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Wendy O'Rourke

@wendyo.bsky.social

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Here to inspire ✨️ Art + Music + Design + Positivity

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Oct 15

I cherish these photos taken by my dad in the early 1970s

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 3h

'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 1d

A mesmerizing array of cookware from the November, 1970 issue of House Beautiful 🫕

Colorful pots and pans set on a black and white striped platform

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 12m

“A crash course in successful recuperating.”

More here www.peculiarmanicule.com/things-to-do...

Cover illustration of a smiling sun rising and surrounded by multiple flowers and colors

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 14m

Things To Do While Getting Well, illustrated by Mike Strouth (1971)

Practice your speech for when people ask, "How are you?"
Cartoon style depiction of a bedridden girl rehearsing an upbeat "Oh, fine!" response to the question "How are you?" as a humorous tip for handling visitors during illness.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 20m

October Moon Wrist Watch by designer Gene Meyer for ACME Studio

Orange circular dial with pink minute hand inside a black square case on a faux leather strap.
Started in 1985, ACME Studio is an international product design company, producing and marketing writing instruments and other design objects. Its products are the result of cooperation with the world’s leading architects, designers, artists, foundations, estates, and institutions. ACME Studio has a habit of producing limited editions and/or discontinuing products and destroying the molds – this causes items to become very unique and collectible.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · May 22

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Saturn (1959) youtu.be/zZ-5eMhs9YQ?...

El Saturn Records cover. Recorded March 6, 1959 at El Saturn Studio in Chicago, Illinois

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 2d

Bruno Monguzzi — Odilon Redon: The Nature of the Invisible, 1996.

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 8d

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Three mid-century Eastern European labels depicting rain

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 22h

Andy Warhol (1954) #Caturday

An illustrated orange tabby with pink eyes from Warhol's 25 Cats Named Sam series.
Lithograph on Arches paper, edition Leo Castelli, New York

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

Golden Homes, Australia (1972) #Avedon #Lennon

Room featuring beige modular furniture, a chrome and glass coffee table, a built in television, a space age Italian lamp (in the style of the Guggerli L3 Floor Lamp by Rosemarie and Rico Baltensweiler) and a poster of Richard Avedon's psychedelic portrait of John Lennon from 1967. The carpet is orange.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

John Lennon by Richard Avedon, Look magazine, January 1968

Avedon used color manipulation and Day-Glo (yellow, red and fuchsia) colors to create a hallucinatory effect, reflecting the psychedelic culture of the era. Black over white curvy Op Art lines cover his eyeglasses.

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

John Winston Lennon, born today in 1940 in Liverpool, England.
#JohnLennon #BOTD

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

📷Robert Whitaker, 1965

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

Apple textile by Hans-Jürgen Schöbel for Sodahl Design of Denmark, 1960s

Apple and leaves design in shades of orange, umber, and burnt sienna. It's part of a jute table runner.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

Grapefruit - Yesterday's Sunshine (1968)
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Around Grapefruit illustrated album cover by George Underwood

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 4d

Polish film poster for The Police Woman (La femme flic, 1980) • Designed by Mieczysław Wasilewski, 1979.