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Glendon Mellow
@flyingtrilobite.com
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Art in Awe of Science
Past: SciAm, Scholastic, Yale U Press
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Hello #PortfolioDay, I’m Glendon Mellow aka @flyingtrilobite.com and I make art that’s been described as “evopunk”.

I also admin the SciArt Feed 🐡, a place for art inspired by science, with no gen AI. Ask me about being a contributor.
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Oil on shale with some digital. Dragonfly winged trilobite crawls on greenish shale, with crinoids that appear on the broken edge, in reversed pencil (white on black). Strong Naples yellow and olive green tones. Oil on canvas paper. Portrait of the elder Charles Darwin in browns and rust tones, with a staircase growing out of his furrowed brow. Beside him in gold and deep Quinacradone burnt orange, is his, “I think” tree-like sketch of evolution.
January 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Been carrying around this dread.
Venezuela was a crime and a test-run.

The list of nations the USA could attack to refine their technique is long.

“It’s your fucking responsibility to stop him.”

Yes.

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Post from Mastodon: Joachim Lykke @luhmann@hachyderm.io So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he’s just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you “didn’t vote for the guy”: Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it’s your fucking responsibility to stop him.
January 5, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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🪽 QRP with your wing art! 🪽
Traditional ink drawing/digital painting. A parrot-winged trilobite on a branch. Large compound crystal eyes, it’s stretching its wings as though preening the way parrots do. There is a trompe d’œil effect that makes it look like vellum is taped to a larger page, Thani am quite proud of. Text: “The modern proliferation of winged trilobites is as much a product of scientific meme-based humour as it is of genetic and ecological terrorism. Example: the terrifying & beautiful ’Cyphaspis aestiva’.” —from A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites 🐡 #GlendonMellowArt
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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My Dad would have been 80 today. He passed away on Dec 3rd.

Family lore is he was born during Christmas dinner.

We weren’t always close. But I miss him on his birthday.
My dad, John Mellow, in his railway bay standing next to a heavy locomotive brass bell I lifted and set up for him last year. It’s from the press locomotive that travelled ahead of the Royal train when Elizabeth visited. He’s looking happy here.
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Merry Merry
🐡🧪🎨🎄
Digital watercolour of a snow-laden, tilted pine tree, covered in decorations like nautilus shells, green trilobites, and candy cane crinoids. Topped with a golden trilobite.
December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Here’s the oil version before the brighter digital was added on top.
And the pencils of encrinurus, nicknamed the “strawberry-headed” trilobite. 🐡🧪🎨
Oil painting of a Christmas-themed trilobite, candy cane ridged body, green head with nodules like lights. Dark blue background. Canvas paper and oils. Pencil drawing of an encrinurus trilobite fossil.
December 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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‘‘Tis the season.

Tra-la-la-lobe-ite, painted in ArtRage, like 17 years ago.

Merry Merry, everyone. 🐡🎨🧪
A trilobite painted in candy cane colours agains a dark blue snowy background. It’s an encrinurus, with knobs on its head painted to look like lights against the green cephalon (head). Quality of this image is kinda poor.
December 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Hey artists!! Post some art you made from before Bluesky!!
Parrot-Winged Trilobite from “A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites”. Ink drawing with digital paint (ArtRage). Green feathery winged trilobite perched on a branch, with some field notes in cursive below. Neutral background, except the trilobite appears to be on vellum taped to the page. That’s a trompe d’œil effect, I painted on. #sciart 🐡
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Tim the enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail yelling, LOOK AT THE BONES
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Decorating and designing the layout of the hideout in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is saving my mind from itself during this tumultuous week.
Lots of Sakura trees around a pond adorned with a statue of a resting stag, a scroll in its mouth. #AssassinsCreed #VirtualPhotography
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
Photo by me, last August. A bedraggled and torn-winged dark swallowtail butterfly, with pale yellow markings making a wide-V. Resting on a milkweed leaf.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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On your profile, find the “Starter Packs” header (swipe to the left).

Then, “create new”. Each Starter Pack can hold up to 150 accounts, and some Feeds. You can edit them anytime.

They also let you download links and QR codes to share on other sites. (Reddit, Discord, etc.)
My profile with the Starter Packs header circled in red.
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Toronto may have been too cloudy to see the aurora borealis this week, but we still get glimpses of spectacle.
Photo of evening clouds gilded with bright peach-pink. A bare, November tree branch intrudes the scene.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Argh, nothing but clouds over our spot in Toronto right now.

(Screencap from Aurora Pro app on iOS.)
Map of southern Ontario, Canada and part of US with heavy clouds over Toronto, and green zone for chance of an Aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Saw The Beaches in concert tonight here in their hometown, Toronto.

Damn, they’re so good.
Fuschia lighting and L-R, Kylie, Eliza, Jordan and Leandra rocking out. Big LED sign with THE BEACHES behind them.
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Out for a short ride this evening.

Looking at Skydome in one direction, and early DST sunset in the other. #bikesky #BikeTO
View over my blue handlebars of a path and pier-log-and-rope fence, with downtown and the CN Tower beyond. Skydome is nestled amongst the skyscrapers. Bike facing the other way along the fence, dramatic clouds splotching the sky with bright yellow sunset peeking along the waterline of Lake Ontario.
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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QRP with your skull art! 💀
Digital drawing of a Deinosuchus skull (large fossil crocodile). In sepia tones. 🐡 #GlendonMellowArt
October 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Yeah it was pretty perfect. #biketo
Strava map of my route through the ravines in Toronto. My bike along the wood and metal bridge with autumn trees beyond. Weird angle and wide lens make my wheel look wonky.
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Cycled 47 km round trip to a post-surgery check-up because it’s autumn and I was in the Don Valley.
#bikeTO #BikeSky
Close up of my blue bell and handlebar, as I go over a wood and metal bridge, with colourful deep orange, yellow and green autumn leaves below.
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
Oil painting, pencil, and digital. A trilobite fossil painted in a Naples yellow green piece of shale, and the green trilobite has shimmery dragonfly wings. Crinoids to one side are broken off and continue as white on black drawings. “Mythological Flying Trilobite Fossil III” 🐡🧪🎨
October 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Always good to stretch those lungs. 🫁 #bikeTO #bikesky
Strava map in Toronto’s Don Valley, 31 km.
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Beautiful bike ride out to Thunderdome. #BikeTO #Toronto #bikesky
My bike view of the handlebars, yellow leaves on the path and alongside the brush on the path. Thunderdome. A cortense steel rusty coloured three level spiral to elevate you from the Don Valley path toward the Bermondsey path. Not seen here from the upper deck, but someone has sprayed “two men enter one man leave” on pillars entering at the bottom. View of the railway lined by red maples, taken from the bridge leading to the Thunderdome. My bike tire on the black asphalt with yellow and red maple leaves peppering the ground.
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Goth Ladybug in Mellow Manor garden today. 🐞
Slightly out of focus, I was in a hurry. Autumn leaf (beech?) on old concrete path, and a really really dark ladybug, typical black and white face, with black and hints of deep wine-red on the elytra. Unretouched iPhone 11 Pro photo.
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Went for a short 8km ride with a friend this morning, my first since nose and throat surgery almost 2 weeks ago.

Beautiful quiet morning in Toronto.
#bikeTO #Bikesky
View over my blue handlebars of a railing and the lake, with sun in the Bluesky and the CN Tower visible beyond some trees. Entrance to Trillium Park.
October 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Luna says hi.
White dog with one brown ear looking at the camera. Looks like a border collie mix but is German shepherd, Argentine dogo, and St Bernard. Same dog looking to the side with mouth open, panting and happy.
October 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM