An in-depth rave review of Frank Sinatra "In The Wee Small Hours" Tone Poet Vinyl Edition by Tracking Angle! trackingangle.com/music/frank-... "in the areas of color, richness of texture, and that difficult-to-define organic character of analog and vinyl where this new remastering really shines."

Absolutely love this film! His fishing scene always reminds me of William Powell’s similar scene in Libeled Lady. I often wished I could see those scenes side by side.

Celebrate the Rock Hudson Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Sanford Roth, 1978 “At the very least, the vaunted, rocklike masculinity of great male stars moved closer to the light. The rocks, sometimes, are cardboard shapes moved around by props people.” - David Thomson

Celebrate the Charles Mackerras Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Erich Auerbach, 1959 "He had an unerring instinct for the right inflections in Classical & early Romantic works, the right ornaments in Baroque music & the right sense of earthy realism in contemporary scores." - Allan Kozinn

If memory serves, Mae West had a contractual clause that only she was allowed to wear white or black in her films. This photo is evidence why.

Great song. That billboard is Hella creepy though.

Weegee

Happy birthday Martin Scorsese 🎂 📷 Irving Penn for Vogue, 1993 "While his contemporaries have burned out, sold out, or cashed in, Scorsese continues to produce some of the most challenging & influential cinema America has to offer." - Oliver Berry

Remembering Gordon Lightfoot on his birthday 🎂 📷 David Gahr, Newport, 1967 "Every time I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last forever." - Bob Dylan A great songwriter, from the land of the great songwriters. 🇨🇦 "In The Early Morning Rain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ5...

@dean.bsky.social - David Amram at 95! Happy Birthday David! allenginsberg.org/2025/11/m-17...

Incredible photograph by Mark Seliger, December 2007

Remembering Nobel laureate José Saramago on his birthday 🎂 📷 Daniel Mordzinski "Saramago is worth it. More than worth it. Transcendently worth it." - Ursula K. Le Guin, "Some Books I've Liked"

Love it! The Oboe Sonata piano part is fiendish, but it’s a great piece.

Greetings from Comox, may listen to some Krall this evening (after the Grey Cup).

I really like Hindemith, but I still find this funny.

"It may have done me more harm than good, but it made an impact. I thought it had a Dickensian quality." - Burgess Meredith on his role as The Penguin in Batman 📺

Burgess Meredith in "Time Enough At Last" The great Twilight Zone episode aired on CBS November 20, 1959 📺 "Nature & books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remembering Burgess Meredith on his birthday 🎂 ✏️ A wonderful drawing by William Auerbach-Levy "I always have an ear cocked for the clarion call, an eye for the next role."

Mary Astor was right!

Remembering George S. Kaufman on his birthday 🎂 📷 Edward Steichen, Vanity Fair, 1930 "I never want to go any place where I can't get back to Broadway and 44th by midnight."

I have a photo by Peter van Agtmael. Great photographer. (His name jumped out at me from your post.)

On Diana Krall's birthday, do yourself a favour: make some Nanaimo Bars! www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25095...

Happy birthday Diana Krall 🎂 📷 Peter van Agtmael, 2015 Krall was born in Nanaimo, here on Vancouver Island. 🇨🇦 "All of a sudden I was going on tour with Tony Bennett – holy shit! I’m locked in my bedroom listening to Bill Evans and Tony Bennett records and now I’m on tour with him."

Callicarpa bodinieri, aka Beauty Berry, in Oaklands, #YYJ Beginning to think about Christmas 🎄 If one of those tiny purple bulbs burns out, the whole bush goes dark.

Remembering Paul Hindemith on his birthday 🎂 📷 Erich Auerbach, 1957 When asked to describe himself, the answer was simple: "Musician".

Georges Perec for Bluesky: But here the sky is blue Let’s forget the weight of the world

Mood

Yes, she did! (Ashamed to say I didn't know of either Doble, but just dipped in to Wikipedia...)

What a portrait. A bit of Society Surrealism? Love it.

‘A Temporarily Tame Tiger’: Brigid Marlin on J.G. Ballard, Paul Delvaux and surrealist art. Marlin created for Ballard two of the more enduring symbols of his career: reproductions of lost paintings by Paul Delvaux, which adorned his Shepperton home. ballardian45.rssing.com/chan-2504451...

Sad news. Bellos was not only a major translator he wrote a wonderful book defending the art and act of translation, rebutting (eloquently) glib deriding. (Poetry is what is lost in translation. The translator is a traitor. Etc.)

Cool! Frances led quite the life herself.

Two of my favorite artists. What an era!

I love this, but it also makes me sad because it reminds me of what we’ve lost with the near death of black and white film.

Remembering Georgia O'Keeffe on her birthday 🎂 📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960 "As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy." - Roberta Smith

His daughter Fay Ballard is a very talented artist whiteconduitprojects.uk

Also, was Georgia related to actress Frances Doble?

Reresby! I’d a have a kid right now just to name him that!

Remembering Sacheverell Sitwell on his birthday 🎂 📷 Gordon Anthony, 1935 "An 18th-century gentleman who has seen all the world's masterpieces of art, visited its most beautiful countries, read its books, collected its stories, meditated on its curiosities." - Philip Purser

Coventry Cathedral, 15 November, 1940 John Piper (1903–1992) Manchester Art Gallery @artukdotorg.bsky.social Piper shows the Cathedral the day after it was bombed almost to destruction during the Coventry Blitz of November 14 by the German Luftwaffe.

Remembering J. G. Ballard on his birthday 🎂 📷 Chris Clunn bromide fibre print, 30 September 1992 "But oh for a steam-powered computer and a wind-driven television set."

The cat is also shady AF

Yesterday was Richard Kalvar's birthday, but I saved a few shots for a short #caturday thread Wat Aumarinthraram, Bangkok, 2007

eu adoro essa música, dá pra fazer uma lista no letterboxd com todos os filmes em que ela toca

Un thread sur Petula Clark. Vous ne lirez rien de plus français aujourd’hui (yes, we did have a crush on Petula).

Happy birthday Daniel Barenboim 🎂 📷 Erich Auerbach, 1966 🏓 "There is always something happening. He is always moving the world. He never stands still." - Michael Haefliger youtube.com/watch?v=0Ak_...

One last Petula Clark portrait: Petula Clark & the late, great, Laurie Johnson, by Harry Hammond, 1955

Another remarkable portrait: Petula Clark by Chris Ware glossy bromide print, 1950s National Portrait Gallery, London

Here's an awesome photograph: Godfrey Herbert Winn & Petula Clark by George Douglas vintage print, 1950s National Portrait Gallery, London Winn was a fascinating character; at this time he was a newspaper columnist & radio presenter. Check out the vanity license-plate!

Petula Clark and Peter O’Toole on the set of Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr. Chips 📷 Larry Ellis, 1968