Benjamin Dewey

@benjamindewey.bsky.social

Artist published by Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW, Oni, Boom, DC, Image etc. Guitar/science/animal enthusiast. New dad. https://www.benjamindeweyart.com/ https://jm8njk-ef.myshopify.com/ The Vulcans got it right: infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

I think season 1 of TNG gets a bad rap. It’s not as good as it will become but it definitely has some delightfully silly and pulpy episodes that are fun to indulge. We don’t need to address its flaws here;we all know them. I just love seeing them figuring it out. That is fun, warts and all.

Some of the dudes from the bridge crew of the enterprise 1701-D looking nervous about a predicament or a treaty or some sci-fi scenario

I don't think theres some larger conspiracy here to prevent us addressing them or anything, just that if we actually all pull together for really short periods of time, thats all it will actually take. We cannot allow a handful of greedy assholes to hold back our whole species

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

"It's clear that there's a rampant dumbing down in progress in which not knowing things is considered a virtue. I don't throw my hands up in despair, but I do try to indicate that it's a very serious problem." - Carl Sagan

Sagan in a suit speaking on a microphone.

I’m watching Jason and the Argonauts and this movie fucking rules! A dude shows up with a Half decent dad-bod and every one is like “Holy shit! It’s the strongest man alive! we won’t even test his strength because it’s so obvious!”

One way to prevent drivers from blasting through intersections, or at least reduce the amount who do: neighborhood traffic circles. Again, none of this can be deployed overnight and, until they are, enforcement will be necessary, but there are design solutions already in use in a lot of the US.

Street with fall orange trees on it with a traffic circle with plantings in the middle.

here's another throwback from 2016 a private poster commission inspired by Moby Dick honestly still really love this one, both the concept and execution i worked on pre-inked scratchboard for this one (so fully black) instead of the usual white claybord that i ink myself 30x40cm

a black and white scratchboard illustration inspired by Mody Dick. It depicts a giant white whale about to collide with a whaling ship. The scene is viewed from a bird's eye view, high above the scene. Seagulls are seen orbiting around the scene. The ship and the whale create waves in the water that reinforce the tension between them.

Easily one of the best things anyone’s ever sent me: a spinning semaphore guide! If you flip him over the little fella’s facing away from you so you can do sending flags one way and receiving flags the other.