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Twitter was great, but so was Gawker: this too shall pass. Not buying, not selling: not in the food-chain; here for the news and views. Photos are my own. I'm grateful for any following. Cittidano della Republica di Londra.
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Remembering today the late English composer #JohnBarry photographed here with NancyvSinatra at the CTS Studios in London for the recording of the #JamesBond theme song “YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE” (1967)
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Harlequin costume (German, #c18th #c18 #18thc), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
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Later in life, Ruth Asawa’s sculptures became fractal, exploding outward rather than tending inward, each branch end begetting ever more. Are they roots or tendrils? Beginnings or ends?
In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa
Shadows aren’t an afterthought in her work, but another dimension of it — another way one thing can contain or serialize into an infinity.
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The first day of school, Portugal, 1936.

Unknown photographer.
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Sometimes it’s best not to respond and just leave things alone.
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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱

Erythroxylum coca - Coca (shrub)

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And so here's the plant that's making my eye surgery possible. It gets a bad name but it's where most modern local anaesthetics originate. I've posted it before but I've a special interest this week.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca
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"Quello che il pubblico di Aldini scambiava per rianimazione era una sinfonia di impulsi senza orchestra, un corpo che si muove come una marionetta tirata dai fili elettrici di uno scienziato showman"

appuntamentoconlamorte.substack.com/p/56-folgora...
#56 - Folgorati dalla vita
Su Frankenstein e la scienza dell'elettricità umana
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We are travellers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
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Clown, Ringling Brothers Circus

Weegee, 1944
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“It’s not enough to get the facts into the world, people have to believe them, and, that is something different.” ‼️
Admit I was a bit blown away by this completely unexpected moment during our Unholy live show in New York on Wednesday @hillaryclinton.bsky.social
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In collaboration with IFAN Ch. A. Diop, the Museum of African Civilizations has been presenting an exhibition dedicated to William Ponty's notebooks since October 16. These notebooks, meticulously handwritten by students between 1933 and 1949, address a wide variety of sociocultural themes. #Senegal
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Shell-o...is it a Linnean Lens you're looking for?

Tomorrow, Jon Ablett will share some species from our collection – from sex changing seashells, to killer cone shells. We'll hear how molluscs have been used for dyes, clothing, and even musical instruments.

Join online, 2pm, 4 Nov
Linnean Lens | Treasures of the Linnean Shells collection
A shell show-and-tell, with Jon Ablett, Senior Curator of Mollusca at the Natural History Museum, sharing the Linnean shell collection.
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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
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Portrait of a Woman, c. 1490-1495.
Master of the Holy Kinship (German).

(The Cleveland Museum of Art)
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Two African Men, 1661
These men were, the catalogue suggests, free residents of Amsterdam. (Mauritshuis, The Hague)
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James Thomas Watts - November Evening in a Welsh Wood (c.1890)
Watercolor with scratching out, 10 x 7 in (25.6 x 20.5 cm)
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A section of exceptionally well-preserved Roman water supply system that was uncovered in Stabiae, Italy 🇮🇹

#archaeohistories
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Luchino Visconti, Director, Screenwriter, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, in Milan

📸 Erio Piccagliani (1954)
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That papaya from yesterday, that was high up in the tree and thought it was too far for me to get it?

Well I did!
And it's delicious! 😁

#The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱