wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026trying to keep up with #inktober - here's the first batch 010
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hodgeman’s vacationland is my literal-lol palette cleanser. solid used book sale find. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026bought 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... 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026what a positive vibe for a rock show. @cheekface was a hoot @ @highergroundmusic 1101
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026painted some boats on our last trip to the camp this year #watercolor #sketch #art 070
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026i don’t get many designer newsletters, but when I do, they’re from a Dan 010
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026thought 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. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026noticing 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. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026malls 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. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026visiting poland reminds me homelessness isn’t a requirement of a city. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026@matthewoliphant.com ha that was cool, and i think it worked… 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026@keiv86ab02.bsky.social for real, i could use some new voices in the feed. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Hallam 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...m.youtube.comDemocracy Necessitates Resistance (w/ Roger Hallam) | The Chris Hedges ReportIn his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tool... 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026@quacksanonymous.bsky.social cracks up. yeah. that was me i said that. i want to see more? but also, yeah, na. 010
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026neat little refuge among grime #watercolor #urbansketching #art 0100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026painted this one in #gouache with a touch of #watercolor. matching colors is a huge gap i'm going to work on. i'm making my way through James Gurney's book Color and Light (2010) and it's been very foundational in that respect #art 030
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026@thewanderingjew.bsky.social this is how i was raised, but im in the northeast us 010
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026enjoyed 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. 010
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026been 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 1130
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026snapped a bunch at these beauties. the lower bulk of them were so chock full of definition. 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026listening 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 010
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026did a little write up from the hike I saw my new owl friend on wescarr.com/blog/trip-re...wescarr.comFrost to Butler — second loop with the dogBack on the Frost–Butler loop; faster because the rocks were familiar, plus a baby barred owl 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026always nice to hear your state mentioned, and to learn how it was perceived in the 40s/50s. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026'the smell of vitality in clothes' just got my mind going... scanning to see if I ever experienced it. referencing how our sense of smell connects with emotion so vividly is bound to connect with the reader. 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"But by now I no longer needed this [an affected accent] vivid false identity; now I was acquiring, I felt, a sense of my own real authority and worth, I had had many new experiences and I was growing." I liked this framing of growing up -- sensing an internal authority. 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I picked up A Separate Peace from the banned book section in barnes & noble for a recent travel, and bookmarked some pages... 100
Reposted by wes carrDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 15/06/2026Is there hope for humanity? An anthropologist's perspective: 47119
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026our name is Broiler Chicken Consumer Litigation and we are here to 🤘🏻 Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026@krittikaa.bsky.social that was good. i like how it called out the anti-collaboration and individual nature of prototyping with ai. 131
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026a train worker picked it up and i got it back at the lost and found the next day 🙏🏻 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026what saved the situation was having my pals number memorized (the only one i know) and an exceedingly kind denver stranger who offered to walk me there. such a scary reliance on phones. luckily i didn’t have one of those phone wallet cases or i’d have felt even more naked. 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026went 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. 100
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026i 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. 000
Reposted by wes carrPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026bluebird nesting box update 2262286
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026one 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 0120
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026phew, the powerful concoction of art + poetry givebutter.com/c/red-white-... 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026still 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. 000
wes carr @wescarr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026iNaturalist 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! 000
