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“Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness."
— Lama Surya Das

Map of Scotland with white areas around the coast highlighted. White areas are around most of the coast, though Orkney looks especially affected.

The prompt for day 12 of the #30DayMapChallenge is a "map from 2125", and this one *almost* fits that description! This shows the areas of Scotland likely to be affected by coastal erosion by 2100 🗺️

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Hand with a Pot, the Knob of a Chair and a Hunk of Bread - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13601

Head of a Man with a Top Hat - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14083

Bertram F. and Susie Brummer Foundation Fund

Walter Richard Sickert, Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting, c. 1935
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135302

A line chart plots a dramatic trend in the % of children dying before the age of 5 worldwide. In 1820, the figure is 43%, which stays fairly constant until the beginning of the 1900s and then plummets dramatically to just 3.7% in 2020. A spike to 38.5% in 1918 marks the outbreak of the 'Spanish Flu'

One of humanity's greatest achievements
informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnew... #bnews

@noahjoad.bsky.social

The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838 You’ve likely heard the reason people never smile in very old photographs. Early photography could be an excruciatingly slow process.

The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838

Taoist Xians:

Trained Cat Hypnotizes Woman 3 panels a cat sat on a desk, next to a telephone, looking at a woman the womans head slumped forward a close up of the cats eyes

A visualisation of global urban areas on a Mollweide projection

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 8 · Urban. Global urban areas.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

World map visually representing the number of inhabitants per doctor. Different regions are filled with numerical values, with higher numbers indicating more inhabitants per doctor. Variations are emphasized through shades or sizes of the numbers. The title reads "NUMBER OF INHABITANTS PER DOCTOR".

Apparently this is a poster which hangs on the wall of doctors surgeries in The Netherlands. Data is from 2007. Hopefully the numbers are better now?

via www.adsoftheworld.com/campaigns/pe...

A 3D rendered map of South America, emphasizing the topography. The continent is depicted in a blue hue, with a prominent mountain range running along the western coast rendered in warm colors, transitioning from yellow to orange to red, indicating varying elevations. The rendering gives a textured, blocky appearance to the landmass. The image includes text attributing the map to @cstats1, made in rayshader, with data from NASA SRTM.

Beautiful elevation art by @cstats1.

A colourful flower-like 7 way venn boggles the mind

Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn

Interactive version
moebio.com/research/sev...

A postcard for the Palace of Depression in Vineland NJ. Inset picture of a sort of faux-medieval castle

Mural celebrating farm workers. At the center, framed like a president on US currency, is a person in work clothes: sweatshirt, baseball hat, sunglasses, scarf across their face. They are protecting themselves from the irritants of their demanding job, not hiding their identity, but it could be anyone behind the work gear. There are scene of people at work on either side of the central figure. This painting is monumental, eight feet high and twenty feet long. This file focuses on the center of the mural

Always Fresh (detail) - Narsiso Martinez, 2018. Ink, charcoal, gouache, gold leaf, collage on reclaimed produce boxes, 278 x 92.5 inches
www.narsisomartinezart.com

A Woman Picking Up a Stick in Front of Trees - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14733

painting of a man and woman dancing at a party

Dance Night - Malcolm T. Liepke, 2023

Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Paulo Herkenhoff

Cildo Meireles, The Difference between the Circle and the Sphere Is the Weight, 1976
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137784

ALT: Timeline chart of the Star Wars saga, depicting films, live-action shows, and animated series in chronological order. Bars represent different entries, color-coded as blue for theatrical, green for live-action, and red for animated. The height of each bar reflects IMDb ratings. Special zones highlight significant plot points, with some sections marked as "Jar Jar Zone" for lower-rated entries.

Star Wars timeline chart showing the sequence of movies and series across different stages, with sections including "Solo," "Obi-Wan Kenobi," "The Mandalorian," "Rogue One," "Tales of the Empire," and others. The timeline is color-coded, displayed on a starry background, and divided into segmented paths for clarity.

A timeline chart of every Star Wars film, live-action show, and animated series, arranged in story order from the Republic's dawn to the First Order's rise. The chart uses color-coded bars: red for theatrical, green for live-action, and blue for animated. Each bar's height signifies its IMDb rating. Plot twists are marked with symbols. The background resembles outer space. Created by Reddit user nerik8000.

Timeline of every Star Wars film and show - wiith Jar Jar filter

interactive:
erik.nz/sw/

Black and white art of a big mermaid with a lot of hair being held by a woman dressed in black

The Mermaid's Lament — Jiro Mizushima, 1919

Thanks to @sandyjarrell.com for the correction

Print of a green leafy humanoid creature walking holding its grumpy looking pumpkin head out in front of it in its hands

Sunamura no Onryo (Walking Pumpkin Monster) — Yoshikazu Utagawa, 1858

Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds

Tauba Auerbach, Untitled, 2012
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137473

Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back? Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.

It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.

Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth by Karen G. Lloyd

Karen G. Lloyd

Next week, 6 November at 7:00 pm GMT, hear @karenlloyd.bsky.social discuss her book, Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth with @theurbanbirder.bsky.social. Don't miss this free, virtual discussion of the life below the surface.

Register here: buff.ly/yi7FUx8

The Bois de Boulogne.

Edouard Vuillard - circa 1890.

Hands holding a copy of "Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007" by J. G. Ballard, edited by Mark Blacklock. The cover features a sepia-toned photo portrait of Ballard.

"Blacklock hopes to 'illuminate the full range of Ballard’s activities as a reviewer, ... memoirist, provocateur, compiler of lists, and talking head.' He achieves this handsomely." — @thetls.bsky.social

"Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007" is now in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204832...

An old time-y illustration of a Tomatoes.

Today is Octidi the 28th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate tomatoes. #JacobinDay

More information on tomatoes

Joining all the terrorists at the Hate America rally #NoKings

a slide with some scribbly sketches and then a snippet of a finish comics page based on those sketches, with words "I've realized I'm very good at drawing badly - which is key to finding connections and making discoveries in my own drawings..." and then a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

In my talks this wk, I placed my notion of the importance of drawing badly to find unexpected connections alongside my Ai statement - we need that struggle, to make mistakes in order to be surprised - it’s the decisions along the way that make us who we are and there is no shortcut to getting there…