Fovea Hex

Wot - no fax machine? Still, it beats doomscrolling, and it's weirdly soothing to hear these ancient devices from days of yore, before eyes and ears were force-fed 24/7. (I do have a special place in my heart for the sound of a typewriter spelling stuff out...)

YouTube video by Rodrigo Rosa Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott

Intermezzo
#Bach #baroque #mezzosoprano #cinema #sovietcinema #tarkovsky

Designs by Carlotta Bonnecaze for the Krewe of Proteus' parades in the #NewOrleans #MardiGras parade, 1880s and 90s. See more wonderful designs from the “golden age” of Mardi Gras here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/i...

If you don’t quit Facebook soon, you will NEVER quit Facebook 😬😡

Gulls flying around at dusk, with trees and a pylon on the hill behind them.

Last fly-around before dark

🧵👇 brighten up your Monday morning......

Heavenly food.

“”It’s like a cross between Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food, but with a flavor palette built around blue fenugreek, coriander seed, and marigold,””

Watching the film Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer. He believed that art was a prayer. A spiritual act in a consumeristic society.

Bequest of Mrs. Mark Rothko through The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

No. 3/No. 13
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135437

Toni Iordache playing a cimbalom

Roma musician,Toni Iordache, was unsurpassed as a cimbalom player, reportedly able to reach 25 notes per second and one of his (slightly) more meditative pieces opens the latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast: bit.ly/4ttRjQr.

Nervus Vagus (gk rec. 2021), by gintas k 13 track album

Its followed by @gintask.bsky.social's 'Rising', which also might reach 25 notes per second but we didn't count. Find it on his 'Nervus Vagus' album: gintask.bandcamp.com/album/nervus...

'Walk for Peace' concludes as Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 15-week trek A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., after completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.

A group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, D.C., Tuesday, walking single file across a bridge over the Potomac River to cap a 15-week trek from Texas that has captivated the country.
https://to.pbs.org/4rIxYJE

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Details of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme 2026 announced | Nialler9 “The introduction of Basic Income for the Arts underscores the premise that Government investment in the arts yields myriad positive benefits to

Details of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme for later this year announced.

It will be available to 2000 new applicants with the existing 2000 elligible artists able to apply also.

nialler9.com/details-of-t...

Cornell's Macaulay Library: A scientific archive of 150,000 bird calls and animal sounds www.macaulaylibrary.org

trunk of a tree on its side in the park. clusters of white fungus and orange / brown mushrooms wet from the rain.

Lots going on still on this log in the park.

#MushroomMonday

Anybody know a modern manufacturer?

Bowl Depicting a Running Hare - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bowl with Eagle (63.178.1) and Bowl with Hare (64.261)The tenth and eleventh centuries under the Fatimid caliphate were times of prosperity in Egypt and the neighboring lands, when a burgeoning class ...

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.

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'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'

#seamusheaney

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#apod 2026-02-08
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Image Credit:
Daniel Korona

Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html

A photo of a copy of the 2021 Penguin Classics edition of the Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. The cover art is by Paava Halonen.

"You will reach a flaming river
Blazing right across your road:
First there are the fiery falls,
Beneath the falls a blazing island,
On the isle a flaming hill,
On its peak a flaming eagle
Sharpening its beak at night"

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Russian 'inspector' satellite appears to break apart in orbit, raising debris concerns A Russian satellite once used to inspect other spacecraft appears to have disintegrated in a graveyard orbit high above the Earth, according to ground-based imagery. The Luch/Olymp satellite, launc

www.n2yo.com/satellite-ne...

Fascinating: "......the world is fuller than it looks, and some of its most interesting inhabitants are the ones we never see....."

Dandelion (ca. 1755) by Barbara Regina Dietzsch.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f86b3c8b-724f-4143-87a5-dcc2104cb903

#stems #dandelions #flora #art #publicdomain

David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987) What living director has drawn the descriptor “surreal” more often than David Lynch?

David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987)

ONLY 39 MORE SIGNATURES, come ON #speirgorm
#FreePalestine

Envy………

"The Real never ceases to be." (Bhagavad Gita Ch2, vs 16). Well that's good.

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