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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ozymandias, el rey más potente de la historia

unauthored wall palimpsest composed of layers of advertising posters, including remnant of a broadband ad with the words "...most powerful in history"

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 4h

Madame Dubarry arrives to be presented at court
(Versailles played by Sans Souci)

"Madame Dubarry" (E. Lubitsch, 1919)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QIz...

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 5d

"I love Mistake"

Brian Catling, "Where Does It All Come From?" (2021)

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 13h

unprepoguessing

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 14h

💯 should mention: document the enshittification 🫤

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 6d

"ew gross, the sun" - Ickarus

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 15h

😀💙

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 15h

illuminated windsock

grey blue clouded dusk sky; looking up to a pole on a roof with a windsock, extended by the.breeze, glowing red from a light within, another small light on top of the pole

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 15h

retro

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 16h

Just came back from The Hague, where I admired Vermeer's "View of Delft". Proust had Bergotte die in front of this painting during an artistic epiphany caused by "le petit
pan de mur jaune". There are many theories about which little yellow wall he had in mind. I'm convinced it's this one.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 16h

surrealist world map (1929)

jokey outline world map of surrealism: some countries (FR, Spain, Britain, lower 48 US) are omitted, Easter Island & various S Pacific places v big, Australia v small, Alaska huge etc

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 2d

Cadair Idris replicating as a cloud #442Mountains

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

"I never knew what error or indiscretion had brought him to this graveyard room..."

Bonn <——> Slough House

image from Slow Horses, season one, Jackson has caught River & Sid working late, Sid a young woman is close up to the camera but out of focus, River, floppy haired young man is in focus at his desk in the background, asking: "'Fuck off' as in go home, or 'Fuck off' as in you don't believe us?"

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

feliz cumple Cooperativa de Consumo La Imposible
www.instagram.com/cooperatival...

symbol of Cooperativa de Consumo La Imposible, a food cooperative: a blue colored woman on a bike with a mouse mask on and food in a back basket, slogan "10 Years Sowing the Impossible"

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

😅😅‼️

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 16d

you're dead right

now envisioning myself on one of those rapidfire Instagram videos:

– Lamb or Hazlitt?
– Hazlitt
– Hazlitt or Coleri..?
– Coleridge! Coleridge! Coleridge! Coleridge! Coleridge! <chanting> COLER-IDGE!! COLER-IDGE!!

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

discovering Coleridge's Notebooks

during my seasonal browse, I noticed, on a top shelf, the bulky, creamy row of the Coleridge notebooks. They looked beautiful, like an imposing geological formation. I dragged over the step-stool, pulled down the heavy first volume and read the opening page. The entries were curious and compelling: two written-out arithmetic problems meant for a child; a description of a card trick; a fanciful etymology of the origins of the word smile; an analogy concerning cities, cottages and ruins; the beginning of a sermon on faith. What compelled me right away as I stood reading on the step-stool was the space travelled between the entries, the vivid suggestiveness of their non-causal sequence. I was plunged into the gregariously mobile associations of a seeking mind, with the implausible and so completely compelling sensation of thinking thoughts that were not my own, as those thoughts composed themselves.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

abolish page numbers

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

a pair where both are in motion scores more than a parked pair 😳😅

one red VW Beetle and a burgundy one coming in the other direction on a country road

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

found in my copy of "The Parade's Gone By..."

Cover of Brownlow book with a card inside with colorful hand drawn pictures of Sesame St.'s Ernie & Bert (who is more recognizable), and their beds

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

why the film industry moved to Hollywood c. 1910:

(apart from good weather)

proximity to the border, for an easier getaway

(idk if this is still thought to be true, but it is a striking image)

from Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By (1968)

The fine weather was ertainly a major ncentive for many ompanies xO move their entire rganizations xO the West Coast, but Hollywood offered nother advantage. An industrial dispute, known as the Patents War and fought vith weapons nd violence enough xO justify the term, had forced several producers to flee from New York to Chicago -and even to Cuba. These producers had in- fringed the Edison patents by making equipment built from pirated designs. An immediate f the dispute was the Latham Loop, patented mechanism in- cause corporated in the camera. Hollywood offered an ideal sanctuary fOr refugees f the Patents ar, for should trouble appear, th Mexican border was a mere hundred-mile dtive away.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 2d

NITID LIGHT (Univocalic Palindrome)

Timid, I tin it.
I sign it.
Filth? Gild it.
Insipid it is.
I sit.
I dip.
Is nitid light lifting?
I sit in it.
I dim it.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

😀 well idk much about the lore but I like to see them, esp in pairs

2 VW Beetles parked side by side one orange one multicolor

From above 2 B3tles, one grey one orange

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

there was a time some years ago (this is true I think)

when they (Beetles) were summarily prohibited for a while, and people who didn't want to give them up had to quickly take them into exile in nearby cities

I must try to remember the details

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 2d

🙏🙏 quite a Thing :)

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Thek, Hippopotamus Poison, 1965
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136518

Gift of Neil Jenney in honor of Ann Wilson

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