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Art, music & literary gems. ✨ Made with love & alt-text 💗

I'm a visual artist, musician (🎸 + 🎛️) & researcher. Profile art is my own.

#modernart #writing #music #jazz #photography #creativity #blacksky #artsky
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“Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo” (1939) by Nickolas Muray 🌺

Muray & Kahlo were longtime lovers & friends. After Frida received this photo, she wrote to him:

“You will always be inside the magenta rebozo (on the left side).”

#art #artsky #photogrgaphy #portrait #frida #fridakahlo #love #beauty
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I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details!

@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
lol. lmao
July 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Gorgeous palette in this viral YouTube video thumbnail. Very summer-autumn.

#artsky #color #palette #art #design #thumbnail
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sampled these colors from a viral YouTube thumbnail. Brown and blue are such an underrated pairing.

Hex codes below 👇

#artsky #color #palette #art #design #thumbnail
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Amazing work by Lebanese illustrator Tracy Chahwan in the New York Times this week. This accompanies a review of the new crime thriller by SA Cosby, King of Ashes.

The review is here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...

#illustration #art #artsky #litsky #booksky #thriller
June 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Today’s class — CMS.303/803/21M.365 (DJ History, Technique, and Technology) — takes students to the 1970s, which means disco, funk, rhythm and blues, and the breaks that form the foundation of early hip-hop are in the mix.”

news.mit.edu/2025/mixing-...
#musicsky #dj
Mixing beats, history, and technology
MIT research scientist, game designer, DJ, and alumnus Philip Tan teaches the course CMS.303/803/21M.365 (DJ History, Technique, and Technology) at MIT.
news.mit.edu
June 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“I grew to love him as a person, and for me, he was the biggest influence on my songwriting ever; he was a musical genius and revolutionary. He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant.”

— Elton John

apnews.com/article/bria...

#musicsky #music
Paul McCartney, Mike Love, Carnie Wilson, Elton John react to the death of Brian Wilson
Paul McCartney, Mike Love, Carnie Wilson, Elton John and more celebrities are sharing their sorrow on the death of Brian Wilson.
apnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We lost a true musical legend. RIP Sly Stone 🙏🏽
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBI...
#musicsky #music #bayarea
Remembering Vallejo's Sly Stone, leader of Sly and the Family Stone
YouTube video by NBC Bay Area
m.youtube.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Frog and Toad origami paper set
June 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Don’t know I needed this but now I can never go back
June 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I took this picture with one hand while holding a tricycle and rushing to the car and it turned out perfect somehow.

#nature #photography #flowers #summer
May 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I’m trying not to overlook the small pockets of beauty and peace that are planted around me. Like this one today.
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Life continues 🍃
May 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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[Iwao Takamoto was BOTD 100 years ago. He studied art in the Manzanar Internment Camp and later went to work for Disney and Hanna-Barbera. He directed CHARLOTTE'S WEB (1973) and designed (among many others) Astro, Muttley, and Scooby-Doo.]
April 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Done. Let me know what you think?

TIDAL WETLANDS, Acrylic, 16x16” ©️2025 Jim Musil #art #painting

JimMusil.com/originals/p/tidal-wetlands
April 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Thank you — I started using alt text a few years ago on Twitter and it’s just an easy habit now. Hope more people do it too. Always a good time to start 👍🏽
Hello, I looked through your stream and have added you to a new Starter Pack “Artists using alt.text” which hopefully will reach 50 for release in a couple of weeks. I'm trying to encourage alt.text use and after listing 100+ photographers on my other thread I'm doing the same for artists.
February 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“You are the sky. Everything else — it’s just the weather.”

Pema Chödrön
February 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today I created a new account on #Substack. I was instantly shown a stream of posts like these (the first post was from a gothic letter 'national socialist' account). It then suggested I follow Edward Snowden, Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy.

That platform is COOKED far beyond what I had imagined
February 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Real questions
If AI is so great at replicating human roles, why does the executive class never seek to automate itself?
January 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I’m just as tired as y’all are. But I’m still here.

Wishing you well, take care and stay up.
January 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Chileeeeeeee
This January has been the longest 6 months of my life.
January 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This January has been the longest 6 months of my life.
January 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Yeah it’s that kinda day
Toni Morrison's words from 2015, as timely as ever:

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

#art #writing #courage #booksky
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM