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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 6h

Mossy Awning
Coos Bay, OR
📷 #photosky #moss #pnw #oregoncoast #photography
Canon 20D

An awning nearly covered with moss with its white and green vertical stripes barely peaking through.

Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 17h

Yaquina Bay Bridge
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
#lo-fi #pointandshoot #photography
Built-in "IR" filter on a cheap digicam.
Vivitar VEC S124

Cars pass under a bridge with a concrete column towering on each side, viewed front-on from the other side of the road. The sky is tinted red with pink clouds, while the concrete pillars and steel bridge works have a purple hue.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 14d

McKay's Market
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #newport #oregoncoast #pnw #photography #pnw #oregon
Canon 20D

An orange Shasta Soda vending machine sits in front of a cement wall embedded with small rocks next to a chain link enclosure with stacks of firewood and a sign reading "McKay's Market" slightly out of focus behind it. In the upper left hand corner of the vending machine, "50¢". Next to it the slogan, "it just hasta be!" Citrus fruits and a bunch of grapes adorn the front and side. "Shasta" appears in script above the can slot, In the lower left, a circle around a pictograph of a mountain peak reads "Shasta, family trusted since 1889."

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 15d

Alsea Bay
Waldport, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw #oregon
Canon 6D

A small boat alone on the Alsea Bay, likely crabbing, with four aboard, all silhouetted against the setting sun reflecting off the water.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 16d

Portland, OR
📷 #photosky #pdx #portland #oregon #pnw
Canon 20D

Two cars parked on the street in front of two storefronts in downtown Portland, OR. The back end of a black sedan on the right, with the front out of frame, in front of black painted plywood over the windows of the Golden Dragon After Hours club, the doorway accessible under an Asian inspired awning which has seen better days. The area around the door has a fresh coat of red paint, just a bit more orange than that if the other car, a red convertible with a tan soft top. Behind the back half of that car is the doorway of a body piercing shop next door, only "The Point" legible on their sign in the frame of the photo. Their doorway is painted with a pride flag motif, the Philadelphia design.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 19d

Lincoln City, OR
"FIGHT the STATE, NOT ITS WARS" 🧨🌐☮️
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw #streetart #stickers #resist

A sticker on a metal surface reading " Fight the State, Not Its Wars. All block letters, except the "the" in " fight the State", which is script. Black lettering on a white background, spray painted red, speckled over the white, except the upper left corner, where a stencil was used to make a row of red dots against the white background on the top half of the word "fight". In the bottom right, small pictograms: a Molotov, the Earth, a peace sign and the letters HER above ESY.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 19d

After many, many failed attempts to cancel Disney/Hulu this weekend, I right-clicked the cancel link and opened to a new tab, and it worked! ✊

Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 22d

Newport, OR
ABnR Laundry, back wall
📷 #photosky #photography #oregoncoast #pnw
Canon 6d

The grey back wall of a laundromat fills the lower half of the frame, lined with windows, all but three of which are filled in and painted over, and four of those have small metal awnings. Many white vent pipes, partial rusted, stick out from the roof, bent over themselves to prevent rain from entering. A taller white wall rises behind the grey one, emblazoned with two Aamco Transmissions signs, Aamco in white block letters on blue above transmissions in blue letters over white and a red border. Clouds billow above the buildings, with blue sky above the clouds.

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ween lyric bot @weenlyrics.bsky.social · 28d

I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine
You can get another drop of this
Yeah, you wish

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · 29d

this is a record for kids who like to, who like to, you know what i mean? yeah, you know what i mean.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Sep 11

Coos Bay, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
Canon 20d

Pink flowers and white Queen Anne's Lace grow over and around a chain link fence with alternating green and white vertical slats. Beyond the fence is a wall painted with a mural featuring a crashing wave and soaring birds.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Sep 11

Waldport, OR
'55 Ford Fairlane
📷 #photosky #carsky #oregoncoast
#pnw #photography #pointandshoot #ccd
Canon PowerShot G6

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Sep 10

Coos Bay, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #oregoncoast #photography #commercialart
Canon 20d

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Sep 6

The carnivorous Darlingtonia Californica flowering, May of this year near Florence, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
#photography
Canon 20d

Flowers droop down from long, thin stems among the pod like Darlingtonia leafs.

A brown wooden sign with a diagram showing the parts of the Darlingtonia plant, and the following message:

DARLINGTONIA

These cobra-like plants, Darlingtonia Californica, are found natively in the bog areas of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon. They flower in May or June with hanging blooms of yellow and red and produce up to a dozen leaves per plant. Erect seed pods remain most of the summer.

Insects are lured into the leaf opening under the hood by nectar on the colorful "petal-like" appendages and the edges of the opening. Once inside the hood the insects become confused by the many transparent areas in the upper parts of the leaves which appear as exits. Keeping a foothold on the glassy smooth upper surface of the tube is difficult and eventually the insects are trapped in the lower tube by sharp downward pointing hairs. After falling into a pool of liquid at the base of the leaf, the captive is digested and absorbed as food through the plants thin lower walls.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Sep 6

Alsea Bay Bridge
Waldport, OR
📷 #photosky #physicalfilter #mirage
#photography #pnw #oregoncoast
Canon 6d

$A man in a red truck drives across a bridge, the image is refracted into five overlayed versions of the same image using a physical filter in the camera lens. Architectural elements of the bridge both frame the image in the foreground and appear behind the truck. Beyond that is water and sand and sky.$

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Sep 2

Little Crater Lake
Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
📷 #photosky #photography #pnw
#oregon #infrared #pointandshoot
FujiFilm FinePix J50

A tree is submerged beneath the surface of a small lake which is reflecting the trees and foliage beyond it. The camera is modified to show infrared light, causing the plants to appear in hues of pink.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh, dang. This is rad!

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · Jul 5

41 years ago
The Minutemen, Eugene, Oregon, "The Campaign Trail '84" tour, July 1984.

Photo by Hank Trotter

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minutemen #dboon #mikewatt #history #punkrockhistory

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Jul 5

Springfield, OR
📷 #photosky
#pnw #oregon #kenkesey #merrypranksters #publicart
#sparksflyupward
Canon EOS 20D

A two story Mural of author Ken Kesey leaning against his bookshelf, which is stuffed with books, photos and keepsakes, including a large Uncle Sam style top hat, Oregon license plate, from his bus Furthur, and a miniature version of the bus done in the signature Merry Prankster marbled dip-paint style. A trophy and a Springfield pennant sit atop. Some of the bookcase is also composed of the windows of the building the mural is on. On the sidewalk, a single light blue cruiser bicycle is parked at a bike rack at Kesey's feet.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Jun 20

Waldport, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #oregoncoast #mirage #physicalfilter #photography
Canon 20d

$The setting sun peaks between two cloud banks, sillouetting two trees in the foreground. There is refraction caused by a physical filter on the camera, making there appear to to be two suns and an extra ghostly tree.$

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Jun 6

South Jetty
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #photography #oregoncoast #infrared #pointandshoot #compactcamera
FujiFilm FinePix J50

A large concrete block atop a pile of rocks, (part of Newport, Oregon's South Jetty) has the words "Eat the Rich" spray painted in white block letters. The Yaquina Bay bridge spans the water in the background. The camera was modified to capture more infrared light, giving the photo an otherworldly pink hue, especially the algae on the rocks and the hills back behind the bay.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · May 11

This has been down a small hill behind my back fence for 15+ years, I finally paid my (now adult) child two dollars to retrieve it, worth every penny.
📷 #jazz #90s #styrofoam

A dirty cracked cup featuring the iconic pink and blue 90s squiggles known as "jazz"

Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Apr 21

Gresham, OR
Rockwood Neighborhood
📷 #photosky #pnw #pointandshoot #rockwood
Kodak PixPro AZ252

A weathered guitar body, missing its neck, lies face down in grass and clover. Almost all of the dark red paint has peeled away, leaving bare wet wood exposed.

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Apr 21

🎧 #musicsky #undergroundrap
#trailmix
Quit trippin' y'all
It's holiday in The Wasteland

Open Mike Eagle - Happy Wasteland Day | Official Video

YouTube video by Mello Music Group

youtu.be

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Cosmic American @icanfloatintheair.bsky.social · Apr 19

Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
#infrared #pointandshoot
Kodak EasyShare C1550

infrared photo of a movie theater with a facade of geometric shapes and stripes, red and blue. "CINEMAS" across the front. three red sedans in the foreground parking lot to the right. two other sedans on the left. pink trees frame.

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