Alec

On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts.
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25

Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling in Long-Running Feud

Trump to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and road construction in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska

Gift link:
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Watercolour painting of selkies emerging from their skins underwater, with seals swimming around them. It's in front of a background of dark sea waves. #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #Ireland #Art #TraditionalArt #Folklore #Halloween

The selkie is a creature from Irish, Faroese and Scottish folklore who has the appearance of a seal in water, but sheds its skin to come ashore and reveal a human form. If a human finds the skin and hides it, the selkie cannot return to sea. 🦭

Prints on sale here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

I am thinking about resting, grieving, renewing and the various ways of breaking that @yumisakugawa speaks of.

And I labor in love while printmaking. #monotype #printmaking

Join the Hague Group in Opposing the Genocide in Gaza Across Ireland, people have struggled with horror and outrage, as measures to halt the genocide in Gaza have been repeatedly blocked at the UN.    Led by South Africa and Colombia, the Hague...

Petition for the Irish government to join the Hague Group in Opposing the Genocide in Gaza: my.uplift.ie/petitions/jo... @uplift.ie

Line of Sight—Ruth Ennis talks with artist Nene Lonergan - Books Ireland Nene Lonergan talks about early drafts, being believed in, and the line of sight.

Ruth Ennis talks to writer and illustrator Nene Lonergan about early drafts, being believed in, and the line of sight 🎨

@rurooie.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
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I am the luckiest author, this cover is a dream 🥹

Coming May 1st from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social 💜

Cover by the very wonderful Nene Lonergan!

Graphite pencil sketch across two A5 pages of a small sketchbook. Sketch is of a crowd of people listening to speeches at London Trans Pride 2025. Two people in the foreground are sketching and two people in the midground are embracing. Further back, two groups of people sit in circles on the ground and many people are standing closer to the flags and trees in the background. Some people are wearing large pride flags.

Trans Pride London 2025
#trans #transgender #transpride #transpridelondon #sketch #drawing #graphite #pencil #sketchbook #art

Black-and-white photo of a medium haired white kitten with black fur across the top of its head. It isn’t sitting inside of a child’s bike helmet, possibly dirtbike helmet with face shield. The kitten is looking downward.

Safe in here. Photo from my collection, no date.

The GLP team with placards at Trans Pride London

We’re at London Trans Pride!

Today and every day we stand with trans people 🏳️‍⚧️

Photo of a beautiful light brown horse with blonde mane, grazing on vibrant green grass with woods in the background.

Beautiful Odie soaking up the summer evening.

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

Multi-color pride flag created using imagery from NASA.

pride flag made with a composite of nasa imagery

credit: Rachel Lense

A coal-black bird with a bill that covers the whole front of the face. A long grackle-like boat tail, muscular legs and an alert black eye. The bird sits on red sand next to water, as if a mud puddle or stream. CREDIT: Suzie McCann, eBird, 01 Jun 2019, Santa Clara Ranch, Starr, Texas, United States

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.

Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.

(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

"Spin and the Magnus Effect" infographic, showing the forces acting on a tennis ball. The tennis ball has red arrows showing rotation, and black arrows showing air flow. Taken from a TeachPE website.

Let's talk about the Magnus Effect & its application.

If a disc/cylinder is spinning in an airstream, it produces force perpendicular to both direction of spin & airstream.

Derived from Newton's 3rd law, Isaac postulated it from watching tennis matches at Cambridge, 1672.

Pencil sketch of side-profile of a juvenile African fish eagle.

Karel the juvenile African fish eagle. Pencil sketch in sketchbook.

Photo reference from Jane Goodall's Instagram.
Reference photograph taken by Carlos Galeano.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959) : Jirí Trnka : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of...

Found it!

From one of the greatest stop-motion films of all time: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), dir. Jiří Trnka, Loutkový Film Praha

Satoshi Kon was a master filmmaker -- and a master storyboarder. His detailed sketches were blueprints for his movies.

Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...

Check out my lap barnacle. She has many premium features.

Just look at the totally unique form + textures of this Irish Atlantic rainforest birch.

Wild trees are SO much more diverse than their planted 'native' equivalents, making far better habitat for all the 1,000s of other species that call these places home.

#Rewilding 🌍

Poster with the text "stop war" above a silhouette of woman holding a child, head and shoulders, encompassing images of warfare

Artwork by contemporary Italian illustrator twins, Anna & Elena Balbusso #WomensArt

Photo of wire and woven sculpture with four bent circular parts sited in a formal garden above with clipped hedges and a grand red stone building behind

Edith Meusnier, French textile and environmental artist who creates temporary installations in natural environmentals #WomensArt

Colurful painted artwork with circular symbolic and significant symbols and motifs and lines against a multicoloured background

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, who founded an art centre for Indigenous artists #WomensArt

- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no

I think about this comic at least once a week

Here’s the set so far: warlock, paladin, rogue, and cleric! Comment with which class I should do next 🗡️

ROGUE: Dahlia (betrayal), lemon blossom (distrust), begonia (a warning)

An illustration of Nikolaos (man with pale skin, medium length brown hair, long ears, one yellow eye and one blue eye). He has coral growing out of the right side of his face and arm. He wears a green scarf and leather armour. His right hand gently rests on the scarf.

Nikolaos, raised from the depths 🌊🪸

Commission for @lilashtronomer.bsky.social 💜

[ #art #fantasyart #artcommission #dndart #emidraws ]

Hello! #PortfolioDay 🍂

I am Anastasia, a freelance artist who loves fantasy and painting characters

✒️ toi.varg@gmail.com