Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda
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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda
@zeruch.bsky.social
artist, tech-dude, music nerd, wonk... This is not a single issue account, so buckle up.

Art commission/licensing, public speaking, or other requests: [email protected]
http://josepharruda.com
#throwbackthursday from a trip to LA I did a year or two back (for a Wayne Shorter tribute concert at the Bowl, IIRC). I had picked up a fresh copy of a Bukowski book, then later started #drawing thematically to it in an over-the-top bonkers kitschy bungalow in the Hollywood hills. #artshare #art
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#vinyloftheday one of my favorite 12" LPs, the last studio outing from #ScrittiPolitti. I really wish they'd put out something new, but Green Gartside and Co seem just fine in semi-retired/occasional UK or JP live gig life.
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#art - a #drawing of #ThurgoodMarshall, one of the last great justices of the SCOTUS.
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#art - It's not really a work in progress, at least not anymore. But I'm also not sure if it's a finished work or just something that is a state that is as good as it'll get. So here is "untitled" (mixed media, analog and digital) #artshare
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
No, #youtube, you clearly don't get it, because this is only hidden a few days before you re-introduce the same section(s) into the #UX flow again, and I hide it, again, and again.

It's yet another #darkpattern, much like how I hide anything with "Mix:" as a prefix on the main page.

Do better.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
#throwbackthursday #illustration is a portrait of "sckamb" Who was a very popular artist and user of the deviantART platform when I first joined. IIRC this is mostly pencil, gouache, watercolor, and tombo marker.

#art #artshare #drawing
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Not sure why, but I felt like redoing a 20+ year old illustration of my "Muse emeritus" from my DevArt gallery director days, only fully painted. Here's where we're starting... #art #artshare #drawing
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
New #art release: "crying with ghosts" in mixed media (analog+digital). For sale, as well as prints available. #artshare #abstractart
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Milyar in Santa Clara ain't too shabby, but I'm generally happy with anyplace that can make qishr (or in this case a saffron latte) reel gud.
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My old studio, at what was previously the Keystone Restaurant Supply. That space was fun as all be damned. Really great crew. #throwbackthursday
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#sketchbook November 2025. Also, this is less about the unfinished #drawing of a woman with a parasol, and more about endorsement of the quality pistachio vanilla brittle I scored last week.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#sketchbook November 2025. A parallel pen #drawing loosely referencing jazz icon Wayne Shorter. #art #artshare
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
#sketchbook November 2025. A #drawing in parallel pen of "Cherrybrat" from the /r/drawme subreddit. #art #artshare
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"to fit your pedigree" is a mix of acrylics and screen printing inks on cold press board and painters tape (part of these designs were done from selecting over the last several months key bits of said tape that I had used and decided to repurpose) chopped up and composed into this. #art #artshare
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Yo, #reddit, why does this not offer an "all off" setting like so many other notification settings? Is it because of poor product design, or because you want to force more notifications for engagement? If its the latter, I just think I'll go "read only mode" and not vote on ANYTHING. #darkpatterns
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
#sketchbook November 2025. Just a quick brush test on a parallel pen #drawing of 80s hip hop group, Black Sheep. #art #artshare
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A little road tripping around the edges of San Juan Bautista/San Benito county.
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Nope. I'll pass EVERY time. This absolute poster-cap for #enshittification , is yet another #UX #darkpattern That makes me want to never give any Alphabet company any money.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
#sketchbook November 2025. saw Cellarmaker has a new beer called "Hop Making Sense" which of course led me to rewatch one of my favorite concert films of all time, the #TalkingHeads 'Stop Making Sense' which in turn led me to trying to #draw frontman David Byrne repeatedly #art #drawing #artshare
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Every once in a while I find a scrap of paper or cardboard and just #doodle random stuff on it as a casual exercise, and every once in a while something remotely amusing will surface. Such as "spooky dooky"

I've left it taped up somewhere in Japantown for people to either steal or trash. #art
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Live shots from the Superworld, Finch, and Starting Line show at the Regency Ballroom. #livemusic #screamo #emocore
October 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Roaming the streets of SF across old haunts. #zeruchonfoot
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#art #doodles on CalTrain...I brought a sketchbook in my messenger bag I hadn't opened in a minute, and started inking on the roll home after a show (Superworld/Finch/Starting Line) at the Regency Ballroom. A fun, unpressured activity late at night.
October 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This time some years ago, I was blissfully meandering through #Copenhagen. A really exceptional metrópole. #zeruchontour
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
New #art, "libris saturnalia" involves some unearthed experiments I did painting acrylics (and cutting into) all over some textured book covers from the 1950s, scanning, then atomic pixel-smashing with other mixed media I did on cold press board/ masonite. #artshare #abstractpainting
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM