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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 22h

Talking Heads' album Remain In Light was released on October 8, 1980

Produced by Brian Eno

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 11h

Colourful evening with Yakshagana

Bunter Abend mit Yakshagana.

A dancer in the colourful costume of the traditional Southern Indian music theater with golden headgear, breastplate, bangles, and belt. Flashing teeth and strong eyes accentuated by kohl and brows painted in black. A wide gesture of the right arm. Head and body wearing red & black garlands and wide pants in red, yellow, green on a stage ornamented by mostly white flowers in front. The background looking like a blurred wheel of peacock feathers in hues between turquois, malachite green , lapislazuli, and mauve.

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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 1d

#HamburgerKulturgutDigital: Newe Landesbeschreibung Der zweij Hertzogthümer Schleswich vnd Holstein, zusambt vielen dabeij gehörigen Newen Landcarten (1652). Der Husumer Bürgermeister Caspar Danckwerth gab mit dem Kartographen Johannes Mejer diese älteste bekannte Topographie … 1/2

Das Bild zeigt ein antikes Buch, das auf Seiten geöffnet ist, die eine detaillierte Titelseite und eine Weltkarte enthalten. Die Titelseite zeigt kunstvolle Designs, Bilder historischer Persönlichkeiten und komplizierte Gravuren. Der Kartenabschnitt veranschaulicht geografische Merkmale mit dekorativen Rändern und Etiketten auf Latein

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The Underground Map @theundergroundmap.com · 1d

Before zebra crossings were invented, other mammal-based crossing ideas were trialled. The inflatable giraffe crossing certainly aided visibility but never really caught on

#ott #offtopictuesday

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

Very ornate library with beautiful glass ceiling

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 3d

Aftermath - flower offering already scattered.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 4d

Christian Grataloup, déambulation géohistorique (@franceculture.fr ; #skystorians) : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Christian Grataloup, déambulation géohistorique

Histoire ? Géographie ? Anthropologie ou sociologie ? Pour Christian Grataloup, il n’y a qu’une seule science sociale. D’atlas historique en atlas mondial, retour sur un parcours au-delà des frontière...

www.radiofrance.fr

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 4d

Tropical vedgetables, eve of great feast.

UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 4d

Tropical night, moon somewhere hidden, autorickshaw squeaks in the corner.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl, design for double woven cloth, 1926 #WomensArt #UnravellingWomensArt

Painted design for a textile with rectangles and stripes in pastel colours of blue, peach as well as black and white

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 12d

“The Antediluvians recognize an old acquaintance”

This cartoon appeared in Punch magazine, 27/07/1861 - linking the old age of our Dino friends with the previous appearances of the “Great Comet of 1861”

The comet is now designated C/1861 J1, and is due to return in 2267 so…see you then, yeah??

Black and white cartoon. The Crystal Palace Hylaeosaurus, on the edge of the lake, is looking up through a brass-looking telescope mounted on a curvaceous tripod on the back. Behind it, a Teleosaurus is holding a telescope, and the standing Iguanodon is looking up in the distance. Their focus is on a comet, heavily stylised with a grinning face. The caption reads: “The Age of the Comet ascertained to a Nicety. The Antediluvians Recognise an Old Acquaintance of A.M. 1372.”

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 5d

“Do not all these beings who preceded man and who are emerging from their tombs today seem like monsters?

Yet they are connected to us by original bonds”

Translated from “Le monde avant la création de l'homme” (The world before the creation of humankind), by Camille Flammarion. Art by Georges Devy

Black and white book illustrations. Various antediluvian reptiles (and glyptodonts), many of them Crystal Palace-inspired, are emerging from a cave directly toward the viewer

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d

Also: yes, this is a rather good one

Sheela on the tower of the Church of St. Mary and St. Andrew, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire. Description from link below: Uniquely this figure is joined by a crouching phallic male figure which form the window arch ... The sheela figure itself has a deeply incised vaginal cavity which she holds open with one hand the other hand seems to be disappearing behind the leg of the male figure. One finger points to the clitoral area and there appears to be a slight suggestion of the clitoris at the top of the vagina. Both legs are held apart and the there appears to be a suggestion of breasts. In the arguments over whether sheelas are sexual or apotropaic in nature this figure is often cited as evidence in favour of the sexual theory. It is hard to see anything other than a sexual meaning to this carving with the erect penis of the male figure and open vulva of the female. The elongated body of the male figure suggests a monstrous nature and so seems to add weight to the argument that this carving at least, is a warning against the sin of lust.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 9d

This bizarre 'nostalgia' towards things that never existed by petty tyrants and fascists was already there before AI came and gave expression to their picture-thinking. Here is Paolo Virno from 2002:

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 6d

Navadurga at the grand procession of the Mangaluru Dasara, Kudroli.

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mariavollergnaden @mariavollergnaden.bsky.social · 7d

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Pierre Alexandre Collomb @pierrealexsj.bsky.social · 8d

En cette fête de saint Jérôme, retour sur son portrait par l’atelier de Georges de La Tour au Musée Lorrain. Scruter la parole à la lueur tremblante d’une chandelle. Et cet éclat de lumière à travers le papier.
À voir au musée Jacquemart-André.

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Els @elsvhonsebrouck.bsky.social · 8d

In search of some peace, Edvard Munch settled in the small town of Kragerø on the southern coast of his native Norway in 1909. The move sparked his interest in landscape painting and stimulated his development of a bright palette and energetic, sweeping brushwork.
🎨 The Sun, 1910
#Art #Painting

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Ombre🌿 @orya.bsky.social · 8d

Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s’empoisonne

Apollinaire

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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 8d

75 PARIS LA ZONE l'ancetre du périphérique parisien "Plus qu’un simple anneau d’asphalte, le périph’ est à la fois une frontière et une passerelle, héritier d’une longue histoire entre Paris et sa banlieue".
📷 l.franceculture.fr/rwy

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 9d

„In Deutschland wählte der Patriotismus die aggressive Form. Die Liebe zum Heimischen kleidete sich in den Hass gegen Fremdes.“

Guten Morgen mit Walther Rathenau, geb. 29. September 1867 und ermordet von rechtsradikalen Verschwörern

Ein Foto von ihm. Er sitzt in Anzug, Hemd und Krawatte am Schreibtisch hat ein Blatt vor sich und schreibt, dabei schaut in die Kamera.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 10d

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mariavollergnaden @mariavollergnaden.bsky.social · 10d

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12d

Anthony Hernandez - Landscapes for the Homeless

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