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@briangeorge

One of the Brians you will meet Illustrator & Designer Preparator at a Research Library www.bgeorge.com

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Bri 🌱@briangeorge· 5d

TL cleanse: apparently my 20 year-old iPod still works

Photo of a silver iPod from 2007. Please clap for my taste in musical artists

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· 22d

Come on man it’s still July

Halloween candy display in the supermarket on July 30th

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jul 22

We used to make things

Image of an ad for a Zenith TV from 1978. The tv is a giant wooden box, a piece of furniture. It says “System 3” at the bottom in a really sharp font

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jul 10

Some #sciart from work: A book on moths and butterflies printed in 1884, with original artwork tipped in AND a few pasted in bug samples!

Hand painted butterflies and moths flutter around a branch

Hand painted butterflies and moths flutter around a stalk of corn

Etchings of butterflies, cocoons, leaves and larvae and additionally pasted down samples of same

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jul 4

My contribution to today was matting, framing and hanging Princeton’s original copy of the Declaration (one of only 26 known Dunlap broadsides) for the Library’s 250 exhibition. These broadsides are the originals, printed on this day in 1776

Three images of an original Declaration of Independence, matted, framed and hanging on the wall in an exhibition

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 29

This bowl, balanced on a book, balanced on an IKEA Pyrex knockoff dish, balanced on a box has been in the graduate reading room for at least a year. Let’s see how much longer it stays

An image of a bowl balanced on a book, balanced on an IKEA Pyrex knockoff dish, balanced on a box, all surrounded by books

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 25

Dozens of fuzzy bees on the lavender

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 20

Zine haul from Princeton Zinefest

A collection of zines. Then text is possibly too small to read. I am sorry.

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 13

Having solar means having access to the most wonderful charts and graphs

A chart of power usage in blue and orange which shows much energy the solar panels have generated and exported and how much power has been imported from the grid

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 4

A figure stands in the middle distance. It’s a silhouette filled with an ornate pattern. The figure casts a shadow that has the same pattern. The figure is looking towards a full moon in the sky. The same pattern wreaths the edges of the moon and dissipates

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 4

A negative silhouette of a figure stands in the middle distance looking at an oblong dark void near the horizon. It causes a shadow of the figure to be cast behind them. Both the void and shadow have bright centers

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 4

A figure stands in the middle distance on a grid the swoops up and out of the frame. They look at a white void in the center of the image that radiates lines. Some of the lines become voids near the edge

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Jun 4

Here’s some drawings that are somehow 10 (!) years old? I really enjoyed drawing these and may do more. All are powdered graphite and graphite on bristol board

All in black and white, a figure stands in the middle distance looking at a vertical, oblong void near the horizon. It causes a shadow of the figure to be cast behind them

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· May 31

To cleanse: baby deer hiding behind the compost pile

A doe hides behind a pile of compost soil and black wire fence. Its back has those cute speckles

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· May 19

This guy better not eat my garlic plants

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· May 6

Bri 🌱@briangeorge· Apr 28

Relatedly, my coworker just found this on the back of a football program from like 1974 and we both gasped (we’re both Lebanese and were talking about the 70s while I played a snippet from that playlist)