Matchbox, 20 July

Share someone who looks stylish wearing a hat.

Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers - Little Red Rooster (Live) That's My Partner (2000) youtu.be/vSelBvfXil4?si=BHOrv4MUywkyXNPq

Next to the beach in gymnastics. 🪵🦜

Hit by lightning on the golf course. Anything else will be a never ending conpiracy.

Rochelle Oliver, Percy Rodriguez, Jason Robards and Irene Worth in "Toys in the Attic" which opened in February 1960.

"I'm a professional, and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act... [And also because] it's what I do for a living and, besides, I've got bookies to keep." (Peter O'Toole)

Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Pier Angeli, Herb Shriner, Gale Storm, Vic Damone, and Spike Jones on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas for Look Magazine on July 20, 1953.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Made me want to read Ulysses. Which made me want to read Finnegans Wake. Which made me study for a PhD. Which got me a job at St Andrews Uni. Which made me walk away from academia and write and work for myself for the last 30 years.

Bathing at Alfortville https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-rousseau/bathing-at-alfortville

From 1968 for #SkaMonday, "Jackpot" by The Pioneers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9o...

Giorgio Morandi, born 20 July 1890.

"I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble." Writer Cormac McCarthy, born 20 July 1933. (Photo by Kurt Markus)

"Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends." Edmund Hillary, #BOTD.

Max Liebermann, born 20 July 1847.

Photographer, painter, collagist, designer, teacher: László Moholy-Nagy was born on 20 July 1895.

In some ways reaching the summit of Everest in 1953 may be akin to NASA putting a man on the moon in 1969. The former accomplishment was achieved by Tenzing Norgay and mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Hillary, who was born on 20 July 1919.

Lola Albright, born 20 July 1924.

"The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go. If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic." Diana Rigg, born 20 July 1938.

I like to think #botd Evil Under The Sun Diana Rigg is channelling Carole Lombard in her sun hat.

Bessie Smith - Poor Man's Blues (1928) youtube.com/watch?v=Ykl6...

In 1979, Geraldine Chaplin (daughter of Charlie) recreates the Aphrodite figure from the #LudovisiThrone, wearing a diaphanous "Delphos" gown by the Venetian designer #Fortuny that had belonged to her mother, Oona O'Neill (daughter of Eugene). 🏺👗🎬🎭

mood #filmsky 📽️

I love honesty boxes and always stop when I see one. This is my all-time favourite, near Applecross 😄

They died needlessly so Pedolf could play the stock market & distract & deflect from the Epstein files

Come affronto l'ultima settimana di lavoro, prima delle vacanze 🎈🎈

“Claudius? (‘GUCCI’ Font)”, The Mall at Short Hills, Short Hills, New Jersey, July 10, 2026, 1:14 PM #photography #eastcoastkin #MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #BlueSkyMonday #ArtYear #PhotographersofBluesky #NewJersey

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

By Hughie Lee-Smith (1953).

Elaine de Kooning Self-Portrait Oil and charcoal on canvas, 1946

From 1966, "Handsome Johnny" by Richie Havens, and written him and Louis Gossett, Jr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdy...

From her first album released in the summer of 1993, "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlax...

On Monday, former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham succeeds Keir Starmer as the United Kingdom's prime minister. Burnham's politics have been shaped by England's north-south class divide. n.pr/4w5haiy

"[Deborah Kerr was] the best, my favorite... Life would be kind if I could live it with Deborah around." (Robert Mitchum)

“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...

Paul and Nusch Éluard by Dora Maar (1937).

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

"I think the things that are necessary in my profession are these: Taste, Talent and Tenacity. I think I have had a little of all three."

Edgar Degas, born 19 July 1834.

Buddy Rich (1917 - 1987).

"...I got the sit-down, can't cry Oh Lord, I'm gonna die blues..." From 1966, "High Flyin' Bird" by Richie Havens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUyd...

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."