I MADE MY FAVOURITE CARTOONIST LAUGH! (at a pun of all things).

People of a certain age may remember the film "Bagdad Cafe" (1987) and its very haunting theme song www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLp...

Night falls in the Democratic Purrrples Republic of Furrifelineistan

Art lives in interpretation. Why do artists allow interlopers to erect barriers between us and the people whose interaction with our work is its constant re-animating breath? Be the artist who tells the art-world gatekeepers to take a long walk on a short pier. Your name 🫵 on this list 👇

Form speaks. Even in techniques such as collage and assemblage, the artist is constantly evaluating and deciding: it's in the selection of fragments/objects, and the ways in which their sets of associations, functions, and visual elements are juxtaposed, manipulated, altered, and given new meanings.

T: "if I go to your father’s house he will try to keep me in the warmth of his good will towards me, and I must go home at once.” P: "I know how obstinate he is, and am sure he will not let you go; he will come down here to fetch you, and he will not go back without you.” (Od.15.200 & 211)

I suspected that finding artists for a starter pack aimed at fostering casual engagement with art enthusiasts and the art curious would be a challenge, and so far I'm being proven right. If you know of anyone who fits the brief, please send/show them this invitation 👇 #art #artists

"One of my favourite aspects of art history is that the more time you give to any given piece of art, the more personally compelling it can become." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #renaissance #earlymodern ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/subjective...

South Africa on 3 Jan. hoping the U.S does not notice that we have the world's largest resources of platinum group metals (87,7% of world total), manganese (80%), chromium (72,4%), gold (29,7%), alumino-silicates and over 40% of global production of ferrochromium, platinum group metals and vanadium.

Artists! BlueSky is the perfect place to socialize and shoot the breeze. I'm creating a starter pack of artists who are open to questions and chatting about art (their own and art in general) without making anyone feel stupid or guilted into buying something. Comment to be on this list #art #artists

Artists! BlueSky is the perfect place to socialize and shoot the breeze. I'm creating a starter pack of artists who are open to questions and chatting about art (their own and art in general) without making anyone feel stupid or guilted into buying something. Comment to be on this list #art #artists

The drab substation at Riebeeck Square in Cape Town’s inner city has been transformed into a vibrant public gallery featuring murals by local artists.Along St George’s Mall, through which 12

Seen: "Your LinkedIn profile pic is catfishing people"

"That goddess Atē, senior daughter of Zeus—she makes everyone veer off-course that disastrous one, the one who has delicate steps. She never makes contact with the ground of the threshold, never even going near it, but instead she hovers over the heads of men, bringing harm to mortals" Il:19.91-3

While you were sleeping www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO7...

I recall reading somewhere once that simply imagining yourself doing a physical exercise could burn calories. So, just think of all the benefits to be derived from watching a cartoon character doing what is supposedly one the most effective 7-minute exercise regimens out there. You're welcome.

"A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs." (Il.11.514)

Shrinkflation hurts everyone 🎻

For those who observe the ancient ritual of watching "Dinner for One" on New Year's Eve, here is the link in case your younger relatives 'accidentally' lost your copy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7V...

NEWS ALERT. The great catastrophe that the prophets and psychics all predicted would happen at the close of 2025 has occurred: The switch on my mini-grinder just stopped working.

Should any cultural commentator of the British persuasion on here have the time, could you please tell us what depths of evil would make the BBC choose to carpet-bomb its unsuspecting international viewership with endless episodes of the excruciation that is "Mrs. Brown's Boys" this time of year?

The U.S. English die-alect

"humans devised strategies to experience the sacred. These strategies allowed the supernatural to be authentically presented to the human worshiper, on the one hand, and offered confirmation to humans that the things they did were noticed by the gods, on the other." www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

It's a misconception that artists opposed to AI generated 'art' are technophobes. Art is a form of technology. But as Conceptualism demonstrated, art is an inherently idea-driven tech. Every artwork is a record of the thought and problem-solving processes that produced it.

Charlize Theron as Circe: "If you leave these flocks unharmed, and think of nothing but getting home, you may yet after much hardship reach Ithaca; but if you harm them, then I forewarn you of the destruction both of your ship and of your comrades."

In the wilderness between Christmas and New Year…

Tom Holland as Telemachus: "Father, you will come to know me by and by, and when you do you will find that I can keep your counsel. I do not think, however, the plan you propose will be a gain for either of us. Think it over."

Anne Hathaway as Penelope: Sweet hearts, great Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait, for I would not have skill in weaving perish unrecorded, till I have completed a shroud for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.

When you've invited Erwin Schrödinger over for lunch and the cat finds out.

"I have no pleasure in being lord of all this wealth. Whoever your parents may be they must have told you about all this, and of my heavy loss in the ruin of a stately dwelling fully and magnificently furnished. Would that I had only a third of what I now have so that I had stayed at home" Od.4.93-6

"Son of Atreus,’ he answered, 'why ask me? You had better not know my mind [noos], for your eyes will surely fill when you have heard my story'." (Od.4.494)

When your economy reflects your landscape 😂😭

A Beyonce song done right 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYUn...

Crisis averted

One for the academics 🎄

Fröhliche Weihnachten @80incognito.bsky.social, Bowie Beertjie en Toby 😁

For the South Africans on here: Zapiro's GNU-themed Christmas card

Zeus looked angrily at him and said, "Do not come whining here, you who lean both ways. I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief ... you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans". Il.5.889-899

Fueled by a yearning for revenge following repeated rejection and mocking early in life, the ugly duckling grew up to become a ruthless dictator and oppressor of ducks everywhere.

"At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme, for she was of a good natural disposition; moreover there was a singer with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to keep guard over his wife;"

This promo for AFCON (that's the African Cup of Nations, to the uninitiated) makes me smile every time it comes on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEcj...

"I saw mighty Hēraklēs, but it was his phantom [eidōlon] only, for he [autos] is feasting ever with the immortal gods ... The spirits were screaming round him like scared birds flying in all directions. He looked black as night with his bare bow in his hands and his arrow on the string" Od.11.601-8

Can anyone account for the whereabouts of @wildobliquities.bsky.social at 7:30 am, August 13, 2025?

Compilation of scale studio drawings for assemblage sculptures (from left: Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ, and Helena ΑΕΘΛΟΝ). Ink, and marker on paper. #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse

Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ, assemblage (fishing buoy, spring calipers, hand-forged calipers, camping stove, light fixture ceiling hook cup, combination square blades, pencil sharpener, tracing wheel, saltshaker, gate valve head, toast rack parts, pepper grinder, wood, paint). #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture

Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ, Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, and Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture

Nestor ΝΟΟΣ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #Sculpture

Asklepios ΟΙΞΕΣΘΑΙ and Herakles ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse

"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them." (Iliad.4.440-445)

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