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Collaborate to advance progressive causes. Community, story, strategy: arthursmid.com Arthur Smid - Portland, Oregon

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Sean will be back for Monday night community life drawing at Daydreamer Public House, St Johns, PDX.

Join us! 6-9pm

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Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

A new report, DepaveLA, finds that 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312k acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks and parking, and could be converted to greener cooler cover and habitat.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

acceleratela.org/depavela/

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PB’s I’m loving right now: β€œWe pass the light house, standing guardβ€”a tower with a blinking eye, a tower with a lonesome cry, a welcome and a warning.”: Island Storm, Brian Floca, pictures by Sydney Smith, Neal Porter Books, @holiday-house.bsky.social#ChildrensBooks,#ChewyReviewy, . πŸ“šβ€¬β€¬β€¬β€¬β€¬β€¬β€¬β€¬β€¬

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Sydney Smith, β€œYes I Will Remember” #hcaaward #kidlit

31.08.2024 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sydney Smith 2024 Hans Christian Andersen illustration award announcement with photo of the artist

Sydney Smith 2024 Hans Christian Andersen illustration award announcement with photo of the artist

Sydney Smith is my absolute favorite! So pleased he won this award. Also, I wish I were Canadian... Seems like they make more room for quiet there.

#sydneydraws #sydneysmith #illustration #hanschristianandersen #kidlit #kidlitart

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Sydney Smith (contemporary), Rainy Highway

08.03.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Summer weather, a woman pauses on a bike ride. Drawing made with Clip Studio Paint by Arthur Smid.

Summer weather, a woman pauses on a bike ride. Drawing made with Clip Studio Paint by Arthur Smid.

Summertime in Copenhagen.

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Like Swimmers by Dash Shaw: 9798896231059 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A murder mystery set in pandemic-era Virginia, where a young web designer attempts to uncover who shot and killed her brotherβ€”and why the murderer decided to use a silver bullet, from the author...

New from Dash Shaw: "A murder mystery set in pandemic-era Virginia, where a young web designer attempts to uncover who shot and killed her brotherβ€”and why the murderer decided to use a silver bullet, from the author of Blurry and Discipline."

LIKE SWIMMERS

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"How Can the Spaces Between the Pages Be as Meaningful as the Pages?": A Dash Shaw Interview - The Comics Journal Process talk with the creator of Cosplayers and Doctors.

"I would use anything I had around as a potential Doctors page... Old sketchbook pages, older comics I'd never finished, an ad for a cup of coffee, whatever. I tried to be open to unusual possibilities." - Dash Shaw

www.tcj.com/how-can-the-...

07.01.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
doctors by dash shaw

doctors by dash shaw

Recent reads

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An okay cover, does its job. The neon certainly pops, even if nothing inside feels particularly neon. Joe Kessler as a cover designer might be on his way to a similar love-him-or-hate-him reputation to the one Peter Mendelsund has within literary spaces

An okay cover, does its job. The neon certainly pops, even if nothing inside feels particularly neon. Joe Kessler as a cover designer might be on his way to a similar love-him-or-hate-him reputation to the one Peter Mendelsund has within literary spaces

The x-ray panel is one of the best Shaw-isms. "Policing my swallow" is so great (and one of many memorable lines throughout the book). Kay was my favourite character, would've liked to see more of him towards the end

The x-ray panel is one of the best Shaw-isms. "Policing my swallow" is so great (and one of many memorable lines throughout the book). Kay was my favourite character, would've liked to see more of him towards the end

Love the way Shaw draws the projected images on the figures here. The parts with Katinsky definitely felt inspired by TΓ‘r in some respects

Love the way Shaw draws the projected images on the figures here. The parts with Katinsky definitely felt inspired by TΓ‘r in some respects

Such a gorgeously drawn page. Best in the book

Such a gorgeously drawn page. Best in the book

No. 10
Blurry:
Starting to think Dash Shaw is our best working graphic novelist (if partially by virtue of quantity). This was pretty excellent. Lovely naturalistic Huizenga-esque musings & a neat nesting-doll structure. His 2nd best for me (doubt he'll ever top New School)

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Yeah, this one is just 120 pages, so fairly on the lean end compared to BLURRY and DISCIPLINE. Immediately one of my most anticipated books of the year

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‼️‼️‼️new Dash Shaw coming out from NYRC this August‼️‼️‼️

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Ponyo | Clinton Street Theater Celebrate World Water Day with Portland Water Bureau!

Good news! Well, half way anyway. cstpdx.com/event/ponyo/

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Tim Roth, Barbara Sukowa, Angeliki Papoulia to Voice Animated β€˜Unknownia’ by β€˜Cryptozoo’ Director Dash Shaw That Echoes the Legacy of Miyazaki (EXCLUSIVE) Tim Roth, Barbara Sukowa, Angeliki Papoulia lead voice cast for upcoming animated feature β€˜Unknownia’ by β€˜Cryptozoo’ helmer Dash Shaw.

Cryptozoo is the title of a Dash Shaw movie, I think the comment above referred to different film, Zootopia.

Some news about the new Dash Shaw movie: β€œWe want β€˜Unknownia’ to be more of a family movie for kids." variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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What are some of your favorite animated films?

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The Loud Minority How political protests and activism influence voters and candidates

My daughter gave me this book & it’s very good: β€œThe Loud Minority β€” why protests matter in American Democracy” by Daniel Q. Gillion. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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This has been my hunch for a while, but it's good to have it confirmed.

As I've noted before, Obama faced the same challenge with race that JFK did with religion. Their enemies were so primed to charge them with playing favorites they felt the need to downplay a topic closely tied to them.

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TRIPLE WHAMMY!
Resident Music

A vital, chilling & impactful documentation of pop music's incessant obsession w/ Nazism & the culture's willingness to look the other way

22/1 @rnrbook-club.bsky.social Caroline Coon/Emma Forrest
29/1 @britishlibrary.bsky.social Jon Savage/Pauline Black
3/2 US pub.

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One for the Money, Two for the Shoah - Truthdig A new book explores rock and roll’s long and complicated infatuation with Nazi Germany.

A new book explores rock and roll’s long and complicated infatuation with Nazi Germany.

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Rock β€˜n’ Roll’s Nazi Problem John Lennon, if you didn’t know, had a slight Nazi obsession. As a boy, he would doodle drawings of Hitler, collect and swap Nazi badges or call himself

'Far-reaching and meticulous new book'
Moment Magazine

Brilliant review (+Interview)

'It seems like everyoneβ€”from Blondie to Nicki Minaj to the Rolling Stones to Madonnaβ€”had gotten tangled up in offensive rhetoric and iconography.'

momentmag.com/daniel-rache...

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US PUBLICATION DAY!!!
I've been doing multiple interviews for US media. The common thread seems to be timing....

'Daniel Rachel challenges the motivations of those artists who sought glamour and notoriety in exploiting Nazi imagery.' @billybragg.bsky.social

www.akashicbooks.com/.../this-ain...

10.02.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll by Daniel Rachel A meticulously researched and sensitively told history examining pop music’s enduring and problematic fascination with the swastika and Nazism

β€˜Rachel’s book is compelling - not an easy read, but as essential now as at any point in our history’
LOUDER THAN WAR

Great review in @louderthanwar.bsky.social

This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich - Book Review
louderthanwar.com/this-aint-ro...

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My guest this weekend on @louderthanwar.bsky.social for my In Conversation is the award winning author @danielrachel.bsky.social

We'll be discussing his new book, This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich published on 6th November by @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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'This Ain’t Rock β€˜n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich' ['Isso NΓ£o Γ© Rock β€˜n’ Roll: MΓΊsica Pop, a SuΓ‘stica e o Terceiro Reich'], do historiador do rock Daniel Rachel, descreve como mΓΊsicos expuseram sua adoraΓ§Γ£o publicamente por objetos e sΓ­mbolos nazi

jacobin.com.br/2025/12/terc...

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David Bowie and Nazism β€” β€˜I’d have been a bloody good Hitler’ In the 1970s the musician was one of many rock and pop stars who became fascinated by the Third Reich. Will Hodgkinson speaks to the author of a new book and introduces an exclusive extract

Congratulations to Daniel Rachel and his book, "This Ain’t Rock β€˜n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich" highlighted in The Times and The Sunday Times
@danielrachel.bsky.social @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

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Join Daniel Rachel in conversation with Dennis Lyxzen at City Lights Books as he discusses his new book, β€œThis Ain’t Rock β€˜n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich.”
Saturday, Feb. 21st at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Tune in at
citylights.com/events/danie...

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Monday Night Game Event, Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup Come have fun with people, as we learn new games, rediscovered classics and enjoy the best of the best, that modern board games can give. Board games are plenty, feel free

Portland, Oregon, Monday Game Night starts at 5pm, Capes & Crepes (corner of SE 50th and Division) open to all: www.meetup.com/pdxgames/eve...

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Historian Dr. Nicole Hemmer traces the strategic choices that built conservative media's powerβ€”and explains why "just teach media literacy" misses the point.

Read the full transcript here: captivated.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis...

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