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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater.

Lighthouse, Father Point (1930), by Lawren Harris

Susie (1988), by Lucian Freud. A portrait of Freud’s daughter Susie Boyt, now a novelist.

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California (1927), by Ansel Adams

Oh my, Nadine has woken up from her coma, with her superhuman strength intact! Except she thinks she’s in high school? 😁 #TwinPeaks

Four stills from a film you consider a masterpiece. 13/20 #filmsky 🎬🎥 #MovieSky 📽🍿 Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983)

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge 24 John Renbourn - Palermo Snow (2011) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyNe... From the guitarist’s final album before he died. I saw him live in my local theatre around this time, with his pal Robin Williamson (ex-Incredible String Band). They were delightful!

A photo from the ISS of the Great Escarpment, at the southern tip of Africa.

Oh, you're frustrated with the things I can't do? Same

I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from Ursula K. LeGuin. Arguments are often made about the moral utility of fantasy and genre. And yet, there many for whom it may be their only window to a better world… where it can speak to our understanding in an almost primal way.

Very tiny scones, and no clotted cream. If Bashir wasn’t bewildered by the whole thing, he’d be rightly outraged! 😂 #StarTrekDS9

NEW! Like the tongue-searing, spicy brine of your favorite hasperat, this week's TrekRanks breakdown of the "Top 5 Bajoran Episodes" includes more than a few hot takes on one of the most layered and contextualized species in the history of #StarTrek. Peldor joi! 🔊 www.trekranks.com/trekranks-podcast

Post a female character that you love #MovieSky 🎬📽 #FilmSky 🍿📽

The Rabbit-Warren, Côte Saint-Denis at Pontoise, Snow Effect (1879), by Camille Pissarro

Environs de Cannes, by Henri Lebasque

With respect to my US friends, is creamed corn an American thing? I mean, I like sweet corn, but what kind of a meal is this? It looks like vomit. 😂 Of course, I know that in Lynchland that may be the point. #TwinPeaks #Garmonbozia

Four stills from a film you consider a masterpiece. No title. 11/20 #filmsky 🎬🎥 #MovieSky 📽🍿

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge 23 Pyewackett - Grays Inn Maske (1983) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwDs... Pyewackett were an idiosyncratic folk / early music band that I saw live in a tiny theatre in 1985. This is a little piece by the early 17th Century composer Orlando Gibbons.

The French port of Le Havre at the mouth of the Seine, seen from the ISS.

The word 'Alphabet' comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha & Beta

On the Cliffs (ca 1917), by Laura Knight

Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior (1924), by Lawren Harris

Naked Portrait (2001), by Lucian Freud

Downtown, Manhattan, New York (1947), by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sunrise, Mount Tom, Sierra Nevada (1948), by Ansel Adams

Four stills from a film you consider a masterpiece. No title. 11/20 #filmsky 🎬🎥 #MovieSky 📽🍿

Sunrise over Arizona, seen from the ISS in June 2024.

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge 22 Arvo Pärt - Summa for String Orchestra (1977-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahw5... A short, haunting, gently rocking piece, originally choral but later scored as an instrumental work for strings.

You look too good to be chronically ill #chronicillness #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesshumor

Big MESSENGER Mercury color mosaic - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/56nXrW

Muddy Alligators (1917), by John Singer Sargent

View from the beach at Hellebæk (1889), by Laurits Andersen Ring

Mademoiselle Sicot (1865), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Fish Market (1902), by Camille Pissarro