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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

bought this 2” thick tome by a burlington-based author, a few days after seeing it advertised in our local paper. it’s good, but as expected, i can only handle it in spurts. www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what a positive vibe for a rock show. @cheekface was a hoot @ @highergroundmusic

Side photo of the band cheekface and they’re raving fans, as they finish up a set in Vermont

Cheekface band playing live in Burlington, Vermont with a backdrop of their newest album featuring three goats each with a number six race prize around their neck

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it hurts to lose our indie club 🫡

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

painted some boats on our last trip to the camp this year #watercolor #sketch #art

Watercolor painting showing two yellow kayaks stacked upside down on an aluminum row boat in front of a leafy, tree-lined backyard fence.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i don’t get many designer newsletters, but when I do, they’re from a Dan

screenshot from a mobile email app showing to back to back emails from designer heavy-hitters: Dan Mall and Dan Cederholm

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

thought i’d do more painting on this trip. been hauling my materials around. i don’t think artists can also be readers. my book draws me in during downtime.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

car-centrism is getting out of control here

a small boat fashioned to look like a car taxi driving in the middle of a canal in Gdansk, PL, with sailboats on slips and modern and old buildings in the background.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

noticing far fewer obese people at Polish beaches as well as inland. i think the reasons have to do with infrastructure: very walkable cities, less fast food, less eating out in general, and the big one - cleaner food. rules that can stand up to big food.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

malls stand out here. they’re full of stores, people, and look like what america’s malls would if ours never died. like many of the interesting things here, it’s because poland joined the capitalism game late. if they indeed are following the same path, their malls won’t be around long either.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

visiting poland reminds me homelessness isn’t a requirement of a city.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hallam had a heavy, wise answer when asked what success looked like if the resistance wins. he said you flat out cannot ask that without doing the spiritual work to deeply commit to the cause, otherwise you’ll burn out if your headspace is too individual. great talk. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSJ...

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Democracy Necessitates Resistance (w/ Roger Hallam) | The Chris Hedges Report

In his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tool...

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

some photos from new york’s north country

a photo of a custom-shaped entryway underneath an angled black metal exterior stairway. the main building is in disrepair, paint peeling off showing bricks, but the entryway itself is clearly taken care of - decorated with patriotic signs.

photo of an old stone building with stairs that go to nowhere and a window filled in with stone.

photo of a stand alone once-commercial building, whose paint is peeling and windows retrofitted with cheap modern ones.

photo of a sign for an old ramada inn overgrown to where you can barely read the sign by a cedar tree. it’s building is in the background from the same era.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

enjoyed reading this one. it’s a balanced of snapshot of burlington, compared to the rabid “online a lot” accounts hating on homeless, intent on scaring people away from venturing downtown.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

been off the art habit for too long that i was starting to get itchy. here’s one of my favorite barns. i fear it’ll be torn down soon because it’s so very close to the road, leany, and clearly not in use. #watercolor #paint #art #vermont

phase 2 of watercolor of a barn boarded up next to a Vermont Road with a blue sky in the background

phase, one of barn, painting, watercolor, everything is passed out because this is the first pass

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

snapped a bunch at these beauties. the lower bulk of them were so chock full of definition.

defined low clouds in the distance of a suburban traffic scene

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

listening to ram das on the way to a kurt vile show felt right. kurt’s energy is so low-ego, he radiates letting-go to the crowd through his slacker unconcern

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I picked up A Separate Peace from the banned book section in barnes & noble for a recent travel, and bookmarked some pages...

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 15/06/2026

Is there hope for humanity? An anthropologist's perspective:

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

good news, I saw an owl today.

Adolescent barred owl sitting on a branch surrounded by the greenery of the underhill state park forest in vermont USA

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

our name is Broiler Chicken Consumer Litigation and we are here to 🤘🏻 Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

not a bad idea 💔 Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

went to colorado for a music fest this weekend with some old buds. en route on a train, i sketched, quietly self-congratulating myself for not doom-scrolling. then proceeded to rush off at my stop, forgetting my phone. ooooh the terror. an unknown city with no address to the airbnb 1.5 miles away.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

i need to set up a structure to pushback on UXers using a/b tests as a crutch for decision paralysis. they often get proposed when we can’t reach consensus and ‘the data’ becomes the decion-maker, sidestepping ownership.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

bluebird nesting box update

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

one of the features that drew me to this place was the arched doorway, that and the built ins, which are probably less impressive when illustrated. #watercolor #urbansketching #art

pen and inkwash sketch drawing painting of french doors of a porch with buckets in the foreground, looking through into a dining room table

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

phew, the powerful concoction of art + poetry givebutter.com/c/red-white-...

painting of a young boy riding his bike in a cowboy hat next to his shadow, a full grown cowboy.

Snippet from the linked poem:

Do not betray
the moreness in you.

Do not kneel
at the altar of almost.

Do not abandon the enormity
that has survived inside you
like a cathedral
built entirely
from lightning.

Do not take lightly
your wideness,
the impossible orchard,
the stubborn green thing
that kept growing
even when no one clapped for the bloom.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

still going strong with this one. highly recommend The Way for meditation: thewayapp.com only downside is constantly being reminded of that fastball hit from the late 90s.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

iNaturalist continues to be a non-enshittified, bright spot in the internet. I’ve used it off and on for over a decade, recently using it to help identify a skull I found in the woods. Twas a bears!

forum like responses in the app iNaturalist commenting that The identity of the skull I found in the woods was not a deer, but in fact, a black bear, as was learned by looking at the teeth

Screenshot of the mobile app iNaturalist showing a observation I uploaded of me holding a skull, what I originally thought was a deer

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The early 20th century was a period of class war unlike any in US history. Labor uprisings and bloody reprisals by oligarchs and their private armies resulted in national chaos. The cartoonists of The Masses were there to document it all. This is their story. THE DISSIDENTS, coming in Sept.

Page from THE DISSIDENTS. A violent street battle outsidean IWW rally (Int'l Workers of the World aka The Wobblies) in Cleveland.

Cartoon by Maurice Becker for The Masses magazine, 1916. The factories of Ohio cities were a flashpoint for labor unrest and street battles between workers and company thugs.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

On this day in 1935, FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of 2,000 WPA posters known to exist—publicizing community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs—the Library's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Poster features an illustration of a hand reaching into a bowl of assorted fruit. Text reads: "Balanced diet for the expectant mother inquire at the health bureau." New York. WPA Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1939.

Poster features an illustration of a man walking through a wooded area. Text reads: "Hiking." Illinois WPA Art Project, 1939.

Poster features an illustration of a picnicker napping under a tree. Text reads: "Please keep the park clean." Ohio. Federal Art Project, 1937.

Poster features an illustration of two men standing close together, one inspecting a cut on the other's finger. Text reads: "Just a scratch BUT! Infection is avoided by immediate first aid on-the-job!" Illinois WPA Art Project, between 1936 and 1941.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Wrapped up the april art fundraiser with this one of my stairs at night. I have a whole new respect for smooth, analog, painted gradients.

Ink watercolor and pen sketch of a stairway at night, light coming in from the upstairs, shining on photos on the wall, a coat rack, and music keyboard.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.art · 30/04/2026

Painted at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens "The Retired Landscaper" 9" x 12" Gouache Sold 🔴 #pleinair #artistsonlocation #gouache #pleinairpril #truck #landscaper @warriorpainters.bsky.social

Photo of a painting in the foreground and the subject of said painting in the background. We see a 1970s landscaping truck on the left taking up a large portion of the scene. In the distance is a utility building. Behind that are lush trees and a clear blue sky. The painting is done in a style somewhere between urban sketching and storybook. Light washes of gouache keep it all in a high value range.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Sometimes I browse the local classifieds for ideas

Yellow extension cord wrapped around a custom plywood cord holder

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"A great poem is the poet cries meaningfully assembled in the discovery of their reason for being, fragments stitched into knowledge, a communication at its most condensed. Data is the opposite of a poem, countless cries with no occasion" via a lucky lil library find: Bottoms Up & the Devil Laughs

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Here’s a #watercolor of a random swath of a yard I pass daily with the pup. I liked how the mountain is just hinted at by the angle in the distance and the little sign about #Vermont being a brave little state.

Watercolor of an early spring vermont home yard. A road is in the foreground, next a gravel driveway and dry brown hedge, with the iconic "Brave little state" vermont sign. Next is a angled roof of a garage and tall spruces cutting into a cloudy sky with blue peeking through. An angled hill can be seen in the far distance.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A quote from Summer of Soul, the doc about the Harlem Cultural Festival in '69, sums up my feelings about this moon trip. Just can't do it. "The cash that you wasted, as far as I'm concerned, could have been used to feed poor Black people in Harlem, all over the place."

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“IBM was in some ways bigger than the war. Both sides could to not afford to proceed without the company's all-important technology. Hitler needed IBM. So did the Allies.” This book about their punch card machines is a doozy.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

i would trade The App Economy for the green tech economy in a heartbeat. give me useful technology, please

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

a still life with photos during the process. #watercolor #urbansketching #art wescarr.com/blog/art/bed...

A watercolor and pen still life with a cluttered bedside table with a lamp and a couple mugs in the foreground, looking through a window, background is an outside yard including a neighbors fence and shed.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

creepily hanging out with Brooklyn at the town garage #watercolor #urbansketching #art #vermont

Pen and ink watercolor sketch of scattered buildings in the snow with the hill behind with a black puppy dog, gazing at a town garage door

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

wow excellent comics journalism here, and styled nicely for a phone too.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

cripes. i found a used popcorn maker for $3 at restore a day after ordering a used one online. i need to tend to my dwindling patience vine during our days of collapse.

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

posted. a black and white field drawn from a drive-by photo i took. #watercolor #art #vermont #ink wescarr.com/art/img/KV5A...

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

sort of relishing in the rabbit hole of Eyes Wide Shut fanaticism after a viewing last night.

Protagonist Bill Harford is out of place at a mansion masquerade ball in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

as our snows melting, i’m going through a few i didn’t post, like this one trekking up a logging road towards mt. mansfield. #art #watercolor #ink #vermont

Pen and ink and watercolor painting, but mostly black and white looking, picture of ski tracks going around a bend with young trees lining each side of the trail, Long shadows

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

quick study of a public restroom sign from a quick trip to canada. sigh, they’re everywhere up there 😔 #watercolor #art

ink and watercolor painting of a snowbank, sharp shadow, toilette sign, non-distinct building

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wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

💯 there’s also her 2024 collection of stories about the ongoing Iranian Revolution (which i need to check out.) www.sevenstoriespress.co.uk/books/woman-...

book cover of: WOMAN
LIFE FREEDOM, by
MARJANE SATRAPI
AUTHOR OF PERSEPOLIS
WITH JOANN SFAR, MANA NEYESTANI, PASCAL RABATE, PATRICIA BOLAÑOS, PACO ROCA, SHABNAM ADIBAN, LEWIS TRONDHEIM, WINSHLUSS AND MANY MORE

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