Poor Frank Raw
@poorfrankraw.co.uk
Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone. Brace yourself. Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Rude mechanical. Nobody gets out of here alive. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop www.youtube.com/@poorfrankraw Trustee of salivaryglandcancer.uk
Friends… please can you share? I’m starting to put some art up for sale to pay for my louche year of painting (and grieving, let’s face it cos that’s what’s at the root of all this, I think) - and would love to find some nice homes for my art #artforsale #starvingartist #watercolour #bsnm #nature
Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons@gingertotty.bsky.social · 3d agoBack to scanning artwork. Some originals will be on sale, some prints, and I’m starting to curate so I can put together the much vaunted exhibition I keep threatening… These will be in the 2026 Clarkive sale. Prices in alt if you want to reserve (DM me)! #art #bsnm #artforsale #originalart #artist
Over 2/3 of the way to infinity... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ot2WR...
Infinity on slate
YouTube video by Frank Raw
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Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...
Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media
For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar
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I am just over half way to 3 x infinity. This will be appearing in the shop in due course. Obvs. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
Poor Frank Raw@poorfrankraw.co.uk · 5d agoWhat's 3 times #infinity divided by 3?
Satisfying this time, phew 🌿🥳 #fonts #typespecimen #typography #infonta #design #veraevstafieva
Posters for the Suppliers' Fair have just arrived! I'm baking my Alphabet Tiles next week 🥳 #typography #english #history #heritage #interpretation #uk #design #York #Wayzgoose
The York Wayzgoose is fast approaching! Next week, 6-8 August 2026. I'm going to give a lecture “Letters Old and New: Growing New Type Designs”. Also I'll do a live calligraphy demo with a broad flat brush, and take part in Suppliers’ Fair with my Alphabet Tiles and Letter Exchange materials ❤️
Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's a great honour and a nice surprise for me to be invited to speak at the York Wayzgoose! I look forward to attending all the lectures, taking part in hands-on activities, demonstrations, dinner, suppliers' fair... 3 days of pleasure! Early Goose tickets: www.thinicepress.org/wayzgoose-2026
“Have you checked the copy for the Enterprise display ad?” “Didn’t need to, it’s the same every week” [one day later] “Oh”
Mrs Raw thanks everyone for the messages and good / healing / positive thoughts, but the surgeon cancelled her at 3pm :( Reconvene for another try on Monday. As you were.
Poor Frank Raw@poorfrankraw.co.uk · 7d agoToday while Mrs Raw is having a shoulder replacement op I am mainly at the easel, listening to #JoniMitchell (currently Dog eat dog), waiting for txt updates.
Hummingbird hawk moth - increased sightings. Including Derbyshire last week: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today while Mrs Raw is having a shoulder replacement op I am mainly at the easel, listening to #JoniMitchell (currently Dog eat dog), waiting for txt updates.
Please note that, as the digital copies are not being distributed, this is *actively* a lessening of the available body of human knowledge, because whenever an LLM company destroys the last copy of any book to convert it to a text document they cannot share, that book is gone forever.
chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last wk.This is ... horrific
WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2
These plates and screw nails were removed from a patient who had sustained a fracture to their tibia 50 years prior. They were taken out because an abscess cavity had developed which contained these plates and screws that had become loose.
Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me
I found a note about this stone (1 of 2, actually): two milestones identifying the beginning of the Godmanchester Turnpike road. ... the lower from the 1770s is more idiosyncratic and includes the archaic form of long ‘s’. From Will Hill's Cambridge Typographic trial #lettering #cambridgeuk
Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 2w ago#TouchTheLetters in #Cambridge
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
24th July — my grandmother's birthday today — the #artist who gave me my values, and the desire to keep searching for new images and new goals instead of settling for what's already been found. We spent summers together, rented a countryside house, and she painted and drew a lot. Thank you ☀️
A characteristically Dutch blue & red initial in a Latin edition of the travels of Marco Polo - ‘De consuetudinibus orientalium regionum’ - printed at Gouda by Gerard Leeu in 1483 or 1484. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.4.E.3.2[2880]. #incunabula
