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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 18h

Vladimir Nabokov, 1959.

@Marc Riboud.

davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 8h

"...Too bad Disney screwed around with it but still a fantastic watch." - Exactly. It should have - could have - been a much finer film.

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 1d

twisting cells @twistingcells.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thelonious Monk backstage at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1964), photograph by Jim Marshall

Monk smiling and looking off camera while smoking a cigarette

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Clara @claracloud.bsky.social · 13h

Takeshi Nagao #photography
Japan (1972)

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 10h

Released on the compilation album "The Best of Friends", and with Ry Cooder on guitar, Ike Turner on piano and young Joachim Cooder on drums, John Lee Hooker's "Big Legs, Tight Skirt."

Solid.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4P...

Big Legs, Tight Skirt (feat. Ike Turner & Ry Cooder)

YouTube video by John Lee Hooker - Topic

www.youtube.com

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15h

A Peugeot D4A van - originally from the late 1950's - given a new lease on life.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15h

The Ford GT40 Mk IV that won Le Mans in 1967. Bernard Cahier took the photo with co-driver Dan Gurney behind the wheel.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15h

"It took me a while to let my hair down in the business because I was kind of a shy person. I was from New York and never really felt at ease in Hollywood. I don't really now either but I don't care, it's not important that I do. Filmmakers find me or I find them."

Sigourney Weaver #BOTD

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15h

From 1956, Sarah Vaughan by Roy DeCarava.

A picture of singer Sarah Vaughan smiling from the mid-1950's.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15h

That's right. Nothing to see here, young lady. Move along. 😇

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

New York City, 1954. Photo by Vivian Maier.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

It may bring a smile.

Close-up image of an orangutan with it's arm holding a a dog. The sides of their faces are touching.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

Poet Stéphane Mallarmé by Édouard Manet (1876).

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

Nino Nanni for Phonola Radio, 1934.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

"Pay no attention to that cat behind the curtain!"

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

John Cheever (1912 - 1982).

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

"In Hollywood, if you are a man and speak your mind openly, you're considered a man in full. But if you are a woman and do the same, you're nothing but an annoying bitch."

Happy Birthday to Sigourney Weaver, born 8 October 1949.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h

Film director Julien Duvivier was born on 8 October 1896.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 1d

Yo-Yo Ma (with Fred Rogers) - BOTD

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 1d

Anna Magnani

Leslie Gill, 1941

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 2d

"Jo Jones, an elegant, swinging dude, always had a style of his own. When he was with us, you could hear him, feel him — everything was right there." - Count Basie
Remembering one of the greatest ever drummers, the impeccable Papa Jo Jones, born OTD 1911 in Chicago
#jazzsky #musicsky

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d

By Eva Besnyö, 1931.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d

Actor Louis Jouvet by Irving Penn.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d

Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge during the filming of "Carmen Jones" (1954).

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