Contour lines of volcano as wall decor for the international port of entry Seattle Tacoma Airport. It appears to be nearby Mt. Ranier. #mapsinthewild

Queen Mary free library Victoria, BC

Timeline cleanse The cooble wash sound is loooovely

Tired: plastic surgery to change fingerprints Inspired: turning your fingerprints into contour lines of places you love

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

In addition to having the entirety of my sculpting book stolen by Anthropic, the people that steal my dragon planters now use gen AI to sell their horrible rip offs on Am*zon and eB*y. Please support me directly by purchasing from my shop at VerdantSculpts.com, the only place my work is sold.

Neal 🔜 MFF-FC@verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’ve been sculpting for 25 yrs, 14 fulltime. I had just started to take off when the economy declined. My art is all I know. There is no other job for me even if I wanted one. I support myself, my disabled partner and our 5 birds on my income. Please help a human artist stay afloat. 💜🎨🐉

Vancouver Island Map mural Corner of Broughton and Goverment. Victoria, B.C. #mapsinthewild

Kelp Weasels

Ahoy Victoria

#SiloArt #StreetArt It is part of a series of realistic heavy horse tributes painted on rural grain silos across #Australia—most notably by renowned street artist Jimmy Dvate famous for his #Clydesdale murals in #Goorambat, #Victoria

I was Tom Bombadil for Halloween. Hard to get really big yellow boots, but Crocs came through. Had my waterlillies for Goldberry. Not one person I encountered knew who Tom was. Maybe I'll go as the bassist from Angine de Poitrine instead this year

The legendary Edie Punt (www.linkedin.com/in/edith-pun...): Learn to write Arcade label expressions for cartography in ArcGIS Pro Arcade is a lightweight, spatially aware, scripting language developed specifically for ArcGIS Pro #NACIS2026

Even if you're not at NACIS, I'd invite you to read Fonstad's "overlooked no more" obituary to learn about her work. Correction to the article's subtitle: Fonstad was not a novice cartographer, she earned a master's degree in cartography from OU. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Published 2025)

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Tiny triangle journal! This is about 2.25” long x 1.50” high. I have always wanted to turn the extra scraps of paper from other projects into a tiny journal. This was a fun one! #copticstitchbinding #trianglejournal #tinyjournal

Lightfoot, Nelson & Stephens: “long-term maintenance of coastal prairie and other ecosystems in Tribal lands…was largely the product of deliberate human intervention undertaken to augment the diversity and availability of culturally important plants and animals.” www.researchgate.net/publication/...

It's time to vote, because we need to do the hard work of digging out facist, racist ticks embedded in our government next so we can then take on knocking down oligarchs.

I'm seeking designers who are excellent at creating these kinds of maps - bluecrowmedia.com/products/bla... - if this is you or someone you know, please do reach out to niapoetry@gmail.com

Black History London Map - Guide to London's Black Historical Landmarks

Explore London’s fifty most significant Black historical landmarks, with this guide map to the history and impact of Black people in London, from the Roman era to Black Lives Matter. Black History Lon...

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Today’s work in progress. Happy Fall, y’all.

Vintage Wool Fish Rug by Canvello

Heading out the Gate #mapsinthwild

Making a New Mechanism for a Reciprocating Pencil Sharpener

Making a New Mechanism for a Reciprocating Pencil Sharpener

Hackaday Article

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In our Search & Discovery class last spring, we dedicated a week to beyond-the-algorithm music discovery; we traced our own musical journeys, talked radio + music scenes, + visited WFMU with Liz Pelly. Today's NPR newsletter abt Stones Throw Records is a beautiful extension of this discussion...

Hiss the snake, and ongoing painted rock community art project by my neighbor's daughter. Project is now 3 years old

One of the lesser known labors of Hercules, removing and installing carpet in a Mini Cooper. My kid is 6'6" and I am 6'3". It's like doing the tango in a suitcase.

We do this in our family calling it the joy. Big events, memories, funny things, accomplishments all go in on a slop of paper with date and we read on New Year's day at end of year. We tape the slips into a journal. Collaborative joy team microblogging family style.

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Next month is November, which means the #30DayMapChallenge 2026 themes are here! More information on the official website: 30daymapchallenge.com

The level of joy not paying PG&E plus filling spouse car's "tank" from the sun instead of the gas pump has not diminished in any way. Our savings have literally doubled in 12 months due to gas prices.

October 16, 1968

Small Bowl with Mice, 100-500 CE, Ceramic with white and black Slip Glaze