@victoriaridley
Tireless researcher/writer for an upcoming book on the artist, Jim Morrison of The Doors. No, it hasn't all been said...or seen! This: victoriaridley.com/ ❤️ history, music, art, oceans, mystery 🇨🇦 #JimMorrison #TheDoors #MLIS #booksky #bookshelfie
#nowwatching Duel (1971)
Yeah, early Spielberg rules. 'Jaws' with a truck is thrown around a lot (deservedly so) but this film is a lot more than that.
And to have the truck and its dricer be such a brutal force... Love it.
A film on masculinity, on violence inherit in vehicles. Machete's up. 🔪🔪🔪
Sunset in Malibu. Large rocks jug the shoreline meeting the Pacific Ocean. Purple and pink skies usher in the evening
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.—Nelson Mandela
Pic of the day
#photography
Losing our words is a writer’s worst nightmare. Don’t forget to backup your work.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub
Psycho (1960) movie picture collage
Psycho (1960) 🎬🖤
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Needed something to get us moving today...
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Can you believe this is from 1670? Bats, by Flemish painter Pieter Boel, equal opportunity animal painter. Not just the cute ones! Wishing you a good night.
Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague in medieval Europe. A moral work depicting Death's triumph over worldly things, symbolized by a great army of skeletons ravaging the Earth. In the background is a barren landscape where scenes of destruction continue to unfold. In the foreground, Death, riding a red horse at the head of his armies, destroys the world of the living, who are led to an enormous coffin with no hope of salvation. All social classes are included in the composition, with neither power nor devotion able to save them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#/media/File:The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpg
Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death
by Jennifer Ouellette
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Original paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The Black Death at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#books #environment #epidemiology
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Always loved this one! RIP Chris.
Black/white artwork of a witch on her broom by an unknown artist. Owls and bats flying besides her through the night.
In Flemish folktales, witches unfortunately sometimes see the world upside down. Several sources mention witches falling off their brooms. In one of them, a witch was found covered in blood struggling to get out of a tree. The forester she had hoped to scare helped her get out.
#WyrdWednesday
A string of lights hangs in an alley, slightly illuminating the bricks. Each point source of light has a reddish halation around it and an eight pointed star from the aperture blades.
A guy walked by while I was setting up to take this photo and asked what was special about this alley. He said people are always taking pics of it. I dunno, probably because it looks cool?
📷 Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4
🎞️ Cinestill 800T
#believeinfilm
I do.
December 8, 2025, 82nd birthday of Jim Morrison, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
📸 my photo
Jim Morrison is the source for Matthew McConaughey's "Alright! Alright! Alright!"
Normalize having a book on your bookshelf that, when pulled, opens the door to a secret room.
From the Doors' earliest recording session, World Pacific Records, Sept. 2, 1965.
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📸 my photo
I'll leave my thoughts with the sea ..
(It's too good a day to leave.)
The Doors’ ‘When You’re Strange’ Returns to Theaters in 4K With Exclusive New ‘Riders on the Storm’ Collaboration zurl.co/5YMbF
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Much better! Thanks.
Wouldn't a photo of Cliff Richard be more appropriate?
“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature
Waking up at 3am is always a bad idea. Your bleakest thoughts live there.
A photo showing both sides of an old BEA luggage tag with flight information written on it.
Time travel exists between the pages of a book.
This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c. 1797, 21.5 cm × 15 cm (8+1⁄2 in × 5+7⁄8 in)
Genius is Complicated: Francisco Goya
Court favorite and witness in the same body. He painted saints and butchers with the same eye, royalty and prisoners under the same light. He served a king he despised. Genius here isn't charm, it's stamina for truth, and that bill always comes due.
A mist-shrouded pond with water lilies surrounded by weeping willow trees.
Not sure if it's an official legend or not, but one can definitely feel Monet's ghost in the water garden at Giverny, especially on a misty morning.
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend
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