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At 3, I remember feeling wonder at how huge everything was in this. It was my first movie theater experience.

FILMS IN 2023: → Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) — dir. william cottrell, david hand, wilfred jackson

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CROOKLYN (1994) dir. Spike Lee    

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Alfre Woodard in CROOKLYN (1994)

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Dinosaur talk

blogging

#kiwi #birdsong

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if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

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Reality, stronger than AI

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Inspirational when I was coming of age

The Raincoats as photographed by Janette Beckman for Rough Trade records while rehearsing in London for their 1979 debut album. As the photographer recalls: "...I went to shoot them at their rehearsal space, but if you look at that picture, you can see that it's a toilet. They were literally in the bathroom practicing. It's just so punk and the place is kind of a wreck."

Ana da Silva and Gina Birch formed the group in 1977 after seeing the Slits perform. As Birch stated in an interview, "It was as if suddenly I was given permission. It never occurred to me that I could be in a band. Girls didn’t do that. But when I saw The Slits doing it, I thought, ‘This is me. This is mine.’ Palmolive, the Slits' ex-drummer at the time, actually joined them in '78, performing with the line-up that played live and recorded the debut album.

A weird fact for this all-girl band that was influential for so many female artists, is that it actually took a guy to help younger generations re-appreciate them and that's why the Raincoats somehow always seem to be mentioned along with Curt Cobain, since his enthusiasm for their music brought them back from obscurity in the '90s after citing them as one of his favourite bands and writing the liner notes for the reissues of their albums.

If you ask me, I think ol' Johnny Rotten was spot on when he said that: "The Raincoats offered a completely different way of doing things, as did X-Ray Spex and all the books about punk have failed to realise that these women were involved for no other reason than that they were good and original".

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The Innocents 1961 | dir. Jack Clayton

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my hearing has been aided and holy shit is this how you guys hear all the time

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Large Papier Mache Animal Heads

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Knowledge is empowering

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Early robot nation

Cittern playing automaton, attributed to Juanelo Torriano (Spanish, 2nd half of 16th century.) Painted wood, iron, linen, silk brocade. Height: 44 cm.

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Four ceremonial amber amulets: egg shape with perforation; bear with eyes, mouth, tail and hind legs omitted; tablet-shaped pendant, corner with perforation; horse or elk head, eye and mouth not indicated, perforation at base of neck.

The bear comes from a bog in Resen, Viborg, Jutland, Denmark; the elk's head from Egemarke, Holbaej, West Zealand, Denmark. They are dated by fine incised and drilled bit ornament. There are indications that the patterns were incised with different points, at different times, and that the pits were made by rotating a bow-drill.

Copenhagen: Mus., Nationalmuseet.

Probably from an unrecorded mastaba in the Old Kingdom cemetery, Sakkara,.between 9000-5000 BC

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thinking about highland cows and their bangs