Just spotted a kinglet (not sure which crown colour) in my yard tree!!! Migration is HAPPENING GUYS!!!!!!!!!!

A whole wall of these would be so rad!!!

3 cute ceramic snails wearing 4 leaf clovers on their shells on a yellow backdrop.

New blind box dudes are coming soon!

WOW WOW WOW 😍

Once they’re fired I’ve got feathers (shed from a friend’s budgie!) for their antennae — they’ll be glued in & will match better than these ones do.

Three in-progress mothman bodies lying on a light wood desk. They look sort of like Fresno Nightcrawlers at this point

The same three guys, but one has its first two wings on

All three have their wings! They’re made from white clay

Three finished mothmans! They now have hair carved into their bodies & silly little faces

Oop, made some little mothmans today!! Pls enjoy how they look silly all the way through the process 👍

Hahaha oh nooooooo. Unfortunately I think the lawyers I know do estate law & corporate law, sorry.

I’m picturing you pacing the room muttering angrily about knitting vs crochet 😂

And (as is always my priority with sweet food), perfectly balanced sweetness-wise!

Congratulations!! You both look amazing 💕

Omg these are the same as muffins we made when I was a kid & they always disappeared so fast when I brought them for school things! The topping really makes them (& I love the apple chunks). I’ve gotta make them again.

HOOTING LIKE A GIBBON OVER HERE! What a delight of an inning!

Sending only the finest good firing vibes / kiln god pleas your way!!

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Typographically this has a gravity and a cadence that is truly inspiring to me

Four clay toads made from white clay (unfired, not dry) with flower hats on sit on a steel banding wheel that’s on a messy pottery desk

Same as previous photo, but from a higher angle so you can see the flower hats

The toads with their flower hats in progress

The toads even earlier in the process — they don’t have eyeballs yet

Last beasts of the week (ok, might work a bit on Sunday, but weekday-week at least). Toads, but with flower hats this time!

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“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I am excited for the great acceleration once it warms up a bit (this week has been chilly but nice & rainy for all the growing things!)

Baa ram ewe, baa ram ewe. To your breed to your fleece to your clan be true! Baa ram ewe!

The beginnings of a wood poppy

Teeny trout lily leaf peeking through the soil

Wild columbine on its way

Black chokeberry thinking about leaves

Here are some peeks at mine — the wood poppies almost look like a plant!! 😂

A weird antlered lion/man/deer/sheep creature gallops across the surface of an I -progress clay mug. The creature has people hands as front feet

Put a ✨special little guy✨ on a mug today 👋👋

I always feel like I’m just yelling about my pottery into the void, but when I do local markets I get a lot of people saying they found me on insta…so it sort of works locally (at least in Ottawa)??! Such a surprise.

Moche ceramic vessels were made in specialized workshops where every step of ceramic production was undertaken in situ, from the preparation of clays to the firing process. Vessels were made with two-piece molds, facilitating the production of multiples. After the molding process, potters carefully added handles, spouts, and small details, in this case the incised ribs and modeled arms. Skeletal individuals are often depicted in Moche ceramics, probably symbolizing the interplay and complementarity between life and death. It has been suggested that in Moche religion, a transitory stage between life and death is expressed by the existence of transitional beings such as simian individuals and the animated deceased. In painted or sculpted vessels, animated skeletons dance, embrace, play music with flutes and rattles, carry funerary offerings, or engage in sexual activities. This embracing skeletal couple with child perhaps illustrates death as a necessary stage for the renewal of life.

"John, the last thing I remember is someone yelling, 'Volcano!'".

A poignant ceramic bottle depicting a skeletal couple with a child. The adults comfort one another, while the child looks confused. Very Dia de los Muertos. 💀🏺

Moche, Peru, 3rd-7th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

It’s times like this I remember how far north Ottawa is…things are still teeny tiny barely-there sprouts here and I am SO ready for all my native plant pals to be back!!!

Episode 129 -- Looksmaxxing

I know most people here are probably already listening, but for the whole clavicle boy and looksmaxxing complex, I can only recommend the fantastic @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social again, especially the conclusion by @moiradonegan.bsky.social toward the end.

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Totally!! It’s easy to miss stuff especially on here.

through a window a pair of eyes can be seen. Voice 1: Honey, Please turn on the light. I think there's someone outside our window. I can see eyes. Voice 2: I'm gonna show that pervert. The light clicks on. Outside the window is a giant homunculus made of hundreds of eyes. Voice 1: Oh! It's only Eyelor The Gazer. Hey Gazer. Voice 2: Oh dang, yo Gazer, what's up dude? The Gazer: Oh you know me. Just peepin'. Voice 2: Hell yeah.

Someone outside, watching

That’s why I added the date!

It’s got Richard Armitage, the guy who played Bates in Dowton, and I haven’t seen the woman who plays the main character in anything else, but she’s fantastic!