Posts by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
(DIR) Post #ATLRPahJWBOItBUcT2 by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-06T16:49:45Z
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spent the day with Captain JR, of RRS Discovery. hands employed as necessary. loading ship. wind freshening. set all plane sail. plain sailing. fine clear weather. light airs. to steady her. make and mend clothes. #WeatherReportsWeRep
(DIR) Post #ATMykaq1gLYF3G9NVA by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-07T10:38:01Z
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found a fossilised fragment of a spine of cidarid echinoid, temnocidaris, #mudlarking on the Thames recently. encountered specimens of non-fossilised cidaris collected by RRS Discovery at NOL @UniSotonLibrary yesterday. cidaris are commonly called pencil sea urchins! #obsessed
(DIR) Post #ATR0Q5zdd8Pw8Wq7lY by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-09T09:15:35Z
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The Weather: Abi Palmer in conversation with J.R. Carpenter — tonight! online 19.00 GMT https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-weather-abi-palmer-in-conversation-with-jr-carpenter-tickets-514093436307
(DIR) Post #ATT6E1xLnl1CBNJssS by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-10T09:30:03Z
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just knowing that somewhere in the city there’s a metal drawer full of underwater sounds. recorded by hydrophone. rendered as waveforms. on paper. dried liquid. ink.
(DIR) Post #ATXJAIHtDTORi9JaPg by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-12T10:13:52Z
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“I dream I hear a body sleeping in the beside me. But it’s only the wind, big ribs rising and falling.” — from a zine I made in collaboration with Marilène Oliver as part of My Data Body, a Virtual Reality art work currently at FAB Gallery, University of Alberta
(DIR) Post #ATdOOGagtCXdLEOHWy by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-15T08:40:42Z
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back in my happy place. reading up on medieval weather forecasting. and the archaeology of ballast. in the upper reading rooms. of the old Bodleian. which seem somehow. closer the sun.
(DIR) Post #ATgISfg1Xsm83HTwoq by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-03-16T18:18:23Z
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the Thames upriver is another creature. greylag geese disguised as ripples. or wind on jade water. disguised as wing feathers. in any case. the bank drips. with alder cones. the sky tips. branches into the drowned windows. of the silhouette. and her double. #Oxford
(DIR) Post #AUlk9JpikoC5UhCIOO by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-04-18T07:14:02Z
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the most surprising dietary preference of the shark eye moon snail is to feast on other shark eye moon snails
(DIR) Post #AVcI9Hcqwiq9sJXRvU by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-05-12T22:19:22Z
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last full day in Banff. walked up sleeping buffalo. should probably just say here, right?
(DIR) Post #AWj1eA49NbIo5s2NlI by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-06-15T06:09:04Z
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I’ve added a new year of wind writing based on Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature to my web app, This is a Picture of Wind, which is on display in the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library in London until October 2023, and available online for free at https://luckysoap.com/apictureofwind
(DIR) Post #AWj1eByCIhjFzzGelE by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-06-15T06:10:02Z
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there’s also a bot version of This is a Picture of Wind on here at @apictureofwind
(DIR) Post #AXDucwf1XGUFI98Ve4 by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-06-30T15:27:46Z
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a couple of months ago I found a piece of Galena on the Thames foreshore, in an area where we also find lots of lead waste drippings, presumably from making lead cloth seals, which we also find lots of. Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulphide, PbS, the most important ore of lead. has a melting point low enough to be smelted over wood fire. it’s not local to London. I wonder if this piece was destined for a cloth seal but missed the crucible a few hundred years ago. #mudlarking
(DIR) Post #AXLPvyxLgLjWbBz6gK by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-07-03T20:06:38Z
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how beech drapes. escapes its old pollard. and how limestone heads. in gravestone rows. fade to shade distance. where vine writes its own epitaph. and oak tilt tints. one ancient trunk. near. and one composed. entirely of lichen. #southampton
(DIR) Post #AXswcg6ErSN712wH1E by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-07-19T09:47:46Z
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cicadas in jacarandas. sea breezes in heat shimmers. in the shallows. wading. in waves of salt. of sand. of sound. the meeting. of sky. of sea. of shore. of skin. of stone. an island. appears on the horizon. an event horizon. on the edge of the known. #AnIslandOfSound
(DIR) Post #AY5ECHn0tDJ47yhYIK by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-07-25T16:50:22Z
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"nobody knows us... nobody has the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves... we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineering of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark." ~ Ali Smith, How to be Both
(DIR) Post #AYMQZR3UVxWc7KjjFo by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-08-03T17:29:02Z
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ladybird bird beetles can fly as fast as a horse runs - up to 37 miles an hour. they can fly as high as 3,600 feet. they can stay in the air for up to two hours without landing. their wings are super complicated. here’s a ladybird I met on the beach today. and here’s one in flight.
(DIR) Post #AbCy8dOr30UwIrYAQC by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2023-10-27T20:57:52Z
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night lark
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2023-11-04T12:41:02Z
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score: rustle the underskirts of evening
(DIR) Post #AhqQiEG2lK7k7xPyGe by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2024-05-06T06:29:58Z
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last evening I noticed a fossilised brachiopod in a paving stone in front of a gate I’ve passed through countless times over the past four years. this tiny part of the world keeps expanding, slowly, into an enormity of time.
(DIR) Post #Alewk8L7wUhLOxOPj6 by jrcarpenter@zirk.us
2024-09-04T11:57:51Z
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“I wonder where people think the arts come from” — I’m quoted on U.K. arts funding in this article in The Art Newspaper today https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/04/uk-public-proud-of-the-arts-above-all-elseeven-sportstudy-says