LightNews — News, ranked by scholars

Olivia Hill

@machineiv.bsky.social

Our PayPal is @machineage. CashApp is $machineage.

September 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM

nicholowry.bsky.social

@nicholowry.bsky.social

Art Deco racing posters, anyone? #machineage #vintageposters #posterauction #artdecoat100 @swanngalleries.bsky.social

April 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM

Olivia Hill

@machineiv.bsky.social

Our CashApp is $machineage. I don't know how to link that. I can also do, like, Zelle or some shit.

June 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Sean J

@sfjoh.bsky.social

Grain silo, Urbana, USA, à la Margaret Bourke-White / Alexandr Rodchenko

#photography #35mm #film #modernism #composition #tonality #monochrome #graphicarts #machineage #sovietconstructivism

Monochrome image of two concrete cylinders of a grain elevator.
(c) 2008 Sean F. Johnton

March 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Sean J

@sfjoh.bsky.social

Farm machine, 4 stops underexposed. Dumfries, #Scotland.

#photography #monochrome #mediumformat #film #grain #texture #engineering #contrast #machineage

Detail of farm machine, showing gears, axles and hand crank.

(c) 2013 Sean F. Johnston

March 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM

Olivia Hill

@machineiv.bsky.social

Hate to do this. I'm broke and kinda fucked. I had a MASSIVE electricity bill (thanks climate change!) that's blown half my July pay despite getting paid... yesterday.

I also need to fix a wheel on my car (thanks climate...).

Legit not sure what we're going to do.

Help?

$machineage on Cashapp?

July 2, 2026 at 10:42 PM

Olivia Hill

@machineiv.bsky.social

So, um. Baby's coming Monday. We weren't expecting that at all. We were thinking of doing a registry sort of thing but at this juncture there's no time, so if you wanna help us out, oh boy is this the time for it.

Paypal is: paypal.me/machineage?c...

CashApp is $machineage

writing as Filamena Young @filamena.bsky.social · Sep 11

Welp. They’re scheduling me for a kind of early delivery. Which is fine. Good even.

But I’m going to have a Virgo. Does that mean something ?

September 11, 2024 at 8:32 PM

Jeff Jacobs

@modernjake.bsky.social

Assemblage artwork made by a friend. Couldn’t resist purchasing this macabre, machine age creature. Heavy metal!

#assembledgeart #outsiderart #folkart #machineage #heavymetal #dolls #dollhead #art

February 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

Two pieces of Art Deco Moderne black Bakelite and chrome geometric design in jewelry from the 1930s.

Both available...

www.rubylane.com/shop/califor...

#artdeco #jewelry #bakelite #chrome #machineage #design #moderne #jewelrydesign #1930s #artdecojewelry #artdecobakelite #geometric #wearableart

August 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM

Eva Wojcik

@mychats.bsky.social

#Earth #JohnTrudell #NaturalWorld #NuclearEnergy #humans #MotherEarth #politics #WesternCivilization #CorporateState #NuclearWar #war #psychology #Indigenous #racism #government #people #MachineAge
youtu.be/RkzF5TOr0k8?...

John Trudell on Protecting the Earth

YouTube video by Mr. Bone

youtu.be

November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

The Screw
oil and gouache on board
1928
Franciska Clausen (1899-1986)
Denmark

#thescrew #franciskaclausen #denmark #painting #art #modernart #cubism #machinestyle #machineage #leger #circa1928

Clausen studied at the Die Grossherzogliche sächsische Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Weimar, Germany (1916–17), at the Women's Academy in Munich (1918–19), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark (1920–21), and under Hans Hofmann at the Hofmann Schule Fur Moderne Kunst in Munich (1921–22). She subsequently sought out private lessons from László Moholy-Nagy, Berlin (Sept. – Dec. 1922), from Alexander Archipenko in Berlin in 1923, and under Fernand Léger in Paris (1924–25). She was inspired by László Moholy-Nagy's Constructionist collages. From 1924 to 1928 in Paris, a cubist style can be seen in her paintings with a base in Léger's 'machine style art'. Between 1924 and 1928, Clausen worked in Paris. In the paintings from this period such as Konstruktiv modellstudie (1925), Contre-Composition (1928), and Komposition (1927), the influence of Léger's machine style is clearly visible. In 1933, she taught at the Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder (Drawing and applied arts school for women) in Copenhagen. Throughout her career, Clausen passed through most of the stages in the development of modern art, and her paintings show elements of Neue Sachlichkeit, Constructivism, Cubism, Neo-plasticism, Surrealism and Purism, though her greatest influence was Léger.

January 8, 2026 at 12:19 PM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

The Railway Crossing (Sketch)
oil on canvas
1919
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
France

#fernandleger #art #modernart #therailwaycrossing #oilpainting #c1919 #france #frenchmodernism #modernpainting #20thcenturyart #modernism #cubism #tubism #cubistart #machineage #europe #europeanart

Fernand Léger first saw the work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Around 1909 Léger began to paint in a Cubist style, although his compositions in this mode are more colorful and curvilinear than works by Braque and Picasso of the same period, with their angular forms and subdued tones. An artist with far-ranging interests and talents, Léger later became a designer for theater, opera, and ballet, as well as a book illustrator, filmmaker, muralist, ceramist, and teacher.
Typically, Léger would develop a major composition by preparing studies in a variety of media. The Railway Crossing is an oil study for The Level Crossing (1919; private collection, Basel, Switzerland). When he took up this subject in 1919, he made a number of drawings and oil sketches, including the present work. Like many of his contemporaries, Léger was fascinated by the machine age. He maintained that machines and industrial objects were as important to his art as figures. References to such elements pervade The Railway Crossing. In the midst of a complex scaffolding of cylinders and beams, an arrow appears on a brightly outlined signboard. A network of solid volumes and flat forms seems to circulate within the shallow space, just as pistons move within a motor. The precise definition of his forms and the brilliance of his palette express Léger’s belief that the machine, along with the age it created, was one of the triumphs of modern civilization.

March 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM

writing as Filamena Young

@filamena.bsky.social

The Eldest (assume I said that like a Victorian whatever that means) wanted to play a half-vampire. So I made her a thing and I'm sharing it with you.

I made a species background for your D&D character. Its a half-vampire. Because I can't resist. Get it at patreon.com/machineage #ttrpg #vampires #dungeonsanddragons

TikTok video by Machine Age Dreams

www.tiktok.com

December 9, 2024 at 11:53 PM

detoxima2025.bsky.social

@detoxima2025.bsky.social

Steam Piano of the Revolution

#IndustrialRevolution #SteamPiano #VictorianArt #MachineAge #TypographyArt

December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

Bakelite and chromed metal handmade brooch circa 1930s.

Coming soon, but available now via message here, or visit my Ruby Lane shop to inquire...

www.rubylane.com/.../californ....

#bakelite #bakelitejewelry #moderne #machineage #artplastic #artdeco #brooch #geometric #design #handmade #pin #1930s

A stunning vintage 1930s handmade bakelite and chromed metal geometric Art Deco moderne brooch.
Before there was modern, there was moderne, the French word from the period for what we now call Art Deco. Plastics were a popular component of jewelry from the 1930s because they were less expensive than the comparable natural materials ie gemstones etc. Bakelite was the first fully man-made synthetic plastic material. It was produced in many glorious colors, and varied from completely opaque to fully transparent, with marbling or without, and there was even a variety with metallic inclusions called 'stardust'! Some Bakelite jewelry was made with metal decoration, like the example above, and many of those were unabashedly modernist in tone even if modernist hadn't been invented yet!
Coming soon, but available now via message here, or visit my Ruby Lane shop to inquire.

September 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

A big and bold vintage 1940s handmade 900 silver ring by Antonio Belgiorno from Argentina - reminds me of machinery!

Available...

www.rubylane.com/item/1879775...

#antoniobelgiorno #argentina #handamde #900silver #ring #moderne #machineage #vintage1940s #wearableart #jewelrydesign #statementring

A big and bold vintage 1940s 50s handmade 900 silver moderne statement ring by designer/metalsmith Antonio Belgiorno of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Belgiorno opened his iconic design jewelry store in Buenos Aires in 1931, and he created many outstanding designs over the decades! Unfortunately, no date marks were used, so circa dating can be a bit tricky, but this ring looks very much in the late Art Deco style, sometimes called Retro Moderne, that was popular in the 1940s WWII wartime era and for a short while after the war. This ring makes a statement! Measures 1" long at top by 7/8" wide, and rises 5/8" above the finger. The band is adjustable and presently is about a size 7 US, but can be opened up or closed down to fit anywhere from about a size 5 to a size 9 in my opinion. Marked inside as shown with the Belgiorno "AB" with a crown mark with "Buenos Aires", and "A. Belgiorno" as well. Not marked for metal content, but Belgiorno was known to use 900 silver which was the silver standard for most of South America at the time, and still to this day. He also used sterling, but that was for items intended for export to the US or the UK and the Commonwealth countries, and those items would have been marked 'sterling' or '925'. Tested and guaranteed to be exactly as desired. It's not uncommon to find his jewelry without metal markings as it wasn't required in Argentina at the time for items not intended for export, which leads me to believe that this ring was purchased in Buenos Aires in the 1940s directly from Belgiorno. Excellent vintage condition.

April 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM

柯捩

@dssg.bsky.social

グローバリズム信奉者が望んでいる世界はStellarisにある。ヒトを機械帝国のドローンとして扱い労働力及び資源の割当を最小のオーバヘッドで最適化したいと云う欲求がそこにある。
当然人権などという概念は捨て去らなければならない。

store.steampowered.com/app/281990/S...

#Stellaris #MachineAge

Stellaris on Steam

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand t...

store.steampowered.com

September 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM

miyamo12.bsky.social

@miyamo12.bsky.social

MachineAge(DLC)で追加された宇宙の起源に挑戦。結果は危機レベルL4で寸止めのうえ通常クリア。没落帝国の成り立ちを体験できるプレイ。没落帝国設備がつかえるようになるがマジでチートだがそこに至るまでの研究が重い。色々わかって国力を爆増できたのが150年目くらいと超遅い。シナプス旋盤を使いこなせるまでの立ち上げをどうするかが課題。チャートをちゃんと組めばかなり改善の余地がありそうなので次回も宇宙の起源でその時は正規クリアを目標にしよう。#ステラリス #stellaris