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Juli McKenna Kearns
@idyllopus.bsky.social
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Author. Artist. Playwright (twas). Cinema analyses. Dem Socialist. She/her. Husband is a musician/engineer/producer. Son makes films and I sometimes assist. No AI. Atlanta GA. Plutonium-enriched childhood in WA.
My website: https://idyllopuspress.com
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Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · Nov 9
On my profile picture. It's an image that I took and has been my choice to use across platforms for years. My initial processing was high contrast.

Imperial Rome Exhibit at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Mask of Tragedy, From the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence. 2006, processed 2016
A photo in which the Mask of Tragedy has been isolated from its surroundings and the tones processed so the black of the mask's open mouth stands out. This particular mask hints at under the cloth hat the horns of Dionysus.
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Sky Saw (2004 Remaster)
YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Tony Prince, the Atomic Clown, with clock nose, declassified
2006
21 by 16 in h
Digital Painting
Based on photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”.

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting

More on Tony: idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/ha...
Tony was called the Atomic Clown because Richland drew its identify from having manufactured the plutonium for Fat Man. Digital painting in bright checkered colors for Tony's outfit, ruffle about his neck, a frown for a mouth, question, eyebrows, desert tans for the background as Richland was in semi-arid desert and at the time had a fair number of sandstorms. Tony was before my time.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Diorama with Turkey - Fernbank Museum of Natural History, 2007

Dead turkey. Stuffed. For display. I find this an amusing bird.

#blackandwhitephotogaphy #fernbankmuseum #diorama #atlantaphotography #turkey
Diorama of turkey in a Georgia swamp habitat. The taxidermy artist has posed the wild bird so that its neck is stretched long out.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Four Seasons, 14th Street, Midtown Atlanta, Nov 2014

#photography #atlantaphotography #midtownatlanta #fourseasons
A somewhat distorted view from below of the Four Seasons hotel in Midtown, extreme angle looking up
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Woman Against Sunset, 2017
Digital painting
24 by 16.5 inches

#digitalart #digitalpainting #art
Abstract of woman with dark hair and blue eyes, one arm held over her chest to clutch her other arm. Her shirt moves from yellows to pink.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Arizona
2006, processed 2015

#blackandwhitephotography #treesphotography #landscapephotography
A tree has grown so it gives the appearance of bending backward, branches reaching "forward".
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The Open Door, June 2013
12 Centennial Park Hotel

#blackandwhitephotography #architecturalphotography #atlantaphotography #downtownatlanta
Glass hotel with balconies, one door of which is open.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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"The Conversation", 2017
Digital painting
24 by 26 inches
Sketch of a television/viewing screen on which are 3 white figirues against a black darkground.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Arizona
Digital photograph
2006, processed 2015

#blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #trees #arizona
A tree splits the center of the photo with paths to either side into the woods.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Finding Jesus, Atlanta, 2015

#blackandwhitephohtography #atlantaphotography #downtownatlanta
Large skyscraper with skyscrapers beyond. In foreground are men in sports shirts, probably conventioneers, standing near a billboard for "Finding Jesus< Faith, Fact, Forgery".
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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1 Help needed IDing auto. This is a personal photo of a family member, which would have been taken in Liberal, Barton, Missouri. It's a great photo of the auto as it shows also the grill. I have searched all over, including the few issues of "Handbook of Gasoline Cars" I've been able to find...
Old auto maybe about 1908 to 1910, a man seated in the driver's seat wearing a cap, he has a rather dignified white mustache, and is attired in a well-worn suit. He was actually an amateur astronomer who knew enough to write columns on what was happening with the heavens for papers when living in the PNW, and he wrote about poets and he published bad poetry. The car is in front of a millinery, a man standing in front of that shop. And we also see a barber shop.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Happy to find this article in my feed this AM. Humans are built to anthropomorphize, it’s what we do, to a fault, many not recognizing this as it seems so…natural…that all beings and things should experience the world as (emphatically) I do. It aids in building empathy and sympathy. AI is not that.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Miss Sunshine, declassified
2006
16 by 20 approx
Digital Painting
Based on a photo from the "Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project".

Fire Prevention Week in Cold War Richland.

Accompanying post here:
idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/ha...

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting
A young woman in a two-piece swimsuit and high heels stands between two men, her arms draped around their necks, one is presenting her with an award, the other is a fire marshal. A pail is placed on the floor behind her that was likely used for some kind of fire demonstration. A third man stands to the side, holding what may have been a long cape that she had perhaps been draped in. All are smiling. They stand on a carpet decorated with large dandelions.
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Aaron @eyeodyssey.bsky.social shooting a movie with a dinosaur toy at the apartment on 3rd in Midtown, September 2008.
A boy in a light t-shirt, loose pants, and flip-flops, stands before a tripod with a camera before the door of an apartment building. The camera is focused on a dinosaur toy set in a window of an apartment.
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Windows, Spring St., Atlanta, 2015

#blackandwhitephotography #atlantaphotography #architecturalphotography
Light-toned black-and-white photograph of high rises that consist principally of windows.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The most juvenile bully shit imaginable is “being frank” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."

Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Plutonium Desert Garden Pin-up Swimsuit Beauty, Declassified
2005
18 by 13 inches
Digital Painting by Juli Kearns 2005
Based on a photo from the "Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project"

Comes with reading material on pin-up girls and the bomb.

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A woman in a hot pink swimsuit sits on top of a table that is covered with a tablecloth. Though a photographer is taking a professional shot, the scene seems disarrayed with chairs casually set at and away from the table. In the background is a table before a window with a telephone on it and several ceramic planters and vases. A commercial artistic representation of a fish is in the window. On the wall I've added Katsushika Hokusai's painting of the Great Wave off Kanagawa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Views from the Road - Texas
2005

#landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography
View of a stretch of flat Texas highway from the side of the road, a lone tree and its shadow on the left, across the highway a fuzzy, grainy view of flat land and a couple of seeming distant mesas. Wispy clouds.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Peachtree Street, Atlanta 2015

#blackandwhitephotography #downtownatlanta #atlantaphotography #monochrome
A stark scene of skyscrapers on the left that move into occupying nearly the whole frame. They stand partly in the shadow of unseen skyscrapers.
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.
nuremberg trial
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Chapter Four has been added.

idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/ht...

An atypical memoir in which I explore trauma and response to it with deep dives into the context of history, culture, and place.

Read the artist statement and access other chapters here:
idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/ht...
Chapter Four graphic shows step-stool, a hand, fork and knife. Chapter Fourteen graphic shows a forest. Chapter Seven graphic shows a Roman Catholic baptism and church.
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM