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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 2h

I had that dream again

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 5h

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 14h

Pulgasari (1985)

Strong contender for best kaiju flick made by a director who's been kidnapped by Kim Jong Il and forced to churn out movies in North Korea

Directed by Shin Sang-ok - BOTD in 1926

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Samplerman @yvang.bsky.social · 3h

Blue Sky sample of the day / du jour (#190)

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

#Caturday Clubbin'

📷Simon Lee

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 1d

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

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 1d

Hannah Hoch’s address book.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 7h

It was a wild school. It was formerly a Catholic women's college where (as the ex-clergy faculty joked) the nuns and priests had "kicked the habit" after taking LSD in the 60's. This photo is from a few years before I got there.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 8h

I went to art school with her little sister

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 9h

"I'm not that much of an artist. I'm just a person who cuts out paper, or finds old photographs that I see at the swap meet and throws them up on the wall. I like to play around with cutting objects and putting them in the same moment, maybe I present them as little collages."

Diane Keaton #RIP

collage by Diane Keaton with found photos and large numbers. One of the photos is pixilated to avoid an adult warning

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 10h

Pebble dogs, a pigeon or two and a lady.

www.instagram.com/virgin_honey...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 9h

Before we're even passed the title page of this 1825 manual on astrology and the occult, we encounter an instance of the dark arts at work — this second edition has been cunningly labelled the “seventh” to make it look like a runaway success: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins on the set of West Side Story (1961)

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 10h

Amitabh Bachchan #BOTD

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 10h

Savor the taste of #Caturday

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 11h

Jerome Robbins kneels on the floor and smokes a cigarette as he rehearses a dance piece for the 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1959)

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12h

#caturday

Cat King, Germany, 15th century

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 13h

"Why can't we dance about American subjects? Why can't we talk about the way we dance today, and how we are?"

#JeromeRobbins

Jerome Robbins choreographing West Side Story

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 13h

Jerome Robbins (left) in George Balanchine's ballet Tyl Ulenspiegel, no. 45 (photo by George Platt Lynes)

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 13h

Jerome Robbins, Tanaquil Leclercq, Roy Tobias, and Todd Bolender in the New York City Ballet production Age of Anxiety, no. 8

photo by George Platt Lynes, 1950

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 13h

Holly Woodlawn
#Caturday

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 14h

Does this poinsettia make me look #Caturday?

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 14h

Jerome Robbins #BOTD as Hermes, 1943

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 14h

“Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it,

and when it's over, it's done.”

-Jerome Robbins #BOTD

Robbins by Richard Avedon, 1961

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning!

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