Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear
🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
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Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Another cup of coffee? No thanks, I've had plenty... Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Keep 'em coming. ☕️☕️☕️
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Reposted by Dean Frey
Happy Birthday White Jesus
Remembering Samuel Palmer on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Happy Birthday White Jesus
Reposted by Dean Frey
Mordecai Richler by Ulf Andersen, 1999
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
January 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Mordecai Richler by Ulf Andersen, 1999
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
Reposted by Dean Frey
Aislin (Terry Mosher) draws Mordecai Richler
One more time!
One more time!
January 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Aislin (Terry Mosher) draws Mordecai Richler
One more time!
One more time!
Reposted by Dean Frey
Another Aislin (Terry Mosher) cartoon of Mordecai Richler.
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Another Aislin (Terry Mosher) cartoon of Mordecai Richler.
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Reposted by Dean Frey
Mordecai Richler by Aislin (Terry Mosher)
January 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Mordecai Richler by Aislin (Terry Mosher)
Reposted by Dean Frey
"My first night on the Left Bank I settled into a table on the terrace of the Café de Flore, pulling out my notebook & pen, doing my utmost to appear pensive. Look at me, I'm a writer."
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
January 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"My first night on the Left Bank I settled into a table on the terrace of the Café de Flore, pulling out my notebook & pen, doing my utmost to appear pensive. Look at me, I'm a writer."
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
Reposted by Dean Frey
Mordecai Richler by Reg Innell, Toronto Star, 1985
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mordecai Richler by Reg Innell, Toronto Star, 1985
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
Reposted by Dean Frey
Remembering Mordecai Richler on his birthday 🎂
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
January 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Remembering Mordecai Richler on his birthday 🎂
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
Remembering Samuel Palmer on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Remembering Samuel Palmer on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
Just came across Winter Aconite - Eranthis hyemalis.
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Just came across Winter Aconite - Eranthis hyemalis.
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
Reposted by Dean Frey
If I ever have my own studio for whatever, there's a 100% chance that I'll have a skull lying around for no reason whatsoever.
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM
If I ever have my own studio for whatever, there's a 100% chance that I'll have a skull lying around for no reason whatsoever.
Marianne Moore’s desk at her home in Philadelphia
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1983
Over a couple of years, back on Twitter, I put together a huge thread of photos of writers’ desks, but I missed this one.
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1983
Over a couple of years, back on Twitter, I put together a huge thread of photos of writers’ desks, but I missed this one.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Marianne Moore’s desk at her home in Philadelphia
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1983
Over a couple of years, back on Twitter, I put together a huge thread of photos of writers’ desks, but I missed this one.
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1983
Over a couple of years, back on Twitter, I put together a huge thread of photos of writers’ desks, but I missed this one.
Jackson Pollock’s studio in Long Island
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1988
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1988
January 27, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Jackson Pollock’s studio in Long Island
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1988
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1988
Reposted by Dean Frey
I miss the Cool and the Kindness that was Paul Newman.
Remembering Paul Newman on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
January 27, 2026 at 1:01 AM
I miss the Cool and the Kindness that was Paul Newman.
Reposted by Dean Frey
The cartoonist closest to my soul. Metaphysical and dadist.
January 27, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The cartoonist closest to my soul. Metaphysical and dadist.
Remembering Paul Newman on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
January 26, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Remembering Paul Newman on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
Remembering Roger Vadim on his birthday 🎂
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
January 26, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Remembering Roger Vadim on his birthday 🎂
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
Glenn Miller, "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Glenn Miller, "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
Reposted by Dean Frey
His real name was Edward Chester Babcock. “Chester Babcock” became a sort of inside joke amongst his pals, including Hope & Crosby who used that name many times on the radio & was Hope’s character’s name in The Road to Hing Kong.
January 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM
His real name was Edward Chester Babcock. “Chester Babcock” became a sort of inside joke amongst his pals, including Hope & Crosby who used that name many times on the radio & was Hope’s character’s name in The Road to Hing Kong.
Remembering Jacqueline du Pré on her birthday 🎂
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
January 26, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Remembering Jacqueline du Pré on her birthday 🎂
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
Happy birthday Angela Davis 🎂
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Happy birthday Angela Davis 🎂
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
Remembering Jimmy Van Heusen on his birthday 🎂
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
January 26, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Remembering Jimmy Van Heusen on his birthday 🎂
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
Remembering Erwin Blumenfeld on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
January 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Remembering Erwin Blumenfeld on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
Remembering Jules Feiffer on his birthday 🎂
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau
January 26, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Remembering Jules Feiffer on his birthday 🎂
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau