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Wendy O'Rourke

@wendyo.bsky.social

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Here to inspire ✨️ Art + Music + Design + Positivity

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Oct 15

I cherish these photos taken by my dad in the early 1970s

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 8h

Golden Homes, Australia (1972) #Avedon #Lennon

Room featuring beige modular furniture, a chrome and glass coffee table, a built in television, a space age Italian lamp (in the style of the Guggerli L3 Floor Lamp by Rosemarie and Rico Baltensweiler) and a poster of Richard Avedon's psychedelic portrait of John Lennon from 1967. The carpet is orange.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 16h

John Winston Lennon, born today in 1940 in Liverpool, England.
#JohnLennon #BOTD

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

📷Robert Whitaker, 1965

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 9h

Apple textile by Hans-Jürgen Schöbel for Sodahl Design of Denmark, 1960s

Apple and leaves design in shades of orange, umber, and burnt sienna. It's part of a jute table runner.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 10h

Grapefruit - Yesterday's Sunshine (1968)
youtu.be/_jwdMRufX7Y?...

Around Grapefruit illustrated album cover by George Underwood

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 1d

Polish film poster for The Police Woman (La femme flic, 1980) • Designed by Mieczysław Wasilewski, 1979.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, quite.

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 14h

Danny and The Counts - Ode To The Wind (1966) youtu.be/Vz4ZIZ6BNMs?...

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 15h

John Alcorn (1969) #Autumn

A man with ginger hair sits in a pile of orange and pink leaves. The image is from the book Never Make Fun of a Turtle, My Son by Martin Gardner, illustrated by John Alcorn

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 15h

Yes

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 15h

House & Garden's New Complete Guide To Interior Decoration (1953)

Sitting room with a pink wall and a white wall and parquet style flooring. The room features a black daybed with a variety of throw pillows, a striped rug, and a yellow chair. A sideboard holds a white vase with birds of paradise and a Moroccan ewer sits on a round white coffee table.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 4d

Love / Arthur Lee ~ A House is Not a Motel
(from Forever Changes 1967)
#ArthurLee #MusicSky

Arthur Lee's amazing testament to the disintegration of the American Dream.

"And the water's turned to blood, and if you don't think so, go turn on your tub"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xz...