Bruce Hodges

A great find from 45 years ago

#archaeology

More patience than I have, to bear witness to all the nonsense going on

I trust when this era ends — and it will — he will take off for a well-deserved six-month vacation, perhaps in a locale with no knowledge of American politics

It’s what we all need right now.

Right?

More patience than I have, to bear witness to all the nonsense going on

I trust when this era ends — and it will — he will take off for a well-deserved six-month vacation, perhaps in a locale with no knowledge of American politics

Could turn into a gigantic thread, who knows?

Starting an animals playing bagpipes thread just because.

A 13th-century drawing of a light pinkish-tan dog walking upright, playing a light green bagpipe, with Latin text at the top (sorry, I cannot quite make out the letters)

Mood

Dog Playing Bagpipes (13th century)
from Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
(via @pdimagearchive.bsky.social)

After Puno

After Puno, 1987
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5298

A drawing from 1838 showing a musical staff with a treble clef at left and double bars at right. In the center are 8 notes going diagonally up from left to right, and to the right, a parallelogram made of 8 multicolored triangles in a similar slant from left to right

David Ramsay Hay (Scottish, 1798-1866)

Mapping of Colour onto Musical Notes (1838)
from The Laws of Harmonious Colouring

From Internet Archive/The Getty, via Public Domain Image Archive (@pdimagearchive.bsky.social)

"But, inexplicably, the principal harpist is rarely consulted on these matters."

😆

We need to fix that!

Milan Adamčiak. I° per dieci strumenti a piacere, 1971

YouTube video by Wolfgang Sawallisch - Topic Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66, B. 131

Been a minute since I've heard a Sawallisch recording, and this version of Dvořák's Scherzo capriccioso is a reminder not to wait so long

Most welcome! And no embarrassment accepted; it's not that well-known. I had never heard of it prior to this recording, and further, don't recall ever seeing it on a concert program in the U.S.

There's just too much stuff out there to hear!

YouTube video by Philadelphia Orchestra - Topic Pamatnik Lidicim (Memorial to Lidice) , H. 296

In the mood for Martinů's Memorial to Lidice

This recording is an outstanding artifact from the Eschenbach era with The Philadelphia Orchestra

Rupar might be a saint.

OK, remove "might"

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Aerial view of gray ground with rows of tiny black graves and yellow backhoes

Graves.

165 graves.

Each for a little girl killed by the Israeli-American strike that targeted a school on the first day of the Iran War.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926) Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, or The Adventures of Prince Achmed, lays fair claim to being the earliest animated feature film in existence. If we do grant it that title, it beats the next contende...

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Micheil Schrijver (Dutch, b.1957)
"Silence of the Sea," 2013
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Taylor Schultek (American, b.1990)

"Madonna," 2023
Oil on birch panel
36 x 48 in

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

A departure from the usual, showing the cherry branch interior

Helen Acheson, William A. M. Burden, and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Funds

Leon Polk Smith, Red Wing, Number 1 from the Form Space series, 1979
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134729

Looking up at a dusky blue sky with silhouettes of leafless trees and several lamp posts trailing off into the distance, a setting yellow sun as a small, bright ball on the horizon, and a layer of small clouds in a tight patchwork pattern

Good evening, Saint Paul.

Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Carolina Rodríguez-Cisneros

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Project for an Exterior Wall, 1954-1965
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137695

A photo of the stage at the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia, with the Takacs Quartet taking a curtain call. From left: violist Richard O'Neill, cellist András Fejér, and violinists Harumi Rhodes and Edwin Dusinberre

From this afternoon's sold-out Philadelphia concert with the Takács Quartet, a curtain call with cellist András Fejér nudged to the front by his colleagues, violist Richard O'Neill and violinists Harumi Rhodes and Edwin Dusinberre.

Fejér is retiring after an extraordinary 51 years with the group

Teyana Taylor with a little assistance from her daughter, SLAY 🔥 the #ActorAwards red carpet

Also known as the Circular Sun House, this shows an aerial view of the home's distinctive curvilinear organic architecture constructed from a series of overlapping concentric circles. The swimming pool is surrounded by a curved concrete wall topped with port hole breeze blocks. Cactus and red lounge chairs are arranged around the pool. The home was designed to "emphasize harmony between human habitation and the natural world" while offering an unobstructed view of the desert terrain.

I could live here. 🥲

The Norman Lykes House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright 1959. It was the last residential design by Wright, and it was completed in 1967 by his apprentice, John Rattenbury.

Beautiful

A pleasure. You do post the most interesting images!