Cory

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Cory@evilmam· 18d

Spending a LOT of time observing my caterpillars this summer

Cory@evilmam· 18d

my fave

Cory@evilmam· 18d

Vik Muniz is great; my current fave subway art though is the Nick Cave ones. Times Square shuttle station, more than one location.

photo of tiles hallway underground with fluorescent tube lighting and mosaics of multicolored human shapes surrounded by multicolored outlines in that echo outward from their silhouettes like the colored layers of a geode

A detail from another mosaic rendering of works by the same artist Nick Cave. This mosaic is of dancers wearing suits that cover their bodies entirely and seem to be made of very long multi-colored fake fur that sways with the wearer's dance, amplifying their motion

Cory@evilmam· Jul 12

@celestepewter.bsky.social Details (size, paper) in the alt text.

2 small handmade journals featuring salvaged materials and pages from Richard Scarry. The larger is 6 by 4.5" and the illustrations are humorous etiquette lessons about how to behave in a castle. The smaller is 4.5 by 4" and has endsheets featuring a pickle truck, and a ribbon bookmark.

2 small handbound journals featuring B & W photo covers. The larger is 9.5 by 4.5" and has imagery from an Italian design magazine and the smaller is 7 by 4" and has an X-ray image of a human baby. The paper in the smaller is salvaged ledger paper; the larger is vintage typing erasable bond.

Cory@evilmam· Jul 11

Great novel that proceeds from this concept.

Cover of the book A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier

Cory@evilmam· Jul 11

I can donate a handbound blank journal; I have a bunch in stock that I made just for fun. Tell me which of these (if any) you want, and where to send 'em.

grubby desk with 7 different handbound books in a variety of colors and sizes

Cory@evilmam· Jun 26

My kid and her girlfriend planted milkweed alongside our rented house and observing the lil guys is such a pleasure! Currently: 5 chrysalises, 7 inch-long caterpillars and one (that I'm aware of) that's maybe 3/16 of an inch long. This is from last summer:

Cory@evilmam· Jun 23

oh yeah! my soap (when I can get it)

round cake of soap in a pretty blue wrapper and box; label says Roger & Gallet Bois de Santal

Cory@evilmam· Jun 10

Has your wife read this book ? 400 pages about the history of the pencil (yes, including Ticonderogas!). You can read it for free on the Internet Archive, too. I saw it at the library and started reading it kind of as a joke but it turned out to be fascinating.

The front cover of a book called The Pencil, a History. The author is Henry Petroski and it has an illustration on the cover of a yellow #2 pencil

Cory@evilmam· May 31

The GOAT Kate Beaton is on it! From the Hark a Vagrant archive www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

Comic by the GOAT Kate Beaton depicts Catwoman being all sexy and evil and then nonplussed when a very coy and buff Batman responds in kind with sexy posturing and innuendos right back

Cory@evilmam· May 19

Such a good book about the history of white Americans happily enshittifying their own lives just to prevent having to share anything good with people who aren't white

Cory@evilmam· May 16

The zine garland/library in my older kids' college dorm room

Above a blue sofa with various pillows and stuffies on it, a garland made by pinning long pieces of string across the wall displays approximately 40 or so zines that are hanging over the strings like clothes on a clothesline

Cory@evilmam· May 11

trying to fit it to the cadence of

still from the video of the song Where It's At, by Beck. The still shows Beck in business wear holding a microphone on some kind of impromptu outdoor stage, and the captioned lyric is "I got two turntables and a microphone"

Cory@evilmam· May 8

Cover of band Poco's 11th studio album, named Legend. Album art features a minimal calligraphy-styled drawing of a horse galloping toward the viewer. It has incongruously demonic red eyes.

Cory@evilmam· Apr 26

vimeo.com/406004813 Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle So good!

Cory@evilmam· Apr 16

young tabby cat is asleep on her back cradled in the lap/arms of a child. Only the hands and wrists are visible; the cat is sleeping with her little paws folded over and the face has the characteristic tabby smile

Cory@evilmam· Apr 7

It's got chocolate chips in it and I am literally eating some of it RIGHT NOW

Photo of laptop computer displaying this message; there is a plate resting on the keyboard holding a half-eaten piece of tasty tasty double-chocolate banana bread

Cory@evilmam· Mar 28

I liked this one

Book propped on black leather sofa. Dustjacket reads 'Blackfish City', by Sam J. MIller. The design on the dustjacket has visual references to neon signage; there's a city skyline, ocean waves, the book's title and a circular design that is reminiscent of NW coast Native American artwork with perhaps a salmon or a killer whale and a human person with some kind of spear.

Cory@evilmam· Mar 26

Lidded plastic tumbler of water with red straw poking through the lid. A table lamp is lighting up the right side of the photo but the daylight outside is visible through a window. Not visible in the photo is the bed in which the photographer's father is busy dying.

Cory@evilmam· Mar 21

But this one... make sure he can turn his attention away from that model and focus on what you are saying to him.

Cory@evilmam· Mar 18

Leftwing politics has never had a good track record of treating women as fully human, tbh. The women's movement in the US in the 60's came out of that.

Poster from the anti-Vietnam war movement shows three girls sitting demurely on a sofa under the words 'Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No' implying that these girls are will be the reward for young men who adopt the correct political position, i.e. transactional objects.

Cory@evilmam· Mar 17

The cover of the Talking Heads album Remain in Light; it has black and white photographs of the four members' faces in a grid, overlaid with large red blotches that obscure all but their eyes, noses and mouths

Cory@evilmam· Mar 6

Actor Walton Goggins as Uncle Baby Billy in The Righteous Gemstones

Cory@evilmam· Feb 27

Photo of the exterior door that leads into the Oval Office of the White House, showing the really bad signage to the right of the door that seems to have been printed on office paper and stuck up with a gluestick

Cory@evilmam· Feb 14

Reminds me of a Nick Cave soundsuit!

A person wearing multicolored striped tights is enveloped in a costume that makes them very tall and conceals the upper part of their body. The costume is made of long fur in blotches of various bright colors, and the person is jumping or dancing so that the fur flies around in all directions

Cory@evilmam· Feb 13

If you're traveling by subway, the Times Square Station has the most amazing mosiacs of Nick Cave's art; I route through there every time I'm in NYC just to marvel at them.

A mosaic-covered wall stretches down a tiled hallway, curving away to the left. The mosaics feature larger-then-human sized images of costume sculptures made by the artist Nick Cave (not the musician of the Bad Seeds). They typically cover the body entirely, and feature accumulations of materials like fur, mirrors, buttons or childrens' toys, and they are designed to make sounds as one moves, and to amplify the bodies' movements in ways that are celebratory and ritualistic. In the mosaic, the translation into tiny bits of tile is spectacularly achieved, creating a really magical effect. The figures are surrounded by rings of colored tiles that evoke both energetic emanations and the layered colors in a geode.

Cory@evilmam· Jan 25

Lit candle in a dish on the sidewalk. The shadow falling over the candle shows that someone is sitting on the sidewalk, watching the candle as it burns down.

Cory@evilmam· Jan 25

Sitting in front of my house with the candle my step-sister made for me. It's a suburb, so nobody came by, but it was good anyway. Rest in peace, Alex Pretti, may your memory be a blessing

Rolled beeswax candle flame against a dark background

Cory@evilmam· Jan 24

Check this out, the lovely handwriting of Prince Rogers Nelson

page of lined paper torn from a spiral-bound notebook has the lyrics to the Prince song Purple Rain in quite lovely handwriting. Prince clearly was taught oldschool US penmanship and stuck to those very formal and conservative letterforms in a way that's surprising given that he was such an iconoclastic innovator in music

Cory@evilmam· Jan 22

Ooh! Strong markets and stable trade! What about: not shot in the face by masked ICE agents when we're dropping our kids off to school? Or: no old men yanked out of the homes in the snow in their underwear? Or: no masked ICE agents pepper-spraying us in the face while handcuffed on the ground?