Ryan Marttala

#NerdfArters Day 26 prompt: "J Scribble World Record". (1 signed book, swung wildly. 1 phone-to-TV camera feedback loop. 1 kids' toy karaoke machine for party lighting. 1 accidental looping arrow icon in the corner because the signing never stops.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 25 prompt: "Endlings". (Fragments of colour and motion lingering before they fade into memory.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 24 prompt: "Gods of Andromeda". (Leftover paints and clay become the fiery chaos of a contested throne, the grounded weight of rule, and a trail of royal purple poison cutting through the court of Agrippah and Gavinth.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 23 prompt: "Smush". (I rolled my kids' used paintbrushes around before we washed them, just to see what would happen.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 22 prompt: "Imagining Sisyphus". (When a single shake erases the whole mountain, one must imagine the Etch A Sketch artist happy.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 21 prompt: "Trousers Rolled". (I put string lights through a rolled-up poster from a family member's Tetraset letter art tribute to Chomsky. The result feels to me like a reminder to cuff my hems and wade into hope.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 20 prompt: "The Away End". (Looking in the same direction.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 18 prompt: "Something Worth Knowing". (Not sure if this qualifies as art, but here is some wisdom courtesy of a ten-year-old face-swap algorithm: your face-to-balloon ratio is best kept at one-to-zero.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 18 prompt: "Anti Slop". (Here's just my hand, a wall, and my kid's LED rainbow maker in a dark room. I think it says, “A person was here.”) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 17 prompt: "Andy Warhol Never Gets Old". (I tried out an open-source graphics editor named Krita, and judged this to be a genuine use case for something called a "Phong Bumpmap". I suppose I spent no seconds asking if I should before finding out if I could.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 16 prompt: "Zonderia". (Zonderia turns mundane background hums into rest for an overstimulated brain. Pressing my phone's camera to the bathroom privacy glass does the same to the neighbour's porch light, refracting a harsh night glare into a warm hum for the eyes.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters 2026 Day 15 prompt: "Sun Basin". (Daydreamer.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters 2026 Day 14 prompt: "Humans". (I printed, photographed, and tweaked a poem that I wrote after Hank's vlogbrothers video from 24 April 2026 youtu.be/o9Vbvp4awQU?... in which the rhythm of his words (at the 4:08 mark) felt especially compelling and lyrical.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 13 prompt: "Moon Joy". (It's been several years since pioneering dinosaurs landed on the moon in the kids' room, but that's why we have photos!) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 12 prompt: "4 × 3". (Played Hank's online game with the family, and then played a little with crayons and light.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 11 prompt: "Jimothy". (Here's a family contribution for Canadian Thanksgiving: my daughter’s art camp scratchboard raccoon, named Timothy in Jimothy's honour.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 10 prompt: "Kai and Juniper". (The Spirit of Anagram Mischief continues to hang around.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 9 prompt: "Hollywood, Ending". (The MGM lion is up to mischief. This could also be a good reason not to do the book signing while on tour.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters 2026 Day 8 prompt: "Pan Pizza". (Pandemonium Pie made on my work laptop. Time to heat up some leftover pizza now that work is done.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters 2026 Day 7 prompt: "Letterpress". (Happy Pizzamas to all!) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 6 prompt: "Mecha John". (I judged this to be a genuine use case for Comic Sans.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 4 prompt: "Mola Cult", resulting in this outline for an original song. (I'm told they're learning about the "weird" time signatures in high school music this week. Me: "Did I mention my unironic enthusiasm for 5/4 time and rhyming couplets?") #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 3 prompt: "Comma," with a little, original rhyme. (We shouted "Good morning, Hank! It's Tuesday!" and picked up our copies of "Hollywood, Ending" on a day-trip adventure to John Green's book tour and the CN Tower. Now I'm about halfway through the novel.) #DFTBA

#NerdfArters Day 2 prompt: "Pizza John Western." (There ain't mushroom in this town for violence. Vote Pizza for Mayor.) #DFTBA

It's The End Of The Project For Awesome!! YOu HaVE To JoIN US!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLH...

My joyful moment: a cool breeze, a weathered piano, and playing Aram Khachaturian's 1932 Toccata. #SimplePleasures #PublicArt

I just found out the 2025 Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest starts in half an hour! Well there goes my afternoon!! I look forward to the day Canada participates, but in the meantime we can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/xPSn888...

#DFTBA! What are we even looking at? #rockyourawesomesocks from @thegooddotstore.bsky.social

Woke up the family for the #LunarEclipse. Ended up discussing video game lore. Am I now supposed to fire an arrow through these branches?? #SideQuest

It's been a rough winter, but at least spring is almost here. #SeasonsChange #Sisu

#P4A2025 was the biggest P4A ever! WOOHOO! Over $3.5M raised for important charities! Congratulations all around! I am always glad to participate and learn with this vibrant and weird community of hope and generosity! #DFTBA

It's a wild weekend of going back and forth between the annual Project for Awesome and the annual Winter QDF Virtual Dulcimer Festival. [head spins] It's the first year #P4A2025 and #QDF are at the same time!

Na na na na na na na na na na Duck Man! #P4A2025 Duck-a-doodle doo??

It's just the first of 48 hours of P4A livestreaming and already a million dollars has been raised and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social has already asked to tone down the amount of goose we're looking at. 😂🪿 #P4A2025

Coconut is unsure what 2024 was, but remains curious about what happens next. #NewYearsEve #Conures #BirdsofBluesky #DFTBA

Does anyone else have their singing voice drop an octave when they're sick? (…tries "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" again because it just sounds so weird)

We're getting the lights up on the Christmas tree during the #QDF Virtual #Dulcimer Festival concerts these last few days. Mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, and autoharps, oh my! And the #jam as the finale is about to start. Grab the instruments!!

This is for the phenomenologists out there. A group of raccoons is called a gaze.

A joyous #Candlenights to all! 'Twenty Fungalore' was… well… it happened. Time to celebrate with a parody of The 12 Days of Christmas. At the very least, know that #Fungalore heard your wish. #MBMBaM

Watched some #Vlogbrothers with the family, and after a follow-up discussion on what living in our own brains is like, the kids keep asking about my constant inner soundtrack. "What music are you hearing now?!" English Folk Song Suite. "Now?!" Whip It. "How about now?!" Chicken Dance.

Singing in her school choir's soprano section, my daughter just performed her first Eric Whitacre piece ("Glow"). And then she got to play some cool French horn parts when it was the concert band's turn. I'm so glad they get to do things like this! #choralmusic #schoolband

How nice of the YouTube algorithm to pick some Finnish Independence Day vocal music for me, especially on Dec 6 specifically! 🇫🇮 Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää Suomi! #Finland #Rajaton

Tonight's bucket drum rhythms at my son's elementary school concert were a fun reminder that music can be made with anything! #MusicEducation ❤️

Goodnight. 🖼️ Lore Pemberton

Just walked in as my daughter finished the 1986 video game The Legend of Zelda. Hurray! 🎉 "Finally, peace returns to Hyrule. The End." 😅 I remain impressed by #NES composers, and their ability to make enduring music with 8-bit tech. #nesmusic #retrogaming #classics

Send in the Music! It's Saturday afternoon, so we're playing along with the weekly free 2-hour Zoom jam where both amateur and professional mountain dulcimer players share their music. They've been at it for 5 years now, and it's still so good to see such a supportive community! #dulcimer

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.