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🪲 James Johnson
@thisisjam.es
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#dataviz enthusiast & interactive storyteller. Building visual essays, dashboards, and tech projects.
Pro sectors: electronics, semiconductors.
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I run the Info Vis Group in Barcelona:
www.infovisgroup.org
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I created an animation of the little light-displays that sparks used to make in the soot on the back of the fireplace when I was a child.

Read about it here:
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#animation #creativity
February 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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My latest drawing, an alien neuron or life-form from the moon Europa.
#art
#illustration
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January 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Merry Christmas
December 23, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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My hand lettering used to be terrible. I practiced on the iPad, and now my lettering is much better. This is a little essay about how I improved my digital handwriting:
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#Art
My digital handwriting.
December 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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A lovely Shaggy parasol, Chlorophyllum (I think!), El Pont de Suert, Lerida, Spain
More of my fungi photos here:
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#fungi
#mycology
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A lovely Shaggy parasol, Chlorophyllum (I think!), El Pont de Suert, Lerida, Spain
December 10, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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I believe this is Chlorociboria, which stains wood bluish-green due to a pigment called xylindein. Taken at El Pont de Suert, Lerida, Catalonia, Spain.
More of my fungi photos here:
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#fungi
#mycology
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I believe this is Chlorociboria, which stains wood bluish-green due to a pigment called xylindein. Taken at El Pont de Suert, Lerida, Catalonia, Spain.
December 9, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Orange Peel Fungus, Aleuria aurantia, taken at Collserola Park, Barcelona. More of my fungi photos here:
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#fungi #mycology 🍄🍄‍🟫
December 8, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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The line work for my Marriage of Heaven and Hell image, inspired by William Blake, before applying color. The text in the image is from the book by Blake, written with a calligraphy pen.

#ArtAdventCalendar #art
The line work for my Marriage of Heaven and Hell image, inspired by William Blake, before applying color. The text in the image is from the book by Blake, written with a calligraphy pen.
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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The 3nd of my illustrations of the story Somnium by Johannes Kepler, sci-fi from 1634. A witch helps her son visit the moon. It may have caused Kepler's mother to be tried as a witch. More here:
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#ArtAdventCalendar #SciFi #ScienceFiction #witchsky #witchcraft #occult
December 4, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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The 2nd of my illustrations of the story Somnium by Johannes Kepler, science fiction fantasy from 1634. It's fascinating, and was possibly a cause of his mother being tried as a witch. Read about it here:
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#ArtAdventCalendar #SciFi #ScienceFiction #witchsky #witchcraft
December 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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I did some illustrations of one of the first science fiction stories - Somnium by Johannes Kepler. It's a fascinating story, and was possibly a cause of his mother being tried as a witch. More details here:
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#ArtAdventCalendar
December 2, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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William Blake's birthday tomorrow! I have illustrated some of my fave Blake quotes. More here: thisisjam.es/illustrating...
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
November 27, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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It's William Blake's birthday on Thursday.
I drew pictures to go with some of my fave Blake quotes. Here's one.
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November 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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It's William Blake's birthday on Thursday.
I drew pictures to go with some of my fave Blake quotes. Here's one.
More here: thisisjam.es/illustrating...
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake.
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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I have created my own bespoke exercise tracker, sing Python with Flask, D3 and SQLite, . I enter details in the forms about number of reps each day I exercise, and pressing submit automatically updates the database and the graph. So I get instant feedback and a bit of extra motivation. #datavis 📊
My own exercise tracker, with forms to enter data, a graph, and a scrollable table of previous entries.
November 25, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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I think the points Schrödinger makes in his book "What is life" could be made much more succinctly by a drunk Schrödinger, so I made some cartoons about it. This is one of them.
Cartoon about Schrödinger. "Atoms are so tiny that, if we poured your glass of beer into the sea, and then mixed the sea and beer together, and then we filled the glass again with water from the sea, the glass would contain around 200 atoms from your beer.
November 16, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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I think the points Schrödinger makes in his book "What is life" could be made much more succinctly by a drunk Schrödinger, so I made some cartoons about it. This is one of them.
November 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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One of my Drunk Schrödinger cartoons. 🧪🔬
November 16, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Another of my Favorite quotes, from the mad genius William Blake.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake.
November 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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This is one of my favorite quotes, so I wrote it out:
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played. Alan Watts
November 15, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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My first post on Bluesky! I'm a datavis enthusiast & like writing visual essays. I like learning new things by doing stuff. My new website is thisisjam.es
It is easy to convince yourself that you should learn more before taking action. But too often this becomes an excuse not to do anything. When failure is cheap, learn by doing.
November 15, 2024 at 8:43 AM