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by: テイシン

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the 1970s Bigfoot movie craze

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Did it again, two more to go and I'll have drawn more in one month than in the past four years. Thanks Eggtober for being irresistible enough to get me out of the slump.

Eggtober 2024, Eggs As Medicine II

Take three daily with water, butter and salt.

Thanks to @quezify for the eggy inspiration.

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Frank Morley Fletcher California 2: Mt. Shasta 1932 woodcut on cream Japan paper 29 x 40.7 cm (image), 34 x 45.1 cm (sheet)

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Today my therapist told me it's ok to do nothing, and reminded me based on what I've told her I actually am doing like one or two small but real things every one or two days, and that that's enough, so just gonna add this to my mental health affirmation meme collection.

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Eggtober 2024, Eggs As Medicine

Take one to two daily with water, butter and salt.

I've been wanting to get back to drawing for a while, but I've had a block for some reason (mental illness). My desk is also not always accessible in that it's right where my fan blows and it's too hot not to have it on, and it's often covered in piles of things I don't want to deal with, though that's definitely a bad excuse because I could always just move stuff off and then put it back on without putting anything away, but I just don't. I also don't necessarily like the process of drawing/painting, I just like the results. And I also just haven't had an idea so compelling that I have to get it out like I used to get sometimes. So I think it's been at least three years I've been putting it off. Seeing the Eggtober illustrations by @quezify make me so happy, and I wanted to be a part of it. The first few days of the month I just didn't. But I thought maybe I'll just draw a ton of simple eggs, maybe one a day, it would technically count. That lead me to think of doing one of the drawings of my medication, which was the last thing I was drawn to draw as it were. So I traced my pill box, and loosely traced some eggs quezify has shared from other folks participating this month, and I got through the block. I'll try to do a few more, I'm pretty sure I won't be capable of going every day, but if I do one of these each week that's 28 eggs, and maybe along the way I'll think of three more, perhaps painting from life, or some of my dad's full dozen of double yolkers. Maybe I'll try playing around with color even though I don't feel like I have anywhere near the skills of some of my favorite colorful eggs I've seen posted, or ever where to start, but it's low stakes and I know I should just try. Thanks so much to quezify for the inspiration, maybe this will help me back at it in the months to come. Fried eggs 4ever.🥚🍳🥚

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Last month I found Pure Moods Vol. 3 at Miranda’s Thrift in Arcata, and played it during my radio show to celebrate. I kept thinking about how I wanna find Volume 1 to get all those truly classic tracks, and yesterday found it out front of Old Town Antiques when I quickly peaked in one of the cd bins walking by. To hear my selection tune in this Sunday 9am to humboldthotair.org or check out the archive for two weeks. Another very specific cd manifestation, on a wonderful roll. ✨📀✨

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Unknown, Hippopotamus (“William”). Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I-Senwosret II (ca. 1961-1878 B.C.). Faience. From Meir, tomb B3; Said Bey Khashaba excavations, 1910. Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917 (17.9.1) Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Vintage photographs of the Avenue of the Giants

via

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Y'all Masking?

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Played an Arcata Community Forest Show as Jackalope Jill with Gunsafe and Lxs Perdidixs and it was as magic as the light we passed on the walk out.

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Misty

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ONE HOUR AGO: a beautiful birthday tribute for weelaunee forest defender tortuguita, who would've turned 28 today if atlanta police hadn't murdered them, from the walls of occupied siemens hall.

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If you aren't following the news here in the Pacific Northwest, this is a very, very big deal. Our native salmon numbers have been plummeting over the past century and change. First it was due to overfishing by commercial canneries, then the dams went in and slowed the rivers down and blocked the salmons' migratory paths. More recently climate change is warming the water even more than the slower river flows have, and salmon can easily die of overheating in temperatures we would consider comfortable.

Removing the dams will allow the Klamath River and its tributaries to return to their natural states, making them more hospitable to salmon and other native wildlife (the reservoirs created by the dams were full of non-native fish stocked there over the years.) Not only will this help the salmon thrive, but it makes the entire ecosystem in the region more resilient. The nutrients that salmon bring back from their years in the ocean, stored within their flesh and bones, works its way through the surrounding forest and can be traced in plants several miles from the river.

This is also a victory for the Yurok, Karuk, and other indigenous people who have relied on the Klamath for many generations. The salmon aren't just a crucial source of food, but also deeply ingrained in indigenous cultures. It's a small step toward righting one of the many wrongs that indigenous people in the Americas have suffered for centuries.