Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's a child property of schema.org/VisualArtwork too - which also has Creator. It's a twisty mess, basicallyschema.orgVisualArtwork - Schema.org TypeSchema.org Type: VisualArtwork - A work of art that is primarily visual in character. 100
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026So, according to schema.org/artist, artists don't use pencils. "The primary artist for a work in a medium other than pencils or digital line art--for example, if the primary artwork is done in watercolors or digital paints."` Examples are from comics. I smell a nerd-driven ontology.schema.orgartist - Schema.org PropertySchema.org Property: artist - The primary artist for a work in a medium other than pencils or digital line art--for example, if the primary artwork is done in watercolors or digital pa... 132
Reposted by Kim PlowrightAlistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Auction of one of my bits of drawn nonsense made yesterday benefiting the RNLI ebay.io/m/C9T8Nc 111
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Now to work out who is behind or-ni-thology.cloud 020
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I have just found the most poetic little digital archive of fluxus artifacts on @are.na. The title of this board is so, so wonderful - the most perfect serious joke. If you appreciate this too, we should probably be friends. www.are.na/or-ni-tholog...are.naWATER YAML | Are.na 192
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Oh I love multi-line select. Use it surprisingly large amounts for things like preparing lists of dates and venues for drawing classes, trimming stuff pasted from spreadsheets etc. If you have a big list of colourname, hexcode and suddenly realise you need hexcode colourname? BOOM. 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I spent *hours* turning the dials as a small child. 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Oooh! My folks had one of these on the desk. It had two additional modules - a pen holder and an ashtray. Damn, why did I ditch it? 110
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Catching up on Digging For Britain. The chap in charge of digging a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire is wearing a Danebury Metal Detectorists Club t-shirt. Absolutely here for the Arcaheologist/Detectorists transmedia crossover. Doctor Alice as ancient fae spirit etc. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...bbc.co.ukDigging for Britain - Series 13: 6. A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing WellTantalising clues to the ancient origin story of St Michael’s Mount, rare Roman cavalry swords with hidden secrets and a wishing well of coins at a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire. 040
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Yeah, I know. (As I was being made redundant from my teaching job, they invited me to an AI training course because 'everyone will need to work much more efficiently now to cover the work'. There was no discussion of ethics or hallucination in the course outline.) 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026[reads the Swagger docs] > For details of terms and how to get a token, see museumdata.uk/using-data/o... Oooh promising! Oh.museumdata.uk 000
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026@dracos.co.uk How long is it since Culture Hack now? (Gloriously, though, I now have MCPs for Claude that let me check artists names against the Getty ULAN, Wikidata and the Met collection. I know vibe coding is terrible, but it lets me *participate* in making things, not just do jira.) 100
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Thanks for checking that out. How very... useful. 100
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026What is the use case for that? I must have got this wrong, because that's kinda baffling. 100
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Am I misunderstanding this? I just applied for a key after a quick search of 'rembrandt' in the data, and It seems to imply that API access is bound to that specific query, so you can search the same thing over and over again... museumdata.uk/using-data/u...museumdata.ukUsing data FAQs - Museum Data ServiceIf you have other questions please email them to support(at)museumdata.uk, replacing (at) with @. 100
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026OK, so the UK Museum Data Service has an API - yay! I can stitch links to local museums in to the digital garden I'm building to support my teaching work. It issues you an individual API key for... each... every... bounded... search... wait whut sorry?museumdata.ukUsing data FAQs - Museum Data ServiceIf you have other questions please email them to support(at)museumdata.uk, replacing (at) with @. 210
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 05/07/2026But Eric Fitch Dalgleish is an excellent name for a small monotreme 030
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Oh no! (I did not have time to discover where the mouse corpse was, and what it had eaten.) 110
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Oh no, there’s a faint smell of dead mouse in my studio. 110
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Oooh, have you seen 'Murder Rooms' - BBC drama about Bell from around... 1999ish? Written by David Pirie, who I remember fondly after some drunken dancing to Boney M at a wrap party around that era! 120
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Anyway, h/t to @iamdanw.bsky.social and @tomscott.com who made something similar many years back (I found their version in the process of building this one, and it's been broken by imgur's geoblocking) 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 28/05/2026It generates absurdist joy, every ten seconds, to an excellently morose and weird soundtrack. 220
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I made an automated hyper-normaliser. It produces some uncannily familiar vibes. mildlydiverting.github.io/are.na-toolk... Vibe coding means I can finally build browser toys myself! Years of discussing specs, bugs and ideas with developers is good training data for this human.mildlydiverting.github.ioAre.na HypernormalisationPull images and text from are.na channels and combine them into a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism. Good for full-screen ambient displays, or just staring into the void. 132
Reposted by Kim PlowrightMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026On Bob Dylan's birthday, a thread about the story behind the remarkable photo below: Dylan driving away from Andy Warhol's Factory with one of Warhol's Silver Elvis paintings—a painting now worth millions of dollars—on the roof of his car 931168
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I have just finished listening to Carl Sagan’s ‘Demon Haunted World’. His discussion of the mechanics of witch trials feels somehow related. (I have complex thoughts about the problems with the book, but hooooo it is still relevant 30yrs later) 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Have you seen ‘The Year of the Sex Olympics’ ? 200
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Sorry, I meant that in the best way, fellow old internet person. 110
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 15/05/2026And it is now taking all of my self-control to continue to plan my teaching for tomorrow, and not to for instance spend several hours prompting imagegens with Fancy Bears and Sam and Max screenshots. 000
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It has been bringing me joy for many, many years. Thank you. 110
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Oooooh I just found a very old screenshot of the wonderful text adventure BEARS thread between @ethanmarcotte.com and @wil.to. It remains one of my favourite internet things. 3192
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 10/05/2026You can say a lot of things about Euan Uglow, but one of them should absolutely be ‘Very Good At Feet.’ 020
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I had a brief but lovely chat to an angry looking chap in an England flag hat the other day, because he had a friendly bulldog with him. She was called ENA SHARPLES. The resemblance was stunning. 120
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I strongly encourage you to go and have a look (especially the @qi.com chaps who might get some mileage out of that first image upthread^^^). Thank you, @aresluna.org for preserving these wonders (and thus rendering me helplessly giggly on a Sunday afternoon). 020
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"...have appeared in various magazines and journals: a pattern of ADAM ANT in 'JACKIE'; the cover picture of this book, PRINCE CHARLES, in 'WOMAN'S REALM'; THE POPE in the 'CATHOLIC HERALD' while 'SHE' magazine is to publish the PERSIAN CAT (head) sometime in 1982/83." 140
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The first volume has got Telly Savalas, a Persian Cat (full body, head only), THE ROSE, THE NUDE, THE ARAB, THE POPE and a Mystery Picture. And the KING on the front. *salutes* Bob Neill (1982) "Bob Neill’s book of typewriter art". Goudhurst, Weavers Press. Accessed at archive.org/details/bob-...archive.orgBob Neill’s book of typewriter art : Bob Neill : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive… 130
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026These wonders are from the marvellous Bob Neill (1984) "Bob Neill’s second book of typewriter art". Goudhurst, Weavers Press. Accessed at: archive.org/details/BobN...archive.orgBob Neill’s second book of typewriter art : Bob Neill : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive… 120
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026There's a very singular choice of subjects here. Sandi Toksvig, Selina Scott, Benny from Crossroads, Adam Ant, GOLDIE THE BLUE PETER DOG... 110
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"Bob Neill has been typing his amazing pictures for upwards of twenty years. As a result, he has developed a method to make it possible for anyone to create typewriter art of the same quality by following his simple instructions." You, too, can make a typewriter drawing of Sandi Toksvig circa 1984! 1133
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026This is a wonderful piece of writing. Thank you. 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Just saying thank you for your amazing suite of tools. Just being able to play with the interfaces has really helped me get my head around colour theory. Do you know about artistpigments.org ? Can't work out if they're using your stuff, but they have interesting namespace data...artistpigments.org 010
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 11/04/2026(gently points at Heated Rivalry) You’re welcome! 000
Reposted by Kim Plowrightneoboy @dismissforever.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Today I'm soft launching Mythril, a design practice investigating technology and power. Our first project, Investigative Aesthetics, is a non-exhaustive genealogy tracing the lineage of art as investigation from the 1860s to present day. 182
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Wondering which of my friends put together a playlist called '2007: a year in music', featuring Vampire Weekend, Petra Haden, Jonathan Richmond and June Tabor, among others. Was it @yoz.bsky.social ? 200
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Best Sandwich is at Grain and Hearth, btw. 120
