Jonathan Morse

Waldo’s Destruction Company Visit the post for more.

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Sensor Shostakovich:

Sensor: Shostakovich jonathanmorse.blog/2025/10/15/s... #cat #music #Shostakovich #photography

Der Panther liest im Bett. * Readers under the sign of the orange, he’s reading Rilke’s “The Panther”: a poem about light in the lightspeeding moment when it rushes nevertheless in through our cage&#8…

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The alexandrite #cat #eye

Shod forever in red: two modes of immortality 1. That which never can change: Its oriflamme is, “The red shoes dance on.” 2. That which refashions mother memory into statesmanship:Its talisman in words is, “Make [name of myth…

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In morning light, an American short-haired cat sits on a kitchen counter. His picture was taken with a wide-angle lens, so we see him surrounded by about half of the entire kitchen.

The 20 mm lens #cat #photography

Directions at sunrise You don’t want to know why I was waiting outside Castle Hospital’s emergency room at  six in the morning, but Uber had told me to expect a red Cadillac driven by a man named Willy. &#82…

Early morning: Hawaii geography memory dance dance dance jonathanmorse.blog/2025/09/10/d...

A way to reconcile #MAGA and #MAHA, #Trump's power base with #RFKJr's:

First, by executive decision, order the immediate death penalty for anyone who doesn't love Trump. Second, stipulate that the execution be carried out by #COVID immunization. @carlbergstrom.com @sanders.senate.gov

Two brilliantly colored Java finches facing the camera and so close that they're touching, with one bird's head on top of the other's.

Javafinchjavafinch

Yes it is, you artist of the computer!

A demonstration that an image from one part of the illustration has been pasted into another part, resulting in a pair of images where only one was before.

The visual aid is by me, but the botanist Kim Bridges #kimbridges.com is the man who discovered this amazing tree that hops like a kangaroo and leaves duplicates of itself wherever it lands.

Iste perfecit opus In Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi,” the artist who narrates the poem envisions a picture he is about to create: a painting filled to the margins with brilliantly illuminated images o…

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Trump doesn't consult @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Instead, he meditates on how he'd look wearing a crown.

Terms of art, 1847 Footnotes in advance: 1. “Now exhibiting” means “now being exhibited.” It’s a progressive passive construction that now survives only in a few expressions such as &#82…

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Apparatus in housing Visit the post for more.

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#cat #portrait

Sei mir gegrüßt, sei mir geküßt Visit the post for more.

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That Noble Art Visit the post for more.

That Noble Art jonathanmorse.blog/2025/05/09/t... #cat #architecture

Frieze Visit the post for more.

Frieze #cat #black #photography jonathanmorse.blog/2025/04/30/f...

Thanks for the repost, Matt. It's a passionflower butterfly or Gulf fritillary on an ixora blossom in Honolulu.

Surmount #butterfly #red #flower #insect #photography #color

Her scents #blossom #photography #flower #color_photography

Terms of art, 1847 Footnotes in advance: 1. “Now exhibiting” means “now being exhibited.” It’s a progressive passive construction that survives now in only a few expressions such as &#82…

#Photography and #history: add irony ad lib. jonathanmorse.blog/2025/04/20/t...

The first time as tragedy, the second time as commercial Dating from 1960, Vasily Grossman’s very long novel Life and Fate tried to be a War and Peace for the twentieth century. If only in terms of ambition, it failed. It has mass but not copia. It…

Nazi talk then, Republican talk now. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @joriegraham.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social #history #literature jonathanmorse.blog/2025/04/09/t...

Fingerings for the well dressed Visit the post for more.

Fingerings for the well dressed #YujaWang #piano #lizard #green #photography jonathanmorse.blog/2025/03/29/f...

A sleeping cat, full face, displayed sideways. The title refers to the Petula Clark song "Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darlin."

Subway, don't sleep in the, darlin' #PetulaClark #cat #portrait, #photography

Continuum Early in the twentieth century, some American newspapers’ coverage of the arts was distributed by syndication from large metropolitan dailies to smaller papers in smaller towns. Between 1926 …

Homage to #poetry and to #NewEngland values living on in #Hawaii. In the Pacific tradewinds, hope for rust descending on #Tesla.

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Curve embodying source “Chatham Square, New York City, N.Y.,” about 1900. Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, Image cropped and electronically restored.

William Carlos #Williams, who said, "A poem is a machine made out of words," prescribes curve. #photography #history #poetry #train jonathanmorse.blog/2025/03/20/c...

An extreme close-up of a black cat's eye, with the photographer and his camera reflected.

Cameraman #cat #photography #portrait #eye

Full front view of black cat with glittering green eyes

Night advance #cat #photography