Júlia Chiacchio

'You must not give up. You must do your bit.'

The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness.

In one of her final interviews she explained why her mission never faltered: on.ft.com/4gScCW4

“In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead.”
- Samuel Beckett

"Only Lovers Left Alive" (2014) remains fascinating as an utterly unique art-work complete in itself, needing no context. mesmerizing Jim Jarmusch fantasy perfectly rendered by [vampire-couple] Adam & Eve/ Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, especially intriguing if you once lived in Detroit.

Amazing knots of words by Georg Bocskay, with pears and shell and a butterfly provided by Joris Hoefnagel, whose day is today.

A silvery spadefish glints in the golden hour light ✨♠️🐟🌆 #spadefish #atlanticspadefish #goldenhour #glint #silver #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Elizabeth I: The Drewe portrait. Very compelling sense of a real face amid all the sartorial glamour. By George Gower, whose day is today.

Zoos, prisons… same vibe when you’re a kid forced into both. The bars and behavioral issues overlap.
#CalvinandHobbes40 #ReluctantExplorer

Good morning! The Annunciation, a masterpiece of composition and color by Orazio Gentileschi, 1623. Today is his day.

Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1 Today in Focus · Episode

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Suijs, looking a bit fierce. Or maybe it’s just the demon that’s holding her family arms? Painted by Maarten van Heemskerck, born OTD in 1498.

1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. Rope
4. Rebecca
5. Dial M for Murder

On a distant unnamed planet on this date in 1914, Le Sony'r Ra, otherwise known as Sun Ra, was born and set upon a mythical and surreal musical journey. Any quote that I would conjure here cannot advance his truth, so here's some real: "If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes."

Rhinoceros. Visited Lisbon in 1515, died en route to Italy, Dürer never saw it, but his fabulous woodcut made it famous for centuries. Pretty good going!

Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery The Political Scene | The New Yorker · Episode

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Walter Crane's "A Garland for May Day" (1895)

Artist of the day: the marvelous Carlo Crivelli. Who does not love him & his zany use of fruits & veggies, as in this A+ Madonna of 1473? Lots of visual intensity here.

the real "truth" of the personality is likely to be in the work, in the very rhythm of sentences & fluidity of words, not in the family self or the "social" self. but few seem wiling to acknowledge this; often families are quick to condemn, unwilling to sympathize.

Brilliant colors of flowers displayed in a cold stone niche. By Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born on this day in 1606.

If today has been just too much, cheer up with these circular forms from Robert Delaunay, born on this day in 1885.

Wassily Kandinsky
Exotic Birds, 1915
Watercolor on paper
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Now that's a court that's actually supreme.

Brazil, a nation of laws and not men. Who knew?

Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year and on 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that it was: 'as good as anything I have done.'

Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year and on 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that it was: 'as good as anything I have done.'

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not--which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. ~CG Jung, 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘺

Here are 5 of my favorite movie genres:

5. Gangsters Eating Pasta

4. Sad Cowboys

3. Yes, M’Lord

2. Vampires Gargling Blood

1. I Need To Sing! And Dance!

Opinion | I’m not the grammar police. But writing well is an act of resistance. People are acutely interested in good writing, even in the age of tweeting.

My latest, in the Post!

[Just kidding. This is six years old and probably wouldn't get published there today.]

#CalvinandHobbes

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

“The laughing recognition of one’s own absurdity in the human comedy bans the devil as effectively as garlic and the cross.” James Hillman

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by English painter Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1926.

(Robert Julian Onderdonk,
"Landscape with Catci")