Autumn is the BEST season

"TikTok but you pay for it" is not a winning business model

Monochrome photograph featuring six women, two sitting at the front and four standing

'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt

Alerting all New Yorkers to go outside and look up

Can we talk about tonight’s sunset!?

A dramatic blue and pink sky over the corner of a darkened library building with lights, spaced evenly across it

Sky over a @bklynlibrary.bsky.social branch.

Cauz for Pawz has opened in its new home on Avenue B EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

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TooGoodToGo: GET REWARDED FOR SAVING FOOD You're already saving food now you'll get rewarded for it too! Collect 9 stamps and unlock a voucher worth $5.00. Our treat!

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a few notes on thanksgiving

A blackface mountain sheep standing, appropriate enough, on a mountain in Wicklow, Ireland.

On a long hike last week I was happy to stop and take this. Used a 1970s Carl Zeiss Jenna 135mm. There's a look to this image that really appeals to me but I'm hard pressed to say what it is exactly.

#hiking #photography #EastCoastKin #StunDay #SundaySheep #Ireland

Here’s a little joy for you because we all need it

3 adorable dogs on a wheeled set showing a crime scene (with caution tape) and cafe menus with 3 humans dressed in hats reading Snap, Crackle and Pop. The costume for the Halloween Dog Parade is titled 'Cereal Killers."

The best in show today at the 35th Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in the East Village — "Cereal Killers."

📷 by @staciejoy.bsky.social

Sabine @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social shares a gorgeous spiderweb with a telling quote from Jonathon Swift for Spooktober and 31Daysof Halloween:

Dappled sunlight, through the trees, highlights all the forest greens. Sister trees, wearing a mossy dress. Just to look pretty, no one to impress. The trees all around admire the pair, never have they seen sisters so fair.

Another contribution to #MossyMonday madness!💚🌿🌲🌿💚

"Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togetherness, while
separately we stand"

- Janet Miles

#poetry #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #green #westcoast #trees #moss #iseemoss

Quemuel Arroyo, in a wheelchair holding a microphone, on stage with "Our Time Has Come" projected behind him.

"For too long, our leaders have forgotten New Yorkers with disabilities. We have been failed by those with their own agendas, those who care only about holding on to power to remain relevant and serve their own egos." - Quemuel Arroyo

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

"If Objects Could Talk" is a playful storytelling podcast for kids and families that imagines what antiquities at the Getty Villa Museum might say if they came alive and found their way to our podcast studio.

New eps every Monday through October 27. Listen now: www.getty.edu/podcasts/if-...

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

black text on white background "Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

I thought this was lovely.

Art Challenges: October 13–19 Monday, October 13 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #Spooktober (#TrickOrTreat) Tuesday, October 14 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #Spooktober (#cobweb) Wednesday, October 15 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #ColorADay (#RedWed) #Spooktober (#witch) Thursday, October 16 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#stairs) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #Spooktober (#darkness) Friday, October 17 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #Spooktober (#alien) Saturday, October 18 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#vertical) #Spooktober (#mummy) Sunday, October 19 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#ForgottenCorner)* #Spooktober (#SeaMonster) ALL WEEK #31DaysOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky) #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #smArtist (purposeful art of any theme) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekPforPink) #SensoryArt (#transportation) *Pose in a location you’ve always overlooked

Here's the art challenge cheat sheet for October 13-19! Enjoy!

The host list and posts from hosts are in the comments.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Long exposure view from Brooklyn across the east river towards lower Manhattan at night. The Brooklyn Bridge is on the left to the left of that is the financial district. The east river is reflecting all the colors from the lit skyline. There are also glowing lights from cars driving on the FDR Drive.

The glowing reflections off of the East River for #blueskyartshow #glow #longexposure #green #cityscape #newyorkcity #brooklyn #photography #art

I'm so sorry for your loss. He was truly well loved and happy.

Closeup portrait of my handsome brown tuxedo tabby Fergus looking upward.

So, this week has been hard. Very hard. On Monday we found out that my kind, gentle, perfect little man Fergus had diffuse, fast-moving cancer throughout his body. So we had to make the awful decision to say goodbye to him yesterday.

#WarRavagedPortland

Everything on Prince's symbol album, after my OWN PARENTS bought it for me without knowing what was on it. I didn't even ask for it 🙄

I got mine at a CVS on the UES last week and it was very easy! No questions about my eligibility, no issues with insurance, and they had Novavax for those who (like me) get absolutely rekt by Moderna lmao

Everyone's takes on this are all creatively unique and horrible. ☺️

Same with Detroit. #ffffff person: Yeah, I'm from Detroit, too! Me, sitting in a bar in NYC: "What hs did you go to?" Them: "West Bloomfield." Thought so.

There is so much negative on social media.

But there was so much positive that changed my career and my life for the better.

I can't speak to the counterfactual - what would have happened in my life if I had not been chronically online. But a lot to be grateful for.