Phil Betts

@philbetts
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Art, code, society, foliage. PhD'd in Management (booooo) and movies? (yaaaaaay!) Probably the world's most pre-eminent Fox Searchlight Pictures scholar, 1994–2009. Real Little Miss Sunshiners (#Sunbeams) get it. Bisexual icon. Highly suggestible.
LocationSydney/Gadigal land
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

RE: https://arram.senta-la.cloud/@autobrain/116739122274188067

"On 12 June 1817, a crowd gathered along the best road in Mannheim, Germany to watch Baron Karl von Drais demonstrate his newest invention: the 'draisienne', a two-wheeled horseless vehicle propelled by its rider."

https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/draisienne-1817-2017-200-years-cycling-innovation-design

#OTD #OnThisDay #bicycle #invention

Love this World Cup themed post box topper, featuring that goal by Scott McTominay, at Broomhill Cross on the west of Glasgow. C'mon Scotland!

#glasgow #streetart #postboxtopper #yarnbombing #scotland #tartanarmy #worldcupfinals

🤯 This is why adopting JPEG-XL for image assets is a huge deal. Delta Duo is about to be updated (switching from PNG to JXL,) and the image assets are going to take up 81.42% less storage space... without any visual quality loss. Just imagine if JXL were more widely adopted!

New work.
I rescued some upholstery samples from the landfill, and have used them to cover some old boards and start fresh, effectively creating a new canvas. I’m very happy with how this experiment turned out. This is a William Morris print. I took a whole bunch of the samples, so expect to see more art like this. It works so perfectly with my style.

Burning Garden 1, 2026
Oil on Board with Upholstery Fabric,
10 x 10”

#art #climatechange #artwork #mastoart #painting #oilpainting #reuse

"Sunset Friends"
2x3 inches, ink, watercolor, and acryla gouache
Caulifornia