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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 · 10h
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12h
Goodnight🌟

Lebanese artist Hrair Diarbekirian
The Red Angels, 2021
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12h
Gustav Klimt ~ Choir of Angels
(Detail from the Beethoven Frieze, on display in the Secession Building, Vienna, Austria, 1902)

#GustavKlimt #ArtNouveau
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 13h
John Lennon ~ God
(Plastic One Band, 1970 - Remastered)
#NowPlaying #JohnLennon #MusicSky

"When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNk...
God (Remastered 2010)
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h
Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 14h
Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1901
Gustav Klimt
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h
John Lennon ~ God Save Oz
(from Imagine: The Ultimate Mixes, 2018)
#JohnLennon #BOTD

John's demo written in support of Oz, the satirical hippie magazine that was at the center of a UK obscenity controversy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0qz...
God Save Oz (Ultimate Mix)
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band ~ Isolation
(from Plastic Ono Band, 1970)
#JohnLennon #BOTD #MusicSky

youtu.be/N8lOLNfnCBg via @YouTube
Isolation (Remastered 2010)
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h
John Lennon, dressed as a Public Lavatory Commissionaire during the filming of the Not Only…But Also Christmas Special, outside a public convenience on Broadwick Street, November 27, 1966.
#JohnLennon #BOTD

📷Ron Case / Keystone
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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 22d
Kiyoshi Awazu, Exhibition Poster, Kizashi, (lithograph), 1975, MoMA, New York, NY.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h
The Beatles ~ Baby, You're A Rich Man
(Capital 45, 1967)
#JohnLennon #BOTD #MusicSky

Written after attending the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, an all-night festival held in London, it is a combination of 2 separate songs by John & Paul.

youtu.be/i5m-sgtwFck via @YouTube
Baby, You're A Rich Man (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 17h
John Lennon by Richard Avedon, Look magazine, January 1968
Avedon used color manipulation and Day-Glo (yellow, red and fuchsia) colors to create a hallucinatory effect, reflecting the psychedelic culture of the era. Black over white curvy Op Art lines cover his eyeglasses.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h
John Lennon 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon
#JohnLennon #BOTD
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 14h
Quebecois abstract expressionist painter Jean‑Paul-Riopelle

Untitled, 1950
(Oil on canvas)

#AbstractExpressionism
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Feb 11
Quebecois abstract expressionist painter Jean‑Paul-Riopelle

Untitled, 1949
#AbstractExpressionism
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 16h
The Beatles ~ I'll Be Back
(A Hard Day's Night, 1964)
#JohnLennon #BOTD #TheBeatles #MusicSky

youtu.be/fJSTBNTac6k via
@YouTube
I'll Be Back (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 16h
Paul McCartney and John Lennon, on tour 1965.
#JohnLennon #BOTD #PaulMcCartney
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 16h
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, photographed by David Bailey, January 1965.
#JohnLennon #BOTD #TheBeatles
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Triptyque orange

"His painting, guided by creative intelligence, has a penetrating quality & density redolent of jewelry."
- Yoyo Maeght

Today we're celebrating the great Canadian painter's birthday 🎂
An abstract expressionist tryptich, with two green and black panels surrounding an orange and black one.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 17h
John Lennon reading one of his poems, 'About The Awful'
#JohnLennon #BOTD #MusicSky

From Peter Cook & Dudley Moore's 'Not Only But Also' 1964 BBCTV show that starred John Lennon, showcasing poems from his new book 'In His Own Write'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udim...
John Lennon - About The Awful
YouTube video by Roman Fazluev
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 17h
John Lennon
#BOTD
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 17h
American fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky whose work was featured prominently in Esquire, Look, and Life before shooting extensively for Harper’s Bazaar.

Free Form Wools: David Barr for Fabiola
Harper's Bazaar July 1960

#Photography #HarpersBazaar
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 3d
Bert Stern
Twiggy in a Le Corbusier chair
Vogue, November 1967
Twiggy lounges on a modern chair
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 4d
Elsa Martinelli by Willy Rizzo, 1970 #mood
Italian actress and model Elsa Martinelli, seated cross-legged on a red sofa in a minimalist room with abstract wall art by Charles Matton
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 18h
The Beatles ~ And Your Bird Can Sing
(Revolver, 1966 - Mono)
#JohnLennon #BOTD #MusicSky

Whenever anyone asked me what my favorite Beatle song was, this is always in my top 3. Happy Thursday night!

📷John Lennon (And Your Bird Can Sing) by Rémi Jouande

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