly overhead, operator giving chase like a cat with a feather

ahhh yes the printer is the perfect model and position for each page to fly overhead, operator giving chase like a cat with a feather