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Ryan Marttala

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Family man • Information management librarian • Composer • Instrumentalist • Interested in finding music we can share • DFTBA • 🇨🇦 SW Ontario (🇫🇮)

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We're here because #p4a2026

15.02.2026 16:47 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Project for Awesome 2026 part 5!
Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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

15.02.2026 15:19 👍 522 🔁 183 💬 23 📌 24
A low-angle, side view of an outdoor upright piano that has been painted with a landscape scene. The artwork depicts a river winding through a dense, green forest under a sunset. The piano itself is weathered, with the keyboard showing chipped and worn keys.

A low-angle, side view of an outdoor upright piano that has been painted with a landscape scene. The artwork depicts a river winding through a dense, green forest under a sunset. The piano itself is weathered, with the keyboard showing chipped and worn keys.

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

21.08.2025 03:58 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I'm wearing this pair today because my wife spotted them on the show last night! 😄

08.06.2025 22:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The pièce de résistance of their highly competitive compensation package is a single meticulously sliced, perfectly ripe, one-eighth of a grape. Benefits also include all-you-can-squawk conference calls and unlimited access to baths in their drinking water. #LuxuryBenefits

08.06.2025 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two inquisitive green-cheeked conures are perched on the top of an open laptop.

Two inquisitive green-cheeked conures are perched on the top of an open laptop.

Coconut and Calamity are "helping" me work. #FeatheredFriends

08.06.2025 15:50 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Grand Final - Livestream | #Eurovision2025 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

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...

17.05.2025 18:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Under a purple light, a life-size statue (with the glittering surface of a disco ball) depicts a human figure sitting with their head tilted slightly up, as if interested in something in the distance. A man poses next to this statue in a Canadian hotel lobby, pretending to see what is so interesting off screen in the distance. The man is also without shoes, to highlight his Awesome Socks from the monthly sock subscription on Good.Store that raises money for the Maternal Center of Excellence, a hospital in Sierra Leone.

Under a purple light, a life-size statue (with the glittering surface of a disco ball) depicts a human figure sitting with their head tilted slightly up, as if interested in something in the distance. A man poses next to this statue in a Canadian hotel lobby, pretending to see what is so interesting off screen in the distance. The man is also without shoes, to highlight his Awesome Socks from the monthly sock subscription on Good.Store that raises money for the Maternal Center of Excellence, a hospital in Sierra Leone.

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

14.05.2025 02:21 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
March 14, 2025 lunar eclipse happening far, far in the background through some front-lit tree branches.

March 14, 2025 lunar eclipse happening far, far in the background through some front-lit tree branches.

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

14.03.2025 07:52 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Melting ice and snow partially reveals a weather-beaten lawn ornament of an owl. Despite only one remaining eye and many missing coloured tiles, the owl appears to be gathering its strength to do the next right thing.

Melting ice and snow partially reveals a weather-beaten lawn ornament of an owl. Despite only one remaining eye and many missing coloured tiles, the owl appears to be gathering its strength to do the next right thing.

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

13.03.2025 13:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're here because

19.02.2025 20:48 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#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

16.02.2025 17:08 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we're here because #P4A2025

16.02.2025 16:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

15.02.2025 18:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hank Green dressed in a duck costume as Dr. William Weathersby, on the annual Project 4 Awesome charity event.

Hank Green dressed in a duck costume as Dr. William Weathersby, on the annual Project 4 Awesome charity event.

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

14.02.2025 20:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible, unbelievable, marvelous, astounding, fabulous, unreal, staggering, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, over the top, ridonkulous, wild, breathtaking, far-out. 😁

14.02.2025 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Decreasing "world suck"!

14.02.2025 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

14.02.2025 17:51 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! If you're really keen on the profanity, "F*cklefairy Finn" is an option (after watching "The Adventures of Huck Finn" on our weekly family movie night).

02.02.2025 20:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Finnegan Finhorn the Fickle? Princess Flufferbutt? Finny Funnybottom the Horned Aquanaut? The Horned Hotdog? Barnacle Bart?! 😅

02.02.2025 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An unsettling depiction of an imagined screenshot of a nonsense YouTube livestream by Chizza Marge and Hank Flanders, with the live chat displayed at the bottom. The Chizza Marge character has the cartoon body of Marge Simpson, the terracotta head of John Green, hair of chia sprouts and a cactus (for height), and a thought bubble with the words "Legal Reasons". Hank Flanders has the body of Ned Flanders, the head of Hank Green from that brief moment he had a mustache, and his arm around Chizza Marge. The live chat is borrowed from a real Nerdfighter livestream, in which one user's comment on the terracotta figurine of John Green's head ("a cactus would be great. a nice Marge Simpson look") led to this visual attempt at whatever this is. The other commenters say "Howdy", "Johnergy", and "hope everyone has a good day <3".

An unsettling depiction of an imagined screenshot of a nonsense YouTube livestream by Chizza Marge and Hank Flanders, with the live chat displayed at the bottom. The Chizza Marge character has the cartoon body of Marge Simpson, the terracotta head of John Green, hair of chia sprouts and a cactus (for height), and a thought bubble with the words "Legal Reasons". Hank Flanders has the body of Ned Flanders, the head of Hank Green from that brief moment he had a mustache, and his arm around Chizza Marge. The live chat is borrowed from a real Nerdfighter livestream, in which one user's comment on the terracotta figurine of John Green's head ("a cactus would be great. a nice Marge Simpson look") led to this visual attempt at whatever this is. The other commenters say "Howdy", "Johnergy", and "hope everyone has a good day <3".

I always enjoy having an excuse to make more cursed (and I guess sometimes less cursed) Nerdfighter art with the family! You never quite know what's going to happen at a P4A! #NerdfArters #DFTBA

22.01.2025 03:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're here.

19.01.2025 04:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Puppy-sized elephants!

14.01.2025 01:32 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.

01.01.2025 13:12 👍 2755 🔁 423 💬 28 📌 12
A green-cheek conure named Coconut sits on a perch, with their head tilted and looking quizzical. The background is a reproduction of "The Starry Night" oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, that happens to be hanging on the wall behind the bird.

A green-cheek conure named Coconut sits on a perch, with their head tilted and looking quizzical. The background is a reproduction of "The Starry Night" oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, that happens to be hanging on the wall behind the bird.

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

01.01.2025 02:12 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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)

25.12.2024 03:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two green-cheek conures are perched together, high up on their spherical rope-climbing toy. One of the birds is preening the other, seemingly in just the right spot (the tiny feathers just above the beak).

Two green-cheek conures are perched together, high up on their spherical rope-climbing toy. One of the birds is preening the other, seemingly in just the right spot (the tiny feathers just above the beak).

Same from us to you and Cora! It turns out our birds can't get COVID from us silly mammals, so they continue to remind us to use our vacation time for rest, treats, and music (or loud car-alarm-like noises...). They also dance and sing along with their favourite holiday tune: 12 Days of Christmas.

20.12.2024 01:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
QuaranTUNE Concerts — QuaranTune Virtual Dulcimer Fest

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!!

17.12.2024 02:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Drawing of woman carrying a boxful of raccoons towards a man who is holding his arms in front of him - he doesn't seem to want the raccoon. Text: "she returned his gaze..." Ian McEwan, Atonement. Drawing signed RAP

Drawing of woman carrying a boxful of raccoons towards a man who is holding his arms in front of him - he doesn't seem to want the raccoon. Text: "she returned his gaze..." Ian McEwan, Atonement. Drawing signed RAP

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

16.12.2024 10:58 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Now I want tea. Do I have to do the assignment first?

16.12.2024 04:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0