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ryAn • spAhr

@theblackshrine.bsky.social

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Artist Provocateur (THEY/THEM) -VT- ART / DESIGN - I believe in deeply ordered chaos - ⚫️))) Queer / Parent / Cinephile / StringJerk 🪀 Freelance Illustrator www.theblackshrine.com 🎨 https://blackshrine.bigcartel.com 👚 🖼️ 👁️ [email protected]

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Aug 2

Post an iconic image from a film that influenced you. Select an image every day for ten days. No explanation necessary- 🎥💖
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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Aug 2

What’s new in the neighborhood..

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Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · May 27

Library 142 is home to two internet-famous pugs named Anouk and Toby. There was a giant Falkor head in the loft. It was queer. There was a bus of enthusiastic retirees. Also a yoyo. It was hard to leave.

#knittinginlibraries #knitsky #booksky #vermont #falkor

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Library 142: The Dorset Village Library

This one is about pugs, yoyos, Falkor, origami, yarn, gender, and neoliberalism.

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · May 12

Working on a fun silly project for the library… 📚
@stephenking.bsky.social
- Ink on Paper
#wip #stephenking #1981wasagoodyear

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Apr 3

It’s currently snowing, and the high tomorrow is 64. My head can not handle these swings. 😑

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Apr 2

New logo I designed for FROM THE GROUND UP YOGA in Pawlet, VT. If you’re in SW VT and you’re looking for more yoga, pilates, breath-work and meditation in your life, this is the place.
- Ink on Paper/Digital
#ryanspahr #spahrt #graphicdesign #logodesigner #freelanceillustrator

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hot Take-
Brian Yuzna's 1989 SOCIETY is the original WHITE LOTUS.

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 29

Library Patron: “What!?! You only have one Jordan Peterson book!?! That’s crazy; you need more! More!

Me: 😶

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 29

Sign of the times..

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 29

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 23

Memorializing one of my all time favorite coworkers.
Rest In Power Chewie 🖤
- 11” x 14” Mixed Media on Bristol
#librarypugs

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 19

Less a book, more-so chunks of scholarly essays about overlap between esotericism and class consciousness. Reads like a doctoral thesis is because it is one.
Not bad, not great. 📚

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 13

Now that I’m feeling a little better I can back to the art stuff..
Super cutie Boston Commission
11” x 14” Inks on Paper
[email protected]
#commission #handdrawnillustration #inkandbrush

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 11

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A ★★★½ review of Hot Dog... The Documentary (2020)

Next up- My partner really likes skiing, I really like trash cinema; I set out on a quest to come up with something we could both enjoy, and that led me to HOT DOG: The Movie. - 1984 raunchy ski comed...

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 11

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A ★★½ review of Silver Bullet (1985)

I had plans to watch this back in Nov after I finished reading King’s novella CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF, which if you know me, I bought and read for Wrightson, not King. 4 months later, here I am in a hot...

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 10

Another recent read…
Austin Kleon’s 2012 STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative.
- My favorite tips in this for artists are 1- Get a good day job, 2- Find a good partner, 3- Learn about money, and 4- Side projects are important.

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 10

Just finished up this great YA graphic novel from fellow Vermonter Emma Hunsinger. HOW IT ALL ENDS (2024) is a funny and engaging book about an angsty teen with an overactive imagination, navigating early highschool, stumbling into her first queer crush. Terrific art and storytelling. 👍🏼

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 10

45 is the new 50. Make sure you get your colonoscopy. 💩
#breakfastofchampions

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 9

Continuing to shower our kids in dystopian stories.
#movienight

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 8

Gruesome twosome private commission
- Ink & Watercolor on HotPress
8” x 10”
#alwayspainting

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 8

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A ★★★ review of Lord of the Flies (1990)

American politics summed up in 90 minutes.

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Impulse Purchase @impulsepurchase.bsky.social · Mar 5

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ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 6

This sums things up..
#backwhenitattooed #thephantomofliberty

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 5

Anarchy burger; hold the government

ryAn • spAhr @theblackshrine.bsky.social · Mar 4

Just finished rewatching S1 of @bbdragula.bsky.social 🖤 I love @vandervonodd.bsky.social 💖
- Here’s a drawing I made of her some six years ago.
Ink on Paper

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