Jay Perry

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A walk in Baltimore

Chapters 7 and 8 of Nightfall are up

Spring morning light

I love the cherry blossom 'snow' we get this time of year

Creature of habit

Nightfall, chapter 6 is up

Nightfall chapter 5 is up

Photo walk: Snow days

Reading notes: the costs and opportunities of dairy

Machines, computers, and the in-between

Making the illustration for Chapter 4 in Nightfall

Nightfall chapter 4 is up!

Solstice twilight

For the love of fire and death

A surface and a mark

Nightfall, chapter 3 is up!

Changing leaves

Hurry up, we’re dreaming

Nightfall, chapter 2 is up

Young people with books

Down the ocean, this year

Toumani Diabaté

Can you feel me

A billion here’s

Shepherdstown overnighter

Quicksilver clouds

An owl-shaped apparition

Chairs illustration

Walking on two feet

Blogging as I go

Reading notes: Birding for the soul

Reading notes: The Sentence

The Collage Atlas

Prohibitively challenging

Listening notes: 50%

The bolt that holds the bridge up

Structure from chaos

Leonardtown and St. Mary's

I fixed my RSS feed

Queer in Appalachia

A thousand stitches

Bikepacking by day

Moonflowers, round 5

Charlie Parker's awful, sublime night

Lachlan Morton’s amazing ride

Rob English's commuter velomobiles

Words I don’t know

Trees turning orange

Video on my website!

Drawing trees for the background of my bat house illustration

My average color is black

…And not a drop to drink

Painting a bat house

Reading notes: Pour one out for Jane Austen

When your pen matches your book

Late nights and basement parties

Pencils for a bat house illustration

A kind of silence

Reading notes: Hands of Time

A nightclub for introverts

Our own lost worlds

Reading notes: The Golden Glow

My body hates fresh air

Reading notes: An Immense World

How lightfast is pigment ink?

Hiking on a day off

Sometimes parenthood feels like a...

Reading notes: Wayfarers series

Paths through a garden

A map of the unknown

Reading notes: Underland

Really, really enjoying Stromae's new...

Hindsight & foresight

TFW you crack an egg...

Okra, which we tried to pickle

Listening notes: On farmers, sailors, and farmers who sail

Learning to speak in gouache

Swimming in the air

Reading notes: The High Sierra

The upside-down people

Suburban nightlife

The upward abyss

The weather of anxiety

Relaunching my blog

A cup of tea, steeping in the afternoon sunlight

An orange slice we left out for the hummingbirds

Walnut shells along the road

Rocks, moss, and water

Creek, in the summer

I've been experimenting with photo...

Pen and ink experiments

Our moonflowers are blooming!

But they stayed in the closet awhile

Variegated fritillary caterpillar

The Citroën GS Birotor

Tokyo storefront paintings by Mateusz Urbanowicz

Scientific tattoos

New prints are in!

Re-growing celery on our windowsill

Dragon fruit, sliced and scooped

Toad by the side of the trail

Frogger in reverse

Our last wildflower

New work: my "inventory"

Dominic Fraser’s Lego race photos

Considering George Floyd's murder and the protests

New proof came in!

The air we share

Roberta Williams

Martin Lewis’s streetscape etchings

All about fountain pens

The return of Serotta, but not their lovely logo

Jonk’s photos of reclaimed buildings

Painting with data

Brace yourselves for the next Y2K

The history of Myst

Javascript and the mysteries of Async/Await

Yann Philippe's infrared landscapes in Norway

Google Slides, under the hood

A history of the National Parks design system

CPT is bringing the weird back

Birchbark: Louise Erdrich’s bookstore

Fontsmith’s guide to type styles

Finished a new sketchbook

‘Mild’ peril

Levi Walter Yaggy’s geographic illustrations

Inked a new drawing last night!

Thank you, Mr. Pei. We'll miss you.

A bicycle frame... made from wood

In praise of friction

Beautiful images of snowy trees and icy lakes from Swiss photographer Pierre Pelligrini

Hilma's af Klint's groundbreaking abstraction

Playgrounds with sharks and sinking ships

Nightshift, by Florian Mueller

Nike’s new face?

Kenichi Hoshine's puzzles, memories, and layers

The New York Times' "Why I love..." series

Erik Wernquist’s short film “Wanderers”

Lovely new font: "Schnyder"

A love letter to the santoor

Wow, I’m still alive. Lets do that again.

Lines and colors

A font for code and words

Thom Björkland’s beautiful illustration

Luna Display from Astropad

A visit to the farm

An interview with Phillip Pullman in the New York Times

In the passenger seat as you were driving me home

Font Review Journal

List: A good rainy day

It's not your country and it never was

A camera and a fine evening are eternal

Lennart Nilsson

To my Muslim neighbors and friends

An (extremely unscientific) paper test

How Kate Bush changed the course of hip hop

On fountain pens and brave new worlds

Up and down and through and throughout

Frozen waterfall

Up and down and through and throughout

Cliffs, just before spring thaw