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Inside Out — The World, Opened Upby Pandi
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From fingertip to soundboard: inside one piano note

Portrait cutaway editorial illustration of a grand piano showing one fingertip pressing a key and a clear mechanical path through the key, action, hammer, string, bridge, and soundboard into radiating sound waves.
A single keystroke travels through the piano’s action: the key lifts the hammer, the hammer strikes a tensioned string, and the vibrating string transfers energy to the soundboard, which moves the surrounding air. Details are simplified for clarity and vary among piano designs.
Inside Out — The World, Opened Upby Pandi
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Where the rain goes

Instagram artwork
Urban stormwater
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A rainy block is one water system: roofs and pavement shed runoff, drains carry it, and the flow ends in a receiving waterway. Swipe to follow it. 🌧️.
Follow one raindrop through a city block, from roof and pavement to planted soil, underground storage and a receiving stream. 🌧️
Retro Summer Vibesby Pandi
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Monument Picnic — Joshua Tree, 1993

Retro summer illustration of a shaded picnic table at Joshua Tree National Monument in 1993, with a red thermos, two enamel cups, Joshua trees and granite boulders.
Desert shade, two cups, nowhere else to be.
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Pier Before Noon — Malibu, 1988

Retro summer illustration looking beneath a weathered Malibu pier, with pale surf, an anonymous cream bicycle and wide marine-blue sky.
The tide was early. So were we.
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Red Rock Picnic — Sedona, 1986

Retro summer illustration of a quiet Sedona creek-side picnic beneath cottonwoods, with a folded blanket, cooler and red sandstone buttes.
A little shade goes a long way.
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Canoe Rack — Lake Michigan, 1990

Retro summer illustration of three striped canoes on a wooden rack beside Lake Michigan dunes, beach grass and a white lifeguard chair.
Three boats, one long blue afternoon.
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The Screen Door — Vermont, 1994

Retro summer illustration of a modest Vermont lakeside cabin with an open screen door, lawn chair, dock, red canoe and green northern hills.
The lake came right up to the porch.
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Drive-In Blue Hour — El Paso, 1989

Retro summer illustration of an empty El Paso desert drive-in at blue hour, with a blank screen, vintage speaker posts, a small red hatchback and violet mountains.
The screen stayed blank. The night still started.
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Last Shade — Santa Fe, 1992

Retro summer illustration of a quiet Santa Fe adobe courtyard with a turquoise bench, striped blanket, prickly pear and cottonwood shadow.
The courtyard held the last cool air.
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Salt Road — Formentera, 1991

Retro summer illustration of a vintage blue bicycle beside a white lane through Formentera salt flats toward bright turquoise Mediterranean water.
Leave the bike. Follow the white road.