Eugene Parnell

@eugeneparnell@mstdn.social
461 Followers
287 Following
2.6K Posts
Sculptor. Garden designer and educator. Tech industry veteran. Bigfoot stan.
LocationDuwamish Land, PNW
Websitehttps://www.eugeneparnell.com
For #FootpathFriday , an image from a week ago: Perry Creek Trail in The Cascades range of Washington state.
#hiking #getoutside #PNW
Evening in the garden. We all need a timeline cleanse right now I think.
#gardening #bloomScrolling #PNW

@tsupasat That sounds like some beautiful scenery. 💚

I mentioned that I ran into a stand of (I think) Garry Oak on the PCT last year that was very surprising. I started north from Panther Creek in classic west side rain forest, but on top of this rocky hill there was a stand of oak trees. It was like stepping through a door into a different room. And it was just a little pocket because the trail runs right back under big doug fir canopy.

I love finding weird microclimates like that.

art announcement: i'm very happy to announce that i have graduated from zine to MEGA-zine!

"keep dreaming of structured settings" is a 44 page full-color magazine of original collages on the theme of living in space and living under the ocean.

from the back cover:

"The year is 2025. The Amazon burns. Time is running out. How will humans live? The world is desperate for solutions.

In this magazine, you'll discover wondrous new opportunities for continued human life! Living with the dolphins, your own personal pool on Mars, exploration without limits, and so much more.

Join artist Marina Kukso on this new visual/textual adventure into the possible and ask yourself: is this a world you want to inhabit?"

it's available on etsy right now for only $10, so please consider getting one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4316916338/mega-zine-keep-dreaming-of-structured

❤️ 🌌 🌊

#art #collage #space #solarpunk #SF #scifi #clifi #fiction #dystopia #environmentalism #zines

Tons of spam accounts on mastodon targeting artists pretending to want to buy art but wanting to get you to make NFTs. All the same profile content and M.O. but different faces and names.
I reported one yesterday and two this morning. #artist beware. #mastodon
A new generation is going to learn that putting strong UI elements behind text is a lot harder to get right than you first think.

Today's farm literacy moment! Ballerina Farm.

Many have done thinkpieces about the women's lib of it all.

But nobody had the stamina. the oomph. the juice to look at the business empire side of Ballerina Farm.

So that's what we're doing today, and I would love to start with The Meats.

(keep reading to the end for juicy ballet gossip if that's your thing though)

"The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder."

How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman:
https://www.musicradar.com/news/laurie-anderson-big-science-o-superman

How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder"

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece

MusicRadar

Me: I'll just build some removable fences I can put on top of my garden beds to keep the critters out. Shouldn't be too bad and I can reuse all this extra wood and chicken wire I have..
Many days and trips to the hardware store later: I AM DONE!!! 🎉

Spoiler: I wasn't able to reuse the wood or chicken wire.

#gardening #garden #carpentry

I just picked up two mulberry tree varieties from a neighbor who propagated them and now I can’t get the nursery rhyme out of my head. I never even knew what a mulberry was when I was a kid, never saw them, never tasted one. Now, I’m wondering why we sang “Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush,” when they’re actually trees not bushes.

Anyway, here’s to beefing up my edible landscape. After my recent #gardening challenges, I’m leaning into perennials now more than ever. #Florida