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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

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Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor Galaxist, Tulpa at-large

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Nov 12

My recent kinetic poem 'As Above' is featured in Issue #8 of the Surrealist Journal, Peculiar Mormyrid #8.
The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state.

📷Bill Wolak

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Chatrouge @chatrouge.bsky.social · 18d

Petit personnage

📷 #MobilePhotography

Statuette servant de signal pour que les enfants attendent au passage piétons dans une rue faiblement éclairée de nuit.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Apr 5

British Surrealist artist Roland Penrose
Black Music, 1940

#Surrealism #ModernArt

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 5

German painter and photographer Sigmar Polke

Landscape, 1995
#SigmarPolke #ContemporaryArt

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 28m

Neko Case ~ Wreck
(from Neon Grey Midnight Green, 2025)
#NowPlaying #NekoCase #MusicSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLwe...

Neko Case - "Wreck"

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Karenlee Kitto @karenleekitto.bsky.social · 22d

#photography #ColorADay #BlueTue #branches #blossoms #analog #shotonfilm #doubleexposure #photographersofbluesky

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Ben Davis @benadavis.bsky.social · 19d

My take on 'Sixties Surreal' at the Whitney: camels, sex, and social revolution
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‘Sixties Surreal’ at the Whitney Explores a Forgotten Side of the 1960s

'Sixties Surreal' at the Whitney surfaces a lot of art from an important time. It's more vibes than anything else—but what vibes!

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 55m

Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll ~ A Kind of Love In
(Marmalade 45, 1967)
#NowPlaying #JulieDriscoll #MusicSky

Jools wishes you a Happy Wednesday!

youtu.be/e0XomLjoPCQ via @YouTube

BRIAN AUGER & JULIE DRISCOLL - A KIND OF LOVE IN

YouTube video by Chief Soul Officers

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Mar 22

Julie Driscoll photographed by Richard Avedon for Vogue, 1969

#JulieDriscoll #Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Mar 22

Julie Driscoll by Richard Avedon
1968 Vogue, August Lashes

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 59m

British singer Julie Driscoll, at a night club in Cannes, France, 1967. Photographed by Gérard Bousquet.

#JulieDriscoll #Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1h

Good Evening🌟

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 4d

Time for 🛏️
#sunset

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2h

Sloan - Who Taught You to Live Like That?
(from Never Hear the End of It, 2007 - Official Video)
#NowPlaying #Sloan #MusicSky

Fantastic opening track from the brilliant Never Hear the End of it. Happy Wednesday night⭐

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Sloan - Who Taught You to Live Like That? OFFICIAL VIDEO HD

YouTube video by sloanmusic

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 19h

I am comfortable in the shadows among the unseen

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2h

Photojournalist and color photographer Ernst Haas

Traffic, New York 1963
#ErnstHaas #Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2h

...from a walk on Worth Street, NYC
#Photography #NewYorkCity

Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 3h

NYC 3/23, 3:00pm
#Photography #NewYorkCity

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 3h

..from a walk down City Hall earlier today.
#Photography #NewYorkCity

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

YouTube video by tennesseejed93

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Smith speaks. Congress wants to hear more from him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Jack Smith Speaks

You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 3d

He cited her warning that "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 1d

R.I.P. D’Angelo

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 3h

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D’Angelo, Groundbreaking R&B Artist, Dies at 51

From his 1995 debut Brown Sugar to his 2014 comeback Black Messiah, he helped define the neo-soul movement

pitchfork.com

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