A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching--
What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?
Irving Berlin (with Ethel Merman) - BOTD
His transformations of reality were the product of a visionary sensibility that harked back to Samuel Palmer...
The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889
Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter, was born on May 12, 1948. #SteveWinwood
Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...
Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, was born on May 12, 1928 (d. 2023). #BurtBacharach
Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...
All eyes on budget reconciliation!
We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?
Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...
Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org
Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime" - BOTD
Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant) - BOTD
A bearded Carlin in a striped t-shirt carries a life-size cardboard figure of a clean-shaven, younger Carlin in a suit & tie.
Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
Stella sits in a chair in his studio, with a splendid big cat on his lap.
Remembering Frank Stella on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975
"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
His cat's name was Marisol!
Beuys in his trademark hat, holding up a single carnation
Remembering Joseph Beuys on his birthday 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985
"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."
Ritchie Valens #BOTD - "Come On, Let's Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRv...
Mary Wells, American singer, "who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s" (Wikipedia), was born on May 13, 1943 (d. 1992). #MaryWells
Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...
Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...
Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...
Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder ! Thank you for everything !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKY...
Wonder in the recording studio, singing into a microphone as he plays the piano.
Happy birthday Stevie Wonder 🎂
📷 Al Satterwhite
"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John
Chishû Ryû BOTD
repose en Paix 💛
Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu's THERE WAS A FATHER (1942)
Ryu was BOTD in 1904
Chishû Ryû in "An Autumn Afternoon" - BOTD
The author in a striped dress, posing in her living room
Remembering Daphne du Maurier on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Gay, 1949
"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing
Daphne du Maurier (with scenes from the Hitchcock film adaptation of the du Maurier novel "Rebecca") - BOTD
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908
Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich
Georges Braque, French painter, was born #OnThisDay in 1882. Along with Pablo Picasso, he pioneered Cubism, a 20th-century art movement in which works of art are made up of cubes and other geometrical shapes.
🎨 Still Life with Grapes and Clarinet, 1927
#Art #Painting #Cubism
Mother (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
Okaasan (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Directed by Wes Anderson
Anouk Aimée
"La Dolce Vita"
1960
