Arthur David Spota
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Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
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My recent kinetic poem 'As Above' is featured in Issue #8 of the Surrealist Journal, Peculiar Mormyrid #8. The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state. 📷Bill Wolak
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Goodnight🌟 Jason Langer ~ Night Walk, 1994
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richard mortimer
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The moon over the Three Horseshoes car park, Thursday
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Adam Rifkin 🐼
11 months ago
“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave — and it is often hard to be brave — be kind.”
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...
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We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...
https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6
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Hourly Cosmos
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Titan's haze layers - From Val Klavans (
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The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular The Monroe Institute claims its meditations, which have also been used by the US military, help people access different planes of consciousness. Its in-person retreats are now selling out.
www.wired.com/story/the-ci...
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The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular
The Monroe Institute claims its meditations, which have also been used by the US military, help people access different planes of consciousness. Its virtual and in-person retreats are now selling out.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-cia-used-this-psychic-meditation-program-its-never-been-more-popular/
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Artist, photographer, writer and educator Harold Davis Well of St Patrick
#HaroldDavis
#Photography
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French-American Sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle Reims, a 1962 work of found objects, cloth, plaster, wire mesh and paint.
#NikideSaintPhalle
#Contemporaryart
6 months ago
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Open Culture
about 12 hours ago
Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline
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Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline
Much of what we once used the telephone for, we now use the internet for. Conversely, some tasks to which the internet now seems perfectly suited were once performed, imperfectly, through the phone. T...
https://www.openculture.com/2013/05/phone-a-poem.html
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The Tennessee Holler
about 15 hours ago
Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is
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The Tonearm
about 13 hours ago
Chris O'Leary, author of 'Rebel Rebel', discusses his revised deep dive into David Bowie's formative years, the growth of his song-by-song blog, and why he fears the tools that supported his research may not exist for future music writers. Chris O'Leary on Bowie, Blogging, + Music Writing's Future:
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Chris O'Leary on Bowie, Blogging, and Music Writing's Future
The author of 'Rebel Rebel' discusses his revised deep dive into David Bowie's formative years, the organic growth of his song-by-song blog, and why he fears the resources that supported his research may not exist for future music writers.
https://www.thetonearm.com/digging-through-the-ashes-chris-oleary-on-david-bowie-blogging-and-music-writings-future/
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Sardonicus
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Harold D. Craft Jr.'s 1970 PhD thesis, "Radio Observations of the Pulse Profiles and Dispersion Measures of Twelve Pulsars". Page 215 I am getting some Unknown Pleasure from this....
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Miles Davis ~ Paraphernalia (from Miles in the Sky, 1968)
#NowPlaying
#MilesDavis
#MusicSky
with George Benson, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter.
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Paraphernalia
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpDH6a5Dgg&t=1s
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Visual Induction: Works by Franco Grignani (Mariabruna Fabrizi) Hugely influential graphic designer Franco Grignani, an artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting, and is widely considered as the father of Op Art.
#FrancoGrignani
#OpArt
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“Visual Induction”: Works by Franco Grignani
Franco Grignani was a hugely influential graphic designer and artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting. Born in Pieve Porto Morone in Italy in 1908, he studied architectur...
https://socks-studio.com/2017/02/21/visual-induction-works-by-franco-grignani/
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Italian graphic designer Franco Grignani Tensione Plurima-(228), 1964
#FrancoGrignani
#OpArt
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Design Reviewed
5 days ago
Designs by Franco Grignani scanned from Novum Gebrauchgraphik, Nov 11/88.
designreviewed.com/archive/
#franogrignani
#graphicdesign
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John Cale ~ Amsterdam (from Vintage Violence, 1970)
#NowPlaying
#JohnCale
#MusicSky
So lovely, I think it's about Betsy Johnson?
youtu.be/wGCu1okRPcA
via @YouTube
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John Cale and Betsey Johnson, circa 1968
#BetseyJohnson
#JohnCale
#60sFashion
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Betsey Johnson wearing her tinsel motorcycle jacket designed for the New York CIty Paraphernalia Boutique, 1966.
#BetseyJohnson
#60sFashion
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Betsey Johnson with Nico and Antoine at Paraphernalia, NYC (1966)
#BetseyJohnson
#60sFashion
#Nico
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Wendy O'Rourke
4 days ago
It also came in black 🖤 Paraphernalia Dress by Michael Mott (1966)
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Wendy O'Rourke
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Paraphernalia Dress by Michael Mott (1966)
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A Paraphernalia Boutique employee wearing a Betsey Johnson sweater, from Vogue, November 1969.
#BetseyJohnson
#60sFashion
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Wendy O'Rourke
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"In September 1965, the very first Paraphernalia opened in New York on Madison Avenue between 66th and 67th streets. A laboratory and showcase for fresh design talent Paraphernalia led a new epoch in fashionable New York." More here:
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Betsey Johnson wearing one of her designs for the New York City Paraphernalia Boutique, late 1960s.
#BetseyJohnson
#60sFashion
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ann
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Leonora Carrington, Around Wall Street (or Portrait of Pablo in New York) (1973)
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Beautiful Nico, circa 1968
#Nico
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Marianne Faithfull circa 1980, promoting the release of Broken English
#MarianneFaithful
almost 2 years ago
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#Blue
The Blue Nile ~ The Downtown Lights (from Hats, 1989)
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#TheBlueNile
#MusicSky
As good as it gets
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Blue Nile The Downtown Lights Vinyl Reissue Recording
YouTube video by steven alejandro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX4c9Tps_SA&list=RDBX4c9Tps_SA&start_radio=1
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Good Evening🌟
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MeidasTouch
about 15 hours ago
Trump fights to block food aid as layoffs surge, “Sandwich Guy” walks free, and GOP leaders scramble after election losses. From fake Walmart stats to courtroom defeats, the chaos keeps coming. Read our latest bulletin for all the news now:
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 244. 11/6/25
… ‘Sandwich Guy’ Sean Dunn, who was charged after throwing a Subway sandwich at Border Patrol agent Greg Lairmore, was found NOT GUILTY by a jury today.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-244-11625
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God
about 15 hours ago
I added the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ music to the clip and it came out hilarious 😂
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President Dementia Looks On As Man Faints In Oval Office
RFK Jr. flees scene.
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/president-dementia-looks-on-as-man
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DJ Mac 🍁
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Just all sweetness, she was!
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Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Light My Fire
YouTube video by Funktastic Ed
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My favorite one. British singer Julie Driscoll, circa 1967.
#JulieDriscoll
#Photography
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𝖂𝖆𝖍𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖎𝖌
about 18 hours ago
😄 Are you too a
#Bibliophile
who engages in
#Bibliomancy
🔮 such that you became a
#Bibliomaniac
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Andrija Popovic
about 20 hours ago
A frank exploration of librophilia!
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Karenlee Kitto
2 days ago
#photography
#ColorADay
#RedWed
#abstract
#trees
#multiexposure
#composite
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Fred Wellman
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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
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A.G. Pasquella
about 18 hours ago
Ol’ Jeanine will be drinking tonight
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Pablo Picasso ~ Still Life with Glass Under the Lamp (Nature morte au verre sous la lampe, 1962)
#PabloPicasso
#ModernArt
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Paul Welsh
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Amelia Peláez Fishes
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The hoagie heard around the world! DC sandwich guy found not guilty of assault. (The real humor is in the testimony details) Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.
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DC ‘Sandwich Guy’ Found Not Guilty After Defense Successfully Highlights Absurdity Of It All
Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-sandwich-guy-not-guilty_n_690b8d7fe4b09953a606304d?myy
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The Chocolate Watchband ~ Misty Lane (from Inner Mystique, 1968)
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#ChocolateWatchband
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Great song in every possible way with an excellent Stone's vibe and the usual perfect Ed Cobb production. Happy Thursday🌠
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The Chocolate Watchband - 10 - Misty Lane
YouTube video by LosWoodandStock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph3qcdZv7vI
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Light Is Calling (2004) A film by Bill Morrison Music by Michael Gordon Created using a decomposing 35mm print of the 1926 crime drama The Bells, the film depicts a dreamy encounter with images that reveal themselves only to distort and disappear.
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Light Is Calling (SD)
YouTube video by Bill Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf9ah8IUVgw
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Karenlee Kitto
13 days ago
#photography
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#composite
#portrait
#abstract
#photographersofbluesky
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Karenlee Kitto
17 days ago
#photography
#ColorADay
#BlueTue
#abstract
#trees
#composite
#photographersofbluesky
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Johnnie Johnstone
3 days ago
Farewell Joseph Byrd, who helped create one of the oddest and most original LPs of the Sixties. Seems appropriate to acknowledge one rebel spirit with an ode to another. ‘Love Song For The Dead Che’ - The United States of America, 1968.
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International Times
1 day ago
Thanks to Freak Show of Madness
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Just Jack
1 day ago
This is the kind of investigation James Comer was made for…
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Jonathan
about 18 hours ago
They lost, BIGLY! Karen Kult “Moms For Liberty” suffered a humiliating defeat, losing ALL 31 of the races in which the hate group ran candidates!
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