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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 12h

its 5 o’clock somewhere

White broad strokes cut the toned tan page into three regions - one in the bottom left and the remaining regions split by a curve from center to top right. Blunt sienna bar cantilevers out from just below center right edge, like a geometric eyebrow over a brown blotted eye. Sharpie ink lines point away from the blot to the left. A cerulean arc crossed top to bottom, overwriting the white strokes, but merging at the root. A cloud of sienna and sharpie sits over the arc on bottom left, puzzling. Over the brown bar shoots try to emerge from horizontal black gates, and one shoot extends out and crosses the white boundary into a sunset haze of blended pastels, where it branches into palm fronds, breaking out of the toned paper monotone of the rest of the image.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today’s automatist pastel+sharpie.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Playing with color today - I’m usually timid with colors because of my red green color blindness. So trying to push it and find forms and shapes and relationships without needing the backbone of the sharpie lines

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a doodle + pastel I ended up botching but was pretty fun at the WIP stage

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today’s view over the reservoir

Sky dappled with clouds, the sun rises over the tree line, rays shooting through the clouds. The water of the reservoir reflects the morning scene with clarity. In the foreground the wildflowers poke up as silhouettes against the reflection.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today’s piece got a little whacky but I can dig it

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today’s sharpie and pastel large form doodle

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

another sharpie and chalk pastel

Magnum + king sharpie doodle on butcher paper- key shaped object sitting proudly on the page- jagged teeth to the right side, pink licks curving out to the left with coral bursts of light streaking from top left to bottom right. A diagonal cursive line from bottom left to top right cutting the key from scarlet to titanium white and the background crossing across the diagonal from an apricot to a hot pink.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

mixing the sharpie doodles on butcher paper with chalk pastels

Golden swirl in the top left interacting with purple dreamscape, pathways of gold and purple bands radiating out interleaved with purple bands with white dots. A broad ribbon scrolls across the midsection of the piece with spider like forms curling at the edge of the ribbon and mirroring a purple and white cloud formation in the sky - the beams radiating out strike against an orange hillock at the bottom right with a portal that gapes open like a mouth, filled with checkered pattern and two dark eyes with parallel slanting eyebrows above the maw. The piece dances with gold and purple, with orange anchoring the hillock and white accents against the black linework

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trying to learn how to scale my notebook doodles up to bigger canvas by practicing with magnum sharpie on butcher paper. Very different feel and approach to composition then the more intimate doodling

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Week away with the kids and gf on Kelley’s island before back to school starts

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The park I wanted to stroll around and sit at this morning was closed (opens 8am) so did some osprey watching instead.

Osprey watching area - Alum Creek watershed

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s a beautiful day in Sunbury Ohio today

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When the mutilization comes to Ohio

Sign for junk removal service in Sunbury Ohio

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Dinner at Cloak and Dagger - vegan restaurant and cocktail bar in CLE - fantastic food and drinks

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Great afternoon touring the Curtin corrosion center with Professor Kod

Me standing outside the Curtin Corroaion Center (building 614) in Bentley WA.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I start reading 2666 on my flight to London yesterday. Interestingly enough, one of the scholars in the novel spends time walking around Kensington gardens, which naturally is what I then spent time doing this afternoon. Life is so full of coincidences

Statue of Queen Victoria out front of Kensington Palace. A crow is perched atop her crown

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Tonight pre-baking watermelon “tuna” to marinate overnight and then use for nigiri. Also plan on cooking up some eggplant “unagi” to go with

Chunky blocks of watermelon slices cut up and set on a baking sheet with parchment paper about to go into the oven to prep ahead for vegan style “tuna” nigiri.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

First attempt at vegan quiche. it’s setting up. This one has a macadamia nut base with spinach. Making aquafaba was fun. it’s not looking incredibly fluffy and I was too lazy to make a crust. Tasting updates to follow!

Macadamia nut base quiche made with spinach and aquafaba. In a beautiful blue pie dish. No crust. The appearance is a bit “matte” or chalky- not what I expected!

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Doodle time while food is baking

Marker illustration of Santa’s sleigh in a near miss with a UFO with two bug eyed aliens aboard. Splashy rainbows and stars abound in the collision

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Sketching out a piece for my daughter‘s bf who is obsessed with planes

Pencil sketch of a prop plane above the clouds with the quote “what good are wings without the courage to fly?” Underneath it

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s pie is strawberry apple

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Ok now noticing these all over town with these new bolts. Hopefully nothing galvanic going to happen here assuming these are steel covers of some kind … ?

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Next on my to read list- Greg Egan‘s Perihelion Summer I’ve enjoyed Egan since I picked up Perturbation City back in 1999 at the Uni of Western Australia bookstore. I’d never read sci-fi that was so hard on the Science piece before.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My first Secrets of Power deck build. Sly Moore yellow. I’m just a kitchen table player so limited to the cards I get in my boosters. My son always plays Vader Command - very aggressive and lots of resource and card drawing. This deck held up pretty well winning 31/22. #swu

Sly Moore. Admin Tower.
1 cost: Accelerate our plans, Jawa Scavenger x2, Hold out blaster x2, Barrel Roll x2, Snapshot x2, Disarm x2, Swoop Down
2 cost: Zygerrian Starhopper x2, breaking in x2, Zenuas Shadow x2, Cloud Rider x2, Clandestine Connections x2, Surprise Strike x3, Sith Assasin x2
3 cost: Lurking Snub x2, Black Sun, Soulless One, the Wrong Ride x2, Smuggler Starfighter x3
4 cost: Kimogila Hvy x2, Gam Guards x2, Loan Shark x2, Bossk, Resourceful Pursuers x2, Mando, Correlian Freighter x2, Synara San, Cad Bane

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Today’s pie is apple-raspberry. All brushed down with heavy whipping cream and about to slide into the oven

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Just spent the morning walking around my small town and its neighboring village. Starting out with cool lovely fog and ending up in warm sunshine.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Found this bolt in the grass while around town today. It is extremely lightweight. Aluminum? Interesting notches on the end too

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Apple pie season is here… today’s recipe had me brushing down the crust with heavy whipping cream, something I’d not done before.

First lovely golden brown apple pie of the season with puffy crispy crust!
I’d meant to add raspberries but forgot, so I’ll have to make another soon.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hiked Cuyahoga Falls and visited Mary Campbell cave this weekend. What a magical spot in the middle of Akron Ohio

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings shout out from little old Sunbury Ohio

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

voted early here in Delaware county, now taking a little hike at the state park

Me with my vote Ohio sticker and my US flag shirt

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Finally got a case for all my Star Wars unlimited cards - now to figure out the perfect way to sort them all (I fear there is no perfect way but maybe some are better than others)

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Starting out a cool fall morning by making quiche Lorraine to take to a picnic out at Shale Hollow this afternoon

Fresh out of the oven, perfectly browned quiche with puff pastry, sitting on a wire rank on the kitchen counter

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

New read. Pretty curious to see what’s covered in here giving it’s an evolving state of the art #genai #drugdiscovery #chemsky

An Introduction to Generative Deug Discovery by Sean Elkins (Ed.) cover of the book, photo taken on my desk with Computational Drug Design by David Young and a little Easter egg QR code to Promethium peeking out

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Tonight’s reading on the flight back from Barcelona

Cover of the Tokyo Suite novel by Giovanna Madalosso. Parrot and a macaw are perched about the all cap title letters.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

There’s an alligator obsession around my house rn so I thought I’d try to get it on it

Hand drawn and colored sketch of an alligator in a pond smiling wide and surrounded by reeds and grasses.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Laying in a hammock, looking up through the trees is literally my most favorite thing … at Quarry Trails Metro park

Blue sky with a little haze of cloud behind maple and a couple other trees I can’t identify- taken from a hammock staring up through the intermeshed branches and dappled sunlight on the leaves.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Plenty of “jack in the pulpit” today out in the woods at Hogback Ridge park

Jack in the pulpit- Ohio wildflower with a “pitcher plant” style flower covered with a leaf overhang. It’s about 6-10” tall and accompany by an adjacent stem usually having three leaves. This is by the base of a shag bark hickory, which is usually where I find them.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Out in Castine Maine this weekend for my son’s graduation ceremony from Maine Maritime Academy. Well done! So proud of his commitment, diligence and enthusiasm for his studies and the friends he made at college too.

Me and my oldest son at the lookout point over the Penobscot bay

The proud graduate holding his diploma and me standing next to him. He is in his blue regs with the blue Magna cum laude ribbon and medallion. I am wearing a gray blazer and sunglasses for some reason. We are standing in front of an anchor on the grounds of the Maritime Academy

The proud graduate looking smart in his blue regs, mariner hat with his FE cord (red and white striped) around his shoulder and blue ribbon Magna cum laude medallion. Standing in front of an anchor in the grounds of Maine Maritime Academy.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Really enjoying this novel “Real Americans” by Rachel Khong

Photo of the book Real Americans by Rachel Khong. The cover mixes images of Chinese and American themes inside the ellipses formed by a “DNA” like strand running from top to bottom.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What did I find (rind?)? @ Char Mar ridge park, Galena Ohio

Tree with a sign in front of it saying "you found it" or maybe "you round it"- the F is not clearly crossed, so ambiguous. The tree base is circled with nice little pointed exposed roots like a birds foot.

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Chris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Turkey dusting off at Char Mar ridge park in Galena Ohio. I'm hanging out in the nature blind just watching the turkey, bluejays, various woodpeckers and other morning birds out and about.

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