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David O

@anatotitan.bsky.social

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Printmaker, designer. Naturey art and gifts at blueasterstudio.com | Paleoartish stuff at chasmosaurs.com/orogenic | He/Him

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · May 30

Here's a reintroduction thread because it feels like the right time for one. Here's me, my spousal unit Jennie, and the chef statue at Gelsosomo's pizza in Chesterton, IN. We are NOT a throuple - don't believe every cockamamie rumor you read.

Selfie of two middle aged white people with a statue of a portly chef pointing at himself with a thumb.

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 11h

Few deaths on film more satisfying than Bev Keane in Midnight Mass

David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 18h

The artist at work

Selfie, I'm a white guy with long salt and pepper hair in a respirator and glasses and cool Aliens cap

David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 19h

Cutting a new batch of ornaments today... One of this year's new ones is this Carolina mantis.

A square laser cut wood ornament with a design of a Carolina mantis

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 23h

It is a daily insult to open my Adobe apps and have garbage genAI tools stuck in my face... To have this software that played a huge role in my artistic development get so deep into this vulgar tech has been really dispiriting (do not tell me to cancel, it's an employer subscription)

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 3d

No home is complete without fossils

A small ammonite fossil embedded in shale

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Hunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 6d

"What are you up to?"

"Not much. Just learning how to use technologies that can't be uninvented before they use us!"

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 7d

On Hexen Ground by Molch (not today but recently and definitely worth mention)

molch.co.uk/album/on-hex...

On Hexen Ground, by Molch

7 track album

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 7d

Old Kings Fall by Hircine

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Old Kings Fall, by Hircine

7 track album

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 7d

Wetland Interiors by Early Fern

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Wetland Interiors, by Early Fern

6 track album

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 7d

Here are my #bandcampfriday picks...

The Affair of the Poisons by @hellrippermetal.bsky.social

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The Affair of the Poisons, by Hellripper

8 track album

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 8d

New on Heat Death! I caught up with folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor to talk about her new compendium of “geomythology,” the warnings encoded in folklore, and the oral tradition of the future. Super fun conversation.

Science Before Science with Adrienne Mayor

Historian of science Adrienne Mayor on how fossils become folklore and how stories can save your life.

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 9d

I made this Sisters of Mercy Floodland tee design as a lark but it's the bestseller in my Teeplublic shop, shrug emoji!

www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/3839...

Floodland by orogenic

Floodland

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 12d

And they played I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight this week! Weird!

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Coreyartus @coreyartusimagery.com · 15d

Tuesday, I got a Red-Shouldered Hawk done on my livestream. It's another Redwood Coast regional bird, and another request from a booth patron!

#HumanMade No gAI. Just me and Procreate. 3856 Strokes. 2hrs 22 min.
🐡 🎨 🪶

Speedpaint Here.

Artist Links Here.

#BskyArt #Birds #BirdArt #IndieArtist

Illustration of a Red-Shouldered Hawk, perched on a wood stump, surrounded by crosshatching, a bokeh lighting effect and a paper texture. Colors are predominantly teal blue, orange, brown, and black.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17d

For the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Joaquinraptor, a new species from a very cool family of dinosaurs: long-armed, hook clawed (possible) tyrannosaur relatives from South America

The Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians

www.nytimes.com

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 18d

Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social

Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!

It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 22d

@tansyg.bsky.social asks a simple question -- why does Luke Skywalker wear blue jeans in A New Hope? -- that unfolds into an awesome analysis of both costuming logic and the history and politics of clothing.

You'll want to read this one.

Decline and Fall: Dressing the Empire with Tansy Gardam

Going Rogue's Tansy Gardam on blue jeans, Star Wars costumes, and what clothes an empire.

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 21d

After an early childhood marinating in his Steely Dan, AWB, and Doobie Bros records, my dad went through these phases - smooth jazz and pop country being the most memorable since they coincided with road trips he took me on

David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 21d

This image reminds me of a cassette my dad got with one of his cars, made to demonstrate the audio system. I wish I had it, the only song I remember was Carly Simon doing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" for some reason

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21d

the tom joyner morning show

Carlos Estrada @ctothelos77.bsky.social · 22d

What is Dad playing?

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 24d

I usually don’t name art but this one of Pentaceratops chasing a pair of Sphaerotholus is called “Get off my lawn.” #paleoart #watercolor #sciart #dinosaur

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24d

I think it's worth asking the degree to which the near-wholesale wipeout of megafauna across large swaths of the earth in the Pleistocene extinctions might have led to similar shifts in certain places

Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 25d

With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.

Two-panel illustration showing sparse trees in a Cretaceous landscape (bottom) and densely forested Paleocene landscape.

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 24d

Is this where Bakers Square got the idea for caramel pecan silk supreme???!!?!?!?

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 25d

This was a popular dessert in the 1970s: the next best thing to Robert Redford. RIP, you delicious man. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12413...

Next-Best-Thing-To-Robert-Redford Pie

For this delectable pie, a scrumptious nut crust is baked and filled with a rich cream cheese layer, a chocolate pudding layer, a vanilla pudding layer, and, finally, a whipped topping along with grat...

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 27d

Best case scenario the funeral is aired on Corncob TV

Reweth 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🐦‍⬛ @birb.mom · 27d

Christ almighty, if it's this bad when a fucking pundit that hardly any normal people know dies, how bad is it gonna be when He finally leaves us? It's gonna be really fucking bad isn't it? It's gonna be North Korea levels of bad.

David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 27d

This is a newish one because our old one was just too big for our needs, but I should probably look into better options. What brand did you go with?

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28d

Hey, friends! I took one of my great big wooden Santa's Workshop DisPlaysets to DragonCon so folks could see it in person, and subsequently got a few orders. Since I do them in batches of ten at a time, I thought I'd holler about 'em here, too:
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