Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈

I won’t see it until this evening. Glad to hear it’s yet another good one! 🖖🏼💜

Watercolour painting by John Singer Sargent of a boat resting on a rocky shore surrounded by debris, and several boys swimming in the foreground.

Flotsam and Jetsam (ca 1908), by John Singer Sargent

Painting by Zinaida Serebriakova of four women bleaching cloth in the sunlight, seen from a low angle.

Bleaching Linen (1917), by Zinaida Serebriakova

Painting by Claude Monet of the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, seen in the distance from the Grand Canal, with two gondolas on the water.

The church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1908), by Claude Monet

Prehistoric oil lamps?

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic Station to Station (2016 Remaster)

#MusicChallenge

Day 5: David Bowie - Station to Station (1976) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIh...

The whole final section of this song (beginning “once there were mountains…) counts as #ExitMusic to me. It’s thrilling!

If a cat starts to purr you only have ten seconds to throw it before it explodes.

Sheep on the South Downs near sunset.

Sheep on the South Downs near sunset.

East Dean churchyard on a sunny evening, with daffodils among the graves.

The east end of East Dean church on a clear evening.

I got into the countryside today, for the first time this year. 🌷☀️🐑

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Indie My Life as a Zucchini Movie CLIP - Your Mother Give You That Name? (2017) - Animated Movie

#100Years100FaveFilms
#Filmsky

Day 91: My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras, 2016) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Q-...

Extremely touching, gently funny French stop-motion animation about kids in a children’s home, co-written by the great director Céline Sciamma. This clip is from the dubbed version.

Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) sitting in the captain’s chair in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Just look at her! ❤️ #StarfleetAcademy

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) looking a bit wistful. Caption reads: BACK IN THE 1990s.

Been feeling this so much lately. I had my difficulties then, we all did, but it was decade of youth and relative wellness and feeling safe. At least the world felt reasonably sane.

Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in the wild but not dressed for it in The Piano (1993)

Frame of the Day

Thanks, that’s good to know. And I’m sure the acting from the two leads will be amazing!

Paddington in the Criterion Closet

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1807

😊👍

Oh, I’m excited to see your future picks, Melanie! 🙂👍💜

And thank you to everyone who joined in with their own picks! It was wonderful to see so much diverse love for cinema in this challenge. 💜 👍

I’m going to miss posting my #100Years100FaveFilms once I’ve reached the end. But there are a few that I left off, or that I haven’t seen & fallen in love with yet, so I’m planning to add to the list every so often. So it will get a second life! 🎥 🎞️ ✨

Painting by Henri Martin of the sunlit exterior of a house, with steps and a front door in the middle.

La porte d'entrée, by Henri Martin

Colour photograph by Elliott Erwitt of Marilyn Monroe in Reno, her face partially blocked by someone’s hat and out of focus people in the foreground.

Marilyn Monroe, Reno, Nevada (1960), by Elliott Erwitt

Idyllic, dreamlike painting by George Bellows of a rural American landscape, with three cows grazing in the sunshine and a village in the distance.

Village on the Hill (1916), by George Bellows

Perfect GIF!

I’m in love with Nahla Ake! 😊

It’s an amazing scene!

Fuck Harry Potter.
Go watch #StarfleetAcademy instead.

Two T’Lyns in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

“Fascinating.”
“Remarkable.” 😂

I love listening to you on podcasts, because you express so much joy about Star Trek & your giggling is infectious! Love to hear people’s love for Academy too - I think it’s my favourite of all the new Trek shows! 🖖🏼

Trans rights are human rights. This isn't a tough one.

YouTube video by Alfred Brendel - Topic Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: III. Adagio ma non troppo

#ExitMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 4: Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat major www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFD...

The end of my favourite Beethoven sonata. The second fugue theme, after the return of the heartbreaking adagio, is an inversion of the first, & it feels like a life-saving miracle. 🎹🎶✨