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This page is dedicated to my art, adventures, and what inspires me. A deciphering of my vision as I find my voice and what I wish to share of myself with the world.

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Nature's Perfection - Author: NaughtyWhisperBaby

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2020/07/20

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"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."

- Bill Bullard

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New Grog the Frog art 🐸🔮

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Insects, their ways and means of living - Robert E. Snodgrass - 1930 - via Internet Archive

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On May 18, 1980, Richard “Dick” Lasher shot this epic photo of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Lasher was forced to abandon his Pinto and flee the giant plume of ash on his motorcycle. Lasher survived.

"It was my fifteen minutes of fame."

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I wanted to learn more about this photo! I thought it was wild that his dirt bike was still attached to the car in the photo, because I'd want to be on it before I aimed the camera.

Indeed, by the time he was unhooking the bike, the car was on fire.

Dick approached the eruption zone on purpose for a photo:

On the morning of May 18, 1980, Lasher, who was also a freelance photographer, headed towards Mount St. Helens in his bright red Ford Pinto. Lasher told Smith that his plan was to drive his Pinto as far as he could, then take his motorcycle, precariously hitched to the bumper, even closer. “He tried to get as close as possible,” Smith recalled. “I don't think at the time he knew just how close he was.”

He went back the next day for more photos—beyond the safety zone while rescuers were trying to locate and evacuate survivors of the eruption—and was promptly arrested by a helicopter team.

The article features one of Dick's original prints of his photo—uncropped with a little more upper tree line.

At the time it was written (2023), the journalist and Dick's former co-workers were unable to track him down:

No one I spoke to has been in contact with Lasher for decades. I tried calling multiple Richard Lashers in Washington state but had no luck — it’s almost as if he’s disappeared. “Neither I nor anyone I know has been able to get in touch with Dick, and we have tried,” Cooper told me. “Couldn't find an obituary for him either, so maybe he is still out there.”

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Double-exposure photograph, staged for Century magazine in 1899, showing Nikola Tesla — born #onthisday in 1856 — seated beneath a giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory

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Digital rewards for July are posted to Patreon

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@blcksmth on insta

Just a lil reminder from Michael James Schneider

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“It is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (via probablyasocialecologist)