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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 21h

#OKru Get Out, 2017. Thoroughly unnerving, deliciously well-made and creepy, and with many important things to say - despite being a whole load of fun. Astonishing debut.

photos of the faces of a man and woman from a film, both trying to smile externally but obviously bottling something up inside

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 1d

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/

Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
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Bronze head of a woman or goddess, torn from a full-sized statue. She wears a lunette diadem with inlaid silver patterns, with a star in the middle. Her wavy hair is center parted and pulled back into a bun. She looks directly into the camera with inlaid silver eyes, set beneath shadowed brows. With her mottled brown and green patina, the effect is frightening!

British Museum (1928,0416.1)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 1d

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 5d

Estrenando! - wearing some new Japanese convenience store socks on a warm early spring day!

looking down at a man’s legs - shorts, socks and laceless shoes - standing on a rainbow-painted pavement

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 5d

#DVD Kiss Me Kate, 1953. Enjoyable musical, mainly due to the astonishing Cole Porter songs and some great dancing (including a young Bob Fosse making his mark). Not quite as sparkling as it should have been, but great fun nevertheless.

three photos from a film showing a couple with the woman smiling on the phone and the man looking surprised, a woman in a skimpy costume dancing on a coffee table in front of some men, and a theatrical view of three men in tight pink costumes dancing with a woman on a green dress

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 5d

Two different ways of seeing who I have most interactions with on Bluesky. I don’t recognise many of these icons and have met less than a handful of the people… The black one is pleasantly rose window-like, but with meeeee in the centre!

concentric circles of Bluesky account icons surrounding mine, black background

a different set of concentric circles of Bluesky account icons surrounding mine, yellow background

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 5d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 7: dinner on the way back at #OKBilly #Mordialloc

two men wait hungrily with large plates of food

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 5d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 6: #Frankston Yacht Club (2016, Gregory Burgess Architects). ‘Mirage’ sculpture by USYD students Deirdre Mair & Harry Stitt, 2022.

an arched pedestrian bridge and a large timber-clad building with water on two sides

a large curvy timber-clad building with orange sunshades over a ground floor cafe

view along a timber boardwalk past low vegetation to a timber-clad building and arched bridge

a red steel sculpture in several angular fragments that forms a portal when looked at from one location

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 5d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 5: #Frankston wander across the c.2003 #LandmarkBridge (seriously, that’s its name). The waterfront boardwalk in front of the Yacht Club was designed by #TCL Taylor Cullity Lethlean

twilight view across water of a building and an arched pedestrian bridge

photos of an arched pedestrian bridge, the boardwalk it leads to, and a view across water to a distant city skyline

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 6d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 4: #Mornington town centre with many historic buildings (and a #PoMo police station)

photos of a town showing historic buildings and a man peering through an empty map holder

photos of a town showing historic buildings

photos of a town showing historic buildings and a Postmodern police station

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 6d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 3: seaside! Well, Bayside #Mornington Pier. The 3 roughwork park arches were part of the same Depression scheme that built the Great Ocean Road. Fab stone Matthew Flinders monument from 1952, on #SchnapperPoint - a fin? (statue for 1988 Bicentenary, Mark Clark).

two photos of a marina, one with a man on a promontory

photos of a body of water showing bathing boxes, fishers and rocks

two photos of sea with a rocky promontory and ships

photos from a park showing rockwork arches, a bronze statue, and a large angular stone structure

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 6d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 2: refreshments and browse at #TheStudioAndCo #Moorooduc.

two photos: two men drinking coffee; some handmade ceramic pots

four photos of ceramic fish-themed sculptures

photos of glass sculptures including fairy wrens

photos of art including atmospheric pastel gestural paintings

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 6d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 1: some landmarks (Google Streetview). The strange projections on the #Southland cinema perhaps from the 1935 Deco LA Pan-Pacific Auditorium; demolished in 1989, not long after being featured on Xanadu, but reproduced in 2 Disneys (1989 & 2011) and Warner Osaka!

four photos of landmarks to the south of Melbourne: a sculpture of coloured geometric objected piles up; a sculpture of white balls on poles that make a circle when seen from one direction; a large cinema; a brick church.

a roadside cinema near Melbourne and some possible design sources - a now-demolished iconic arena in the USA and some copies in theme parks around the world

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 7d

US Foreign Policy

BL Stowe 955; 16th century; France; f.15r