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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching-- What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Irving Berlin (with Ethel Merman) - BOTD

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

His transformations of reality were the product of a visionary sensibility that harked back to Samuel Palmer... The Edge of the Wood Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter, was born on May 12, 1948. #SteveWinwood Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...

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Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, was born on May 12, 1928 (d. 2023). #BurtBacharach Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...

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Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer: her very best performance!

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 12/05/2025

All eyes on budget reconciliation! We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill? Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty... Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime" - BOTD

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant) - BOTD

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂 📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981 "There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king." - Journey Gunderson

A bearded Carlin in a striped t-shirt carries a life-size cardboard figure of a clean-shaven, younger Carlin in a suit & tie.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Remembering Frank Stella on his birthday 🎂 📷 Michael Tighe, 1975 "I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away." His cat's name was Marisol!

Stella sits in a chair in his studio, with a splendid big cat on his lap.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Remembering Joseph Beuys on his birthday 🎂 📷 Alastair Thain, 1985 "I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."

Beuys in his trademark hat, holding up a single carnation

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Todd @kinetograph.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Ritchie Valens #BOTD - "Come On, Let's Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRv...

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Come On Let’s Go

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Mary Wells, American singer, "who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s" (Wikipedia), was born on May 13, 1943 (d. 1992). #MaryWells Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...

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NEW * My Guy - Mary Wells {Stereo}

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...

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Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (1974)

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...

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Stevie Wonder - Superstition (1974)

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« In Groove We Trust ! » @mathvinc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder ! Thank you for everything ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKY...

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Stevie Wonder - I Wish (the original version)

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy birthday Stevie Wonder 🎂 📷 Al Satterwhite "Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it." - Elton John

Wonder in the recording studio, singing into a microphone as he plays the piano.

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Ludo SSX @ludo85.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Chishû Ryû BOTD repose en Paix 💛

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu's THERE WAS A FATHER (1942) Ryu was BOTD in 1904

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Chishû Ryû in "An Autumn Afternoon" - BOTD

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Remembering Daphne du Maurier on her birthday 🎂 📷 John Gay, 1949 "Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies." - Olivia Laing

The author in a striped dress, posing in her living room

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Daphne du Maurier (with scenes from the Hitchcock film adaptation of the du Maurier novel "Rebecca") - BOTD

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Daniel Lieberman @damfino11.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday** Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963 Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908 Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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Daniel Lieberman @damfino11.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday** Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963 Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910 Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval) Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich

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Els @elsvhonsebrouck.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Georges Braque, French painter, was born #OnThisDay in 1882. Along with Pablo Picasso, he pioneered Cubism, a 20th-century art movement in which works of art are made up of cubes and other geometrical shapes. 🎨 Still Life with Grapes and Clarinet, 1927 #Art #Painting #Cubism

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Fran @franfilms.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Okaasan (Mikio Naruse, 1952)

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Directed by Wes Anderson

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Anouk Aimée "La Dolce Vita" 1960

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Bono [Paul Hewson], Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and philanthropist, lead vocalist and primary lyricist of U2, was born on May 10, 1960. #Bono U2 and Bruce Springsteen - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (U2, Bono) (2005, Hall Induction) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlgY...

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U2 with Bruce Springsteen - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" | 2005 Induction

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Sorry, Wrong Number, Barbara Stanwyck, 1948.

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Robert Johnson as depicted by Robert Crumb Johnson was BOTD in 1911. Following his example, I went down to the crossroads one night and had the Devil teach me kazoo in exchange for my soul.

Cartoon of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson smoking a cigarette. Instead of pupils, he has a skull representing death in each eye.

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Ms Hepburn, besides being beautiful, talented & haute couture, was also fr 1988 until her premature death a UNICEF ambassador. She traveled the world from Biafra to Ecuador, Somalia to Guatemalia, publicizing the plight of the world's impoverished children. She did God's work. Ph by Douglas Kirkland

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

As we enter the twenty-first century,people still live in abject poverty,people still struggle to survive.And we see the children, always the children: their enlarged bellies, their sad eyes, their faces that show the suffering, all the suffering they have endured in their short yrs.--AUDREY HEPBURN

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Marlene Dietrich by Cecil Beaton

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.” ― Cecil Beaton

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Bill Brandt Coal-Miner’s Bath, Durham, England 1937

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's part o/t photog’s job to see more intensely thn most peop. He must have&keep the receptiveness o/t child who looks at the world for the first time.Most photogs wld feel embarrassment in admittng they carry withn them a sense of wonder,yet w/o it they wld not produce the wrk they do-BILL BRANDT

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.” – Satyajit Ray

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Pix Flix n Rocks @servo20.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Philippe Halsman Photo by Weegee.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Serge Reggiani in "Casque d'or" - BOTD

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