#feather-canyons

[shadowland]

happy birthday!! I hope your day has been great 🥂🌻

aww thank you gemma <33

[evelyn-art-05]

concept doodles for an OC AU I was thinking of and went a little overboard with

[fatchance]

Plumas brillantes.

Iridescent plumage on Gould’s turkeys / guajolote norteño (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana) at Santa Rita Lodge. In Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

[flickering-nightfall]

I like your Unparalleled Innocence colors. They remind me of lizards and deserts.

aesthetic, but at what cost... (thank you!)

[coolthingsguyslike]

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday! 

Today we’re taking a deep dive into Songs for Gaia, a slim edition of poetry by Gary Snyder (b. 1930). This understated, beautifully-crafted letterpress volume was printed in 1979 for Kah Tai Alliance at Copper Canyon in Port Townsend, WA, a fine press dedicated solely to poetry since its founding in 1972, and was handbound by poet and bookbinder Samuel Green. It features woodblock illustrations by poet and printmaker Michael Corr (b. 1940), who learned his craft while living in Kyoto from block printer and illustrator Takeji Asano (1900-1999). Asano was a notable figure in Japan’s Sōsaku-hanga woodblock printing movement. The book is quarter bound in cloth with a cover marbled in a finely executed combed feather pattern, a touch that lends a hint of psychedelia to its otherwise traditional aesthetics. It was released in a limited edition of 300 copies.   

Snyder, who is popularly known for his time amongst and spiritualist influence on the Beat poets and the counterculture of their generation (along with Kerouac’s portrayal of him as Japhy Ryder in the 1958 novel The Dharma Bums) spent 13 years in Japan (1956-1968) studying Zen Buddhism, forestry, and ecology. A scholar of Asian languages versed in cultural anthropology, he also studied calligraphy with accomplished calligrapher and seal carver Charles Leong during his time at Reed College. Snyder’s calligraphic signature graces the half-title page of this edition.  

This modest yet potent edition of Songs for Gaia is a fitting form for the work of a poet whom writer Bob Steuding once characterized as cultivating an “accessible” style and “a new kind of poetry that is direct, concrete, non-Romantic and ecological.” As Snyder wrote of his own work in A Controversy of Poets, “I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”  

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-Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker

[elliegoose]

almost certainly not done messing with this one but i'm going to go insane if i don't share it, so here's ska cover of a pigeon pit song that i've spent the last couple days feverishly working on

composing the brass parts was really fun, and in general i've had a great time turning an alt-country song ska

[thatgoblinjess]

Hell yeah I love physical media

[teganorsara]

milk crates — pigeon pit

like a dog tugging on a rope I don't even know where I'd go if they let go is that a train?

[cutiepieautistic]

dirt album (AIC) stimboard

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[borrelia]

if you like homestuck, you should start watching ATMOSPHERE asmr. you'll loooove untangling the timelines and the remade timelines and the mysteries and such..

[sonyachristian]

Saluting and honoring our fire fighters

It has been heartbreaking with the fires in southern California being fanned by the Santa Ana winds. We have all watched our fire fighters run towards the danger to save people, animals, and homes. Let’s take a moment to honor them – their skill, dedication, and selflessness keeps us safe and uplifts our communities. California Community Colleges train large numbers of our first responders. I am…

[wingedjewels]

Male Anna's Hummingbird - showing green iridescence on his head instead of red! by Ruby 2417 Via Flickr: Male Annas's have brilliant iridescence on their head, and usually it looks bright red or pink... but if the light is at exactly the right angle, the iridescence will appear to be apricot gold, or olive green, or it's not visible at all. this is the first time I've seen a male Anna's appear to have an all-green iridescent head! Hereford, Arizona. Sept. 2024

[bookerdwitt]

I love to fantasize in time things will work themselves out & self medicate by running out of town & seek out bodies of water in neurotic desperation. pigeon pit writes songs for Me