Kinniska

@kinniska

2006-2024 I was on Twitter. Then the apartheid emerald mine nepo baby happened. Artist. Lurking with my hoard of books, eating my feelings. I occasionally visit my studio to bash away at scrap metal. High voltage may be involved.

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Kinniska@kinniska· Jun 21

Happy solstice Hookland! Here are some flowers in honor of the day

3 blooms from my neighbor’s rose bush — or maybe it’s 4 if you count the one that’s squished sideways. These weren’t very scented, but the color is this wonderful rich pink-orange-red shade that manages to be deep hued but still muted and not shouty.

A single bright rose-pink peony blossom with saffron yellow pistils in the center of the bloom

A bunch of balloon-flowers. I don’t remember the Latin name. These are at peak blossom opening. With a medium shade of purple to the petals (maybe lilac purple?) with white pistils in the center.

Another peony blossom, this one with a wide open but less complex bloom than the other peony, which might’ve been what they call a double-blossom? This one is a traditional
Blossom type with the full center showing a thick cluster of those saffron orange colored fuzzy stamens and pistils.

Kinniska@kinniska· May 3

And this is also why we need to respect mother Bast…

Cat, making a really harsh sneer face while hissing angrily

Kinniska@kinniska· May 3

Enjoy!!

Behold! A dodo 🦤
No seriously though, this image shows a large sculpture of a dodo bird, by prop maker Hilary Scott. Sculpture is about 2 -1/2 feet tall? And is sitting in a house chair (in his house, which is open for Open Studios weekend). His tail plumage is kinda fluffy perky? And he looks dark and scaley, similar in a way to if you made one of the Edward Gorey cartoons of strange scaled beasts into a 3 dimensional sculpture. On his face, However, he’s wearing sort of an armored mask thing? Kinda steampunk looking. It covers his face and beak, but his eyes show — not covered. Then, he’s wearing a black hat, I forget the name of the style, but if you picture the kind of hat you see a stereotypical British business man from the 1940s wearing, with a short, curled up brim, and a round crown? Or like the hats worn by Laurel & Hardy? That’s his hat. Looks dapper on him.

Kinniska@kinniska· May 2

Hey @bruceshark.bsky.social ! I got to visit one of your distant cousins today at the home of an artist participating in Somerville Open Studios — among his talents are prop making. I am rather fond of his creatures, including your cousin, the quilted hammerhead!

This is a sculpture in the shape of a small hammerhead shark. He’s made with lovely swatches of brightly colored (think batik-like patterns) red and blue quilting cotton, very handsome. He’s posed in Andi’s the length of an old fashioned tub, with a shower curtain around him that shows blue bubbles, so very aquatic friendly environment. This is one of the works of prop maker Hilary Scott, and if memory serves his website is his name, HilaryScott.com he and his lovely family participate in Somerville Open Studios each year and not only open their home to visitors but also have a running batch of chocolate chip cookies seemingly endlessly coming out of the oven. Everyone loves these people.

Kinniska@kinniska· Apr 9

I haven’t got any info on where to file complaints, HOWEVER, there are in fact cup holders that would fit a walker. They’re made for bikes. Kikkerland is the brand I have for my bike.

Closeup view of a leather and metal cup holder. The leather part is the ring for the cup, and the metal part is the rounded clip, meant to clip onto the handlebars of your bike.

Kinniska@kinniska· Apr 6

I’m enjoying the fact they’re showing us the guide / data graphics so we can follow along what they’re seeing. #ArtemisII

Screen grab - via a phone - of what it looks like on the nasa livestream while the crew of Artemis are looking out the windows and doing photography and observation. It is a diagram of, or rather a labeled panoramic layout of what the crew should be able to see of the lunar surface as they pass towards the far aide of the moon. Diagram includes the locations — labeled — of notable features, including Tchaikovsky crater, schroedinger basin near the South Pole, Apollo basin, Jackson crater, and the mare smythii .

Kinniska@kinniska· Apr 5

I’m on a tear to use entrelac projects to use certain skeins of random yarn. So I have one “get back into the technique” test scarf, and am working on a milk-cotton wider piece that is as yet indeterminate (might make it long then steek it into a FrankenCardigan?)

Knitting project 1: entrelac technique - which is where you make alternating triangles and rectangles going in different directional slants, so that the piece ends up looking like woven strips of knitted fabric. This piece is made with skeins of Noro yarn, which is a variegated yarn and this piece itself runs slowly and graduatelly from purple through green and teal turquoise and eventually to a dark wine color.

Entrelac knitting project 2: This is a closeup of the second entrelac project — it’s made from a cotton yarn, and not variegated or gradual transitioning colors. Instead I used individual color yarns, and chose when to switch colors. So the bottom rows of blocks are light blue, then a row of pale lavender, then A green color.

Kinniska@kinniska· Apr 4

Two offerings — one audio, from a little out of date, because it’s fun, youtu.be/D-0IbGFRlBA?... and one visual that’s more the right date. i.etsystatic.com/16952472/r/i...

1922 poster art for the film Nosferatu. Charcoal style sketch of the overly large shadow of the vampire cast over several buildings, while people in the foreground cringe and flee from the shadow

Kinniska@kinniska· Oct 18

andrew--tate.bsky.social exists, and just tried to follow me. I blocked. I can’t imagine they’re here to be anything but a troll. Also, no posts.

Just a screencap of the Andrew Tate (or a troll using his name) account that popped up in the wake of trolls all migrating over to Bluesky

Kinniska@kinniska· Sep 28

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FISHCAR! An art car created by artist Bill Turville in Massachusetts. Car is an old ford horizon, silver in color, with a metal fabricated ‘upper part’ that is a big smiling silver fish

Kinniska@kinniska· Sep 26

@bruceshark.bsky.social hey Bruce! Saw a plush cousin of yours today!

This is a plush toy shark; dark blue above, and white underbelly, with round friendly teeth and the undersides of his fins are blue and white sailor-stripes!

Detail of plus Sharks round teeth.

This is a plush toy shark; dark blue above, and white underbelly, with round friendly teeth and the undersides of his fins are blue and white sailor-stripes!

Kinniska@kinniska· Sep 25

@juliethecranky.bsky.social current handwork work, a sort of yukata

Deep crimson colored yarn, specifically a noro yarn, the sonata, colorway 43 chili. Knitting work in progress, a modified basketweave pattern

Kinniska@kinniska· Sep 10

That. That right there. And now, a timeline cleanser. Here. A neighbor cat saying hellow

Just a stripey tabby cat, a neighbor cat visiting me. He’s just looking up at — I think maybe a fly got his attention? He has that focused look.

Kinniska@kinniska· Aug 21

Hey, @bruceshark.bsky.social ! I bumped into a feisty young cousin of yours today at a Persian market! He was guarding the front register with some of his friends!

This is a closeup of one of a whole display of, well, I’m pretty sure they’re not just kids toys but also involve some kind of candy surprise inside the handle? This particular one is a shark, with a wily grin on his face, and he’s medium blue and he’s not quite winking — but he definitely looks like he’s up to no good. There’s some sort of trigger mechanism on the handle so he might have a bitey-jaw kind of thing going on too. For reasons that are not clear, the handle that he is emerging from looks like a melted candle, all wax dripping looking? But here’s the confusing part: it’s bright red— I’m not sure Sid they mean to make him emerge from waves and then just make a bad color choice? Or is he actually emerging from a big melt candle? I have no answers.

This is another closeup from that display of kids toys near the register — this one is a small hand-sized fishing rod and reel, looks like the reel turns with a crank?

Another closeup of the toys display; this picture shows a pink rooster with baby blue wings (look I know it doesn’t make sense, I’m just describing what I see, ok?) and there’s an elephant with tusks, wearing a green shirt — or possibly emerging from a green trash can, like Oscar the Grouch. I honestly can’t be sure. I had to snap the photo quick because my friend who was driving was calling me over. There is a yellow-suited and helmeted motorcycle guy on a red bike, and the 4th toy is a pink rose with some sort of clear but glittery ball in the center , maybe it lights up? I would hope so if I were a kid.

Kinniska@kinniska· Jun 17

Update: we have spent the day carefully slicing kozo paper into 2mm strips. Spinning begins tomorrow using a ‘book charkha’ ! Excite! Also exhausted, much pez-head yawns. Also the textiles studio has a fabulous collection of books.

Image shows what it looks like inside of the case of a so-called book charkha. A charkha is a special, small, spinning wheel for cotton; specific to India and made famous by Mahatma Gandhi as part of his efforts to reclaim their independence from colonialism.

A book charkha is a small, portable version of the spinning wheel in question that breaks down and stows in a box about the size of a large book (like a dictionary).

Cutting mat, green, with white grid marks and measurements. On the right is a hand holding an X-acto blade knife, because of what is center frame: a folded piece of Japanese kozo paper, set between two measuring tapes laid horizontally (above and below the paper) to guide the slicing of the paper into 2mm strips, by cutting along a steel ruler that runs vertically between matching points on the horizontal rulers.

Kinniska@kinniska· May 31

Hey @bruceshark.bsky.social — was at a Buc-ees today (in and of itself a strange and overwhelming experience) and found one of those penny stamp roller souvenir machines, so I got one and then… discovered this. I know copper is a soft metal, but take care of your teeth okay?

So this is a little rubber or silicone thing on a keychain that is designed to hold one of those pennies that you’ve put through one of those mechanical machines that rolls and stamps the penny into a design that makes it a souvenir of some destination. A national park, a museum, a famous place, or in this case, so help me, a Buc-ees store. This thing is called a “pennypalz” and the one in the pic is shaped like a shark whose jaws are wide open and you’re meant to put that souvenir penny into its mouth. Like a frame made of teeth. Delightfully ridiculous.

Kinniska@kinniska· May 22

Seen over on the gram: via @/perfectunion www.instagram.com/p/DJ5IcGCNP_8/ AI sucks, let us count the ways.

How it started:
(Headline reads: “Klarna's CEO warns Al is already capable of doing any human job- and his company is already living it”
BY EMMA BURLEIGH
VIA: FORTUNE.COM
February 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM EST

How it's going: headline reads:
“Klarna's Al replaced 700 workers
— Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall”
Written By Ravi Hari
18 May 2025, 07:09 PM IST

Kinniska@kinniska· May 16

I’m chuffed to have been accepted into a couple juried shows recently. If you are in the vicinity of upstate NY / the Adirondacks, (insta handle) @viewartscenter is having an opening soon, and this is the flyer. I think their website has more details as well. viewarts.org ? 🎉 🎉 🎉

Flyer for an art show, showing partial views of 3 of the accepted works. One is a book with stems growing out from it, the center one is a book shaped like a heart with small reminders signs in it like “I can’t save the world and I don’t want to”, and the third is a pamphlet style folded parchment book with abstract designs in it.

The show is at the View Arts Center in the Adirondacks of NY, and there is an opening reception on May 23 at 5-7pm, and the show runs from May 24 through July 27.

Kinniska@kinniska· May 7

Ooooh, nice! Impromptu lichen appreciation thread? My addition: we just had rain so I saved these clumps that were on fallen branches, they keep my potted plants company now.

Closeup shot of a colony of lichen, green like an underripe lime, one of the many Parmeilia species, which are all roughly shaped like this: attached to the substrate at base, but somewhat leaf-like and curled at the edges.

Closeup shot of a colony of lichen, pale grey-green in color, one of the many Parmelia species, which are all roughly shaped like this: attached to the substrate at base, but somewhat leaf-like and curled at the edges.

Closeup shot of a colony of lichen, pale gray-green, with a golden-brown underside revealed by its very curled edges, one of the many Parmeilia species, which are all roughly shaped like this: attached to the substrate at base, but somewhat leaf-like and curled at the edges.
Slightly below it, on a nearby branch, is one of the many so-called reindeer lichen, which are stranded and branched, hair-like, and a different, more chartreuse shade of grey green.

Kinniska@kinniska· Apr 13

So, I encountered this special little item in a thrift store recently. This, my friends, is a strange abomination of fashion. Or is it genius? If only I could post a poll… Is it the weird offspring of a forbidden love between a confused preppy and one of those 1980s hair bands? Or is it FASHION?

Behold, it’s a skirt hanging on a rack. But this is a skirt that falls well below the knee, and is a type best described as “pleated, like a uniform for a Catholic school” — except that it is constructed of some kind of tan, artificial snakeskin.

Kinniska@kinniska· Dec 30

I’m late, I’m late. I only learned of this account just now. But I must report that even in Thailand they still have lovely red postboxes!

A red, but graffiti’ed with white spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50100. A neighborhood and street are out of focus in the background.

A red, but graffiti’ed with white spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50200

A red, but graffiti’ed with white and black spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50100. It has two deposit slots, and the collection hours are visible below.

A red, but graffiti’ed with black spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50000.

Kinniska@kinniska· Dec 7

Hey, @bruceshark.bsky.social I spotted some distant cousins over here in Thailand!

Close-up shot of a stack of toys, plastic toys aimed at maybe toddler age kids. The detail shot focuses on one type of animal, although several brightly colored fubsy animals are in the stack, the focus is one that depicts a shark. The bodies of these toys are some kind of stack of cup-shapes, threaded together to allow the toy to swivel and move around; the ends have a head and a tail.

Kinniska@kinniska· Dec 6

@dewb.bsky.social found your name being used in vain. But at least it’s on quality snacks.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 14

Seen while out today. I don’t know what to do with this knowledge, so in time-honored fashion, I’m sharing it with you fine people.

Detail shot, of an irreverent vinyl sticker slapped onto a parking sign (for placard holders only). The sticker itself shows a roughly drawn GameBoy device, but made to look geriatric; with a wrinkled forehead, a frown, and a squint, and shuffling forward on unsteady spindly legs, leaning hard on a walker / Zimmer-frame.
That’s all I know. Sorry.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 14

Shhhh, don’t tell.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 13

May I add to the discussion? What would freakies taste like?

Image of a cereal box from the 1970s. Cereal is called “Freakies” and all the … are they mascots? I guess? Anyway the freakies depicted are 7 different weird little guys. One is red and looks like a grouchy crab another is kind of orange with lots of tentacles and he’s clinging to the tree branches (the box cover decent is a tree growing out of a hill made up of the Cheerios-like cereal, and there are 3 freakies in the tree and 4 on the hill underneath). There are 2 pink colored guys; one is rotund with a wide clam-like head, and another that’s similar to a dodo bird except just a proboscis like gonzo from the muppets. There’s a blue one up in the tree that seems like he’s all face, with no ears but a trunk like an elephant. And there are 2 green guys, one of whom looks kinda like a frog, but much more round? And another guy that’s just a round green dancing lump. Yes, they’re odd, if not actually attaining true freakishness.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 12

Seen today up at the Crane Estate in Ipswich, MA: they’re making further progress on renovating the various formal gardens around the estate grounds.

Sign on a gate leading into a garden, which is actually undergoing renovation: sign reads “PLEASE KEEP THIS GATE CLOSED. The deer are hungry!”

This is a view of the garden — a turn of the century “formal garden” — on an English-style estate: there’s a semi circular walkway with benches and plantings and a fountain in the center of the lawn.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 12

Oh yeah, I just remembered that I can share photos here and it won’t go to train someone’s shitty AI. Hey, #fungi people, I had a nice walk by the ocean today and along the path through the woods to get there, I found an earth star among the beds of #lichen.

Image of a fungi of the “earth star” type, which is one of the so called puff ball varieties that scatter their spores from a ball that pops when stepped on. The ‘star’ refers to the fact this type of puffball has an early outer layer that splits and spreads outwards to make the ball look like it he center of a flower and the split sections spread out like petals on a flower

A bed of lichen, pale green, similar to the variety commonly called reindeer lichen.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 10

🤣 relatable. Also. Some of the “errors” are just,,..

Screencap from duolingo, where the error the app is complaining I made is that I spelled Susanna with two ‘n’s instead of one.

Kinniska@kinniska· Nov 8