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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reminds me of 158 State St. Albany. Beautiful lettering on the arch, corporate utility on the doors.

The door and arch above it at 158 State St. Albany NY. The beautiful old inlay in the arch says "TELEPHONE BUILDING", and the artless modern Verizon lettering on the doors looks awful in contrast.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

State St. Albany NY with the entire capitol building obscured by fog

The view of State St Albany from 14 stores up, looking west at where the capitol building is usually quite visible.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Archaeological evidence of the ancient NYNEX culture

The granite facade of 158 State St. Albany, NY showing dirt traces of the old NYNEX sign from he 80s/90s

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As the trade war rolls on I have spotted evidence of Canadian forces having stoop parties in Albany

A bottle of syrup on a stoop. That's it.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was going to look up what 'Assiduity' means but I gave up right away. Just going to assume the funniest answer.

Assuidity sculpture, Albany NY

The City Seal flanked by larger than life figures of a Dutch settler and an Indian. The Dutch settler appears on the proper left, his proper left hand raised to eye level in a gesture of greeting. He wears a brimmed hat and "Patroon" attire. His proper right hand rests on the seal. A Mahican Indian is on the right. He wears a feathered headdress. His proper left hand rests on the seal, and in his proper right hand, he holds a bow and arrow. The seal between the figures has two main parts in bas-relief. The upper half shows a beaver gnawing on a birch tree trunk, and the lower half depicts two shafts of wheat. There is a small sailing ship, the Half-Moon, atop the point of the seal. At the men's feet, behind the seal, is a Dutch az, a pot and a beaver skin.

From Smithsonian: https://www.si.edu/object/assiduity-sculpture%3Asiris_ari_334290

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New York State Education Department building (from this morning)

New York State Education Department building showing windows and columns and hellenistic inlay

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Greek lesson asking the important questions to-nite (I love how 'y'all' is used formally)

Still from Great Courses Greek 101 "Are y'all burning funeral pyres in the fatherland?" with disapproving looking Professor Mueller.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

When you need the fire department, whimsically

Red trolley used by the Albany NY fire department with Albany Fire markings

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This morning at the reflecting pool at Empire State Plaza, with ducks. Albany, NY.

The reflecting pool at Empire State Plaza with the I 🤎 NY statue in the background and two ducks in the foreground.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It definitely is a shadowy place, or at least downtown where I live and work is because of the tall building. A lot of the architecture has gothic or art deco influence which makes it seem more like fall.

New York State Armory - gothic building with turrets and tall narrow windows.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Little Feat "farewell" show starting soon in Troy

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall stage lit in blue, empty before the show. Opera house style balconies.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The old New York State armory building (Central and Lark, Albany) is exquisite.

New York State armory at Central and Lark in Albany: Red brick with round towers and perapets looking like a Gothic castle.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

ACAB includes the lucky cat from Lucky Cat Laundromat

Laundromat sign in "Asian" stylized font saying "Under 24 Hour Surveillance" with a painting of a cat's eye.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Very happy I don't have to spell Rensselaerswyck at work all day

From NYS Museum:
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Beverwijck and Rensselaerswyck become the English colony of Albany.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is a message I sent to my Bandcamp followers, but I wanted you all to see it as well.

Thank you all for your patience with my recent flurry of releases. I should probably explain.

This project was born on the desert, but I want it to continue now that I moved back to my native New York State. I treasured my time on the Mojave, and it was vital to my development as an artist, but I feel like I needed to add a punctuation mark to the era. Making the 'best of' tracks from the archive available to you all helped me feel like I made a clean break. A new phase awaits.

So much of what I do will remain the same as the characteristic aspects of what I do predate my time on the desert, but I do expect some artistic changes. I hope you stay with me, and that you are open to music that glorifies and reflects the sweeping landscapes of Upstate New York.

I am so appreciative of the support you have given me over the last eight years. May you always receive similar blessings in your life. With eternal love, R

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The Space Brothers have taken over Empire State Plaza

Hundreds of people in silver smocks lined up for a performance of Firebird by Touki Delphine at The Egg

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

More than ever, pal. (from Life Force: The World of Jainism by Michael Tobias)

Human civilization is scattered with pyres of skepticism, premeditated paradox, singular schizophrenia.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Only Paul could start a lighthearted pop hit with a somewhat dissonant slash chord (A/B). Fortune favors the bold.

chord diagram for "with a little luck" by paul mccartney with such a characteristically 70s paul set of chords: A/B - E - A/D - C#m7 - B7sus4 - E/G# - A - F#m - C#7 - F#m7 - Dmaj7 - Fm7 - F#m/B

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

...and His hair did rise above the firmament

Kid Rock with a """""hi top fade""""" that just looks like a Fuller Brush rom the side

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I've been sick for a week but I still look like a Botticelli* *

Inferno by Sandro Botticelli, depicting the rings of Hell.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Newark Penn Station is my favorite transit center in the US (with Grand Central Terminal right behind). Absolutely gorgeous with architectural and artistic details everywhere. Still has benches you can relax on without dividers. Arrival/Departure sign that rattles when it changes. Just perfect.

Newark Penn Station main lobby looking at the main window bays on the left, the four crosses over the doors, the ceiling, and the zodiac themed chandelier. The walls are limestone (I think...I am color blind) and there are relief medallions of significant developments in transit history. Classic, roomy but appropriately sized to not echo too much or feel vacant. It is my favorite transit center.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I am weirdly fascinated by the Cleveland Bus Terminal.

The Cleveland Bus Terminal at night. Empty. One ceiling light lit out of many. Two vending machines, four doors, and a men's room in the back. Kubrickian liminal space.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is the first in my Exemplars of Faith series. I laser engraved boxes to include w/the St. Dymphna rosaries/prayer cards/CDs. While supplies last, or if you already bought the set. An Anglican/Episcopal version is also available. #exemplarsoffaith redblueblacksilver.bandcamp.com

St. Dymphna blue glass/blue aventurine rosary, prayer card, CD, laser engraved box

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It's on the regular Desert Oracle page. That's why I called it a subseries in my post. Thanks for listening!

Screenshot of Desert Oracle Radio page on podcastaddict showing the Eldritch Republic episode

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Add Hare's Foot Clover to the list of plants that grow wild in abundance in a lot of the US, and have medicinal properties most people seemingly don't know about. Maybe because it is an invasive species that hasn't made its way across the country yet.

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It's almost the tonite queen 👀 meme. Musician's Friend takes their name way too seriously.

Three emails from Musician's Friend on three consecutive days with the subject line "Let's Celebrate Your Birthday Month!"

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RedBlueBlackSilver🕊️ @redblueblacksilver.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I'm working on some Arboretum of Dr. Moreau stuff here

Megatree formed out of six small trees and bushes

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