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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

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Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor Galaxist, Tulpa at-large

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jan 27

My Poem / Text "Condensed Virtualities (An Invocation)"
from Peculiar Mormyrid #5. The Issue is an exploration of Revolt. The Poem appears in the section The Domain of the Invocation.

Artwork by Toby Penney

peculiarmormyrid.com/arthur-spota...

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 9h

Goodnight⭐

Mordecai Arden ~ La Grand Poupee, 1985

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 11h

Elizabeth Street, 11:30pm
#Photography #NewYorkCity

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

So I guess for MAGA when a Chinese balloon goes over US airspace it’s a week straight of apoplectic comments that WW3 is starting because Biden is weak, but when Trump allows the Qataris to have an airbase in the US and fly fighter jets over our country that is America First.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 13h

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned.

But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 19

Robert Mapplethorpe

"In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me"
- Arthur Rimbaud

from Arthur Rimbaud's 'A Season in Hell'.
Translation by Paul Schmidt with photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1986.

#RobertMapplethorpe #Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h

American scientist and researcher Harold "Doc" Edgerton (also known as Papa Flash), a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gun Toss, 1936-7
#Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 19

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz

Untitled (Violence)
(from Ant Series, 1988)

#DavidWojnarowicz #ContemporaryArt

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 19

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz

Where I'll Go After I'm Gone (1988-89)
#DavidWojnarowicz #ContemporaryArt

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 20

French photographer and filmmaker Marion Scemama

Rushes From Death (for David Wojnarowicz), Adirondack, Upstate NY, Summer 1989
(Polaroid screenshot)

#DavidWojnarowicz #Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, closely associated with the art movement that developed in NYC's Lower East Side during the 80s.

Peter Hujar Dreaming - Yukio Mishima-St. Sebastian, 1982 (acrylic and spray paint on masonite)

#DavidWojnarowicz #ContemporaryArt

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 18h

One early winter day in 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz recorded photographer Peter Hujar over a 24-hour period. What was meant to spark a larger creative project never came to fruition, but finds new life some 50 years later in a new film, “Peter Hujar’s Day” (2025), directed by Ira Sachs.

The Slow, Easy Splendor of Peter Hujar’s Day

Taking its script from a 1974 recording of the artist talking to writer Linda Rosenkrantz, a new film offers a tender portrait of Hujar’s life before art-world fame.

hyperallergic.com

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 18h

This is sociopathic.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h

The Small Faces (with PP Arnold) ~ Tin Soldier
(Live on French TV, March 2 1968 - dubbed)
#SmallFaces #SteveMarriott #MusicSky

This is so great, Marriott was the epitome of what a Rock Star should be. I saw him many times, he was always on, and always amazing.

youtu.be/6vWTtx_PxPo

Small Faces - Tin Soldier (good quality)

YouTube video by xJayWalkerx

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h

Fire ~ Father’s Name Is Dad
(Decca 45, 1968)
#NowPlaying #Psychedelic #MusicSky

Superb Psych/Mod classic 45 from 1968, from pre-Strawbs Dave Lambert.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOz...

Fire-Father's Name Is Dad (1968)

YouTube video by Michalis Matthaiou

www.youtube.com

Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h

The Fleur De Lys - Circles (instant party)
(Immediate 45, 1966)
#NowPlaying #Psychedlelic #ModernArt

Great cover of the great Who song🌟

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZ0...

The Fleur De Lys - Circles (instant party)

YouTube video by ThePsychedelicGoBeat

www.youtube.com

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 21d

long short story

a block of well-worn stone holds a wide range of scratches colours and patterns - we might perhaps imagine the stories they conjure

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Apr 25

Leonora Carrington ~ Sueño
(Nephesh as the Soul in a State of Sleep, 1956)

Nephesh, the word used to describe the "life force",
presented as the journey of the soul through various realms, protected by mystical and spiritual guardians.

#LeonoraCarrington #Surrealism

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Apr 24

The great Surrealist artist and novelist Leonora Carrington

Transference, 1963

A symbolic portrait of Dr Abraham Fortes, the psychoanalyst whom Carrington consulted in Mexico City in the early 1960s.

#LeonoraCarrington #Surrealism

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jun 25

Leonora Carrington ~ The Burning of Giordano Bruno, 1964
#LeonoraCarrington #Surrealism

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

The Debutante: A film by Elizabeth Hobbs

A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from the London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honor. Based on Leonora Carrington's short story. Hobbs creates a startling tale with paint and collage.

vimeo.com/940848616

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 17h

New Order ~ Ceremony
(Factory 45. 1981)
#NowPlaying #NewOrder #MusicSky

Happy Friday!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgQ...

Ceremony (Version 1) (2016 Remaster)

YouTube video by New Order - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Mar 28

The great French photographer Jeanloup Sieff

Mode pour nova Paris, 1966
#Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 17h

Iconic American commercial photographer Bert Stern.
Jessica Miller, 2003

#BertStern #Photography

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