The Apartment in v widescreen

En los siglos XV y XVI fueron muy populares los libros de islas. El Isolario (1528) del veneciano Benedetto Bordone destacó por ser el primero en mostrar de manera aislada a muchas islas de América, incluso Tenochtitlan en el lago Texcoco, que había sido […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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the Radio Times was once a hotbed of modernist design

Campaña a favor de un sello de traducción humana. ¡Gracias! @acetraductores.bsky.social sellodetraduccionhumana.ace-traductores.org

Banana dress, 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1330604

I laugh (gently), but idk if my own manic historicism is any different really

Fraktur from 1949 surprised me

3D Medusa-Christ

It'd be great if there was a Merlin app but for ALL the sounds in the soundscape. Like, at the moment: Chiffchaff, robin, Eurasian blackcap Ice cream van Drunkard Hammering Rubble being emptied out of truck Yapping of maximum 10lb dog Hot Stuff by Donna Summer

wooden lattice

Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you ~They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

A collage to be hung on the wall #collage #papercollage #handcut #assembled

at färst the wain, gairnin and boakin in his nurse's airms "All The World's a Stage," mid-Antrim transcription

It is a rare day indeed when the wind drops here, and when it does another kind of beauty is revealed.

Flann O’Brien/Brian Ó Nualláin aged 14 on Herbert Place, D2

horses for courses

Helen Sewell (1952)

The distinction is preserved in some Swiss German dialects where you have to“zwee Manne, zwo Froue, zwöi Chind“ (two men, two women, two children).

we watched SHOOT THE MOON (1982) what an actress so much shouting at the screen: "No. Diane, no! He's an asshole! Don't let him back!"

I acquired these arms some time ago they give me the ick so I keep them in a bag only just noticed they are an unpair, two right hands

April 2026

French people bravely having a go at my surname

pursuit

water under the bridge torta under the bridge

"Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1948, Ophuls), v close to film noir set in the depths of the night; narrated by a dead character, like Sunset Boulevard & Double Indemnity

“The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the production of knowledge about their own societies.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-first-...

Very sorry to hear that the poet J.H. Prynne has died, at the age of 89. Here, from 10 years ago, is my attempt to describe the man and the work

v interesting map

many things worthy of admiration were observed in their journey nice illustrated 1948 US-American Marco Polo, incl. Pearl Buck..

CO2 concentration = c. 345 ppm

serious person read serious book

1/15 As a fan of both, I was intrigued to see vaudeville/radio comedian Jack Benny mentioned in a biography of Hank Williams. It was only a brief mention, but the context was interesting, as was the fact that their paths even crossed at all. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ THREAD⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Helene Kirschke (1892 - 1945) 'Prinzessin Zahai Tafari' Title of the weekly "Jugend", Munich, 1931, No.5

twice in one week I end up in a swanky, unpleasant part of town ¡with no phone battery! impoverished: no maps, no photos, no bikeshare, no Uber, nothing to read, don't even know the time just trudge to the subway & get out

My favourite Prince song m.youtube.com/watch?v=_WmP...

the British in Havana 1762, decimated by disease

For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I have continued working on an investigation that began on Twitter a decade ago. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/was-fw-mur...

I really like this magazine's attitude.

I knew Tito was nearby then there he was

Untitled (ca. 1850) Photo: Unidentified photographer / MoMA

the ads Instagram has started sending me 😶

thank you for your attention to this Matta

Ivy (1947) is a prequel to Rebecca where Joan Fontaine plays Rebecca

You can't have a bad day at work if you don't go

visionary

acoustic

That Summer Feeling youtu.be/3edg69iBr2Q

At 7.40pm on January 16th 1926, the BBC broadcast Ronald Knox's spoof report of an angry mob from the National Movement for Abolishing Theatre Queues rampaging through London, destroying parliament and hanging the transport minister from a lamppost. Listeners, inevitably, lost their shit.

"Left to itself, Umbria produced works of senile imbecility..." pouring scorn, but fair-minded, *dialectical* scorn