YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic How to Be Dumb

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Kurt Vonnegut

Autumn

Radio 3's ethos is love of culture and unapologetic intellectualism. For 12 years I’ve tried to follow those values by matching great movie music with the analysis it deserves. Where else would I be allowed to chat about David Shire, Adorno & serialism on a Saturday afternoon?

Print featuring a view of a window from the interior to a garden, on the windowsill is a jug with dried flowers, allnin black and white

Pamela Grace, artist and printmaker based in south western Scotland #WomensArt

Derbyshire sunset

Last Autumn

#OtD 10 Oct 1800 enslaved blacksmith and abolitionist Gabriel Prosser was executed in Virginia alongside his two brothers and 23 followers. They had planned a revolt of enslaved people in Richmond, but were betrayed and captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8240...

Red-shouldered Hawk sitting on my back fence

ᏏᏲ ᏗᎦᏘᏍᎩ 🪶

Hello, Red-shouldered Hawk. I was too far away (upstairs) for a good shot. #nature #birds

RAY BRADBURY THE HALLOWEEN TREE Image - a surrealist art style where mummies, wizard, wolf-man, skeleton, jack-o’-lanterns all form a skull in a colorful shroud.

🎃🎃🎃

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

A Pied Wheatear flying off from the top of a rowan tree.

A Pied Wheatear taking off, a pretty rare visitor in Finland. 🪶🐦 #BirdsSeenIn2025
#NaturePhotography

Ocean Therapy — Australia

📹 Jeffrey Kieffer

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Top dog

Sculpture of stylised vividly coloured plant with spotty blossoms sited in a gallery space

Yayoi Kusama, Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, 2009 #WomensArt

William Shakespeare Sonnet 116

YouTube video by Green Day Green Day - American Idiot [Official Music Video] [4K Upgrade]

youtu.be/Ee_uujKuJMI

Pleasures

The first glance out the window in the morning
The rediscovered old book
Excited faces
Snow, the change of seasons
The newspaper
The dog
Dialectics
Showering, Swimming
Old music
Comfortable shoes
Comprehension
New music
Writing, Planting
Traveling
Singing
Being friendly.

— Brecht

Private Passions - Richard Armitage - BBC Sounds Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor and writer Richard Armitage.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Print with two stylised figures facing left holding umbrellas as if battling gusts of strong winds, behind the sky swirls in blue and white

Sybil Andrews,
The Gale (1930)
Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring bare trees with crows flying above against a pinky blue morning sky

Suzie MacKenzie, contemporary printmaker who lives and works in the northern highlands of Scotland #WomensArt

Magpie Morning’ by contemporary UK #printmaker Annie Soudain #WomensAr

Navvies: workers who built the railways | National Railway Museum At the dawn of the industrial age, brilliant engineers were designing the first railways. But who took on the hard graft of building them?

www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-...

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk

YouTube video by The Nice - Topic America (Remastered)

youtu.be/UozXq55z2A4

YouTube video by Ensemble Metamorphosis Leopold Mozart - Toy Symphony, G-major

youtu.be/A3BPROHYQIk

YouTube video by The Good Ones The Good Ones - Agnes Dreams of Being an Artist

youtu.be/SW5PqcvCWao