Clifford Odets (with Luise Rainer) - BOTD

#filmsky #apartheid #racism #NobelPeacePrize Entryway into the Nelson Mandela #botd wing of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa (2019)

Jean Seberg, 1958.

Matchbox, 18 July

"...Once again, the US military is pummelling the country and, increasingly, its civilian infrastructure. As before, this unlawful bludgeoning strengthens the resistance of a hardline regime that cares little for its people’s suffering."

Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal, 1898 #photography #moon

📸 Evelyn Hofer • Luis Barragan in Mexico City 1983

"When we so cheapen the concept of human life that we can be permissive to the occasional bomb or bullet, I think we've taken a giant step back into the Dark Ages. And I don't think there's a light at the end of that tunnel. " ~ Rod Serling

(isabel_grosser_photography) BRING LIEBE IN ALLES, WAS DU TUST.

12x12 mixed media on wood

1937 • Nusch and Paul Eluard, Ady and Man Ray, fête foraine

In 1929, Ella Maillart became a co-founder of the Swiss Ladies' Ski Club in Mürren, Switzerland to challenge the male-dominated ski landscape and better compete against the British Ladies' Ski Club. #Photography #Switzerland #Skiing #EllaMaillart #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

"In the thick of the evening When the dealing got rough She was too pat to open And too cool to bluff As I picked up my matches and Was closing the door I had one of those flashes: I'd been there before Been there before." "Scarlet Begonias" by The Grateful Dead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrIR...

"Ian Stewart. I'm still working for him. To me, the Rolling Stones is his band. Without his knowledge and organisation... we'd be nowhere." Keith Richards speaking of keyboardist Ian Stewart, born 18 July 1938.

A 1955 Porsche 550.

Near Radford, Virginia, 1941. Photo by Marion Post Walcott.

"Well, I met a little girl In a country town She says, 'What'd you know? 'There's Slim Harpo' I didn't move my head I didn't move my hands I didn't move my lips She shook her hips..." From 1966, "Shake Your Hips" by Slim Harpo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hbg...

Drop some VAMPIRES 🧛🏻‍♀️🩸🖤 ⚰️🧛🏻

Drop some VAMPIRES 🧛🏻‍♀️🩸🖤 ⚰️🧛🏻

Lupe Vélez, born 18 July 1908.

Good morning.

Saw this in a group I used to frequent. The tag line was as follows: "The most confusing part of 'The Odyssey' is how this took 10 years."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting." (Vladimir Nabokov)

South African-born Miriam Makeba by Peter Basch (1970).

Bizarre this may be but it makes more sense than most everything else that happens daily.

"... I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand —"

Hume Cronyn, born 18 July 1911.

It's the same answer to 2 questions: 1.) What's your favorite song by Martha Reeves - #BOTD - and the Vandellas? 2.) What song will you play when you get the news? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xh...

Happy #Caturday

On the bay side early this morning.

We're all classicists now! (May have to start muting.) So here's one of the few objects I actually remembered from 1st-year Art & Arch lecture slides @ UofT & was evocatively delighted to see in the flesh (so to speak) a few years ago. 🏛️🎨 The Ludovisi Throne, c. 260-250 BC Palazzo Altemps, Rome

MAINE— Killer ICE Agent’s ex: “He wanted me to lie about his character. I won’t. He abused me and my daughter… I’ve waited years to speak my truth, and now a man is dead.” They are hiring the worst of the worst.

The pre-Code "Footlight Parade" from 1933 with James Cagney, #BOTD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUyR...

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ― Miriam Adeney Andrea Kowch Reunion 2018 Acrylic on canvas

the supremes walking in london with the temptations trailing behind them, 1965

“Ginger and Fred”, Tancící dům (The Dancing House, designed by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, 1996), Prague, Czech Republic, August 13, 2024, 10:14 AM #photography #eastcoastkin #WindowsOnWednesday #ArtYear #PhotographersofBluesky

For #ButterflyWeek here's the first Peacock Butterfly I've seen this year. #Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland

She's asking for a new license plate. "It has become a topic of conversation in her retirement community, especially among the men."

This is a beautiful post on this day but if you have any struggles with your eyesight you may have difficulty reading it. I created a slightly clearer image.

Homer Page #Photography Young Woman with Fur Collar NYC, 1949

Is this how they keep the public in line?

From late 1965... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzSQ...

From 1997, "Theme from The Valley of the Dolls" written by André and Dory Previn and performed here by k.d. lang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvSY...

I posted this (elsewhere) on 17 July 2018.

Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, photographed in 1928 by Berenice Abbott, #BOTD.

"Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order." James Cagney, born 17 July 1899.

Recorded with Lionel Hampton's Band in 1949, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" by Jimmy Scott, #BOTD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vp...

Arthur Rothstein, born 17 July 1915.

Berenice Abbott, born 17 July 1898.