Made in Chicago, a 1937 Grunow 532 AM and shortwave tabletop radio.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."

Vladimir Nabokov, born 22 April 1899.

Poster for the Swedish release of "Old San Francisco" (1927) from Warner Bros.

Eddie Albert, born 22 April 1906.

I know that I've seen this before but it made me laugh this morning...

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

"The less people know about me, the easier my job is."

Jack Nicholson, #BOTD.

"A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die."

Vladimir Nabokov, born 22 April 1899.

Brilliant and flawed, physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on 22 April 1904.

Born on 22 April 1922, bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus.

"All of life is a foreign country."

(Jack Kerouac)

Happy Birthday to Jack Nicholson, born 22 April 1937.

Sad and lovely Bettie Page was born on 22 April 1923.

"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."

Orson Welles, 1946.

The excellent @joycewhitevance.bsky.social explains the DOJ's indictment of the SPLC, which has been investigating and taking down white hate groups since 1971. The DOJ case seems specifically intended to expose the SPLC's informants in a number of these groups, e.g. Aryan Nations. Effing unreal.

Yes... in the simplest of dressing rooms.

Eve Arnold - #BOTD - captures Marlene Dietrich during a recording session as Columbia Studios, November 1952.

This vibrant oil painting is Henri Matisse's Interior with Phonograph (also known as Intérieur au phonographe), painted in 1924. It was created during Matisse's significant "Nice period," when he lived on the French Riviera and focused heavily on luminous domestic interiors.

This vibrant oil painting is Henri Matisse's Interior with Phonograph (also known as Intérieur au phonographe), painted in 1924. It was created during Matisse's significant "Nice period," when he lived on the French Riviera and focused heavily on luminous domestic interiors.

On my walk, I enjoyed this beautiful butterfly.

Lili Ország, Hanged Woman (Pink Dress) (oil on canvas, 1956)

An Indian woman dressed in an orange-print silk sari performs pradakshina (circumambulation) along the walkway around the samadhi shrine where the mortal remains of Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) are entombed. The shrine features polished black stone pillars and a prominent gold-leaf plated statue of Sri Ramana in a seated meditative posture. In front of this statue, the sanctified body is enshrined in a sitting position facing Arunachala, with a sacred Shiva lingam positioned directly over his head. Before being discontinued recently by new management, this meditative practice could be done morning and evening by devotees during the chanting of the Vedas by trainee Brahmin priests at Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt;
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century

#Photography #India #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

#monday

Mood ....

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@cult.class

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated.

"...Cape Cod Bay, Skaket Beach, Cape Cod." - A short drive away, and a perfect location to visit at sunrise in the summer.

"Cuando se ha tenido la suerte de amar con fuerza, se pasa uno la vida buscando nuevamente ese ardor y esa luz".
Albert Camus
📷 Frank Horvar

Un dessin de Misstic sur un mur rue des grands augustin avec écrit Je sais compter jusqu’à toi

"...Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

Yeats, 1889.

Margot Fonteyn in her dressing room, c. 1949.

Photo by Brassaï.

"My tenderness, my happiness, what words can I write for you? How strange that although my life’s work is moving a pen over paper, I don’t know how to tell you how I love, how I desire you."

(Vladimir Nabokov writing to his wife Véra)