Jordan Campbell

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See Kremer’s New York City location, a painter’s paradise and key resource for conservators, is closing in November. For artists, the loss goes far beyond a storefront.

The lessons offered by Kremer Pigments weren’t just about how to work with color, but how to experience the connection between the physical world and one’s own artistic practice.

The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking efforts. A scientist’s attempt to try to save one endangered ibis species demonstrates how dire the situation has become.

Play it again: Vinyl is making a comeback in Nigeria Most people may stream music now, but the recent Egwù Vinyl Festival shows old-school is still cool.

Lagos was buzzing with the energy of Detty December. Booming Afrobeats clubs and house and techno music raves dominated the city’s soundscape. But tucked in the frenzy was a different kind of musical celebration: the Egwù Vinyl Festival, a rare ode to analogue sound and Nigerian music history.

Have you ever wondered what it looks like when an astronomer starts up a 2.7m telescope for the night? Wonder no more 🔭

Night photograph of a twisted bristlecone pine tree, its distinctive wind-sculpted form highlighted against the Milky Way. The tree's exposed wood shows complex patterns formed over centuries of slow growth in extreme alpine conditions.

What can 5,000-year-old trees teach us about resilience? Scientists in jxbotany.bsky.social reveal how ancient giants like Methuselah use DNA methylation to pass down survival strategies through generations.

https://botany.one/2025/02/can-you-teach-an-old-log-new-tricks/

#Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Frozen forest. The tree silhouettes reveals from deep winter fog. Tones are blue.

Frosty Forest… From my beloved French alps 🌲🏔️❄️

#bluesky #photography #landscape #art #nature #forest

"Remember what I told you,
If they hated me, they will hate you.”
~ Sinéad O'Connor, 'Black Boys On Mopeds'
#prophet #seer #theywillhateyoutoo

“There is no describing the prairies. They inspire feelings too unique, so distinct from anything else, so powerful, yet vague and indefinite, as to defy description, while they invite the attempt.”

John C. Van Tramp, (1860)

#ir
#infrared
#bnw
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#blacksndwhite
#prairie

What a special film this was, one to watch again and again.

A new film about writer Edna O’Brien “cuts through the fluff and grandstanding of documentaries of this type” - Dublin Inquirer “Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story” is playing in theatres from 31 January.

A new film about writer Edna O’Brien “cuts through the fluff and grandstanding of documentaries of this type”, writes Luke Maxwell. Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story” is playing in theatres from 31 January. dublininquirer.com/2...

A vibrant, iridescent bird perched on a moss-covered branch, its feathers shimmering with hues of blue, green, and purple under the light. The bird's dark, glossy body contrasts beautifully with its brilliant metallic colors.

The Velvet-purple Coronet is a fantastic Colombian hummingbird, but this individual was just spectacular. The sun was coming up behind me after a morning of rain and the bird perched for me, glowing in the early light.

#hummingbirds #nature #birds @montezumalodge.bsky.social

A sapphire blue damselfly with black wings facing the camera.

Mood bug, Ebony Jewelwing.

Came here for this one—excellent!

I guess I’m only shopping at Costco now, which is fine. I needed a 300-pack of Twizzlers anyway.

Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have to vote no on dangerous cabinet picks if he’d done his damn job in 2021.

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

YouTube video by Superbrownybear Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come

A change is gonna come m.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhL...

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS has made a dramatic appearance in planet Earth's skies. A visitor from the distant Oort Cloud, the comet reached its perihelion on January 13. On January 19, the bright comet was captured here from ESO Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile. Sporting spectacular sweeping dust tails, this comet ATLAS is setting in the southern hemisphere twilight and was clearly visible to the unaided eye. In the foreground is the closed shell of one of the observatory's famous auxiliary telescopes. Still wowing southern hemisphere observers, the comet's bright coma has become diffuse, its icy nucleus apparently disintegrating following its close approach to the Sun.

🔭 Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope

Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)

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Blue Velvet

Oregon Coast sunset 🌅 #Photography #Photographer #oregon #oregoncoast #visitoregon #ocean #sunset

Durdle Door, 28mm, 10 sec, f/9, ISO 100

Blue hour at the door

Cool and Overlooked Critters of the Sagebrush Sea Move over sage grouse: here are 9 other cool critters of the sagebrush-steppe.

Wildlife watching tips:

Set out into the sagebrush. It's the habitat most people pass through on their western US national park roadtrip.

But healthy sagebrush is home to so many cool species. Here are some to spot.

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

VHS video tape with the following message handwritten on the case: SAVE Secret of the Mermaid

going through stuff at my parents' house and found a story prompt for someone

**This Is The Way**
Reflections seemed to be a theme of my last trip to Scotland but when they are so perfect how do you resist.
#landscapephotography
#photography
#reflections

#onlybeautifulthings

A favourite pic with the young fella from some years ago now

17 Days - Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version Prince · Piano & A Microphone 1983 · Song · 2018

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Difficult to name a single favourite but 17 Days from Piano & a Microphone is a whopper that warrants repeat plays. open.spotify.com/track/4n23No...

André Soltner, Famed Chef at New York’s Lutèce, Dies at 92 Customers returned again and again for his impeccable French dishes at a restaurant that one food critic said “set the gold standard.”

André Soltner, a chef whose reverence for classic French cooking and the homey specialties of his native Alsace helped make Lutèce, in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most celebrated restaurants in the U.S., died on Saturday. He was 92.

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but he’s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime