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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:26 UTC

I had that dream again

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:11 UTC

Tonight's Viewing - "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:40 UTC

Avonne Taylor poses backstage at the Ziegfeld Follies as Follies mascot “Sally” has a smoke, 1922. Seems the Prince of Wales had declared Avonne “the most beautiful girl he had ever seen on any stage” and requested that she appear in the London production of the musical “Sally.”

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MCapitu(Maria Capitolina S) @mcapitu2.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

Madame Denise Bourdet in front of a Cocteau mural, Cecil Beaton, 1930s.

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Team Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

okay nobody tell Wes Anderson about this

www.classicdriver.com/en/car/fiat/...

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

#OTD 1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

"Actual Size" by Ed Ruscha (1962)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

#JeanCocteau

Jean Cocteau designs for Schiaparelli

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

Jean Cocteau's "The Infernal Machine ". Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Nobis. Paris, theater of Bouffes-Parisiens. September 1954

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

"Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd."

#PTBarnum

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:23 UTC

Jean Cocteau (with scenes from his film "La Belle et la Bête") - BOTD

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

Sophia Loren and friends

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

The Blood of a Poet (1932) Surrealistic, visually stunning depiction of an artist's creation process. A true milestone in avant-garde cinema. Written and directed by Jean Cocteau, BOTD in 1889

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

Jean Marais And Jean Cocteau #BOTD During The Rehearsal Of The Play The Infernal Machine. 1954

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

“The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.”

#JeanCocteau

Jean Cocteau, 1934 by Boris Lipnitzki

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

"No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public."

-P. T. Barnum #BOTD

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

Friday mood

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

"The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it."

-P. T. Barnum #BOTD

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

Horse costume taken from Jean Cocteau’s #BOTD Le testament d'Orphée (Testament of Orpheus), designed by Janine Janet, 1960

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

Jean Cocteau #BOTD

Cocteau, 1957 by Tullio Farabola

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

#FallFriday The Vulture Ans A Nutter-Wain rb.gy/6oyyar

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:18 UTC

Good morning!

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:28 UTC

I had that dream again

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:13 UTC

Tonight's Viewing - "Black God, White Devil"

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Mark Anthony Austin @bobafettanhse.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

The Time Tunnel 1966 🎥

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

Umm...

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Beatgrrrl @beatgrrrl.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

Abbie Hoffman speaking at a The People's Flag art show, before being charged with desecration of the U.S. flag.

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Todd @kinetograph.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

King Ghidorah was designed as an homage to Yamata no Orochi, the mythological eight-headed and eight-tailed Japanese dragon/serpent. #DriveInMob

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

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Peaceablegrotto @peaceablegrotto.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

YOU CAN HELP SUPERMAN DUNK THE PIRATE! Source: spicyhorror

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Exulansiss @exulansiss.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:48 UTC

#OTD 1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Mae West, 1934

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

Stephen Boyd tames a lion in Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) Japanese poster

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:04 UTC

“The invention process is like a puzzle.

Keep rearranging the pieces until a solution emerges.”

#RubeGoldberg

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

Stephen Boyd learns to walk the tightrope for Billy Rose's Jumbo

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

Excerpt from the Paul Ambrose #BOTD segment of The Lower East Side Biography Project rb.gy/q3v92y

Paul Ambrose with Jackie Curtis and Lance Loud by Peter Hujar

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye, and Jimmy Durante Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

Sophia Loren in a scene with New York underground legends Candy Darling and Paul Ambrose #BOTD in La Mortadella aka Lady Liberty (1970) Paul kept flubbing his lines, so it took a whole day to shoot. rb.gy/4c79nh

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

Gina Lollabrigida #BOTD lends a helping hand to Burt Lancaster in Trapeze (1956)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

"We are all born to die—

the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live."

-Gina Lollobrigida #BOTD

Gina in Trapeze (1956)

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

Stephen Boyd #BOTD in Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

"Invention is a form of storytelling. It's about taking an idea and bringing it to life."

-Rube Goldberg #BOTD

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Conrad J. Barrington @conradbarrington.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, 1938

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

Good morning!

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Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

This Middle Dutch manuscript (ca. 1400) shows how parchment warps when exposed to intense heat—in this case, during a WWII bombing raid. No longer readable as a book, it's still a powerful historical source.

Universitätsbibl. Kassel, 8° Ms. theol. 15: orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...

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Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:30 UTC

1948 Gatso Roadster, Holland's First Post-War Car. A streamlined roadster with plastic top, it was claimed to be capable of 105 miles per hour with its Ford V-8 engine.

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:23 UTC

Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:08 UTC

Leda and the Swan at the Art Students League Ball — Weegee, circa 1950

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