"What Lennie Tristano said to me was... 'Just don't have any fears about where you are going. Just keep your ears open.'" Happy Birthday Arnold Fishkind born July 20, 1919

Tony Allen #BOTD & Hugh Maskela - "We've Landed" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOJ...

"When we shift our economic priorities of consuming to a more spiritual sphere then we can solve all economic problems with much less energy." Happy Birthday Nam June Paik born July 20, 1932

PETER FALK looking delightfully dishevelled on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1975

Bobby Knox #BOTD - "Party Doll" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL7M...

Sex Pistols (Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook #BOTD, and Glen Matlock) - "Pretty Vacant" (live Notre Dame Hall, Westminicer, London, 1976) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzcz...

Happy 70th birthday, drummer and founding member of the Sex Pistols - Paul Cook. 🎂

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Kim Carnes, 81 today.

#BOTD 1938. Remembering actress Diana Rigg. (d.2020) #Filmsky

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Carlos Santana, 79 today.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Jem Finer, 71 today.

CH BEATA I by László Moholy-Nagy, 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137399

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian-American (1895-1946), The Bicyclist (Still Life), 1920-21, oil on canvas, 93.5 x 74 cm

László Moholy-Nagy, Z II, 1925 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134598

Architecture (Eccentric Construction) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137247

László Moholy-Nagy, Nickel Construction, 1921 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136151

🎨 #LászlóMoholyNagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor, who was a Professor in the #Bauhaus School, was #BOTD 20 July 1895. #Art #Painting

"When you ain't got nothing, You got nothing to lose." 💿 #OTD in #Music #History 20 July 1965, #BobDylan released his hit single LIKE A ROLLING STONE on Columbia Records, who were hesitant to release it, due to its electric sound. ▶️ youtu.be/IwOfCgkyEj0

#BOTD 1938. Remembering actress Natalie Wood. (d.1981) #Filmsky

🎨 #LeonDeSmet, Flemish painter, was #BOTD 20 July 1881. #Art #Painting

🎨 #MaxLiebermann, German Impressionist painter, was #BOTD 20 July 1847. #Art #Painting

Spirited Away was released #OTD 2001. Director: Hayao Miyazaki. #Filmsky

🎨 #PierreDrevet, French engraver, was #BOTD 20 July 1663. #Art

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/petrarch ✒️ Francesco #Petrarch, Italian Renaissance poet, was #BOTD 20 July 1304. #Poetry #Literature

Bo Diddley/Lady Bo "Aztec" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQ6... Happy Birthday Peggy Jones Malone! Lady Bo July 19, 1940- September 16, 2015

John Martin (1789-1854), Belshazzar's Feast, 1820

John Martin (1789-1854), “Pandemonium” (1841), oil on canvas, 185 x 123 cm.

Macbeth (1820) - John Martin #romanticism #literary_painting

John Martin 19 juli 1789 - 17 februari 1854

Hideo Nakata (with scenes from his film "Dark Water") - BOTD

"I have made efforts to retain the *cartoony* effect. I did not welcome the trend of the industry to go "arty". -Max Fleischer #BOTD “Invisible Ink” (1921) Koko the Clown vs. Max Fleischer

Maggie Cheung in Green Snake (1993) Director Tsui Hark

Images from the films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa - BOTD in 1955 Even in his non-horror films, Kurosawa is fond of shots where the audience has to strain to make out the details Pulse (2001) Tokyo Sonata (2008) Journey to the Shore (2015) Creepy (2016)

Matthew Libatique (with scenes from the Darren Aronofsky films "Requiem for a Dream", "The Fountain", "Black Swan" and "Mother!" where Libatique served as the cinematographer) - BOTD

Pat Hingle in the Stephen Frears film "The Grifters" (with Angelica Huston) - BOTD

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from July 19, 1908.

Today is the birthday of Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883-Sept. 11, 1972), cartoonist, animator, inventor, director, & producer.

Hachi no su no kodomotachi (1948) Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Isabel Jewell in "The Leopard Man" - BOTD

A. J. Cronin (with scenes from the King Vidor film adaptation of the Cronin novel "The Citadel") - BOTD

Saïd Taghmaoui in "La Haine" - BOTD

Edgar Degas, born 19 July 1834.

“She was a tall, white blues singer and guitar player – funky, lanky and sultry. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday’s and played guitar like Jimmy Reed, and went all the way with it.” Bob Dylan remembering Karen Dalton, #BOTD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=er8P...

Karen Dalton, born 19 July 1937. "It Hurts Me Too" released in 1969. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-Z...

Atom Egoyan (with scenes from his adaption of the Russell Banks novel "The Sweet Hereafter") - BOTD

Helen Gallagher - BOTD

Paul and Nusch Éluard by Dora Maar (1937).

Max Flescher (with Mae Questel) - BOTD

Patricia Medina - BOTD

Billie Holiday and her boxer "Mister," at the Downbeat Club in NYC (1947)