⛰️ 📷 🖼️ 'First Photographer of the American West' @remydean.bsky.social celebrates the works of #photographer Carlton Watkins & his fellow pioneering artists that nurtured a desire to conserve the natural beauty of America’s majestic West 🌄 medium.com/signifier/ca... #art #photography #painting
Kim Vertue
@kimvertue.bsky.social
Artist in progress, find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@vertuekim
a perfect bright but chilly autumn day in #Eryri with a glorious #sunset silhouetting the #Moelwyns with a cocktail of colour from gold, through salmon pink to smoky purples & slate blue... [pic 6.pm] 🌄 #landscape #photography
Today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight is the Goldcrest! ✨ Our tiniest bird takes on an epic journey, with arrivals from northern Europe and Russia joining our resident birds in autumn. Weighing just 5-6g, it’s incredible to think such a small bird can make it across the sea!
✏️ 💭 👁️🗨️ A Rhinoceros-shaped Idea "...living proof that the texts of the ancients contained knowledge worthy of continued exploration" @kimvertue.bsky.social on why Albrecht Dürer’s fabulous woodcut still stirs the imagination 🦏 medium.com/signifier/d%... #art #ArtHistory #illustration #history
It has been drizzling all morning, but now the sun has come out. Warm, golden light shimmers through the tree canopy, catching on raindrops gathered along oak leaves and moss... 🍂 medium.com/calm-of-the-...
An Autumn Woodland Walk
Would you like to take a few quiet moments in nature?
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You have been selected for a random Monday inspection. Please remain calm. 📷️ @carlbovisnature.bsky.social
🥄 ✂️ 📻 'Do You Speak Design? The ‘Ekco’ of Wells Coates' @remydean.bsky.social tunes-in to the fluent design-language of Wells Coates who was a major influence on broadcast #design from household radios to studio #architecture 🔘 medium.com/signifier/do...
🪑 🐕 🎨 David Hockney’s Dog Days “…I realised I was #painting my best friends, Stanley & Boogie. The subject was not #dogs but my love of the little creatures.” @kimvertue.bsky.social on how Britain’s favourite artist found solace in canine inspiration Signifier 🐾 medium.com/signifier/da... #art
🔷 🟥 🖼️ 'The Power of Merz' @remydean.bsky.social explores the collages & architectural assemblages of Kurt Schwitters that have left left a lasting legacy & remain highly relevant in #art #GraphicDesign & pop #culture ✂️ medium.com/signifier/ku... #ArtHistory #illustration #history
Tonight (Friday 25th) is Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival (中秋节) 🐇 Tsukimi (月見) 🎑 Guardian In Pictures 🥮 www.theguardian.com/culture/gall... ...& Harvest Moon, 1st Full Moon after equinox, will be at its fullest for UK at 17:49 BST on Saturday 26 September: BBC 🌕 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
🌝 祝福中秋佳节快乐 🐇 月圆人圆事事圆满 🥮 Hoping for an elegant, ethereal evening - so, it’s time for the perfect accompaniment & suitably celestial song + MV from 🧸 #咬人猫 🪷 #Yaorenmao aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat 🐾 playing the dual role of Chang'e & Jade Rabbit 月白 Moon White ⚪ youtu.be/PihiXh5VNbM?... #music #中秋节
【咬人猫】月白 ❤️ MV [Yaorenmao Channel]
YouTube video by 咬人猫Yaorenmao
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🥮 in place of mooncakes we pitched-in & made a batch of scallion pancakes in honour of Ming Yi (Lu Yuxiao's character in 'Love in the Clouds') plus they are an acceptable lunar-looking & tasty substitute to get Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival underway 🌝 #food
tonight's #Moelwyns sunset put on a good slow show, one of the nicest I've seen in a while, after an unseasonably warm & sunny day [pic 19:30] 🔴 #landscape #photography from #Eryri
some interesting volumes to be found at the Getty Virtual Library: 700+ free to view/download #art related #books & reports from their searchable online collection (tick-box to select freely accessible titles) 📖 www.getty.edu/publications... #booksky
SOS (save our snails) "British zoos are setting up 'ark populations' of the glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa) one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion." "Beguiled by their cuteness" 🐌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #conservation #Wales #Cymru #kawaii
Zoos help to save snail found in only one lake in Wales
Once prevalent across the UK, this mollusc is now only found in one lake in Wales.
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🌧️ 🛤️ 🐇 'Rain, Steam & Speed' "Can our #art meet exponential technological developments such as quantum computers & AI?" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores Turner’s lasting impression of rapid change - an image of the Industrial Revolution’s sublime momentum 😶🌫️ medium.com/signifier/ra... #ArtHistory
RIP Yayoi Kusama ...here's @kimvertue.bsky.social on the relationship between the individual & the infinite through the work of Japan's globally renowned artist: 🍓 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #fashion #kawaii #ContemporaryArt #sculpture #Japan
🪨⚒️🪽 'Jacob & his Angels' "the huge figures shocked many of Epstein’s contemporaries just as his first commission for the façade of the BMA Building had shocked Edwardian sensibilities in 1908" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Jacob Epstein's monumental #sculpture of Angels 👼 medium.com/signifier/ja...
designing our homes away from homeworld travelling light & building with what's there to provide habitats & workspaces plus privacy & comfort when everyone is remote & working from home... on the Moon or Mars DesignBoom 🚀 www.designboom.com/architecture... #design #space #science #architecture
"During the most recent Ice Age, when much of the British Isles were beneath a vast continental glacier, the depleted sea levels opened a walkable 'lost land bridge' between modern-day Pembrokeshire & the south-east tip of Ireland, around Rosslare..." BBC 🦣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cave art discovery suggests first humans in Ireland came from Wales
During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.
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#RemyReviews 'My Man Godfrey' (1936) • 90 years old today! "...will certainly appeal to fans of P.G Wodehouse’s & anyone who enjoys a top-hole classic screwball #comedy. But I don’t think its appeal is limited to nostalgia." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎬 medium.com/framerated/m...
🌼 🌷 🏵️ 'Preserving Paradise' - how we can manipulate the environment to suit our aesthetics @kimvertue.bsky.social discusses Marc Quinn’s ‘The Garden’ & our eternal desire to capture & keep the essence of beauty. 🌻 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #flowers #landscape #sculpture
lovely short [14.min] film about local artist Falcon Hildred whose drawings & watercolours document the area in & around Blaenau Ffestiniog... with cameo appearance from fellow #artist Carole Shearman (we often meet them & chat on dog walks) ▶️ youtu.be/f2m2BK0PcCg?... #art #hustory
FALCON HILDRED 2026
YouTube video by Llechi Cymru
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Hello World!👋 This is the Bluesky debut of 'Found Worlds' a Medium Publication for diverse writers & readers. Let's share our journey of discovery as we explore global culture, arts, languages, travel tales, histories & media - a search for knowledge, beauty & connection. medium.com/found-worlds
#butterflies #conservation Explore what makes each British butterfly unique, pick your favourite & help them take flight 🦋 you can learn & vote @savebutterflies.bsky.social until 7 June 🌼 britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk #illustration by Richard Lewington⬇️ www.richardlewington.co.uk
🪟 👗 📷 'Lady of Light' — a new fashion in photography @remydean.bsky.social on how Clementina, Lady Hawarden, forged her own genre to light the way for #fashion & fine #art #photography "In the mid-1800s, becoming a photographer was like joining a cult" 🪑 medium.com/signifier/la...
🐛 🏵️ 🦋 'Merian’s Metamorphosis: Discovering the Cycle of Life' @kimvertue.bsky.social takes a closer look at the #art & #science of C17th illustrator & pioneering entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian 🐜 medium.com/signifier/me... #art #illustration #イラスト #biology #botany #entomology #ArtHistory
At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.
Watching butterflies slows time - so why not take a break and notice their beauty 🦋 You can also let us know when you’ve seen a butterfly on the #SignsOfSpring survey: www.field-studies-council.org/signs-of-spr... In partnership with @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth