Arthur David Spota
@adaspota.bsky.social
Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor
Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
Pinned
Arthur David Spota
@adaspota.bsky.social
· Nov 12
My recent kinetic poem 'As Above' is featured in Issue #8 of the Surrealist Journal, Peculiar Mormyrid #8.
The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state.
📷Bill Wolak
peculiarmormyrid.com/arthur-spota...
The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state.
📷Bill Wolak
peculiarmormyrid.com/arthur-spota...
Goodnight🌖
We are all just spectators beneath the darkness, participants before the light.
Surrealist-influenced photo-montagist Val Telberg
(Cover for Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell)
We are all just spectators beneath the darkness, participants before the light.
Surrealist-influenced photo-montagist Val Telberg
(Cover for Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell)
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Goodnight🌖
We are all just spectators beneath the darkness, participants before the light.
Surrealist-influenced photo-montagist Val Telberg
(Cover for Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell)
We are all just spectators beneath the darkness, participants before the light.
Surrealist-influenced photo-montagist Val Telberg
(Cover for Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell)
The Gordian Knot ~ The Year of the Sun
(Verve 45, 1968)
#NowPlaying #Psychedelic60s #MusicSKy
A lovely Sunshine pop/psych track in the style of Boettcher & The Millennium, from their sole excellent album.
youtu.be/Dba6FN7JHWE via @YouTube
(Verve 45, 1968)
#NowPlaying #Psychedelic60s #MusicSKy
A lovely Sunshine pop/psych track in the style of Boettcher & The Millennium, from their sole excellent album.
youtu.be/Dba6FN7JHWE via @YouTube
The Gordian Knot - The year of the sun
YouTube video by Dr. Hofmann's Electric Kool-Aid Party!
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The Gordian Knot ~ The Year of the Sun
(Verve 45, 1968)
#NowPlaying #Psychedelic60s #MusicSKy
A lovely Sunshine pop/psych track in the style of Boettcher & The Millennium, from their sole excellent album.
youtu.be/Dba6FN7JHWE via @YouTube
(Verve 45, 1968)
#NowPlaying #Psychedelic60s #MusicSKy
A lovely Sunshine pop/psych track in the style of Boettcher & The Millennium, from their sole excellent album.
youtu.be/Dba6FN7JHWE via @YouTube
Canadian painter, designer, and sculptor Jean-Paul Jérôme
#Jean-PaulJérôme #Contemporaryart #Abstractart
#Jean-PaulJérôme #Contemporaryart #Abstractart
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Canadian painter, designer, and sculptor Jean-Paul Jérôme
#Jean-PaulJérôme #Contemporaryart #Abstractart
#Jean-PaulJérôme #Contemporaryart #Abstractart
Jean-Paul Jérôme, painter, designer, sculptor and co-founder of Les Plasticiens, a group of painters who founded the pictorial movement in Quebec in 1955.
La course sous le vent, 1974
#Contemporaryart #Abstractart
La course sous le vent, 1974
#Contemporaryart #Abstractart
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Jean-Paul Jérôme, painter, designer, sculptor and co-founder of Les Plasticiens, a group of painters who founded the pictorial movement in Quebec in 1955.
La course sous le vent, 1974
#Contemporaryart #Abstractart
La course sous le vent, 1974
#Contemporaryart #Abstractart
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I spy….a man with a functioning brain:
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I spy….a man with a functioning brain:
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Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant nation of Europe and a real rival to that global superpower Great Britain. Then it hit the buzzsaw ...
www.openculture.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
John Cale ~ Shark-Shark (Official Video)
(from POPtical Illusion, 2024)
#NowPlaying #JohnCale #MusicSky
A really great song, it feels like 1973 again😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQk...
(from POPtical Illusion, 2024)
#NowPlaying #JohnCale #MusicSky
A really great song, it feels like 1973 again😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQk...
John Cale - Shark-Shark (Official Video)
YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
John Cale ~ Shark-Shark (Official Video)
(from POPtical Illusion, 2024)
#NowPlaying #JohnCale #MusicSky
A really great song, it feels like 1973 again😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQk...
(from POPtical Illusion, 2024)
#NowPlaying #JohnCale #MusicSky
A really great song, it feels like 1973 again😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQk...
Reposted by Arthur David Spota
French artist Jean Dubuffet was known for his primal paintings of vernacular subjects. His adoption of the term Art Brut was a reaction to what he called art culturel.
Life and Death, Garden with Melitaea, 1955.
#JeanDubuffet #ArtBrut
Life and Death, Garden with Melitaea, 1955.
#JeanDubuffet #ArtBrut
August 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
French artist Jean Dubuffet was known for his primal paintings of vernacular subjects. His adoption of the term Art Brut was a reaction to what he called art culturel.
Life and Death, Garden with Melitaea, 1955.
#JeanDubuffet #ArtBrut
Life and Death, Garden with Melitaea, 1955.
#JeanDubuffet #ArtBrut
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John Cale ~ Sun Blindness Music
#NowPlaying #JohnCale
The first anthology of experimental albums recorded during Cale's tenure with the Theatre of Eternal Music with La Monte Young, Tony Conrad and Marian Zazeela in the mid-1960s. Drone at its best.
youtu.be/8ezVnrnGXSI via @YouTube
#NowPlaying #JohnCale
The first anthology of experimental albums recorded during Cale's tenure with the Theatre of Eternal Music with La Monte Young, Tony Conrad and Marian Zazeela in the mid-1960s. Drone at its best.
youtu.be/8ezVnrnGXSI via @YouTube
John Cale- Sun Blindness Music
YouTube video by jrgbello
youtu.be
February 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
John Cale ~ Sun Blindness Music
#NowPlaying #JohnCale
The first anthology of experimental albums recorded during Cale's tenure with the Theatre of Eternal Music with La Monte Young, Tony Conrad and Marian Zazeela in the mid-1960s. Drone at its best.
youtu.be/8ezVnrnGXSI via @YouTube
#NowPlaying #JohnCale
The first anthology of experimental albums recorded during Cale's tenure with the Theatre of Eternal Music with La Monte Young, Tony Conrad and Marian Zazeela in the mid-1960s. Drone at its best.
youtu.be/8ezVnrnGXSI via @YouTube
Reposted by Arthur David Spota
La Monte Young & The Theatre of Eternal Music
(featuring John Cale on Viola)
B flat dorian blues
Live in New York City, 1963
La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings and Marian Zazeela.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdU...
(featuring John Cale on Viola)
B flat dorian blues
Live in New York City, 1963
La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings and Marian Zazeela.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdU...
Theatre of Eternal Music - Bb Dorian Blues (Fifth Day Of The Hammer) (La Monte Young, 1963)
YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
La Monte Young & The Theatre of Eternal Music
(featuring John Cale on Viola)
B flat dorian blues
Live in New York City, 1963
La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings and Marian Zazeela.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdU...
(featuring John Cale on Viola)
B flat dorian blues
Live in New York City, 1963
La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings and Marian Zazeela.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdU...
Reposted by Arthur David Spota
The thriving New York Avant Garde scene in the early 60s.
The Theatre of Eternal Music, 1965, performance photograph at the New York Film-makers' Cinematheque, with left to right: Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and John Cale.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
The Theatre of Eternal Music, 1965, performance photograph at the New York Film-makers' Cinematheque, with left to right: Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and John Cale.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
February 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The thriving New York Avant Garde scene in the early 60s.
The Theatre of Eternal Music, 1965, performance photograph at the New York Film-makers' Cinematheque, with left to right: Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and John Cale.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
The Theatre of Eternal Music, 1965, performance photograph at the New York Film-makers' Cinematheque, with left to right: Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and John Cale.
#LaMonteYoung #JohnCale
American artist Ryan McGinness, known for his original, extensive vocabulary which use the visual language of contemporary iconography.
Sexes (Factum II), 2006
(Acrylic on wooden panel)
#RyanMcGinness #Contemporaryart
Sexes (Factum II), 2006
(Acrylic on wooden panel)
#RyanMcGinness #Contemporaryart
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
American artist Ryan McGinness, known for his original, extensive vocabulary which use the visual language of contemporary iconography.
Sexes (Factum II), 2006
(Acrylic on wooden panel)
#RyanMcGinness #Contemporaryart
Sexes (Factum II), 2006
(Acrylic on wooden panel)
#RyanMcGinness #Contemporaryart
Harry Smith, visual artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, anthropologist and archivist.
#HarrySmith #ExperimentaFilm
Still from Heaven & Earth Magic
#HarrySmith #ExperimentaFilm
Still from Heaven & Earth Magic
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Harry Smith, visual artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, anthropologist and archivist.
#HarrySmith #ExperimentaFilm
Still from Heaven & Earth Magic
#HarrySmith #ExperimentaFilm
Still from Heaven & Earth Magic
American experimental film animator, painter, alchemist, anthropologist and folk music archivist Harry Smith and his mural Jim’s Bop City, 1950.
#HarrySmith
#HarrySmith
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
American experimental film animator, painter, alchemist, anthropologist and folk music archivist Harry Smith and his mural Jim’s Bop City, 1950.
#HarrySmith
#HarrySmith
Roxy Music ~ Serenade
(from Stranded, 1973)
#NowPlaying #RoxyMusic #MusicSky
Happy Monday!
youtu.be/v45eYZjdRcA via @YouTube
(from Stranded, 1973)
#NowPlaying #RoxyMusic #MusicSky
Happy Monday!
youtu.be/v45eYZjdRcA via @YouTube
Serenade
YouTube video by Roxy Music - Topic
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Roxy Music ~ Serenade
(from Stranded, 1973)
#NowPlaying #RoxyMusic #MusicSky
Happy Monday!
youtu.be/v45eYZjdRcA via @YouTube
(from Stranded, 1973)
#NowPlaying #RoxyMusic #MusicSky
Happy Monday!
youtu.be/v45eYZjdRcA via @YouTube
The Day The Earth Stood:
Many young lives were changed when Roxy Music made their debut on Top of the Pops in 1972. Tony Barrell remembers it well.
#RoxyMusic
Back in the early Seventies, Earth was a very different planet from the one we inhabit today.
www.tonybarrell.com/the-day-the-...
Many young lives were changed when Roxy Music made their debut on Top of the Pops in 1972. Tony Barrell remembers it well.
#RoxyMusic
Back in the early Seventies, Earth was a very different planet from the one we inhabit today.
www.tonybarrell.com/the-day-the-...
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Many young lives were changed when Roxy Music made their debut on Top of the Pops in 1972. Tony Barrell remembers it well
APRIL 2018
I’m convinced that someone at the BBC saw the music paper Melody .....
www.tonybarrell.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The Day The Earth Stood:
Many young lives were changed when Roxy Music made their debut on Top of the Pops in 1972. Tony Barrell remembers it well.
#RoxyMusic
Back in the early Seventies, Earth was a very different planet from the one we inhabit today.
www.tonybarrell.com/the-day-the-...
Many young lives were changed when Roxy Music made their debut on Top of the Pops in 1972. Tony Barrell remembers it well.
#RoxyMusic
Back in the early Seventies, Earth was a very different planet from the one we inhabit today.
www.tonybarrell.com/the-day-the-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
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Good Afternoon✨
Martin Johnson Heade ~ Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871
Martin Johnson Heade ~ Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871
June 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Good Afternoon✨
Martin Johnson Heade ~ Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871
Martin Johnson Heade ~ Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871
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Reposted by Arthur David Spota
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.
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Here's the list of the 8 Dems who caved. These are several of the same bad actors who have reliably vote for fascist legislation, approve Trump nominees and have repeatedly sabotaged their own party.
Let's make sure the blame goes where it belongs and salvage the messaging. (Continued in 2nd Post)
Let's make sure the blame goes where it belongs and salvage the messaging. (Continued in 2nd Post)
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Here's the list of the 8 Dems who caved. These are several of the same bad actors who have reliably vote for fascist legislation, approve Trump nominees and have repeatedly sabotaged their own party.
Let's make sure the blame goes where it belongs and salvage the messaging. (Continued in 2nd Post)
Let's make sure the blame goes where it belongs and salvage the messaging. (Continued in 2nd Post)
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This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??