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Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics

She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research.⁠ 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci

July! A new month, a new art history theme. For July, my theme is light in the darkness. Today we have Fireworks at Ike-no-hata (Ike-no-hata hanabi), by Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915), Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirō, 1881, woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, 23.8 × 33.6 cm (9 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. #arthistory #asianart #woodblockprint #woodblock #printmaking

From the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art: ‘On September 3, 1868, the city called Edo ceased to exist. Renamed Tokyo (“Eastern Capital”) by Japan’s new rulers, the city became the primary experiment in a national drive toward modernization. Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), a minor retainer of the recently deposed shogun, followed his master into exile. When he returned to his birthplace in 1874, Kiyochika found Tokyo filled with railroads, steamships, gaslights, telegraph lines, and large brick buildings—never-before-seen entities that were now ingrained in the cityscape.

Self-trained as an artist, Kiyochika set out to record his views of Tokyo. A devastating fire engulfed the city in 1881 and effectively ended the project, but the ninety-three prints he had completed were unlike anything previously produced by a Japanese artist. Avoiding the colorful and celebratory cityscapes of traditional woodblock prints, Kiyochika focused on light and its effects. Dawn, dusk, and night were his primary moments of observation, and his subjects—both old and new—are veiled in sharply angled light, shadows, and darkness. To accommodate this new way of seeing, Kiyochika effectively invented a visual vocabulary that incorporated elements of oil painting, copperplate printing, and photography. Interest in Kiyochika’s prints revived in the 1910s, when Tokyo intellectuals began to interpret the series as a critique of modernity.’

I just met on a one way street in #Chicago with an #activist who gave me these #posters and #stickers out of the back of his car.

He's spending $10s of thousands on making prints for protests. But he needs #artists and #graphicdesign folks. His high-end professional contacts are #scared to provide designs because of their ties to big tech, etc. 80% ghosted him. Please boost and reply with #poster designs he can use.

"This machine kills fascists"

#antifa #antifascist #protest
#printmaking

Finally circled back to my first linocut block and got some good prints from it.

Honestly still not sure why I feel compelled to make these but I really like this one. I'm thinking about adding some stars in the white space in a different color.

This linocut shows a smack of jellyfish. The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a "smack". This amuses me, because I imagine them smacking their tentacles together in some sort of deepsea high five. To be honest, marine biologists speak of 'blooms' and we do tend to lump in a bunch of soft-bodies marine creatures into the term jellyfish, all of the gelatinous zooplankton in fact....

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Happy birthday to German-American theoretical #physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), the 2nd woman to win the Nobel Prize for #physics. As the series of increasingly large atomic nuclei grows with additional nucleons (protons p & neutrons n) from hydrogen to transuranic elements, there are points where the binding energy of the next nucleon is a lot lower than the last. So there are a series of quantum “magic numbers” (a term coined by Wigner):🧵

On Sunday, I'll be at #WellandCommunityOrchard almost all day. I'm helping out at the #printmaking / #linocut #creative #art #workshop in the orchard. Staying to help with the weekly work party; assorted chores to keep the orchard healthy. We welcome #workparty #volunteers - year round!

June 29 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Printmaking in the Orchard

June 29 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Welland Orchard Work Party
lifecyclesproject.ca/events

LifeCycles Project – Victoria, BCEvents Archive | LifeCycles Project – Victoria, BC

This is a unique hand made cyanotype on watercolour paper (11” x 14”) with an image of grasses wildflowers with collaged lino block printed butterflies. The butterflies are both found here in Ontario: the yellow and black (with red and blue spots) Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus) and 🧵1/2