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  • Various bird drawing experiments, and a bilby

    Various bird drawing experiments, and a bilby

    Quick notes on some bird drawing experiments

    Zoe

    April 23, 2021
    Field Notes, Field Reports
  • Calyptura cristata

    Calyptura cristata

    Aim: I was struck by the descriptive language used to describe both the bird and the lack of knowledge about the species. For example, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this paragraph: The Kinglet Calyptura is among the most enigmatic and poorly understood species of Neotropical birds. A bizarre bird, it resembles a kinglet (Regulus) […]

    Zoe

    January 18, 2022
    Uncategorized, Zoe’s birds
  • TR Taronga Zoo field report #1

    TR Taronga Zoo field report #1

    This report covers visits taken place on January 7 (with Zoe), February 3 (with Zoe), April 2 (on my own), and April 22 (with Zoe), 2021. I also visited Taronga Zoo on May 15, but being with family I did not visit the regent honeyeaters. This report is an attempt to respond to the first […]

    Timo Rissanen

    May 19, 2021
    Field Notes, Field Reports
    field report, regent honeyeater
  • Birds of Mallacoota by Nick Ritar

    Birds of Mallacoota by Nick Ritar

    Following the New Year’s Eve bushfire that forced most of Mallacoota’s residents on its beach, Nick Ritar of Milkwood, a permaculture smallholding, documented some of the avian victims on January 2, 2020. The images are posted here with Nick’s permission. Thank you, Nick, for documenting this event so that we can all bear witness. Nick’s […]

    Timo Rissanen

    January 12, 2020
    Climate change, Reflections
    Australian fires 2019-20, Climate change, Mallacoota
  • Pentti Linkola

    Pentti Linkola

    Pentti Linkola is something of a conscience for Finland and for humanity. His ideas are radical, often shocking and sometimes dangerous. Yet I’ve shared some of his thoughts in moments, as a visceral reaction to the persistent destruction of the biosphere that I have witnessed, and contributed to, throughout my life. While a lot of […]

    Timo Rissanen

    December 24, 2019
    Reflections, Uncategorized
    deep ecology, Pentti Linkola
  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    “Weep! Weep! calls a toad from the water’s edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” A friend and colleague recommended Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass a few months ago. […]

    Timo Rissanen

    December 10, 2019
    Reading Notes, Uncategorized
  • Storytelling for the uncanny present

    Storytelling for the uncanny present

    While overseas in November, I caught snippets of news from home: unprecedented bushfire smoke choking major cities; koala populations declared functionally extinct (not all koalas); heritage-listed rainforests burning; farmers traumatised by the screams of dying animals. From afar, these unsettling accounts seem fictional, like the ‘raining frogs’ in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Except in Anderson’s […]

    Zoe

    December 10, 2019
    Reflections, Uncategorized
    motherhood, solastalgia
  • Remembering buntings, forgetting buntings

    Remembering buntings, forgetting buntings

    The Ortolan Bunting and Yellow-breasted Bunting were plentiful during the first decade of my childhood. (I was born in 1975.) The latter was never common in Finland; the country was on the edge of its distribution, but it was an abundant birds throughout its range across northern Eurasia. Well, no more. Yellow-breasted Buntings are no […]

    Timo Rissanen

    November 30, 2019
    Reflections, Uncategorized
    memory, Ortolan Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting
  • Arts Letters and Numbers residency

    Arts Letters and Numbers residency

    How many PhDs does it take to set up a blog? In ‘the plant room’, Timo and I flick jalapeno chip dust off ourselves, smug that we have finally figured out how to insert this blog into the site, on day 3 of a 5-day residency at Arts Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY. Although […]

    Zoe

    November 26, 2019
    Reflections, Uncategorized
  • HumanNature podcasts

    On day three of the Arts Letters and Numbers residency, we listened to podcasts from the Australian Museum’s ‘HumanNature: Connection and cooperation in a time of climate change’ series, (accessed through AM soundcloud account). I decided not to say much about the heartbreaking things that are taking place on Earth today. We’re in the midst […]

    Zoe

    November 25, 2019
    Field Notes, Reading Notes
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