Desmond Dekker and the Aces on #SkaMonday with Pickney Gal.

The Sunnyside Cemetery in Long Beach, California. Photo by Ansel Adams.

From 1965...

#EarlyRecordingsinJune #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Pre-1935 recordings Lydia Mendoza - "Mal Hombre" (1934) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipej...

#Photography Une bonne fin d'après-midi #stunday #Art #Photo #Nature #naturephotography

Caturday

Certainly very happy to play with Gage Hulsey and Riley Baker amongst all of these fine roses!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Artwork by Ken Taylor

Matchbox, 1 June

The wide array of images we come across every day... and those that hold us for an extra beat or two. 😊

OM Lupetto

John Lee Hooker - Dimples Don't Look Back (1997) youtu.be/PEcBPwn9two?si=2l0L3tkpquND0eqC

Good morning and welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday The people who make the biggest difference are often the ones who never notice it. They simply carry on, sharing kindness, compassion, and warmth wherever they wander. Be that person 🧡

"Global health organisation CEPI will give roughly $60 million to Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab and two ​other groups to accelerate the development of shots against Ebola Bundibugyo, the deadly virus that has swept through eastern Democratic ‌Republic of Congo..." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

For this #SkaMonday, "Little Irene" by The Skatalites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSL2...

Tom Waits by Anton Corbijn, 1985.

Powers Boothe, born 1 June 1948.

"...In the silent painted park where I walked her and aired her a little, she sobbed and said I would soon, soon leave her as everybody had, and I sang her a wistful French ballad, and strung together some fugitive rhymes to amuse her..." (Vladimir Nabokov)

"She went right down into her personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary...It was all truth... She found things, found things about womankind in herself." Director John Huston remembering Monroe's work on "The Misfits."

“Marilyn had an incredible charisma that was so rare, I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like it... I loved working with her and a lot of people say that is clear in our scenes together. I absolutely adored her and we got on wonderfully.” Jack Lemmon remembering Marilyn Monroe, #BOTD.

Frank Morgan, born 1 June 1890.

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one." Marilyn Monroe, #BOTD.

Happy Birthday to Brian Cox, born 1 June 1946.

"If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul." Clifford Odets on Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortenson on 1 June 1926.

Actor and director Clive Brook, born 1 June 1887.

Happy Birthday to Morgan Freeman, born 1 June 1937.

Recorded live in Spain in March 2006, "Mercury Blues" by Jackson Browne and David Lindley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=czC0...

I looked in Miami I looked in Negril The closest I came was a month old bill I checked the Bahamas and they said she was gone Can't understand why she did me so wrong From 1976, "Sunspot Baby" by Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5k...

"...he came on and did a scene about four minutes, and absolutely stunned the audience. And then we were left empty, empty and wounded by this actor." Eli Wallach recalling Marlon Brando in "Truckline Cafe" (by Maxwell Anderson). The drama premiered on Broadway late February 1946.

Alida Valli in "Senso" - BOTD

A 1958 BMW 507 roadster with a 3168cc aluminum alloy V8 and a 4-speed manual transmission.

"Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft."

From 1954, Capucine modeling evening wear by Givenchy. Photo by Genevieve Naylor.

Montgomery Clift on the set of "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959). Photo by Burt Glinn.

From 1966, "See See Rider" by The Animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Qg...

From 1964m "I'm Crying" by The Animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIJn...

A lovely bit of Sunday morning music.

Nahui Olín by Edward Weston, 1923.

Whenever I visit a castle, I like to sit on one of these benches and think about what medieval life must have been like. 🤔

Hans Richter, Sergei Eisenstein and Man Ray, 1929.

François Truffaut and Jean Cocteau.

“Things That Don’t Really Mix: Exhibit A”, Shot Bar BANG BANG, Kraków, Poland, August 21, 2024, 9:41 AM #photography #eastcoastkin #UrbanGaze #Urbanphotography #ArtYear #PhotographersofBluesky

A recent sketch of mine. Portrait of Emily B, based on a photo reference posted by the subject herself on the Museum by Sktchy app. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp #sketchclub

Great gag photo of director Clarence Brown serving up some fresh film strips for dinner, 1926

From 2011, "The Beatitudes" by Kronos Quartet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FskO...

"What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided-they were one and the same thing." Happy Birthday to filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, born 31 May 1970.

Missed #Caturday with this neighbor but still a nice one. Lots of meowing and circling around me for attention, hoping I could open the door.

Paolo Sorrentino (with scenes from his film "The Hand of God") - BOTD