Carl Douglas
@agfa8x.bsky.social
Lecturer at AUT University, Auckland, NZ. Design-lead research into public space and material imaginaries.
https://academics.aut.ac.nz/carl.douglas
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8374-5838
https://academics.aut.ac.nz/carl.douglas
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8374-5838
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She discovers that the house is afflicted by caryatids. But in addition, there is a rumour of a icy hare, who hums tunelessly and who overturns potted plants.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
She discovers that the house is afflicted by caryatids. But in addition, there is a rumour of a icy hare, who hums tunelessly and who overturns potted plants.
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D104,155 - issued in 1937 for a design for a "sparkler holder." #DesignPatents
September 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
D104,155 - issued in 1937 for a design for a "sparkler holder." #DesignPatents
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Photos from Jamie Lloyd's "Waiting for Godot" with Keanu reeves and Alex Winter are out. You know you've been curious. Discuss.
September 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Photos from Jamie Lloyd's "Waiting for Godot" with Keanu reeves and Alex Winter are out. You know you've been curious. Discuss.
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Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Adela Akers with one of her textiles, 1960, from the collection of the Archives of American Art.
July 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Adela Akers with one of her textiles, 1960, from the collection of the Archives of American Art.
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From 'The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine' (1927)
—Uncredited Artist
#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration
From 'The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine' (1927)
—Uncredited Artist
#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration
June 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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From 'The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine' (1927)
—Uncredited Artist
#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration
From 'The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine' (1927)
—Uncredited Artist
#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration
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Alexander Calder, Buckle, c.1940 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136777
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136777
June 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Alexander Calder, Buckle, c.1940 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136777
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136777
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In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
June 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
Sarah Pickering, High Street Barricade, from Public Order series (2002-2005)
www.sarahpickering.co.uk/works/public...
www.sarahpickering.co.uk/works/public...
May 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sarah Pickering, High Street Barricade, from Public Order series (2002-2005)
www.sarahpickering.co.uk/works/public...
www.sarahpickering.co.uk/works/public...
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Scavengers Reign (2023)
The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
May 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Scavengers Reign (2023)
The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
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May 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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A man (30s?) in high vis is standing outside a bakery. He's just unwrapped a pie when another man (19?) walks up and starts asking questions. He holds up a finger, saying, "Later. This is pie time, mate. Pie time." and then takes a bite while making full eye contact. (4)
April 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A man (30s?) in high vis is standing outside a bakery. He's just unwrapped a pie when another man (19?) walks up and starts asking questions. He holds up a finger, saying, "Later. This is pie time, mate. Pie time." and then takes a bite while making full eye contact. (4)
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bunch of long dead leaves, Catula gettyi from Kaiparowits formation
April 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
bunch of long dead leaves, Catula gettyi from Kaiparowits formation
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April 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they don’t cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.
April 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they don’t cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.
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🐰 Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!
This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.
This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.
April 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🐰 Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!
This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.
This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.
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Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation
April 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation
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Francis Ford Coppola (with scenes from his film "The Conversation") - BOTD
April 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Francis Ford Coppola (with scenes from his film "The Conversation") - BOTD
Blair Johnson and Luke Williams, 'Spoilia' ("a circular narrative in 8 paragraphs")
blairjohnsonpoetry.com/spoilia/inde...
blairjohnsonpoetry.com/spoilia/inde...
April 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Blair Johnson and Luke Williams, 'Spoilia' ("a circular narrative in 8 paragraphs")
blairjohnsonpoetry.com/spoilia/inde...
blairjohnsonpoetry.com/spoilia/inde...
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The Pines Chapel (1961) in Chatham, ON by architect Joseph Storey
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Pines Chapel (1961) in Chatham, ON by architect Joseph Storey
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I feel like I need Gen Z slang to describe how cool this is: did Christopher Dresser…snap? Anyway: it’s a diagram for illustrating design lectures ca. 1854-56 in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum 🔘
March 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I feel like I need Gen Z slang to describe how cool this is: did Christopher Dresser…snap? Anyway: it’s a diagram for illustrating design lectures ca. 1854-56 in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum 🔘
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For #WorldBearDay :
Brown Bear by Carl Fabergé
Commissioned by King Edward VII, 1907 (the Sandringham Commission)
Agate, rose diamonds | 2.5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm
Royal Collection Trust RCIN 40301 www.rct.uk/collection/s...
Brown Bear by Carl Fabergé
Commissioned by King Edward VII, 1907 (the Sandringham Commission)
Agate, rose diamonds | 2.5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm
Royal Collection Trust RCIN 40301 www.rct.uk/collection/s...
March 24, 2024 at 5:54 AM
For #WorldBearDay :
Brown Bear by Carl Fabergé
Commissioned by King Edward VII, 1907 (the Sandringham Commission)
Agate, rose diamonds | 2.5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm
Royal Collection Trust RCIN 40301 www.rct.uk/collection/s...
Brown Bear by Carl Fabergé
Commissioned by King Edward VII, 1907 (the Sandringham Commission)
Agate, rose diamonds | 2.5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm
Royal Collection Trust RCIN 40301 www.rct.uk/collection/s...