David O
Printmaker, designer. Naturey art and gifts at blueasterstudio.com | Paleoartish stuff at chasmosaurs.com/orogenic | He/Him
- Reposted by David OA bittersweet article today as Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen, a dinosaur museum that is no longer there.
- Reposted by David OThis record has been making me happy for 40 years.
- Reposted by David ONew listing on my Etsy shop! A one-off signed 12" x 24" giclee print of "A Cold Day Out", featuring a mother Albertosaurus and her 3 chicks on a walk thru the dawn redwood trees of Denali Park, 70 mil. years ago. #BSNM alaskanime.etsy.com/listing/4445280882/albertosaurus-family-giclee-canvas-print
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- Packing up a house you've been in for 17 years (aka by far the longest time you've lived in one domicile): a complete trip!
- Judas Priest have a couple with their covers of Fleetwood Mac's Green Manalishi and Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust, and I love that they're back to back on Unleashed in the East
- The subconscious DJ in my head had me play Hejira after Maps. Appreciate the thematic resonance, subconscious DJ!
- Hell yeah (awesome cover art by Adam Burke, Nightjar Illustration)
- holy fuck here we go! #goatkvlt @hellrippermetal.bsky.social ftfw! hellripper.bandcamp.com/album/corona...
- Reposted by David OJimbacrinus is a really strange, alien looking crinoid. Permian aged crinoids are uncommon. These are from Australia. Keep creating and sharing your art. #FossilFriday #SciArt
- Heads up, we have a sale on right now before we shut down for a bit to move to a new home studio!
- We are having a moving sale before we shut down for a couple weeks to relocate. Most product lines are 20% off right now, no coupon code needed! Sale lasts through Friday. blueasterstudio.com
- Reposted by David ONEW ARTWORK TO START 2026 Here's "Deep Blue Buffet," commissioned by The Etches Collection. Featured, from the Late #Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay, are #SeaRex #Hybodus #Hypsocormus #Metriorhynchus #Aspidorhynchus & #Allothrissops #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurs #Pliosaurus #JurassicWorld
- Reposted by David OMeant to post this some days ago but I got distracted. My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses. Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
- Reposted by David OHad a medical bill come up that I was not expecting because of ACA tax credit fuckery - please consider purchasing a pin, shirt, or sun catcher from my Etsy storefront and help me get this paid down. #art #crafts #enamelpin #pinlife #pincollecting #suncatcher alaskanime.etsy.com
- Reposted by David OIt's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
- Reposted by David OThe deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
- When he died, I got all my dad's old audio gear like this Kenwood tape deck, a Lenco phonograph, a couple receivers and an equalizer and I haven't done anything with them yet. I'm about to move to a new place with enough room for them. But I'm kind of overwhelmed by the thought of setting them up.
- I also got a bunch of tapes for this deck and all of his records. It was definitely all that I wanted of his; strong memories of him turning it up loud and dropping the needle on "Babylon Sisters" and "Black Cow"
- Reposted by David OIn 1990 I taught an Environmental Geology class for the first time, & for that class I put together a lesson plan showing how U.S. control of fossil fuels was the main incentive for the Persian Gulf War. In 10 days I'll teach the same topic for the same class, just using a different place.
- Reposted by David OWhat if its not that some people don't fail to learn the lessons of history, but they just like the spectacle of killing?
- Reposted by David OWhat’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.
- Reposted by David OIf you have a Shopify store, better go read this Reddit thread and watch the referenced Instagram reel. 😬
- Here is a link to a reddit post with more info: www.reddit.com/r/shopify/s/...
- Reposted by David OIt's January 1st, have some of my old Silmarillion chapter illustrations! Valaquenta: "Account of the Valar and Maiar in according to the lore of the Eldar” (1/6)
- In case anyone isn't aware, this is the latest Amazon fuckery. Blue Aster Studio doesn't seem to have been sucked into it but we do come up if you search our name on Amazon, with "buy directly" links for a small number of random items.
- Here is a link to a reddit post with more info: www.reddit.com/r/shopify/s/...
- Reposted by David OReply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Does video media count? Because this is it for most Italians, hands down.
- Reposted by David OReply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Luis V Rey's Therizinosaurus.
- Utter loser freaks Though it does make me imagine walking into a bathroom and seeing a Komodo dragon, which I'd frankly prefer
- Reposted by David OReply with a piece of paleoart that deeply influenced you as a child. The obvious answer is Dinotopia but I’ll mention this giant 20 piece floor puzzle I had that’s apparently from 1977. I know I drew an active volcano in all my dino drawings as a kid because of this thing.
- Reposted by David OReply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. First specific thing that came to mind aside from Charles R Knight was these animations from the PBS documentary series The Dinosaurs: youtu.be/dPcKc3rn6ps
- Reposted by David ODinosaur! Hosted by Christopher Reeve (1985). The music, the animation, Jack Horners voice. I watched the vhs tape (taped from broadcast so bad quality) so many times I witnessed it degrading with sound and picture getting worse.
- Reposted by David OReply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Probably my all-time favorite piece of dinosaur art.
- Reply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Séguin's Troodon, encountered in the 1993 DK Visual Dictionary of Dinosaurs. I spent many hours poring over this book, Lessen and Glut's Dinosaur Encyclopedia, and the Making of Jurassic Park.
- Reposted by David OYears and years and YEARS of nonsense flowed due to a fuzzy, low-resolution of this rock, the so-called Face on Mars. I can't believe how much of my life i dedicated to debunking BS like it. www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoa...
- Reposted by David OTranscendent.
- Reposted by David OBy my count, 46 new species of Mesozoic dinosauromorph (& lagerpetid) taxa this year, which is close to the average for the time period 2003-2025 (the range over which I have been compiling data):
- The best thing about Black Mirror (speaking personally just for me alone - YMMV) was that it introduced me to "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel music.apple.com/us/album/bri...
- Tornado warning in late December. Madness!
- I watched the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special with my wife and dog. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed a single solitary Stephen Miller
- Reposted by David OI can't get over those cartoon eyes. Those delicate, translucent 'leaves' (cerata, as I've learned). Those supernatural, otherworldly vibes. That Pixar-cum-Ghibli creature appearance... And eyes drawn by Gary Larson. I can't.
- Yabba dabba fruity-licious too
- Just FaceTimed with the niece, nephew-in-law, and baby grandniece and it's striking how different our holiday media traditions are... Their Christmas Carol isn't the Muppets, its the Jim Carrey one. They've never seen Pee-Wees Xmas. They actually watch and aren't horrified by the Polar Express
- Good Xmas gift to have Pluribus drop early this week, right before the end of my billing cycle, so I could cancel instead of renewing for $13 just to see the finale
- Reposted by David OHoliday woodchuck, colored over a scan of the riso print
- We popped into our local fancy foods and cookware store and folks they have abandoned me and my fellow licorice freaks. One measly imported licorice confection. We used to be a society
- Reposted by David OBinding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper. #ArtAdventCalendar
- I didn't spend enough time with enough new releases this year for a top ten, so here are my five favorite albums of 2025. 🥁🥁🥁 billy woods: Golliwog Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend Kelsey Waldon: Every Ghost Vanishing Amulet: Moonlit Crier Yumiko Morioka and Takashi Kokubo: Gaiaphilia
- Reposted by David ORed Clay (3) Digital painting
- Several years ago I annoyed fair number of people, trying to get help identifying a poorly remembered Christmas song I'd heard on the radio or maybe in a retail store.
- "CHRIIISTMAAASSS/ CHRIIISTMASASSS" I'd sing in a vague approximation of the melody, making hand gestures and bobbing my body to impart, poorly to be sure, the sprightly feel of the tune
- The singer had some grit in his voice. And when it came out of my mouth it basically sounded like cookie monster. Presented with this, no one could figure it out, nor should they have been expected to.
- Finally, somehow, one fortuitous day I heard it. "Driving Home For Christmas" by Chris Rea. RIP man, your Christmas song is a delight
- Reposted by David OFinally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.
- Saw a commercial for a "tactical" hoodie and fellas I'm sorry to announce that apparently wearing layers to keep warm is gay
- I love blue jays. I heard one screaming in our redbud tree for like 30 seconds, watched it drop to the ground, grab a cached nut, and fly up to another tree to eat it
- Cleaning out my basement in preparation for a move and I found this (sadly unautographed) 8x10 of Han Solo on my workbench. Bought at Suncoast Video for $2.99 around 1995.
- Reposted by David OBushy tailed and at home in a tree! It's our new gray squirrel hand printed ornament. #ArtAdventCalendar
- Reposted by David OAfter watching this I truly feel confident in saying YDAW is the best educational palaeo media out there. Nothing else comes close to covering dinosaur taxa in as much depth and detail while still being incredibly engaging, digestible and easy to understand. Such good writing and presentation, 10/10
- I just figured out that February 13, 2026 will be the 40th anniversary of Norm Peterson's "milkbone underwear" line
- Reposted by David O🪸🎨🐙 Handcrafted Coral + Octopus sculpted from poly clay #ArtYear #Art #Coral #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
- Reposted by David OA 407-million-year-old fossil from northern Scotland is changing what we know about plant evolution! New analysis of Horneophyton reveals how plants went from centimetres tall to growing to enormous heights! Find out more about this fossil 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
- Reposted by David O18th of December is the International Migrants Day 💼 I've migrated to England, alongside thousands of Poles escaping poverty, in the 2000s. I've learned English after three years of residency. Named first Scottish pterosaur. Carried on the legacy of Mary Anning. Spent hours volunteering in museums.
- Reposted by David OA monarch a-munchin'. 4x6" four color screen print we printed a couple weeks ago. Edition of 27. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
- Reposted by David OI got some insane bison closeup photos at Custer State Park. #Photography
- Star Wars cooked my brain so good that I read this and my first thought is Max Rebo
- To be perfectly honest the diegetic music in Jabba's palace really influenced my musical taste
- Reposted by David OLambeosaurus in #watercolor from a few years ago. #paleoart
- Reposted by David OBox turtle! Another of this year's batch of wooden ornaments, printed by hand here in our home studio. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
- Reposted by David OBun bun doing what bun bun do best. Four color screen print, edition of 23. These little prints we've been sharing measure 4" square. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
- Reposted by David OI've spent the last three weeks wrestling with Wake Up Dead Man. Here are some of my thoughts—I have many more. I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope. reactormag.com/entirely-too...
- Still my fave; a blast to see on the big screen. RJ did so much with the pretty iffy ingredients JJ handed him. The years between TLJ and TROS were my favorite years of SW fandom since the 90's. TROS + deaged Luke in Mando effectively ended it.
- It very much bums me out to look back on old Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs posts and see dead Twitter embeds but I've never doubted that everyone who left the platform was absolutely correct to do so
- Reposted by David Oreading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you
- Reposted by David OThis is your seasonal reminder that Bookshop.org and libro.fm exist as local-supporting not-Amazon options for all your physical and audiobook needs! Bookshop even gives you the option to add a card and a pretty fabric bag and ship it directly to your giftee!
- Reposted by David OThere should be a fast lane at airports if you’ve posted a requisite number of bangers.
- Reposted by David Oin case you missed it yesterday We have a T. rex, and we have a release date. Rawr.
- Reposted by David OHere's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
- Reposted by David OOkay. With four books to write in the next two years, the time has finally come: I'm dusting off my Patreon! I'll be using this to post bits and pieces of behind the scenes work, as well as *extremely* rough drafts for subscribers. Hope you come aboard. (And feel free to help spread the word!)
- I hope Braun is crying
- Reposted by David OBeavers! We are beaver believers. The first edition of this screen print from 2023 sold out. But we recently printed a second edition to keep the beaver fans happy. Five colors, edition of 26. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
- Reposted by David OToday's #ArtAdventCalendar is my Pyrrhuloxia watercolor, from my experimentation with different watercolor papers. With this piece, I found out that painting of the "wrong" side of cold press paper works better for me! #BirdArt #SciArt #ArtYear #Watercolor #AnimalArt #FineArt
- Reposted by David OFor #ArtAdventCalendar today, the most impractical art I made all year 😂 I had fun drawing this but the proportions and size make it absurdly useless for viewing either on a screen or producing a print that wouldn't cost a fortune to custom frame. Some things are for the experience not the result 🤷♂️
