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@janmac.bsky.social
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Barista at Red Star Café & Cabinet of Curiosities. Liberal.
Occasional photographer & painter. Glaswegian on Canada's South Coast.

#EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member

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December 5 is #Krampusnacht, the dark alternative to the Feast of St. Nicholas.😈

It's 5 o'clock somewhere. Cheers, #Krampus!
Blue t-shirt fabric with "Cocktails with Krampus" written below a cartoon of a red goat-devel with a switch and a cocktail in his hand. In the basket on his back, a happy woman with a flower in her hair and a tropical cocktail.
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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December 5

For #Krampusnacht.

The #goats in the #carousel (in profile) at Port Dalhousie are blonde wood and not nearly as diabolical as these two. The photograph was also rendered as an image transfer acrylic painting.

#Art #Photography #Painting #EastCoastKin
Two carousel goats diabolically rendered in fluorescent poisonous green, with red and blue trappings. They surge forward, their massive horns ready to take on anything in their way.
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Tis the season.
Vintage #cat with #Krampus.

Krampus punishes misbehaved children during the #Christmas season. While St. Nick rewards good kids, Krampus beats naughty ones with birch sticks and sometimes carries them off in chains. Krampusnacht is December 5.
Vintage illustration of white cat, yellow eyes blazing, with black Krampus doll. Krampus has red horns and his red tongue is sticking out. He carries a switch of wood, and a broken chain.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Orwell and Piggy

Illustration by Ralph Steadman.
Illustration by Ralph Steadman. Orwell on the left, at a table with a book, drinking tea. At his side, a red pig with fangs and a hat.
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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December 4

Labradorite Appreciation

A couple of #jewellery pieces that I've made with #labradorite, that contains spirits of the #aurora.

"Icy" - fine silver origami, labradorite, silver
"Northern Lake" - picture jasper, labradorite, teak, silver
"Icy" necklace and earrings with a fine silver origami focal (made by me), quartz crystals, labradorite, silver chain. "Icy" - close-up of the fine silver origami focal (made by me) and some labradorite and quartz. "Northern Lake" - after Tom Thomson's painting. Necklace with picture jasper focal, teak oblongs, labradorite, silver.
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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December 3

#Brighton Pier #Carousel

Spookified photograph of horses and animals on the Brighton Pier carousel in black, white and grey with a top overlay of reddish sepia. The animals are ghostly and viewed with an astigmatic eye.

#photography #art #horse #EastCoastKin
Spookified photograph of horses and animals on the Brighton Pier carousel. They have been rendered in black, white and grey with an overlay at top of reddish sepia. Behind them are mirrors in the centre of the carousel that look out at us with dead eyes. The animals are ghostly and viewed with an astigmatic eye.
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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December 2

Blue Jumper Ex Machina

Abstract with an Allan Herschell #carousel jumper from my "Night Carousel" photo series.

Like a blue spirit in #Labradorite, he was confined in a boat motor that I photographed at Long Point.

#photography #LongPoint #horse #BlauReiter
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Actress Katharine Hepburn, aged 80, shoveling snow from the roof of her NYC townhouse, 1988

(h/t @womenart.bsky.social )
Actress Katharine Hepburn, aged 80, shoveling snow from the roof of her NYC townhouse, 1988
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Where did his handler get this idea?
Andrew Scheer - drunk on milk?
Andrew Scheer smiling at a Stella Artois glass filled with milk.
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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December 1

Little Art Box

Grateful for BlueSky and all the creatives that hang out here, bringing their light to the world.

#photography #art #Roncesvalles #JustMakeArt #sunflower
A cobalt blue storefront "Little Art Box", which offered classes, art materials and a gallery space. In front is a black wrought iron fence with a small green bush climbing it. A focal point is the large yellow sunflower on the left side. A happy place in the neighbourhood.
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels

Église St-Pierre de #Montmartre & synaesthetic poetry by #Rimbaud:

A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:
A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
which buzz around cruel smells,

#light #photography
Grey stone pillars in Église St-Pierre de Montmartre, with light from a stained glass window reflecting on them: rose, red, orange, yellow, turquoise, white.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Sprague soups are Canadian. They have a Quebec split pea soup. So does Mitchell's Soup Co.
Can of Organic Soup - Quebec Style Split Pea from Sprague Cannery. Mmm, thick and golden! Fog Pea soup mix from Mitchell's Soup Co., showing a bag of dried veggies including green beans, split peas, onions. lentils, carrots.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved

A sad wee soul crying on the #carousel at the Distillery District Christmas Market.

#photography #DistilleryDistrict #EastCoastKin #child #unhappy
Little girl on a carousel horse at the Distillery District Christmas Market. She's crying her heart out. The image is rendered in fluorescent colours for spookification: purple and green horses, dark background with blue-purple lights, and green-gold carousel poles.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Who wore it better?
Famous photo of the young guy who was just visiting the Louvre on the day of the heist and now everyone thinks he's a detective. Smartly dressed in 40's gear with a fedora, vest and carrying a parapluie. Being observed by cops.
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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"Homecoming" by N.C. Wyeth (1945)

#remembrance #war #soldier #veteran
Pastoral painting of a driveway leading into a farm with a house in the distance, grain fields, a white barn and cattle. A brown and white dog races toward the gate where a soldier, in brown gear, waits with his bag before heading to his family home. His back is to us as he contemplates his return from the war.
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you

The image is “PRINCE” 5A07, digitally assembled by Pete Peters.

Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends: youtu.be/sovVYInjHjw
Black and white photograph. German Shepherd dog looks at the wall of names at the Veterans Memorial in DC.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Early winter. Leaves in Toronto haven't really dropped yet and they are just past peak colour, so it was a bit of a Tom Thomson day.
Tom Thomson painting, "Snow in October", c. 1917. Colourful snow on the ground and like cake icing on the tree branches, in shades of pink, violet, blue, green, yellow. The tree trunks are visible as black and rust-brown verticals on this sunny day.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

Glassdrumman Road at dusk.

#photography #Ireland #EastCoastKin
A dark golden sky with shadowy clouds floats above the empty grey road that runs through the small town. Buildings on either side of the road are dark, shuttered, a little like Dylan Thomas' Milk Wood.
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

Pink dusk among the pines at McMichael Gallery.

#photography #tree #McMichael #EastCoastKin
The sky is pink and peach behind a row of evergreens at McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg. The trees cast violet shadows on the pink snow in front of them.
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

#photography #dog #DogsOfBlueSky #night #EastCoastKin
Golden retriever looking up at us, glowing, half in shadow at night, possibly in the light of a street lamp. Black shadows criss-cross the green yard.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Shadows #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

High Park at night

#photography #HighPark #park #night #spooky #EastCoastKin
Parkside Drive entrance to High Park at dusk. A bit spooky, with two green traffic lights on either side of the entrance gates, and a lantern above the entrance. The road in is illuminated by the setting sun although it looks more like moonlight. Trees hang over the entrance road on both sides. Do you dare go in?
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Goalz.
Cartoon of a Beatnik girl in sunglasses, black beret, black sweater, black capris and black shoes, smoking a cigarette and snapping her fingers. She sits in a basket chair beside a Sputnik-inspired café table with a steaming cup of coffee on it.
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

Hors-saison at Long Point provincial park on the north shore of Lake Erie.

#photography #LongPoint #LakeErie #landscape #clouds #EastCoastKin #October
Wooden benches stacked diagonally at the end of season at Long Point provincial park. Behind the row of benches, a brown-gold field. Above the benches, several trees with nearly bare branches stand against a blue-grey sky with fluffy clouds.
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

A late afternoon shot of the Japanese Maple in my back yard.

#photography #GoldenHour #tree #EastCoastKin
A few scarlet leaves from my Japanese Maple in the glow of late afternoon sunlight against a wooden fence in my back yard. There is a dark vignette shadow around the edges and the red leaves peek out from the darkness. The small branches and the leaves cast shadows on the glowing fence.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM