Amy Rae Hill

@amyraehill.bsky.social

Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her) linktr.ee/amyraehill Restock: Aug 15th, 10am PT

Thought it’d be nice to just have a simple vid without the fast editing to just show off the pots currently still available on the website. So enjoy a nice slow look at the pots and some smooth jazz 🎷 these pots are available on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

During the recent Total Solar Eclipse the South Korean Danuri spacecraft obtained a nice view of Earth from Lunar orbit with the Moons shadow just visible on Earth. Here is their image, with attribution added, my colorized version and the nearly simultaneous EPIC-DSCOVR image used for the color.

This is a reduced version of the photo released today by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Earth is seen from Lunar orbit during the recent Total Solar eclipse. The Moon is barely showing shadows behind the sunlit surfaces, and the shadow of the Moon itself is just at the horizon, or perhaps 'Limb' better suits an orbital view. One very wide shadow shows a fuzzy edge on a distant rise. I added the attribution. This is my version of the Danuri Lunar orbiter photo, with color added.  I combined their Earth photo with a color EPIC-DSCOVR image made at about the same time, rotated a little in 3D to better match the Danuri viewing angle for compositing. The sharpness of the B&W original is preserved with the DSCOVR full Earth photo mostly used for the color values. I also prefer this orientation with the foreground Moon at the bottom.This is the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) image from the DSCOVR satellite made at close to the same time as the Danuri image, shown in reduced form but otherwise as released.
 The exposure is naturally for the sunlit Earth and clouds. The Moon shadow's wide peripheral zone of gradual darkening, the 'penumbra' is where the illumination decreases as more of the Sun is eclipsed. At this time the outermost shadow area was near the Great Lakes, from this perspective a circular zone of that radius thus surrounds the progressively underexposed zone around the Moon shadow. If the exposure were adjusted to define the actual umbra, or zone of totality,  the resulting small black dot in the image , about 30 percent the size of the underexposed portion seen here, would be surrounded by the greatly overexposed fully sunlit rest of the world.

"Community" Hanging Planter This Astronaut Vessel is in response to the paralyzing fear that rears its ugly head when the administration does its best to crush your spirit. But we're never alone. Community is all we have, we must take care of each other. Available this Saturday, 10am PT

Hanging planter with flowers featuring a weathered spacecraft design that shows a nervous astronaut in the central window with the words "HELP ME" etched outside and several impacts holes are scattered around too. Three astronauts attached to tethers are dropping down to help.Hanging planter featuring a weathered spacecraft design that shows a nervous astronaut in the central window with the words "HELP ME" etched outside and several impacts holes are scattered around too. Three astronauts attached to tethers are dropping down to help. Right detail. Hanging planter featuring a weathered spacecraft design that shows a nervous astronaut in the central window with the words "HELP ME" etched outside and several impacts holes are scattered around too. Three astronauts attached to tethers are dropping down to help. Left detail. Hanging planter featuring a weathered spacecraft design that shows a nervous astronaut in the central window with the words "HELP ME" etched outside and several impacts holes are scattered around too. Three astronauts attached to tethers are dropping down to help. Back, revealing bullet holes in the back door.

worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem

Highly recommend reading through this thread, & checking out her portfolio for ideas if you want a commission! She’s made me a mug and a yarn bowl and I’m so thrilled with each! She’s amazing to work with! For my yarn bowl, here’s her process video: bsky.app/profile/amyr... 🤩

The Martian Fonz pose mug, astronaut reaching out in a green nebula bowl, yarn bowl with an astronaut pointing to a blue planet with a small spaceship. Mug and bowl were commissioned pieces, bowl is Amy’s original design. All pieces by Amy Rae Hill.
Amy Rae Hill@amyraehill.bsky.social · 4d ago

Commissions open tomorrow! But how do I even order one!? You ask Well here’s everything you need to know! (skip to ALL details: amyraehill.com/commissions)

Teapot and mug featuring two astronauts floating against the stars and gazing at the Eagle Nebula

Feeling a certain way about billionaires & private orgs being allowed privileges the rest of us are not. Like letting our waste crash into the Moon. So this one honors our companion in the sky depicting her on earthenware, one of the more delicate types of ceramic you must handle with care.