Airbnb, promoting the joys of travel, creates an ad showing other countries as destinations using AI video.

Complete own goal 🤦‍♂️

An old building sitting at the end of a pier, reflecting into a still sea.

Geelong Waterfront. Victoria, Australia.

Red orange sunset seen through eucalyptus trees.

Rain wets a street bathed in an Autumn sunset.
Melbourne, Australia.

Ten seconds away from it all.
Nelson Falls, west Tasmania.

Water falling down over rocks into a small pool in a rainforest.

Hogarth Falls, near Strahan on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Bruny Island, Tasmania Australia. Just now.

In 1893, Baron Nikolaus Dumba commissioned Gustav Klimt to make two paintings for the music room of his palace. This study 'Schubert at the Piano,' is a key work in Klimt’s career because it represents a link between his realist phase and an Impressionist style of painting.

In 1893, Baron Nikolaus Dumba commissioned Gustav Klimt to make two paintings for the music room of his palace. This study 'Schubert at the Piano,' is a key work in Klimt’s career because it represents a link between his realist phase and an Impressionist style of painting.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Humidifier Review xkcd.com/3044

Directive by Trump to shut down DEI programs at NASA

“Your papers are not in order, NASA”

Me staring at a collection of bits of wood that I have carried from house to house for forty years: “see!”.

Get people safe. Get the fires out. Then, build back different. No more building for the climate of the 20th century. Build back like we know climate disasters are coming. Build back like we know climate disasters are here.

Two lynx on the loose in the Scottish Highlands Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) says the animals were at large within its grounds after a suspected ‘illegal release’

As night follows day, every dead sheep in the area will be blamed on them, though Eurasian lynx are specialist roe deer predators, and avoid open areas, where sheep graze.
This is what happened when a lynx escaped in Wales: all dog attacks became "lynx attacks".
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ok BlueSky, it’s just us now.
It’s a weight off, tbh.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Yarra River at Warrandyte today.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

'The Town.' (c1880s) August Strindberg is known as a prolific writer, but he was also a radical painter for his time. He turned to painting in times of upheaval in his life or when his capacity as a writer failed him; the majority of his works feature seascapes.

'Pears on a Tray.' (1934) Walter Vaes still-lifes have a fresh, realist tendency that reflects the success and influence of Gustave Courbet's paintings and fall clearly within his repertoire of 'visible and tangible things.'

Painted in Paris in 1883, 'The Breakfast Table,' exemplifies John Singer Sargent’s regard for the formal innovations of the French impressionists. With its cropped and compressed foreground and loose brushwork, it evokes Degas and Manet. The sitter pealing an orange is his sister Violet.

'The Washing.' (c1905) In 1892, Cuno Amiet met Paul Sérusier and Roderic O’Connor in Brittany and encountered the work of Gauguin and van Gogh; shortly afterwards he adopted a technique of applying pure matt colour in flat brushstrokes.

a chart showing the impact of the scenarios on prices

We modelled a typical household’s spending on energy as they electrify, if they made a range of different electrification investments or changed how they consume electricity. • Starting with a household with ‘no electrification’ – electricity and gas at home, and driving an Internal Combustion (ICE) vehicle – we modelled annual energy costs if that household: 1. Purchases an Electric Vehicle (EV) 2. Installs rooftop solar 3. Switches their gas appliances to electric ones, and 4. Charges their EV during the day when electricity is cheaper • If a household is able to take advantage of all four electrification actions today, they could reduce their energy expenditure by more than 70% – from about $5,000 to under $1,500 a year. • The savings are projected to increase slightly over the 10-year outlook, to be nearly 80% of household energy costs in 10 years’ time. This is because gas costs are projected to increase with falling customer numbers. • This analysis does not account for a household’s up-front costs to electrify. Instead, it highlights the benefits of electrification to: • Inform consumers’ future decisions as they consider replacing vehicles and appliances. • Emphasise the importance of ensuring the broadest range of households can take advantage of electrification. This includes renters, households who live in apartments, and financially vulnerable households.

A household who switches off gas is also projected to realise significant energy cost savings. • This chart calculates the energy expenditure of a typical household with electricity and gas, and compares it to the same household if it electrified its gas consumption (shown by the light blue bars). • While the savings are smaller than EV electrification, they are projected to increase over time, rising from about $200 per year in 2025 to $400 per year in 2034. • Most of the modeled savings are from avoided connection charges. Households may see additional savings if they are able to replace gas appliances with the most efficient electric alternatives. • The savings are projected to increase because gas network costs are projected to be split across a shrinking customer base. • While there are year-to-year differences, the overall trend is consistent across different states – a material and growing cost saving over time. • As with the rest of this analysis, this chart only considers per unit energy costs, and does not the model upfront costs of switching appliances.

Aus market comm modelling shows price increases if:

- Wind power rollout delayed (biggest impact)
- EV charging concentrated in evening peak

And *huge* decreases if electrification occurs. As they say: a huge risk is benefits not being available to renters etc

www.aemc.gov.au/sites/defaul...

A wet sunset competes with street bins.
Melbourne, Australia.

Smart - Cahill Expressway YouTube video by Art meets Geoff

Jeffrey Smart’s 1962 painting. My thoughts.

Smart - Cahill Expressway
youtu.be/a7RJ1h3uwRc

'The Post Office.' (1960) Gordon Stewart Cameron's work depicts life more six decades ago - as a painter, he became entranced with simplicity and we can see in this work, the deliberate and slow building of the elements of colour related to figure and character.

'St Paul's from Southwark by Sunset' (c.1832) by George Fennell Robson

(Private collection)

… heard on a podcast about dad jokes.
In my view better than a dad joke.

A man died. His friend went to the funeral.
He met the man’s wife and said, “you don’t know me but I knew your husband, do you mind if I say a word”?
“Sure”, she said.
So the man stood up, took the microphone and said “plethora”.
After he sat down, the wife said “thanks, that means a lot to me”.
/2

True that.

It’s exhausting. A clustering of inauthentic drivel.

View down the Yarra River with a foggy city. Melbourne Australia.

Melbourne puts on its greys, its towers smudged against the sky.