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Films, Rock & Jazz, Painting & Photography "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who.... burn, burn, burn"--Jack Kerouac
A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching--
What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?
Irving Berlin (with Ethel Merman) - BOTD
His transformations of reality were the product of a visionary sensibility that harked back to Samuel Palmer...
The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889
Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter, was born on May 12, 1948. #SteveWinwood
Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...
Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, was born on May 12, 1928 (d. 2023). #BurtBacharach
Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...
All eyes on budget reconciliation!
We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?
Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...
Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org
Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime" - BOTD
Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant) - BOTD
A bearded Carlin in a striped t-shirt carries a life-size cardboard figure of a clean-shaven, younger Carlin in a suit & tie.
Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
Stella sits in a chair in his studio, with a splendid big cat on his lap.
Remembering Frank Stella on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975
"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
His cat's name was Marisol!
Beuys in his trademark hat, holding up a single carnation
Remembering Joseph Beuys on his birthday 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985
"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."
Ritchie Valens #BOTD - "Come On, Let's Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRv...
Mary Wells, American singer, "who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s" (Wikipedia), was born on May 13, 1943 (d. 1992). #MaryWells
Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...
Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...
Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...
Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder ! Thank you for everything !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKY...
Wonder in the recording studio, singing into a microphone as he plays the piano.
Happy birthday Stevie Wonder 🎂
📷 Al Satterwhite
"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John
Chishû Ryû BOTD
repose en Paix 💛
Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu's THERE WAS A FATHER (1942)
Ryu was BOTD in 1904
Chishû Ryû in "An Autumn Afternoon" - BOTD
The author in a striped dress, posing in her living room
Remembering Daphne du Maurier on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Gay, 1949
"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing
Daphne du Maurier (with scenes from the Hitchcock film adaptation of the du Maurier novel "Rebecca") - BOTD
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908
Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich
Georges Braque, French painter, was born #OnThisDay in 1882. Along with Pablo Picasso, he pioneered Cubism, a 20th-century art movement in which works of art are made up of cubes and other geometrical shapes.
🎨 Still Life with Grapes and Clarinet, 1927
#Art #Painting #Cubism
Mother (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
Okaasan (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Directed by Wes Anderson
Anouk Aimée
"La Dolce Vita"
1960
