Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear
📷 Esther Bubley
Man on Platform, c. 1951
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
📷 Esther Bubley
Man on Platform, c. 1951
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
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Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Another cup of coffee? No thanks, I've had plenty... Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Keep 'em coming. ☕️☕️☕️
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Reposted by Dean Frey
A great Pogo New Year's strip by Walt Kelly, December 30, 1956
"Let nothing you dismay."
"Let nothing you dismay."
December 31, 2023 at 2:40 PM
A great Pogo New Year's strip by Walt Kelly, December 30, 1956
"Let nothing you dismay."
"Let nothing you dismay."
Reposted by Dean Frey
New Year with Walt Kelly's Pogo: "Gittin' off alone to think things over."
January 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
New Year with Walt Kelly's Pogo: "Gittin' off alone to think things over."
Reposted by Dean Frey
The start of the New Year is when I post this strip from "Peanuts" from January 1, 1967, one mired in Vietnam fatigue and Charles Schulz's own memories of holidays abroad during World War II.
January 1, 2026 at 8:34 PM
The start of the New Year is when I post this strip from "Peanuts" from January 1, 1967, one mired in Vietnam fatigue and Charles Schulz's own memories of holidays abroad during World War II.
Salinger forgot to mention watching hockey on TV. And Shoresy.
"I’ll read my books & I’ll drink coffee & I’ll listen to music, & I’ll bolt the door."
- J. D. Salinger
A wonderful New Year's Resolution from J. D., whose birthday is today.
- J. D. Salinger
A wonderful New Year's Resolution from J. D., whose birthday is today.
January 1, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Salinger forgot to mention watching hockey on TV. And Shoresy.
Reposted by Dean Frey
one of the greats!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
one of the greats!!
Reposted by Dean Frey
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Cruising into the New Year like…
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Cruising into the New Year like…
Remembering Milt Jackson on his birthday 🎂
📷 Marco Glaviano, 1992
"Milt played the instrument in the most organic way possible - with a warm, rich sound. He set a precedent that this instrument can speak beautiful things, that it's not just percussive."
- Stefon Harris
📷 Marco Glaviano, 1992
"Milt played the instrument in the most organic way possible - with a warm, rich sound. He set a precedent that this instrument can speak beautiful things, that it's not just percussive."
- Stefon Harris
January 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Remembering Milt Jackson on his birthday 🎂
📷 Marco Glaviano, 1992
"Milt played the instrument in the most organic way possible - with a warm, rich sound. He set a precedent that this instrument can speak beautiful things, that it's not just percussive."
- Stefon Harris
📷 Marco Glaviano, 1992
"Milt played the instrument in the most organic way possible - with a warm, rich sound. He set a precedent that this instrument can speak beautiful things, that it's not just percussive."
- Stefon Harris
Reposted by Dean Frey
A Room With a View is absolutely one of my most beloved books.
E. M. Forster by Howard Coster, 1938
"His concern is with the private life; his message is addressed to the soul."
- Virginia Woolf
"His concern is with the private life; his message is addressed to the soul."
- Virginia Woolf
January 1, 2026 at 4:32 PM
A Room With a View is absolutely one of my most beloved books.
Remembering J. D. Salinger on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lotte Jacobi, New York, 1950
"Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation."
- Orville Prescott
📷 Lotte Jacobi, New York, 1950
"Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation."
- Orville Prescott
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Remembering J. D. Salinger on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lotte Jacobi, New York, 1950
"Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation."
- Orville Prescott
📷 Lotte Jacobi, New York, 1950
"Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation."
- Orville Prescott
Remembering E. M. Forster on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bill Brandt, 1947
"He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in."
- Zadie Smith
📷 Bill Brandt, 1947
"He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in."
- Zadie Smith
January 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Remembering E. M. Forster on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bill Brandt, 1947
"He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in."
- Zadie Smith
📷 Bill Brandt, 1947
"He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in."
- Zadie Smith
Reposted by Dean Frey
"We'll drink a cup of kindness yet
For the sake of auld lang syne"
Goodnight💫
📷Sergio Larrain ~ Chelsea Arts Ball 1958, New Years Eve.
For the sake of auld lang syne"
Goodnight💫
📷Sergio Larrain ~ Chelsea Arts Ball 1958, New Years Eve.
January 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"We'll drink a cup of kindness yet
For the sake of auld lang syne"
Goodnight💫
📷Sergio Larrain ~ Chelsea Arts Ball 1958, New Years Eve.
For the sake of auld lang syne"
Goodnight💫
📷Sergio Larrain ~ Chelsea Arts Ball 1958, New Years Eve.
Reposted by Dean Frey
This is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come [...]
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
~ W.S. Merwin
’To the New Year’
Agnes Martin | The Egg
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come [...]
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
~ W.S. Merwin
’To the New Year’
Agnes Martin | The Egg
December 31, 2024 at 11:14 PM
This is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come [...]
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
~ W.S. Merwin
’To the New Year’
Agnes Martin | The Egg
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come [...]
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
~ W.S. Merwin
’To the New Year’
Agnes Martin | The Egg
Reposted by Dean Frey
Diana Ross & Steve Rubell at Studio 54’s New Year's Eve party 🎉
📷 Allan Tannenbaum, December 31, 1978
📷 Allan Tannenbaum, December 31, 1978
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Diana Ross & Steve Rubell at Studio 54’s New Year's Eve party 🎉
📷 Allan Tannenbaum, December 31, 1978
📷 Allan Tannenbaum, December 31, 1978
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William Steig
December 31, 1955
One of my favourites: a Top 10 New Yorker cartoon
Happy New Year! 🥳
December 31, 1955
One of my favourites: a Top 10 New Yorker cartoon
Happy New Year! 🥳
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
William Steig
December 31, 1955
One of my favourites: a Top 10 New Yorker cartoon
Happy New Year! 🥳
December 31, 1955
One of my favourites: a Top 10 New Yorker cartoon
Happy New Year! 🥳
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Yeah. Probably this.
"Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that."
- Dorothy Parker
Parker & Alan Campbell at a Webster Hall New Year’s Party 🥳
📷 Peter Stackpole, 1938
- Dorothy Parker
Parker & Alan Campbell at a Webster Hall New Year’s Party 🥳
📷 Peter Stackpole, 1938
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Yeah. Probably this.
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Exponentially Iconic image. Stunning.
The decor, the father-son, the fashion spectrum,
the generational expanse.
Not just any generational expanse, but particularly that one,
which was so defined by that very expanse itself.
Absolutely iconic.
The decor, the father-son, the fashion spectrum,
the generational expanse.
Not just any generational expanse, but particularly that one,
which was so defined by that very expanse itself.
Absolutely iconic.
January 1, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Exponentially Iconic image. Stunning.
The decor, the father-son, the fashion spectrum,
the generational expanse.
Not just any generational expanse, but particularly that one,
which was so defined by that very expanse itself.
Absolutely iconic.
The decor, the father-son, the fashion spectrum,
the generational expanse.
Not just any generational expanse, but particularly that one,
which was so defined by that very expanse itself.
Absolutely iconic.
Andy Warhol celebrates his last New Year's Eve at Cafe Roma, December 31, 1986. He died less than two months later.
📷 Catherine McGann
@cmcgann.bsky.social
📷 Catherine McGann
@cmcgann.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Andy Warhol celebrates his last New Year's Eve at Cafe Roma, December 31, 1986. He died less than two months later.
📷 Catherine McGann
@cmcgann.bsky.social
📷 Catherine McGann
@cmcgann.bsky.social
This is great: Davy Jones sings & dances to Harry Nilsson’s “Daddy’s Song” in Bob Rafelson’s Head. He’s joined by Toni Basil, who did the choreography.
Stick around until the end for a surprise cameo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDi7...
Stick around until the end for a surprise cameo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDi7...
HEAD Daddy's Song
YouTube video by john smith
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is great: Davy Jones sings & dances to Harry Nilsson’s “Daddy’s Song” in Bob Rafelson’s Head. He’s joined by Toni Basil, who did the choreography.
Stick around until the end for a surprise cameo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDi7...
Stick around until the end for a surprise cameo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDi7...
Talking Heads: "Once in a Lifetime" from the album Remain in Light, 1980
Directed by Toni Basil & David Byrne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
Directed by Toni Basil & David Byrne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Talking Heads: "Once in a Lifetime" from the album Remain in Light, 1980
Directed by Toni Basil & David Byrne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
Directed by Toni Basil & David Byrne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
The photographer Esmond Edwards tells a great story about Red Garland's legendary tardiness.
Happy New Year! 🎉
If I'm still up after midnight, I'll play this then:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFE6...
Happy New Year! 🎉
If I'm still up after midnight, I'll play this then:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFE6...
December 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The photographer Esmond Edwards tells a great story about Red Garland's legendary tardiness.
Happy New Year! 🎉
If I'm still up after midnight, I'll play this then:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFE6...
Happy New Year! 🎉
If I'm still up after midnight, I'll play this then:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFE6...
A great shot by John Olson of David Crosby with his father Floyd in the family home, for a Life magazine feature, September 24, 1971.
"My parents did their absolute best, but I'm just another stumbling-along-blind human being trying to do without the instruction booklet."
"My parents did their absolute best, but I'm just another stumbling-along-blind human being trying to do without the instruction booklet."
December 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A great shot by John Olson of David Crosby with his father Floyd in the family home, for a Life magazine feature, September 24, 1971.
"My parents did their absolute best, but I'm just another stumbling-along-blind human being trying to do without the instruction booklet."
"My parents did their absolute best, but I'm just another stumbling-along-blind human being trying to do without the instruction booklet."
Reposted by Dean Frey
Also How to Stuff a Wild Bikini and Beach Blanket Bingo. Respect.
I was yesterday days old when I learned that David Crosby of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash fame, is the son of Floyd Crosby, who shot High Noon and Roger Corman's wonderful The Pit and the Pendulum.
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Also How to Stuff a Wild Bikini and Beach Blanket Bingo. Respect.
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For Matisse fans out there, this is a neat "Walk Through the Gallery" piece from NYT. A friend and I went in person to see “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ten years ago. I can't believe it has been ten years.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Walk Through the Gallery (Published 2015)
This is the last weekend of an exhibition of Henri Matisse’s painted-paper works in New York. Can’t make it? Explore the art in this wall-to-wall experience.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For Matisse fans out there, this is a neat "Walk Through the Gallery" piece from NYT. A friend and I went in person to see “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ten years ago. I can't believe it has been ten years.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Happy birthday Anthony Hopkins 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain
toned bromide fibre print, 1985
“Though he grew up very consciously as a neighbor and disciple to Richard Burton, Hopkins has a range that reaches from Charles Laughton to Laurence Olivier.”
- David Thomson
📷 Alastair Thain
toned bromide fibre print, 1985
“Though he grew up very consciously as a neighbor and disciple to Richard Burton, Hopkins has a range that reaches from Charles Laughton to Laurence Olivier.”
- David Thomson
December 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Happy birthday Anthony Hopkins 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain
toned bromide fibre print, 1985
“Though he grew up very consciously as a neighbor and disciple to Richard Burton, Hopkins has a range that reaches from Charles Laughton to Laurence Olivier.”
- David Thomson
📷 Alastair Thain
toned bromide fibre print, 1985
“Though he grew up very consciously as a neighbor and disciple to Richard Burton, Hopkins has a range that reaches from Charles Laughton to Laurence Olivier.”
- David Thomson