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Art Is For Living
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Art, music & literary gems. ✨ Made with love & alt-text 💗 I'm a visual artist, musician (🎸 + 🎛️) & researcher. Profile art is my own. #modernart #writing #music #jazz #photography #creativity #blacksky #artsky
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“Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo” (1939) by Nickolas Muray 🌺

Muray & Kahlo were longtime lovers & friends. After Frida received this photo, she wrote to him:

“You will always be inside the magenta rebozo (on the left side).”

#art #artsky #photogrgaphy #portrait #frida #fridakahlo #love #beauty
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I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details!

@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
Their animations are amazing! Very good writing in their videos too.
Hex codes here:

011b40
650033
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Gorgeous palette in this viral YouTube video thumbnail. Very summer-autumn.

#artsky #color #palette #art #design #thumbnail
Hex codes:

000000, 6B2C3C, C692A5, FFDDDD, 9DA2C2, 004285, 0269B8, 07AAED
Sampled these colors from a viral YouTube thumbnail. Brown and blue are such an underrated pairing.

Hex codes below 👇

#artsky #color #palette #art #design #thumbnail
Oh that’s wonderful — I didn’t realize he was on here!
Amazing work by Lebanese illustrator Tracy Chahwan in the New York Times this week. This accompanies a review of the new crime thriller by SA Cosby, King of Ashes.

The review is here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...

#illustration #art #artsky #litsky #booksky #thriller
“Today’s class — CMS.303/803/21M.365 (DJ History, Technique, and Technology) — takes students to the 1970s, which means disco, funk, rhythm and blues, and the breaks that form the foundation of early hip-hop are in the mix.”

news.mit.edu/2025/mixing-...
#musicsky #dj
Mixing beats, history, and technology
MIT research scientist, game designer, DJ, and alumnus Philip Tan teaches the course CMS.303/803/21M.365 (DJ History, Technique, and Technology) at MIT.
news.mit.edu
“I grew to love him as a person, and for me, he was the biggest influence on my songwriting ever; he was a musical genius and revolutionary. He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant.”

— Elton John

apnews.com/article/bria...

#musicsky #music
Paul McCartney, Mike Love, Carnie Wilson, Elton John react to the death of Brian Wilson
Paul McCartney, Mike Love, Carnie Wilson, Elton John and more celebrities are sharing their sorrow on the death of Brian Wilson.
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Frog and Toad origami paper set
Don’t know I needed this but now I can never go back
I took this picture with one hand while holding a tricycle and rushing to the car and it turned out perfect somehow.

#nature #photography #flowers #summer
I’m trying not to overlook the small pockets of beauty and peace that are planted around me. Like this one today.
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[Iwao Takamoto was BOTD 100 years ago. He studied art in the Manzanar Internment Camp and later went to work for Disney and Hanna-Barbera. He directed CHARLOTTE'S WEB (1973) and designed (among many others) Astro, Muttley, and Scooby-Doo.]
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Done. Let me know what you think?

TIDAL WETLANDS, Acrylic, 16x16” ©️2025 Jim Musil #art #painting

JimMusil.com/originals/p/tidal-wetlands
Thank you — I started using alt text a few years ago on Twitter and it’s just an easy habit now. Hope more people do it too. Always a good time to start 👍🏽
Hello, I looked through your stream and have added you to a new Starter Pack “Artists using alt.text” which hopefully will reach 50 for release in a couple of weeks. I'm trying to encourage alt.text use and after listing 100+ photographers on my other thread I'm doing the same for artists.
“You are the sky. Everything else — it’s just the weather.”

Pema Chödrön