Peter Sealy Art & Photography
@petersealy.bsky.social
Op Art for the 23rd Century. Plus the occasional photograph. And other artists’ work of all kinds. Follow me if you want to engage in a visual dialogue about the world we live in, or the worlds we would prefer to live in. Profile best viewed in Flashes.
Meanwhile in real news… Padded bras turn out to be a big no-no in cycling.
Tour de France Femmes 2026: Officials check riders' clothing amid concerns about bra padding
Officials at the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift will check the clothing worn by riders to prevent attempts to make "aerodynamic gains".
bbc.com
Apparently avocados (along with walnuts and pecans and some other trees) are the kings — or queens, depending on the time of day — of gender fluidity. Btw, they’re not actually changing sexes — they’re both — but opening their male and female flowers at different times of the day.
Breakthrough on How Avocado Trees Change Sexes Could Cut Years From Breeding Cycle
The research could speed up breeders’ development of new varieties.
wsj.com
Christopher Payne’s grandly surreal industrial photographs of factories, machines and products at the Cooper Hewitt in New York. #art #otherpeoplesart #photography #factories #industry #flashes #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin
At the insanely trendy ice cream store. For better or worse.
RIP, the man who turned Wawa into what it is today. (Plus how it got its name - founded in Wawa, Pennsylvania.)
Richard D. Wood Jr., Who Built Wawa Into a Cult-Favorite Convenience Giant, Dies at 88
To keep executives grounded, the CEO insisted that every executive spend a day each year working in one of the company’s stores.
wsj.com
…and, of course, the classic Woodstock poster. On show at the Cooper Hewitt in New York. #art #otherpeoplesart #illustration #popart #flashes #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin
These are the concert posters I grew up with, so they’re entirely normal to me, and what concert posters *should* look like. It was only later that I found out that large doses of LSD were involved in both the music and the artwork.
The towers of Midtown glittering beneath the clouds from last night’s sunset. #centralpark #newyork #sunset #storm #flashes #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin
Filling out yet another medical form. What *on earth* is "tethered sord release" ?! No, please don't answer, I don't actually want to know.
You never quite know what the clouds are going to do around sunset. Tonight is no exception!
We're all on the list somewhere... "My quarrel with conservatives is that they defund programs that can, imperfectly, reduce the number of children vulnerable to exploitation."
Opinion | What Our Epstein Outrage Has Obscured (Gift Article)
It’s easy to shake our fists at a monster. It would be more effective to actually help exploited girls.
nytimes.com
The Hugging Face attack explained in more-or-less English. The important point is that it was exploiting (ruthlessly and unceasingly) mistakes and bugs. There will certainly be similar attacks invoked maliciously, so this underscores the vital importance of proper security and constant monitoring.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 7d agoAnother way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
Bergdorf has turned its Fifth Avenue windows into an art gallery, featuring the colorfully eclectic papier mache sculptures of Mark Gagnon. . @mark_gagnon (Instagram) #art #otherpeoplesart #contenporaryart #sculpture #papiermache #blueskyartshow
Putting things in perspective: looking at an article from *1982* about how impossible it was for 20-somethings to afford the things their parents took for granted.
Opinion | The ‘Downward Mobility’ of Struggling Young Baby Boomers
‘Staples of middle-class life now seem like luxuries,’ New York magazine reports from 1982.
wsj.com
“Pyrocumulonimbus” is definitely one of those words I wish didn’t have to exist.
Not being a sitcom person, I've never watched Big Bang Theory, which apparently this relates to by way of shared characters. But the first episode is charming, in a delightful "we have no budget but let's make a science fiction movie anyway" sort of way. (And clearly, they had *some* budget.)
Watch Stuart Fails to Save the Universe | HBO Max
Watch Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. After accidentally creating a new multiverse, comic book store owner Stuart Bloom must locate a quantum-interference de...
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Construction - concept for a new artwork. The finished piece will be interactive. #art #constructivism #hardedgeart #opart #interactiveart #blueskyartshow
Construction - concept for a new artwork. The finished piece will be interactive. #art #constructivism #hardedgeart #opart #interactiveart #blueskyartshow
Construction - concept for a new artwork. The finished piece will be interactive. #art #constructivism #hardedgeart #opart #interactiveart #blueskyartshow
A rather unpleasant reminder that the best innovation comes not from having too much of everything, but too little.
Cheap, Accurate and Lethal: Iran’s Best Missile Is Getting More Dangerous
The Kheibar Shekan uses a combination of flight paths, maneuvers and speeds to confuse air defenses.
wsj.com
Picking out a tie for another funeral, and feeling like I’ve done that too many times recently.
Fungi have been used to make wood-like furniture and non-animal leather, but now they're taking that a step further - living clothes! a) I LOVE IT! b) I'm really not sure I'm ready to wear a parasitic fungus, even if it normally only infects caterpillars. (Neither is anyone else, it seems.)
Clothes made from living fungi can clean and repair themselves | New Scientist
Researchers have created a textile made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris, which is biodegradable and can be adapted for different purposes with various microbes
newscientist.com
A few of Bastiaan Woudt’s wonderfully stark minimalist hat-themed pigment prints at Phillip’s. #art #print #minimalist #otherpeoplesart #hat
Another of those “Is that all those is?!” days.
Money see, monkey do... Once again, it turns out that *nothing* really separates us from the animals - some of our abilities are more so, but none are unique.
Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans (Gift Article)
Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.
nytimes.com
