James William Beard

Those big books are some of my favorite museum exhibits!

09.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

black and white photograph of a white egret display in the everglades

The White Egret, 2023

#blackandwhite #photography #whiteegret #pictorialism #photo #art #foto #monochrome #wildlifedisplay

08.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 47    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

A warm red and white, textured ceramic vessel on a dark background.

an alluvial flame

stoneware, albany slip, 2025

#ceramics #stoneware #albanyslip #vessel #pottery

30.09.2025 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism A glimpse of an alternative economic and industrial history and future, in which the Luddites were successful in their battle against alienating technology.

A glimpse of an alternative economic and industrial history and future, in which the Luddites were successful in their battle against alienating technology.

27.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Photograph of vibrant green and red tropical foilage

Tropical Plants, digital photograph, 2023

Spotted on a trip to southern Florida to visit the Everglades.

#NaturePhotography #Photography #Nature #TropicalPlants #Photos #Plants #Florida #PhotographersofBlueSky

27.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New studio assistant We're cat sitting for family, which can get in the way of the very important™ Mystic Multiples work. Here's Meep, doing their best to add some pizazz to a photo-shoot for the online store. Is it OK th...

Here's Meep the cat, assisting on a photo-shoot of recent projects for the Mystic Multiples store. You don't need to see the art, right? 🤪

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26.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Listening to Rick Roderick Rick Roderick: Philosopher, Teacher, Humanist, is someone I only encountered recently. I was a child during the years he worked with the Teaching Company (now Great Courses), so it makes sense that I ...

1000% recommend checking out the lectures of Rick Roderick if you are interested in philosophy and eerie parallels to our current moment.

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25.09.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Upcoming essay in the fall issue of Floral Observer – James William Beard

I wrote a short piece on anole lizards for Taxonomy Press's Floral Observer magazine, which is currently available through preorders and at in person events over the next month. Here's a short write up on the project + excerpt and links! 🦎

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24.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

POSSE POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like soc...

Starting a new account for personal projects and musings. 👋

Very inspired by my readings on POSSE at the IndieWeb website:

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23.09.2025 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0