Mark Culham

Mark Culham

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I

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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, EDWARD STEICHEN’S FASHION FOR VOGUE (1930) 📸🖼️ Model Marion Morehouse wears a dress by Madeleine Vionnet in this photograph by Steichen, one of the most influential fashion & modernist photographers of his era. More ⤵️ archive.org/details/vogu... #PublicDomain

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From NY Times article on newly-reopened Goya Museum in Spain: If I already had plenty of reason to dislike "immersive" art experiences, looks like for this projected image they inexplicably tweaked the colors in Goya's famed "Third of May" painting. Why..?? Art museums get ever closer to Disneyland

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Jack Shoulder@jackshoulder.bsky.social

#TodayInQueerHistory Oct 26 (1946) Holly Woodlawn (born #OTD) was an actress who inspired Andy Warhol, featuring in his Trash and Women in Revolt. She also gets name checked in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, which tells of her hitch-hiking and transition. Her estate supports trans youth in LA.

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Three lit diagonals A B and C C faint glow bottom left to top right where imagine far beyond disappearing in far distance line of people men and women black silhouettes standing on B slight bend in necks look down on A C faint glow behind all else dark.

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I would be interested to hear, off hand, would you say The Cheesecake Factory sells more cheesecake or more strudel?

Alex Blechman@alexblechman.bsky.social

It’s good that cheesecake factory is decorated like an occult temple to an eldritch deity. Any restaurant can feed you cheesecake, only Cheesecake Factory makes it feel like part of a ritual

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Leonard Walker Stained Glass St Mark's, St John's Wood - 📷 can't find (gutted by fire 2023😬) St Paul's, Sandgate - 📷 can't find Holy Trinity, Sissinghurst !!! - 📷 Nob

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Nobody understands it can happen again The sun is shining an' the kids are shouting loud But you gotta know it's shining through a crack in the cloud And the shadows keep falling when Johnny comes marching home He's coming by bus or underground youtu.be/fTnqwKqVj_0?...

youtu.beThe Clash - English Civil War (Remastered - Official Audio)YouTube video by theclashVEVO
Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social

Fast-forward 90 years later ... far-right intimidation of refugees seeking asylum. #patriots #fascism #neofascism #racism #refugess #asylum www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The wind shifts. Peace, peace, Banshee. Wander as I may through the house, I cannot lull the blast. It did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks. Enough said. Madame Beck prospered all the days of her life; Madame Walravens fulfilled her ninetieth year before she died. Farewell.

John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social

Man Writing a Letter, 1662-65 Woman Reading a Letter, 1665 Gabriel Metsu (Two jewels from the National Gallery of Ireland #Dublin ) Metsu was buried #otd 24 Oct 1667 in the Nieuwe Kerk #Amsterdam.

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Carausius@carausius286.bsky.social

This is a fragment of a colossal bust of Alexander the Great. It stands 58cm high. Whilst the sculpture is severely damaged, what survives is striking in its masterful rendering of the human face. For me, the clean oblique cut also lends a feel of a modern art piece. 🕰️C2nd BC 🏛️📷Pergamon Museum

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Aha! The stained glass is by James Eadie Reid. I'm annoyed he didn't come to mind. He has a subtle style that I reckon should become distinctive with practice but I haven't been practicing. I'm surprised he has used Raphael. Many others did and I wouldn't be surprised if his tops the others.

Britain’s War Memorials@britwarmemorial.bsky.social

War memorial window. All Saints Church, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. Commemorating Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mountifort Dillon of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died of a war related illness on 13th January 1918. First World War. #LestWeForget

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James Eadie Reid Aidan McRae Thomson has photographed Reid's stained glass in the cloisters at Worcester Cathedral here flic.kr/s/aHBqjCQSt5. I Found it Impossible because all my phone wanted to do was focus on the tracery. I've got perfect photographs of the tracery.

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I had been told to give as favourable an account as I could: I gave a true one. I am not one of those who, when they see the sun breaking from behind a cloud, stop to ask others whether it is the moon. Mr Kean's appearance was the first glean of genius breaking athwart the gloom of the stage.

John Clare@johnclare.bsky.social

1824: Continued to read Hazlitt I like his Lectures on the Poets better than those of the comic writers & on Shakespear his View of the English Stage is not so good as either they might have remained in their first places without any loss to the world viz the Newspapers for which they were...

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He said, sir, the water itself was good healthy water; but, for the party that owed it, he might have more diseases than he knew for.

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social

He tells me that there is no doubt but that all my slyme do come away in my water, and therefore no fear of the stone; but that my water being so slymy is a good sign.

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- Do you just do your writing now or are you still working? - No I . . . I just do the writing. Charlie Bubbles (1968) (Shelagh Delaney, writer)

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social

‪For #FindsFriday a pendant dating to the Viking Age: a woman is pulling her pretzel-like braids. The hair pulling gesture can be compared to the gesture of mourning known from classical antiquity. It’s unknown if there is a connection to the Viking age imagery.It has been suggested... 🧵1/2 📷️ me

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📷 Buddy informs it's by Francis Eginton. However, he is using two figures designed by Joshua Reynolds, two of five that were first used somewhere or other, three of which got regular outings, subsequently.

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The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave To the dark, and the endless skies, my love youtu.be/u4WJUFgVJes?...

youtu.beThe First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceYouTube video by Timmy Thomas - Topic
Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social

Ewan MacColl, folk singer, labour activist and actor, died on this day 1989, aged 74. Born James Miller to Scottish parents in Broughton, Salford. Songs include 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Dirty Old Town'. He was the father of Kirsty MacColl.

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Leonard Walker on display at the V&A. Separated by a few years, these are early works and yet it's almost all there. His cobblestone style where only the exposed skin is drawn will be added to later with inky swirling pieces of glass. 📷 Buddy

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The best photograph I've been able to find of this Leonard Walker window at St Francis, Silver End. The inky swirling glass is now in play, although difficult to see here. Taking a break from Butterfield & Gibbs, I'm of a mind to track down as many windows of his as I can.

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Illustrated Pepys

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social

Mrs. Sarah talking with my wife and I how the Queen do. She tells us that the Queen’s sickness is the spotted fever; that she was as full of the spots as a leopard which is very strange that it should be no more known; but perhaps it is not so.

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Henry IV pt1 The idea - Falstaff was to lead a parallel life to John Oldcastle. The details were sparse. An associate of Hal's, later turned away, now lacking protection, is condemned to be burnt for practising his vocation, escapes, plots, caught, convicted of treason, and is executed twice.

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Act 1, scii, has it all. References to gallows in relation to his vocation as inevitable as the tide, the need for Hal to join in to provide countenance, and there's this 'By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king' He was named John Oldcastle when he first said that on stage.

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Illustrated Pepys

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social

It seems she was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet, and to have the extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about it that the doctors were angry.

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The crown is a bit off-putting as I don't associate a crown pictorially with Noah (I'll keep it in mind), but there are eight couples on board✔️ and there's the dove✔️. 'And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off'

Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 12, the Book of Ballymote. Written in 1391 in Ballymote, Co. Sligo, this is a compilation of religious and secular material in the Irish language. There is also an image of figures on a boat on the front flyleaf, possibly a depiction of Noah’s Ark.

Mark Culham
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B - Come walk with me to Neasden Lane L - Once I am sure there's nothing going on B - Long laid to rest among these dripping trees Many a Pooter and his Caroline L - Hatless, I take off My cycle-clips in awkward reverence B - And that small heap of fast decaying flowers L - sprawlings of flowers

Matt Shaw@matthewshaw.bsky.social

which is kind of weird as I dreamt about Larkin and Betj having a poetry slam about churchyards