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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excellent exhibit. The monograph is beautiful, too.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I miss being able to take the bus to Mauritania.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

That appears to be a high quality cat, meeting all the standard expectations without going overboard.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Someone I know very well fainted while on the toilet. The next day there was a positive on the preg test. She was not, thankfully, in a movie or tv program at the time of the fainting (to answer your initial question).

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Correct! 19 years old and I was entirely overwhelmed by the Tylenol Cold & Flu medication I had taken for my headcold. I was seeing faces come out of the static which MBV was having projected upon them.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Mike Johnson has not yet heard anything about the United States government.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Plunging the drain of a shower in a 120 year old house.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Oh, wow, yeah, now we can all see how he's 100% qualified for his position.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The bear-with-luggage thing has always been evident to your fans, which plays no small part in why we're so dedicated to following you (literally and figuratively).

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Cool, as long as you're still working on shit.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I thought the crannies had been stopped up. Please check again.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

There is no longer any legal accountability, so rules no longer matter to certain people. Nothing about this project is legal, so why would the demo company be worried about rules?

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I read the list aloud to my wife in the next room, and she now seems emboldened that her job as an illustrator of children’s books is no longer as preposterous as it sounds.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

However, I also have my personal archive of a couple of copies of everything I’ve printed, which I go into if someone offers Money for an older print.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Thanks for the compliment. I don’t *usually* bring back old work; X number are printed once, and then I focus on making new work.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Sometimes not even the androids know they are androids until the goo is shown getting out. Sometimes it usually feels like only the goo knows who is androids, until it is out and we all see it.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Show the goo getting out. It is the best part of androids

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Backlit illustrator with the actual-size Titanoboa I worked on for about a week during the spring. Currently up at Chicago’s Field Museum.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

*August 29, 2025. Runs until early 2027.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Since mid-January, I’ve been working almost exclusively on the largest single project of my 30 year career. “After the Age of Dinosaurs” opens August 39 at Chicago’s Field Museum, and includes almost 70 illustrations (by me) of the rise of mammals, birds, and reptiles starting 65 million years ago.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Yeah, I regret not putting quotes around my post. Sorry, Dan.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Touch it, touch my law enforcement officer. Oh yeah.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

You are providing far too much informative content. Please refrain from this going forward.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

You are 100% correct. We caught Porco Rosso here in Chicago a few weeks ago, but couldn't get to Mononoke.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New poster for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at the beautiful Coronado Theatre in Rockford, IL on July 12, 2025. Five screens, 18 by 24 inches. Available next week at thebirdmachine dot com.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

That's a hard one to photograph. Glad you've got it!

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

In other news, this sort of stuff will be around on May 2. Details to follow.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Currently in the ice cream and donut stage of this loop.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is going to be very dangerous for residents. First there's Hewn, and now Freds? I'm going to triple in size.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

There are a couple old iphones at home, waiting for a new assignment.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm old enough to easily recall when we hauled around boxes of cassettes, and I'm also still pissed that my fully loaded Ipod was stolen out of my car around 2007 or so. Now I'm wondering which of my LPs from the last decade or so might have download cards stuffed inside.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Oh look: I've got a For Carnation promo CD. "Ten Small Paces", "You'd Prefer an Astronaut" and "Stories From the City/Stories From the Sea" are apparently next, based on this box I found under my worktable.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I've been thinking about digging out the old Itunes hard drives and ditching streaming to going back to the "old days" of 2005, carrying around a separate Ipod with my music collection on it. With Spotify down today, my hand has been forced, and I'm currently re-importing "Drums and Guns" by Low.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Appears to be some flowers, or else I need new glasses.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I was in that spot last Saturday with 29,999 other friends.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Increasing probability of wide-brimmed hats as we've aged 26 years and generally gotten thinner on top. Also: That one horse was finally able to quit smoking.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Please tell us about your short scale bass Strat and how that came to be.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"Toshiro Action" was released early in 2024, based on our new kitten, who often comes to work with me (like today). Three screens, 18 by 24 inches. Signed and numbered edition of 200.

Screenprinted poster. A fluffy white "Rag Doll" kitten, full of energy and mischief, runs across a blue background.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Out at Dawn" was made in October 2024 to raise money for the Penland Post Office building in Penland, NC. The charismatic old structure narrowly avoided being carried off my Hurricane Helene's floodwaters. Six screens, 18 by 24 inches. Signed and numbered. thebirdmachine dot com.

Five small mammals in life vests and carrying rescue gear ride a swimming woolly mammoth and a grebe (bird) through calm green floodwaters, above submerged tree tops.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Wide Awake" from 2023. Six screens, 18 by 24 inches. Signed and numbered edition of 250. "He just needs some space and a lot of trees / A place to sleep / A place to breathe"

A remarkably large rusty Rhinoceros plods through a valley. A small cluster of trees grown from the back of the animal.

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The Bird Machine @thebirdmachine.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“Monthly”, 2024. Four screens. 18 by 24 inches. Signed and numbered edition of 200.

A dozen woolly mammoths are nonchalantly arranged in a grid, each facing a different direction.

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