Killackey Illustration

Copies of the book Speaking In Pictures by Neil Cohn

Wow! My author copies arrived early for my new book from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication. It looks beautiful, and after working on it for 7 years I’m so glad it’s out in the world soon! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

The Inside Story of the African American Explorer Who was the First Man to Stand on Top of the North Pole This African-American explorer was the first man to stand on top of the world.

Matthew Henson was an explorer who spent a total of 18 years on expeditions to the Arctic—including a 1908-1909 expedition that may have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole.

#BlackHistoryMonth

#SciArt 🐡

A bunch of my craft group went to this show last night and are now in the chat figuring out how to reverse engineer Reznor’s $$$ look.

Nice new collaborative paper out this week led by Rob Heckman, using a data set we collected way back when I was a postdoc: "Correlational selection and genetic architecture shape the evolution of the leaf economics spectrum in a perennial grass" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

!!! What a brilliant project!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science.

It does not require that you went to school for science.

You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.

Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.

Love the light projected T-pillars!

Complex fiber and wood technologies of the first Great Basin peoples From Cougar Mountain Cave and Paisley Caves, Oregon, come remarkably preserved examples of perishable materials.

I love it when new archaeological research is coupled with beautiful photographs of the artifacts. Exciting work on the exceptional Younger Dryas-age organic technologies of some of North America’s first peoples.

www.johnhawks.net/p/complex-fi...

I want them, nay need them.

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

Wow. You should read this.

This seems as good an excuse as any for a short thread introducing people to some single moths I've found in my area, looking for fun.

1. Here, for starters, is a Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth (I didn't make this up).

A damning statistic about today’s society.

Close to your heart.

Could still be just really well hidden, don’t give up hope.

*Is*

Are that his illustration on your cover? I’ve got another book with his drawings but not any of his Gormenghast ones.

My teen edition, found on my parents’ shelves and guarded fiercely ever since.

Oh yes

Three quilt blocks on an ironing board. They are muted colors in shades of purple, grey, and yellow. One is a long nine patch block, and two are log cabin blocks.

Progress is being made on the visualizations for my data jacket! Two more to go then I can start sewing the jacket itself.

Far left is visualizing 800 years of Kyoto peek cherry blossom bloom dates, the two on the right are NYC Parks data on land designations in the city.

#DHmakes

Dark scene of Playmobil figures in front of a scale backlit altar with head of Sol.

Absolutely blown away by the Mithraic altars revealed by the National Museum of Scotland today, the way the head of Sol is designed to be backlit! Love to do a proper miniature, but just playing with this candle & paper one for now (it burst into flames 3 seconds later 😳)
#PlaymobilInfestation

Enjoy

It’s one of those slow creeping things that make you doubt yourself but they really have gotten noticeably worse, across platforms, haven’t they?

I’ve been thinking about the amazing dual realities of that show, it was both a meticulously choreographed performance and REAL, people really got married, Toñita was really handing out drinks, a barber was really cutting hair in the barber shop. Both a beautiful political action & performance art.

in progress.

胸のあたりまで進めてみた。
微調整は後回し。

ネット購入の商品が予定通りに届かない。
前日の雪の影響だろう。

運送業者での遅延があると、展示のセッティングは大打撃。
いっそ作品の搬入は自分の車で持ち込もうか？と思ってしまう。
江戸の下町の極端に細い路地を走れるのかなぁ？
一番信用ならないのは自分の運転だというのに。

#刺繍絵日記 #embroiderypicturediary
#artembroidery #textileart #textileembroidery #刺繍

Raymond Harris Ching’s color illustration of a sandwich tern. The bird is sitting on their nest in profile to the left but has their wings raised a bit protectively and their head pointing up like they’re monitoring threats in the sky. The surrounding details are rendered in graphite.

I love when artists subtly break with traditional and show a slightly more naturalistic view once in a while. Like Raymond Harris Ching’s illos in “The Reader’s Digest Book of British Birds”. They’re often left profiles and you can still use them for id but they’re more lifelike positions.

Plate 49 from “Mammals of Europe” by David MacDonald and Priscilla Barrett showing 3 species of dormice, from top to bottom, the edible dormouse, the forest dormouse, and the garden dormouse. Each dormouse is illustrated in color showing their profile facing left. Extra details, such as their tracks and nests, are shown in graphite in the remaining spaces around them.

Yeah, it’s a general convention though there are exceptions (like insects are usually top down if only showing one view). It makes cross species comparisons easier. Also, Renaissance lighting + facing right = a lot of well lit butts.

Left facing is the traditional arrangement for biological subjects! Combined with Renaissance lighting, it really makes the volume and details pop. (Beautiful skulls btw.)