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dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear 📷 Esther Bubley Man on Platform, c. 1951 Profile pic by Carl Barks! "And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling." - Bruce Chatwin
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The Velvet Underground at the Retinal Circus, Vancouver, June 1968, via Mrs GD (who didn’t go)

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Spinning today: Tchaikovsky 4-5-6, Klemperer. Hadn't listened to these for years. Didn't like Klemp here. But he's grown on me. T6, particularly, is monumentally harrowing. Still have the original vinyl - on Angel here in the US - nice 3LP box, with the red naugahyde spine indicating stereo. HA!

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Roberto Polillo Thelonious Monk, Milan, 1964

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Fantastic Plastic: Anna Castelli Ferrieri and Giulio Castelli’s Kartell Furniture blog.fabrics-store.com/2021/07/18/f...

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Remembering Robert Falcon Scott on his birthday 🎂 Here's a wonderful picture by Herbert George Ponting from the 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition: Captain Scott's Birthday Dinner, June 6, 1911

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A lovely tribute to the undisputed empress of Languishing Spectral Fashion Apparitions.

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Remembering Nobel laureate Thomas Mann on his birthday 🎂 📷 Yousuf Karsh, 1946 "What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is - terror."

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Remembering Louis Andriessen on his birthday 🎂 📷 Dirk Buwalda, Hoketus, 1977 youtube.com/watch?v=palD... "I’m a classicist. Do your work well. Don’t try to express yourself, & forget about the late 19th century... Oh I’m so sad! I’m so in love!… Yada yada…”

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Remembering Diego Velázquez on his birthday 🎂 🎨 Self-portrait, c. 1645 "He gave the best of his talents to painting portraits, which capture the appearance of reality through the seemingly effortless handling of sensuous paint." - Everett Fahey

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Deborah Turbeville From the Valentino Collection, 1977 I'll be featuring Turbeville on her birthday today 🎂 To start, a couple of very cool wedding-themed photos for June 💍

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Te falar que ir nas praias do Dia D é muito surreal. Você tá ali, aquela praia calminha, quase vazia, aí sua cabeça começa a sobrepor na paisagem as imagens que vc conhece e sabe que aconteceram ali, dá um ruim

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Remembering Chantal Akerman on her birthday 🎂 📷 Laszlo Ruszka, 1980 "She was the only filmmaker who absorbed the radical time structures of American avant-garde film combined with its commitment to personal work and employed all that in narrative art films." - Amy Taubin

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Remembering Isaiah Berlin on his birthday 🎂 📷 Richard Avedon, 1993 "Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."

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A day to think about the horrors of war, and the significance of the landings, amid the losses there.

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