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Two carousel goats diabolically rendered in fluorescent poisonous green, with red and blue trappings. They surge forward, their massive horns ready to take on anything in their way.

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December 5

For #Krampusnacht.

The #goats in the #carousel (in profile) at Port Dalhousie are blonde wood and not nearly as diabolical as these two. The photograph was also rendered as an image transfer acrylic painting.

#Art #Photography #Painting #EastCoastKin

Vintage illustration of white cat, yellow eyes blazing, with black Krampus doll. Krampus has red horns and his red tongue is sticking out. He carries a switch of wood, and a broken chain.

Tis the season.
Vintage #cat with #Krampus.

Krampus punishes misbehaved children during the #Christmas season. While St. Nick rewards good kids, Krampus beats naughty ones with birch sticks and sometimes carries them off in chains. Krampusnacht is December 5.

ALT: The Moon stands on a frozen lake & asks the animals to help her light up the sky. The animals step forward & are transformed into constellations. The last animal is the fox who fails to be transformed. The Moon asks, "Why do you think you can only be a star?" and the fox becomes the aurora.

Foxfires, from Keilidh.

Graduation #film from Scotland, inspired by the Finnish folk tale of the #aurora borealis.

How the constellations & the aurora came to be.

In #Finland the Northern Lights are called "Revontulet" - The #Fox Fires.

#NorthernLights

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Illustration by Ralph Steadman. Orwell on the left, at a table with a book, drinking tea. At his side, a red pig with fangs and a hat.

Orwell and Piggy

Illustration by Ralph Steadman.

Photo of a cream coloured lichen with orange, round apothecia. The lichen is growing on rose coloured rock.

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) on rose coloured rock. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Thank you, AB!

The 3 a.m. Insomnia Club

Joni Mitchell

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December 4

Labradorite Appreciation

A couple of #jewellery pieces that I've made with #labradorite, that contains spirits of the #aurora.

"Icy" - fine silver origami, labradorite, silver
"Northern Lake" - picture jasper, labradorite, teak, silver

Plywood is involved in this complex scene. Carl's ALT tag has more detail, but there's still a mystery here...🔍

ALT: Trailer-ish home in serious decay but brightened up with those faux-gold White House things that you can buy at Home Depot.

"It's a good thing."

"You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends."

(Martha Stewart)

"(x) years ago" always stops me in my tracks.

#BirdOfTheDay is #LookingAtYou

Only a dreamer...❤️

Spookified photograph of horses and animals on the Brighton Pier carousel. They have been rendered in black, white and grey with an overlay at top of reddish sepia. Behind them are mirrors in the centre of the carousel that look out at us with dead eyes. The animals are ghostly and viewed with an astigmatic eye.

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December 3

#Brighton Pier #Carousel

Spookified photograph of horses and animals on the Brighton Pier carousel in black, white and grey with a top overlay of reddish sepia. The animals are ghostly and viewed with an astigmatic eye.

#photography #art #horse #EastCoastKin

#BlueSkyMonday doesn't get much bluer than this!

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“I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.”
Born on this day photographer Saul Leiter 1929
Leiter was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography.

An intaglio etching in muted blue-black tones of a crowned harpy holding an orb with two moons in a night sky. A tree and mountains are behind her. A banner at her feet names her "Aequitas".

Aequitas, the Harpy of Justice, knows what you did.

5" x 7" copper plate etching with rosin aquatint. Printed using bone black + Prussian blue oil-based inks on Rives BFK. Class demo for my students. #etching #etchings #printmaking #intaglio

This is the time of The Bones of the Garden.

Painting of a sitting white woman on an outdoor bench facing left, she wears a black bonnet and colourful shawl with hands on her lap, behind there are trees and grass

Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, 1880 by Mary Cassatt #WomensArt

ALT: A fluorescent blue carousel horse jumps through the middle of a violet boat motor. The horse is intended to be in the style of Der Blau Reiter. The motor was found on the beach at Long Point on the north shore of Lake Erie.

defeat of the enemy force by the Royal Canadian Air Force. As a result, Nelvana’s existence becomes known to southern Canadians and to Hitler, who is so frustrated by “Dis Arctic girl” that he dispatches two agents to the Arctic to foil Nelvana.

Canadian comic book heroine, Nelvana of the Northern Lights, discovers that enemy warplanes are amassing for an invasion of the North. The invasion is thwarted by Koliak’s ray (Koliak the Mighty, King of the Northern Lights), which disrupts communications and leads to the

An Inuit legend recalls a time when the #NorthernLights became imprisoned in the rocks of Labrador. An #Inuit Shaman saw the lights & struck the earth with his spear & freed them. However some of the lights hid in the rocks, but they were discovered by the sun and water, hence we have Labradorite.

With a nod to Der Blaue Reiter, and for my pantheistic friends.

Labradorite, also known as the Shaman’s Stone, or the dark side of the moon, is believed to reveal that which is present but which can not be seen by the light of the conscious mind without reflection.

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December 2

Blue Jumper Ex Machina

Abstract with an Allan Herschell #carousel jumper from my "Night Carousel" photo series.

Like a blue spirit in #Labradorite, he was confined in a boat motor that I photographed at Long Point.

#photography #LongPoint #horse #BlauReiter

A reduction linocut!

ALT: Sandy beach with green & blue hills in the background. Tide is out. There are lines in the grey-beige sand leading to a small pool of grey-blue water reflecting the sky. There are dark rocks here and there in the pool. The linear sand texture leads the eye into the pool.

Postage stamps with 2 squirrels decorating their tree

Omggggggg Canada Post has holiday squirrel stamps 😍 store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutiq.... #sqrlpix