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Mostly neon. Sometimes old computers. Occasionally photography, fountain pens, and nixie tubes. Brooklyn but slowly migrating to Palm Springs/Joshua Tree. AI is not art.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · Jan 28
A close up of the neon paper airplanes I made. Time to make them a little smaller 😂
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easily one of my favorite signs in the Twin Cities
vincempls.bsky.social Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · May 8
BREAKING: you can only get 1 liquor now in Seward, Minneapolis
Zipps Liquors neon sign withe S turned off
May 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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actualbob.bsky.social
📱| Minnesota State Fair (2025)
#BlueSkyArtShow #Soft
Neon soft-serve ice cream cone sign glowing in white, purple, and yellow behind a glass block window at night.
May 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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polmaccarthaigh.bsky.social
Yurakucho, Tokyo. The sign promises. The pipes don't.

#documentaryphotography #tokyo #japan #streetphotography #nightphotography #leicam
The side wall of a small Tokyo restaurant at night, a red neon sign reading Yakitori and Sashimi Beer glowing above. Below it the functional infrastructure of the building is exposed — air conditioning units, gas pipes, a ladder, electrical boxes. A small kitchen window reveals a cook working inside. Through a plastic sheet to the right a crowd of people is visible. Colour.
April 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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smocarski.bsky.social
By the time the concert in Kenosha was over last night, it was super foggy and the neon sign was crazily lighting everything red. Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.... "KENNY!!!!!"
April 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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A refurbished old channel neon sign reading “Murray’s STURGEON SHOP” - the Murray’s is filled with yellow tubes in a script font. the sign is mounted on a white board. Below the sign is a small shop with a display window and a roll down gate.
April 15, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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What am I going to do with 8lbs of uranium glass tubes?

I have no idea.

That's a problem for future me.
a bundle of small, green glowing, glass tubes, arranged in 6 bunches and wrapped in bubble wrap. There are random packing peanuts and a brown cardboard box next to the packet of tubes. On the bottom left is the edge of a UV flashlight and a purple glow coming out from the front.
April 15, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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plognark.bsky.social
I don’t know enough of the basics here, but I think it’s probably “thermal broadening”, where the silicon dioxide molecules, when hot, now block a broader range of the normal room-temperature bandwidth. It still looks transparent to us since we can’t see in the affected wavelengths.
April 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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actualbob.bsky.social
📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026)
The Doctor is in and the prognosis is full steam ahead.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense
A picture a cluttered model train repair workshop. A man with white hair, beard, and glasses, wearing a blue shirt and apron, sits at a workbench working on a small locomotive. Above him, a large, glowing red neon sign reads "ELECTRIC TRAINS." The walls are packed with Lionel Train memorabilia, including vintage signs, diagrams, and shelves filled with miniature train cars and parts. To the right of the man, a large monitor displays a high-definition, top-down view of the delicate components he is repairing. A small sign hanging near the center is titled "The Train Doctor," inviting observers to watch him at work. The atmosphere is warm and filled with organized chaos.
April 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Weird discovery about uranium glass today - when you heat it, it looses it's ability to fluoresce. The dark spot in the tube was held in a flame for just a second.

After the tube cools, the bent portion glows the same as the unbent glass.

Does not adhere to soda-lime glass. Does to boro.
A thin glass tube in front of a black beanbag and on top of a dirty workbench. The tube is hit with UV light and most of the tube is glowing green - except for one dark spot in the middle of the tube.
April 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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theinarro.bsky.social
chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent

#Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC, #Nikon #D5500

#nightphotography #citylights #businessnights #neon #theatre #Kelowna #BC #Canada
A night photograph of a neon sign for the now-shuttered Paramount Theatre in Kelowna, BC jutting diagonally across the frame
April 6, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Human Nature/Life Death https://www.artic.edu/artworks/147513/
Regarded as one of the most innovative artists of his generation, Bruce Nauman has produced an oeuvre of stunning diversity, encompassing works of film, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. He creates profoundly aesthetic experiences that are often aimed at disrupting viewers’ habits of perception. In the mid-1960s the artist adopted the medium of flashing neon in order to critically examine the role of language in visual art. Inspired by its hypnotic aura and non-art aesthetic, Nauman began using this quintessentially commercial medium in an ironic way, as a vehicle for wordplay, puns, and jokes. The artist created this neon sign for an invitational sculpture exhibition held in Chicago in 1985. Three pairs of words, antithetical in their connotations, line the six-foot circumference: life and death, love and hate, and pleasure and pain. In the center, human, animal, and nature are repeated in stacked sets of two. Each word blinks independently, ordered so that over several minutes all possible permutations are displayed. Juxtapositions of colors produce optical illusions that create a jarring, visceral effect. This work ultimately insists on language’s inability to deliver a fixed or stable set of meanings, conveying a deep suspicion about what constitutes truth, especially in the public realm. Acquired from City of Chicago Public Art Program Collection, through prior gifts of Florence S. McCormick and Emily Crane Chadbourne
April 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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crymcn.bsky.social
I love this photo. One of my best, so far, I think.
A picture of a neon sign, saying "Town Topic Hamburgers" at night, illuminated in red, giving off a soft blooming glow. The building the sight is attached to is grey, with a rounded triangle protrusion acting as a pylon.
April 3, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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Love this thread.

Thanks @highway62.bsky.social
gammacounter.bsky.social Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · Mar 31
And this town has preserved some really good neon signs.
April 1, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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We have some exciting news:
NEON DEUTSCHLAND, the book, is coming soon.

Published by Prestel Verlag, the book contains over 350 images of neon signs from some 45 cities throughout Germany. It is available for pre-order now, and should be in bookshops by mid-April.
www.penguin.de/buecher/jess...
March 26, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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highway62.bsky.social
Downtown signage
Bradbury Building in period type A sign reading Arcade in front of a columned facade Roxie Theater marquee and facade. No it's no longer a movie theater. Ghost Sando Shop neon sign
March 30, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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matthucke.bsky.social
Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 7 of many. Fuji X-T5.

Everett Motel, which included a smoke shop, closed in 2012 and was demolished in 2015. The site is now a vacant lot, and only this broken neon sign remains.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa
March 29, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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thoeni.bsky.social
#GreenSat
#neon
#streetphotography

Neon signs are my weakness!
New Haven, CT A neon sign lettered in green called Claire’s Cirner Copia. cute pan by Claire in the middle of the letters is a cornucopia in yellow with a orange carrot and I think some apples the sign is transparent so you can see through to the inside of the store
March 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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matthucke.bsky.social
Neon of Everett, WA, Part 5 of many. Fuji X-T5.

Totem Family Dining, since 1953. The sign, painted to resemble a carved totem pole, alternately lights the two "TOTEM" words; these are composite photos to show both lit together. The message below changes often.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa
March 27, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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bookowl.bsky.social
A friend is on vacation in Austin, TX and sent me this. I'm gonna need one of those neon signs for sure.
a red neon sign that says the owl. an owl is perching on the upper left of the "o" in owl. Also an owl pictured on a poster that says cucamonga owl brand.
March 27, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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blessingx.bsky.social
The Heart, Route 66
(2026.02.15 | Kingman, AZ | Leica SL2 & Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton)
#route66 #kingmanaz #photography #neon #neonsign #roadsign #roadside #roadtrip #americanwest #leica #voigtlander
Kingman sign
March 28, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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It’s a little on the thin side - but let me see if I can attach electrodes to this uranium glass tube. (I only have soda lime electrodes - may need to order some borosilicate ones.)
A bundle of thing glass tubes in bubble wrap sitting in a counter. They are being illuminated with UV light and glowing bright green.
March 27, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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highway62.bsky.social
Photo thread from LA. I'll try to keep it all in one place.

If I miss an alt text, please don't yell. I'm tired.
The Safari Inn neon sign, lit in red and blue.
March 27, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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galaxiesgone.bsky.social
Hadn't really said much here but long story very short: got surprise laid off a couple weeks ago, but took a job in another position in the company and have to move. So, saying goodbye for now to VA soon. Took some pictures of favorite local signs today as a little farewell.
Front of a sandwich shop at night illuminated red, with neon signs in the shape of train cars that say "Subway Station" Front of a local store at night with someone standing in the illuminated entrance next to a rack of canoes, with a neon sign overhead that says "Wilcox Bait & Tackle" and underneath that, "Guns" Unlit neon sign in the day on a brick wall that says "Fine Furniture" Antique furniture brick storefront and parking lot in the daytime, with a retro sign on the left that says "Center Avenue" and then below it, "Total Image Beauty Salon"
March 26, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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I'm kinda digging all of the Aperture Science rebranding that is going on.

It's not about why. It's about Why Not?!
A 1970s version of the Aperture laboratory logo - it is a circle with a gradated orange to yellow with horizontal stripes cut of out the circle. To the right of the circle is the word "aperture" written in a soft round font. (I think this is a version of the "Cooper Black" font) It is a black circle, with stripes cut of of the circle on the bottom half. The circle is rotate 45 degrees. A logo for Dawn. No idea wtf that is. But it also has a circle logo, with horizontal cuts taken out of the bottom half of the logo.
March 26, 2026 at 12:33 AM