idonthaveacoolname 🇨🇦

NY Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler became active in the NY School of the 1950s, and her work spanned six decades. She once said “One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it".

Broome Street at Night, 1987
#HelenFrankenthaler

It's not like Starbuck or McDonald's or any other large scale importer of coffee into the United States is going to pass that increased cost from the tariff onto the consumer? Nah....

A drone view of a braided dark blue and brown river on the right hand side, with some pale grey sand throughout. There's also some weird red rocks and yellow vegetation on the left hand side.

Don't think I processed this one before - a drone view of a braided river in the Highlands of #Iceland, Sept 2022.

#DJIAir2S #DronePhotography

Yikes! Sorry to hear that and I wish you a speedy recovery!

This shows how global capital attacks true democratic freedom whether a progressive mayor faces capitalist backlash or a country like Canada faces pressure from the US. Those benefiting from entrenched power resist challenges that threaten control blocking freedom for leaders and nations alike.🇨🇦❤️

Political parties, captured by corporate interests, use hollow union support to placate voters while accelerating the dismantling of public goods. Their rhetoric is a cynical mask hiding a deliberate agenda to deepen inequality and erode collective power for the benefit of capital. 🇨🇦

There is no middle class without strong unions.

A party that pays lip service to unions tolerates systemic inequality, gaslighting you with empty promises while protecting its own power. Believing their rhetoric may comfort you, but it won’t dismantle entrenched injustice.

I said what I said. 🇨🇦

Algorithmic sorting, while presented as statistically neutral, has been weaponized as a tool of moral judgment, enforcing a new regime of data hygiene that echoes entrenched standards of sexual purity. This reflects broader political control over bodies and expression. #data #dataLiteracy

Virgin of Montserrat - Wikipedia

FYI There is a Black Madonna at Montserrat just north of Barcelona that I just came back from visiting. That and hiking. If someone told there were over 100 in Europe alone I would believe them. Check the wiki for "Black Madonna" and you might be surprised! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_...

Is that how much the Jeffrey Epstein Ballroom will cost?

You could apply for asylum in North Korea.

PROTO | Kirkus Reviews Tracking the linguistic predecessor to languages now spoken by billions of people across the globe.

I normally like to read actual books but have been listening to Proto by Laura Spinney for the past day and I love it! Perhaps it is her journalistic storytelling style but it is riveting, noting that this is not my field of study. ❤️🇨🇦 #audiobooks #booksky www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

THIS. Our corporate media isn't worth watching since it has been colonized. I cancelled cable years ago since most television programs don't represent me. And our newspapers are foreign owned too. I'd put my #elbowsup but corporations just continue to pick my pockets #austerity #Canada 🇨🇦❤️

Potash Companies Are Getting Rich. Saskatchewan, Not So Much | The Walrus Billions go to shareholders, while the province guts schools, services, and social supports

Potash profits soar, but Saskatchewan sees little gain. Corporate greed thrives as resource wealth is extracted and siphoned away, leaving the province to bear environmental and social costs while billionaires cash in. This is exploitation disguised as economic progress. #austerity #inequality 🇨🇦❤️

David Lammy and JD Vance bonded over ‘dysfunctional’ childhoods – and a Diet Coke The UK foreign secretary opens up about his friendship with the VP, that ‘island of strangers’ speech, and his guilt over Zelenskyy’s Oval Office encounter

Sharing traumatic pasts to bond while inflicting new harm on citizens is a cynical spectacle. Billionaire capitalist media attempt to use this to humanize the powerful, masking systemic violence as empathy, distracting from the real damage caused by those very leaders. #austerity #inequality 🇨🇦

Canada’s refusal to sign a trade deal with the U.S. is a politically sharp rebuke of American economic coercion. It affirms Canadian sovereignty, rejecting alignment with an unreliable, increasingly unilateralist state that weaponizes trade to impose its agenda on allies and rivals alike. #Canada ❤️🇨🇦

John Turner was right. Mulroney's 1988 free trade deal turned Canada into a colony of the US.
Thanks to PM Mark Carney, Canada is "decolonizing." #cdnpoli

#scape #coloraday #bwfri

a giant stone-carved and weather worn face of a gatekeeper rises from the jungle overgrowth against a blazing and humid summer sky

'Humid, Hidden Artifacts' (2025) -- Amongst the Ubiquitous Ruins, Giant, Stone Carved Faces Are the Lost Treasure Modern Mankind Seeks, Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia

#Photography #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

Farrell critiques the Democratic Party’s elite-driven communication but misses that building trust rather than tactics is key. Authentic political renewal demands grassroots engagement and community-driven dialogue moving beyond insider strategies to reconnect genuinely with the public. Meh.

two grass covered hills and a tree in the valley between. a screenshot from Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later.

a screenshot from Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later. the alpha running towards the camera

a screenshot from Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later. the totem poles of skulls looking like a forest

a screenshot from Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later.. the long dark causeway with northern lights in the sky

Boyle's 28 Years Later embodies Anhalt’s view of The Iliad in "Enraged" as rage causing political collapse. Spike’s inherited fury reveals how violence claimed as survival erodes society and morality, leaving a broken world where the young pay the price of a failed system.❤️🇨🇦🎬 #booksky #movies #film

Iceland's famous black sand beach- #Reynisfjara

Basalt sea stack with dramatic and sky and mountains.

#ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #Iceland #JuliArty #Beauty

The text overlooks how tech giants use AI to monopolize gaming, harm indie developers, and commodify creativity. Using Pac-Man is misleading, as its simple algorithms romanticize early AI and hide the complex, political reality of corporate control and automation in today’s gaming industry. 👻

Spanish: sub- (under) / sobre- (over, above)

Hold my sangria...

my first bonsai tree. I purchased the tree over 3 months ago and was informed that it's best to wait for the plant to root before working with it. I ordered these specialty shears from Japan and now have a collection of them

my first bonsai after trimming. there is more work to be done but I like how it sweeps to one side.

I remember seeing a garden of #bonsai trees in Kyoto when I first visited Japan in the early 1990s. The miniature trees, meticulously shaped over decades, embody patience and harmony. Bonsai captures nature’s essence in small form, blending art, philosophy, and cultivation into living sculptures. ❤️🇨🇦

Baxandall shows that art criticism shapes how we perceive works, grounding interpretation in visual experience. Words do not just report but actively construct meaning, revealing the complex relationship between seeing and describing.

Words for Pictures The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representation...

In Words for Pictures, Baxandall shows how Renaissance critics struggled to align language with visual experience. He argues that art writing is never neutral but frames what is seen, revealing criticism as shaping perception rather than reflecting it, grounding theory in the act of looking #booksky

Alpers critiques the dominance of allegorical and narrative readings in art history, proposing description as a critical method that privileges visual experience over imposed meaning, opening space for a more plural and less prescriptive engagement with art.

Is Art History? Selected Writings by Svetlana Alpers Is Art History? is a definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century. The book brings together...

Svetlana Alpers’s Is Art History? Selected Writings is a masterful anthology that brings clarity to her enduring conviction: that art history must centre on detailed, careful visual attention in order to remain alive and relevant to social, political, and institutional contexts. #booksky