iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today i learned what ladybird larvae look like. How did I not know this before?

An orange an black ladybird larva. It's a spiky wee chap.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mine is a newer edition and not yet falling apart. It mostly lives on the bookshelf near the living room window next to the binos.

A copy of the Hamlyn Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe by Bertel Bruun and Arthur Singer. This is the new revised edition from 1978. Beside it on the table is an excellent pair of Ross Steptron 8x30 binoculars

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Spot of drive-by ornithology from the cargo bike

Two kids in the box of a triporteur / bakfiet / ladcyklen / cargo bike. In the woods. They've got a field guide to birds open at the page with jays

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An ethnographic example from Scotland. Sauce: www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/38496/1/

A cheery chap sat on a stool next to the drystone wall of a house making heather rope. Hanks of heather cordage are beside him, and pile of fibres he's twisting on the other side of him.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cartography with a lava lamp aesthetic

contour polygons coloured in using the lava colour ramp

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a nice surprise to find on updating #Qgis

screenshot of the 'Legend items' properties panel with 'Synchronise to Visible Layers' highlighted. A godsend to all of us that have disorganised workspaces with loads of layers not currently being used.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For all this talk of false positives, I should point out it's pretty good at finding actual barrows too. 🏺

A screenshot of the browser-based validation tool, with 60 chips showing probable barrows in identified in old mapping with bounding boxes around them

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got excited and forgot the alt text. Look at it!

A legend from the 1779 map of Hvedstrup. The title text is framed by cornucopia. At the top these hold grain. On the sides flowers and apples and pears. All around agricultural implements: scythes, rakes, shovels, troughs. Below on a wee pediment thing is the map signature.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just look at the legend it's from as well! I particularly love the wee beehive. 10 / 10 The #NorthArrow is a bit pedestrian though. 6/10. #NorthArrowsReviewed

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another flower pretending to be a round barrow. Look at it!

A hand-drawn flower with the a detection bounding box around it. It's beautiful.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can't find the film scanner and this needs done urgently... Not ideal but needs must.

A DSLR upside down in a tripod, pointing at a slide on a phone acting as an improvised light box.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today's false positive barrow is a pretty flower in the marginalia

A detection bounding box drawn around a flower. This is from an old map.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes today is all wheelbarrow posting

Apple pressing set up. On the right an apple press and a bucket of apple juice on a logging wheelbarrow. Behind this a rusty wheelbarrow filled with spent pomace. On the right the scratter and the fancy wheelbarrow filled with water and apples being washed

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A #Rothno (with apologies to @richardmortimer.bsky.social) / not landscape / PSA on the dangers of leaving wheelbarrows to fill with rain.

Layers of rust in a galvanized wheelbarrow forming horizontal strata of different colours. The head of the coach bolt is the sun / moon / alien planet.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today the internet is trying to sell me a:

A giant sofa except one end is some kind of plush cat head. It's grey. It's sinister. It looms.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today the internet is trying to sell me a :

A toilet seat cover. It's quilted. It's pink. It's got a lacy skirt. It's even got a matching cover for the cistern.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I keep unsuccessfully trying to photograph this ploughed out barrow. There's not a lot left. Today a smattering of cattle helped by giving it a bit of depth. 🏺

In the foreground a grass field. In the middle distance is a suggestion of a hummock- a ploughed out round barrow, likely Early Bronze Age. It's really hard to see, but a herd of cattle help give it a bit of relief here. In the background on the horizon picked out by a stand of trees is Purhøj, an altogether better preserved barrow.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's shaping up to be a good apple year here

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Phew. I was worried some of our "apolitical" colleagues might have signed this.

A 'find in page' search box on the mobile version of Firefox. It's found 0 instances of 'archaeology' in the Statement in support of Nathan Cofnas's Academic Right to Freedom of Expression

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Get some shopping on the way home" Me:

A very large jar of Laoganma crispy chilli in oil

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The plants reach up from the inky pool and grab the sun's rays, dragging them down into the mud to for safekeeping. (Out for walkies with the #infrared camera again)

A photo. In black and white. It's of the corner of a pond. The water is black. The foliage of the aquatic plants is white. These are reeds, lilies and duckweed.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Eventually the cost of this outweighs the theoretical benefits, and these projects end up confined to specific linguistic and cultural areas because it's too hard for everybody else. As an example from Ariadne- here is a map of records mapped to the Getty AAT term 'hillforts' >>>

Data mapped on the Ariadne portal, showing records mapped to the Getty AAT term 'hillforts'. This shows that the term has only been mapped to records In England and Wales, Ireland and Chezia

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At lunchtime I took the #infrared camera for a walk at work.

Moesgaard manor in the background, framed by oaks and a pond in the foreground

The graveyard at Moesgaard- a stone dyke with obelisks amidst beech trees

A pond in the foreground with rushes and lillies contrast white against the black water because infrared

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

External frame rucksacks are ace

An external frame backpack laden with ahard case with the lights in, two tripods and a contraption made from 2040 aluminium extrusion. I'm holding it steady with one finger. Om a train.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Looking forward to testing these in the field tomorrow. (after today's frantic debugging of ESP32 WiFi fuckery)

A pair of multispectral LED arrays with chunky power tool batteries and cabling

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This appeared beside the bike path today. #jutland #jylland

A sign depicting a very cute potato, with an arrow indicating "kartofler" in a flower margin beside the road. In the background fields with a senescent crop.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Back on my bullshit. (LED multispectral imaging system MKII is under construction)

A messy workbench with tools and electronics components. These are a bank of LEDs in different wavelengths and some MOSFET switch modules

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Pattern saturation like this 100% makes you a right wing psycho, because living in a migraine kills your compassion for the suffering of your fellow human beings

Jacob Rees Mogg emerges from the magic eye painting right into your nightmares.

(A very fussy living room with patterned everything and a smug Tory tosser)

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How your email finds me (courtesy of daughter, 6)

A kid's drawing of a figure having a bad hair time- arms are upraised and face contorted in a scream. The eyes have two pupils

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We went to Dodekalitten at Kragenæs on the way home today. Interesting place, but I'd like to go when it's less busy. IR Converted X-T2 with 760nm longpass filter. Hurriedly tweaked on my phone.

In the foreground a kid approaches the stone heads at Dodekalitten, a recently completed stone circle of 12 massive stone heads. Within the circle a throng, listening to the audio part of the artwork.

People enjoying the art by looking at their phones

The stone circle, framed to exclude the throng and silhouetted against a dramatic sky

The approach to Dodekalitten, framed by the edge of the woods

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Hoya X1 filter is kinda boring but reminds me of the colour grading in O Brother Where Art Thou. I need to try the X0 which should be a bit more IR sensitive.

A rose bush in the foreground. A byre in the background. The foliage is kinda browny green because the IR is kicking in some reflectance to the red channel

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I had a Fuji X-T2 body converted to full spectrum sensitivity. So far having a lot of fun experimenting with filtration and trying to decide what to use for an upcoming project- I really want to punch up the contrast between the little wetlands and the surrounding landscape

A small wetland in a kettlehole. The drainage is borked so it's reverting to being a little pond. The edge is fringed with weeds and there's an island in the middle. The rest of the field is stubble.

Thos is taken with a full-spectrum camera so it is sensitive in the near infrared and longwave ultraviolet. Here I've used a Hoya X1 green filter. This cuts a lot of the not green wavelengths but has a little bump in sensitivity in the NIR.

The same wetland, but a monochrome image with a 760nm longpass filter. The water is black. Everything else is white.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Scored a copy of Magic Labyrinth in the charity shop for 20kr. After a couple of games it seems like a fun kids game with a good gimmick.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Vent - er der ønskede hvepsebo?

A can of wasp nest spray. It's in danish. It says 'handles unwanted wasps nests'

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#NorthArrowsReviewed This one is now a table in the Lismore in Glasgow. As a directional indicator I feel it should be differentiated a bit better- maybe segmented or with some linework? 5/10. As a table 3/10. The surface is too small and bumpy.

A compass rose from an actual ship's compass, turned into a table in a bar. The glass is surrounded by a brass ring, which in turn is surrounded by various drinks and beermats.

The text reads: " Sperry gyroscope compass inc. New York.

Mark XV. Mod.O

Gyro compass repeater. Patented Mar 4 1919"

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