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Satellites of Soap Satellites of Soap Blackout and Candles: A Dark Night Experiment Blackout and Candles: A Dark Night Experiment An Optical Illusion For Your Inner Nocturnal Animal An Optical Illusion For Your Inner Nocturnal Animal
Re-Discovering The Color Blue
Color Blindness

Re-Discovering The Color Blue

I wore blue-blocker sunglasses to see what the world looked like without blue. For exactly one

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A World Without Blue
Color Blindness Optical Illusions and Effects

A World Without Blue

I recently re-discovered classic BluBlocker sunglasses, and wondered what would happen if I wore them

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Shine Pig Season
Optical Illusions and Effects

Shine Pig Season

As the sun sets each summer evening, it sends a shimmering pig up the side

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Quality Time with an Inanimate Object
Geodes

Quality Time with an Inanimate Object

I have an inanimate object in my life: it is an unbroken Brazilian agate geode.

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Scratching the Surface of a Water-Filled Unbroken Geode
Geodes

Scratching the Surface of a Water-Filled Unbroken Geode

There is a finite amount of water on the earth, endlessly cycling through everywhere water

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Reversing the American Flag Optical Illusion
Optical Illusions and Effects

Reversing the American Flag Optical Illusion

“I’m a vexillologist,” a gentleman said to me on the BART train platform, “and I’ve

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Journey Through a Geode
Geodes

Journey Through a Geode

Exploring something fully sometimes requires destroying it, like the dissection of a cadaver or the

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Swimming in Puddles and Diving Down Drains with an Endoscopic Camera
Cameras

Swimming in Puddles and Diving Down Drains with an Endoscopic Camera

What hard-to-reach places can an inspection camera reveal? An inspection camera, also called an endoscope

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Transforming Temperature Into Light with a Thermal Camera
Cameras

Transforming Temperature Into Light with a Thermal Camera

The thermal camera is the fourth in my series of extra-sensory cameras (after underwater, micro, and

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Befriending the Aggressor
Cameras

Befriending the Aggressor

While gathering photos from my 2011 Bushnell hunting camera for my most recent post, I was overcome

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Learning How To See was created by artist Emily Wick in 2016 as a quest to literally see the world in new ways. Its projects have been featured on KQED Arts and Medium.

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Drizzly Wednesday night. #rain Drizzly Wednesday night. 
#rain
A clear and cold Monday night, 6:58 & 7:02 PM A clear and cold Monday night, 6:58 & 7:02 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who has ordered a Ni Thank you so much to everyone who has ordered a Night Bubble print. Excited to report that I have officially sold ten (10) so far 🪐💫✅. It has been really enjoyable to see what people’s favorites are and to package them up with their certificates and framing recommendations. 

I have recently added about a dozen new images to the online shop (link in bio). Swipe to the end to see some examples - Pigment Rain, Emerald Projector, Heart of Soap. 

If you are interested in a favorite bubble that is not in the shop, let me know and I may be able to offer it.
More inauguration week silent fireworks, including More inauguration week silent fireworks, including a circuit board piece of toast, a golden peach, and (last slide) our moon. 

The end of a guy like that in power after such a long time foreshadowed what the end of this pandemic might feel like... something that seems like it will never end but one day it does. I especially missed seeing friends this week. 

All pics from Thursday night: the palindrome 1-21-21
A new era dawns 🍾 A new era dawns 🍾
Thursday night: shiny, steamy, bursting, radioacti Thursday night: shiny, steamy, bursting, radioactive
Weekly pandemic portrait #39 @briancharlesbrooks Weekly pandemic portrait #39 @briancharlesbrooks
3 Gumdrops🍡🍭🍬 #fridaynight 3 Gumdrops🍡🍭🍬 #fridaynight
Just another thursday night Just another thursday night
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Monday night pink and yellow 7:03 PM Monday night pink and yellow 7:03 PM
Siding and shine ✨#shinepig #shinehunters Siding and shine ✨#shinepig #shinehunters
It was so foggy tonight that my breath created clo It was so foggy tonight that my breath created clouds inside the bubbles. #2021
A vision of an unusual new year is already upon me A vision of an unusual new year is already upon me. I made this collage yesterday as part of the 7th week of the “Artist’s way”, a 12-week course I completed in the late 1990s and  am doing again with small a group of old and new friends (including my sis!!). 

It helped me a lot 20 years ago, and revisiting the exercises has been a welcome touchstone to get through this pandemic winter. 

Having zero magazines lying around the house (and the Depot closed), I searched a half dozen of our neighborhood’s tiny free libraries to find the assignment’s required 10 magazines, including an old Martha Stewart holiday special ($20 in 1995!), a Saveur Food and Wine from 1999, and recent issues of House Beautiful and Birds and Blooms and Vanity Fair.

I enjoyed how the limitations - especially the completely arbitrary selection of magazines - made the process more focused, and how many connections emerged that appeared planned in hindsight but were not. It seemed to fit together like a puzzle with only one solution. 

Since it happened to be New Year’s, it felt a little bit like a vision poster laying out 2021 as a year of colorful moths,  black flowers, fire and ice, glorified grapes, and peanut butter. 

Wishing an especially happy new year to @erinmariesickler who organized and leads this group. Faraway friends do seem a little bit closer this year. 

 @marthastewart @marthastewart48 @housebeautiful @saveurmag @vanityfair 
#collage #90saesthetic
7:42 PM Sunday 7:42 PM Sunday
Our conceptual fireplace, 2020 and 2010. Merry Xma Our conceptual fireplace, 2020 and 2010. Merry Xmas to all 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 @briancharlesbrooks
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