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Riis Griffen
@riisgriffen.bsky.social
Mixed media artist, writer, crow-friend living in the Pacific Northwest.

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Early Morning on the River, London Bridge
Bill Brandt, 1936
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A Halloween-appropriate painting from 2022 😊

Mixed media on paper, approximately 8 x 7”.

#ArtYear #ArtSky #artists #Halloween #creativity #art #kunst #painting #painter #ArtOnBluesky #WeirdArt #OriginalArt
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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But don’t worry: your self-driving car will operate through a cloud outage just fine. 🤓
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure

www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
From five years ago today!

Forward Thinking
Mixed media on canvas
20 x 12”

#art #ArtSky #ArtYear #painting #BskyArt #ArtonBluesky #artist #ExpressiveArt #MixedMedia #painter #arte #kunst #artwork
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Portland is reacting to all this in exactly the way I would expect Portland to react to this lmao
portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL
September 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Jasper" is another of my paintings at Sidestreet Arts in Portland this month for their September show, Cat-Tastic!

#sidestreetartspdx #portlandgallery #originalart #ArtYear #catart #catlover #art #felinefriends #beheremeow #artshow
#artist #painting #creativelife
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New painting! "More Confused than Ever" and three other new ones are at Sidestreet Arts for the Cat-Tastic! show, which runs through Sept 27. 😊

#sidestreetartspdx #portlandgallery #artwalk #firstfriday #catart #catlover #supportartists #cats #beheremeow #artshow #art #artists #bskyart #artyear
September 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Turtle queue ... 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
August 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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on their way to spread misinformation about their last meal
August 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Here's the trailer for the documentary that I am featured in called "Hope in High Water: A People's Recovery Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina” by Trymaine Lee It comes out August 22nd on Peacock. Please support!
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
August 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Hope everyone is having as relaxing a #Caturday as Gabi!

#PetSky #CatSky #CatLovers #PetPics #CatsOfBsky
August 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I have two pieces in this incredible online show and the collectors' preview is now live!
wowxwow.com/submerge-col...

#art #artists #artistlife #artshow #WOWxWOW #SubmergeWOWxWOW
August 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I stand with @pbs.org and their efforts to carry on the legacy of the CPB. "For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated." www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
www.pbs.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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More than two dozen new and rare bee species were documented during the first year of a new Washington state project that’s designed to get a better understanding of the insects.
‘Bee Atlas’ project turns up 26 new or rare species buzzing around Washington | Cascadia Daily News
Ten of the 26 species identified so far were collected in Chelan County
www.cascadiadaily.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Recently, I shared a Lord of the Rings subway map, & I had a bunch of people asking me to do a Narnia version. Well...here you go!

It's covers all 7 books, so it's a lot more complicated the the LoTR ones. And if you like it, it's available to buy on my Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
August 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Egyptian blue pigment found in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The pigments were used in wall paintings. In Roman times, Egyptian blue was distributed throughout the Empire in a more or less standardised form of small balls of 15-20 mm in diameter. 🧵 1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
July 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
July 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty
July 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
From last summer 😊

Bad Day with a Good Dog
mixed media on paper, 15x11"
Available
#ArtSky #art #doglovers #dogart #artist #painting #ArtYear #dogsky #petsky #ArtLovers #OriginalArt #BskyArt #painters
July 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I have to use sheer force of will to not go on ebay and buy every single miniature model that salespeople used to carry around for cold calls and meetings.

The idea of being a neon salesman in the 1930s with a briefcase of tubes with onboard electricity is just such a wonderful different world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM