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Four men, one of them shirtless and tattooed, stand around watching a seated instructor finishing a pastel drawing
Reminds me of one of my favorite 1930s era photos: Members of the WPA Federal Art Project art class at the Seamen's Institute, NYC, 1935. I can't quite understand why you'd be shirtless in a pastel drawing class, but maybe he was the model..? www.aaa.si.edu/collections/...
TIL actor Noah Wyle's grandmother Edith founded the Craft & Folk Art Museum (now known as the Craft Contemporary) in Los Angeles
Boy running on hard scrabble hi w book in his hand
Same boy bravely curiously peaking in a door
Where is the Friend’s House? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami
1 of my favorite films & maybe greatest child acting performances. AK = compassion
2/28/71: Barbara Loden's indie landmark Wanda
More via:
A party of favorites: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
@cinemiasma.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/us/wanda-978...
@kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.frieze.com/article/barb...
WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel writes of her journey to find answers for a persistent itch that turned out to be cancer—and of learning about how medicine can miss women’s symptoms. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4scPmXn
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
imperious green frog fired from a kiln but given employment as the guard of the tip jar at the powell's hawthorne cafe, wearing a blue wizard's hat with gold star gifted tol froggo by the unicorn.
a rusty unicorn's halo has been set into a plank of wood to make a basketball hoop halfway up a tree. unicorn halos grow too large for the unicorn to keep rotating and glowing above their heads and eventually they shed them in cascades of light and such velocity that decapitations have occurred. a loud boom may accompany this act. in the aftermath, when herds of unicorns late at night on portland streets divest their halos at the same time, children in the morning will often collect them for luck, but this is only superstition.
a pavement stone circle with moss cracks, amid a wider pavement of longer stones. this is one of portland's seven subtle commemorative memorials to the seven unicorn herd halo catastrophe of 1965, which occurred at midnight on october 31 and was much misunderstood amid the general reverie, especially as the southeast had chosen a unicorn theme for costumes that year.
Portland's unicorn festival is in full swing this week and if you're lucky you'll find one in your neighborhoof. just to be clear, they are more like grumpy narwhals and will joust with you for a skewering if riled, so approach gently and with kind words. for a mane petting they will side eye you but also divulge the location of a local coffee and pastry soakeasy (so named because there is usually also an underground hot springs spa). pictured: paunchy gray unicorn on edge of field with woman crouched in backdrop. photo by louis "black moon" malle.
Around Portland... these may seem drab photos, but i have collected their unique history in the alt text.
Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.
Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆
Frederick Wiseman with headphones and a warm smile.
Today is just merciless. Frederick Wiseman, a giant, has died at 96.
@nytimes.com — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
Note: Allegations of racial profiling aren’t just coming from congressional Democrats.
Over the past month, Cardinal Cupich, who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago, has repeatedly claimed that his own priests have been racially profiled by DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...
Extremely floofy grey lynx spider with legs bunched around her, looking very stern
Floof Lump, if needed
(Hamataliwa grisea)
#EmotionalSupportSpood
large chonky white and black striped lizard, the white bands with some tiny "bricks" of black.
Today's feel-good story: a tegu rescued from the snow by a kind person in Providence, RI, has been saved by ET Reptiles & New England Wildlife Center. Usually, pet reptiles die in these circumstances, but frostbite treatment worked. @rickclaypool.bsky.social even visited the tegu + took this photo.
I've thought about this guy and the model buses all week after reading this. Really cool story and RIP man from Leeds.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media.
* Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...
This is delightful. Spielberg's choice is one of the greats but not one I'd have ever guessed.
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
Preservation premiere Ken Jacobs's 1963 Baud’lairian Capers (fea Flo Jacobs & Bob Fleischner) & Ken's favorite Yiddish film
Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik (His Wife’s Lover, 1931) w Ludwig Satz
Intro by J. Hoberman (signing books pre screening)
Thu, Jan 29, 7 PM MoMA, Theater 2
Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
if you enjoy these videos & would like me to make another one at some point (or even if you don't care about them at all & just want to support an incredibly urgent cause), please consider donating to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
1/22/41: High Sierra
D: Raoul Walsh W: John Huston/ W. R. Burnett
w/Bogie, Ida Lupino
More:
Imogen Sara Smith: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Luke Goodsell/ @sensesofcinema.bsky.social
www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/cteq/hi...
@kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Spraying pepper spray directly into the eyes of a detained person who’s already fully subdued
