Tune for that: youtu.be/rb80w-LmX_g?...

Image of the 1915–16 oil on beaverboard The Supply Boat by graphic designer, calligrapher, poet, painter, and popular art teacher J.E.H. (James Edward Hervey) MacDonald (1873–1932); featuring a stylized, almost Orientalist glimpse of a steam ship’s prow in between the rocks of a Great Lakes shore, where a cottage and holidayer can just be glimpsed among the trees. The ship is being met by several smaller boats, its dark exhaust mimicking the shapes of the white clouds and trees along the shore, merging seamlessly with the deep blue sky where three birds that may be gulls circle above the milling passengers. MacDonald's commercial art training is evident in the graphic lines, unusual perspective, and bold color blocks, reminiscent of Japanese prints. The landscape's symbolic elements, influenced by post-impressionists like Van Gogh and Gauguin, further highlight his European artistic heritage. The scene likely depicts the University of Toronto Madawaska Club summer colony at Go Home Bay, on the eastern side of Ontario’s Georgian Bay, it’s members making their purchases from the regularly scheduled supply ship. Go Home Bay had been settled by vacationing U of T academics in the 1890s; there was a pier at their clubhouse, but when winds were strong ships wouldn’t attempt the right-angle turn into the bay’s narrow channel and had to be met by rowboats that made the roughly four km trek out. The ship is most likely the SS Waubic (a name supposedly derived from Ojibwe), launched at Collingwood, Ontario, in 1909: a 134 ft., 400 passenger capacity excursion vessel which served the Go Home Bay route until 1922. Having suffered a serious fire at Kingsville in early 1938, she was rebuilt in Port Dalhousie as a 14 car ferry, refitted with diesel engines, and relaunched as MV Erie Island, eventually arriving in Nova Scotia as MV Prince Nova in 1941. There her half-century of service ended at the Pictou dock in July 1959, when she once again caught fire.

Consider MacDonald’s The Supply Boat (1915–16).

Image of a vinyl ed. copy of The Beloved’s album X, published in April 1996.

“Love life, live life, give life – three steps to heaven” (post-weekend Deep House ear-massage).

Pop advertising art cover includes brands like Max Factor, Camel, Shell, Pepsi-Cola, etc. in psychedelic colors

Gebrauchsgraphik, Jan 1968
Cover by André Chante

Yeah,
I find it difficult to keep up w/ any Japanese musician who’s been working professionally for ≈six decades: Papa Hosono’s œuvre is enormous.
Most interesting here is the mention of Kula (“ball”, or “marble” in Swedish) World, the music of which was created by Twice A Man.

steet photo a group of young girls, one of them is performing a dance, all are happy

East End girl, doing the Lambeth Walk
Bill Brandt, c. 1936

The push to call everything "content" is rooted in consumption of said "content." Not giving anything time to breathe before you consume more content. Content this. Content that.

I am an artist who wears a lot of hats sometimes, but if you call my work "content" I am hitting you with a large hammer

Private Healthcare should be illegal

Apart from optional cosmetic surgery all Doctors and Nurses should be employed by the Government and everyone should be treated equally and free of charge

It's the ONLY way anyone who isn't rich will get the excellent Healthcare they deserve

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired I don't mean I want to sleep. I mean I want to disappear for a while. To be rain on a stranger's roof. To be smoke rising from someone else's fire. I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me. I don't want comfort. I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté

"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."

To walk beneath the march of pylons. To walk beneath the electric ley of the land. To follow The Hum. This was our calling. This was our navigation across the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, we were transformed. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Child of The Hum #VOH #Pylons

Real life spanks.

"Whisper Quiet™".

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

Self-portrait in a straw hat painted in 1782 by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun, painter to Marie-Antoinette; born #OTD 1755. Her self-portrait was inspired by Rubens’ ‘Chapeau de Paille’ of 1622-25.
National Gallery London

Public libraries: the original data center.

Cinematic treasure: Lost Georges Méliès film found in US attic A cinematic treasure trove has been unearthed in the US after an old family chest, which had remained sealed for over a century, was finally opened. Among the ten reels it contained was a forgotten film by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, entitled 'Gugusse et l'automate'.

Cinematic treasure: Lost Georges Méliès film found in US attic

Klimaskeptikere har brugt voksende ismasse i Antarktis som argument mod klimaforandringer. Nu svarer videnskaben igen I flere år har satellitter vist, at indlandsisen og gletsjerne på Sydpolen er vokset. Det har klimaskeptikere hevet frem som argument for, at klimafrygten er overdreven. Nu svarer videnskaben igen.

Klimaskeptikere har brugt voksende ismasse i Antarktis som argument mod klimaforandringer. Nu svarer videnskaben igen

med billeder fra vores #iQ2300 ekspedition til #Antarktis

klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/klim...

#Antarctica #icesheet

Alberta's access restrictions threaten privacy and democratic role of libraries, critics say | CBC News Critics of Alberta's proposed rule changes to public libraries say the true danger lies in giving the province power to dictate access and potentially snoop on which books people are checking out.

"'Nobody's advocating that children should have access to inappropriate materials, least of all libraries...This is a non-existent problem that the province is using as a ploy to bring radical overreach in terms of controlling libraries.'" #abpoli #cdnpoli

«Я твій слуга…»
(youtu.be/56SGdgv0kMM?...)

Paleocel (Stultus alba).
Colloq. “tech schmoe”.

Image of a vinyl ed. copy of The Art Of Noise’s album In Visible Silence, published in April 1986.

Soundtrack for the weekend.

Surprised JD Vance wasn't able to close a deal with the Iranians. His only skill is saying whatever people want to hear.

Idaho Banned The Pride Flag. So Boise Wrapped the Flagpoles Themselves In Pride Colors. As public acknowledgements of LGBTQ life come under attack, local governments and citizen activists alike are fighting back in bold and creative ways.

Idaho Banned The Pride Flag. So Boise Wrapped the Flagpoles Themselves In Pride Colors.

www.erininthemorning...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Todd is a good follow

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air:

1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span,

2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black,

3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic.

4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

Image of a copy of Enki Bilal’s bande dessinée La Femme piège, & the included excerpt of a “future” edition of Libération, published in April 1986.

« J'aimerais bien que tu me presentes la fille aux cheveux blues… elle m'a bien plus dans mon dernier cauchemar… »

Middle row, first on the left.

It’s all down to the condiments, innit.

“A chair is a good place to sit.”

– Dr P.

Splash