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Gary Hornseth
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Minnesota ephemerist. History, music, visual arts, a bit of baseball. Work = PR. Posts = else. Also the westerly half of Trademark Issues 🎸
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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · Oct 19
Today I discovered the Instagram of Sapporo artist Eiji Ohashi, who specializes in night photography of vending machines, mostly in winter.

“The reason . . . is that it will make us see hope and inspiration when we see shiny things in the middle of a dark night.”

Images at his site: eijiohashi.com
A winter scene of a pedestrian bridge from across a street in falling snow lit at night by overhead street lights. A glowing vending machine near the base of the bridge. A night photo of an urban scene with high-rise buildings in the background. Trees look like autumn. A vending machine glows in the foreground alongside a sidewalk. A night city scene of an older building adjacent to a long flight of stairs. A row of vending machines cast a glow from the base of the building toward the pavement in the center of the photo. Streetlights illuminate the upper level in the background. A closeup of a vending machine at night surrounded by some trees and giant snow drifts. Snow caps and obscures the top of the machine. Lights from the machine illuminate the surrounding snow.
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Upholstery fabric advertisement
Knoll Associates, Inc.
Progressive Architecture
June 1965

Image: US Modernist Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/usmo...
Two-page color magazine spread showing an array of vertically oriented rectangular shapes of different heights and widths, arranged at different depths to suggest a city skyline. Each shape is a different color scheme variation of the same pattern — yellow, orange, red, blue, etc. The background is a hazy, blue-ish silhouetted New York skyline. Designer credit: Herbert Matter Copy YORK IS KNOLL'S NEW UPHOLSTERY WOOL FOR HOME AND OFFICE, COUCHES AND CHAIRS. A SUBTLE CHANGE IN CLASSIC HOUNDSTOOTH SIMPLIFIES THE WEAVE SO THAT THE PATTERN WORKS IN ANY DIRECTION. THE NEAREST KNOLL SHOWROOM HAS ALL 16 COLORS TO SHOW YOU. KNOLL ASSOCIATES, INC. 320 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK N.Y. 10022 Showrooms in: Atlanta Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Detroit Los Angeles Miami Philadelphia St. Louis San Francisco Seattle Washington, D.C. International: Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Finland France Germany India Iran Italy Mexico Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland Tunisia Uruguay Venezuela
February 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Sunlight through leaves, today
Como Park Conservatory
Saint Paul, Minn.
A leaf with dozens of small parallel dark lines the left and a field of green with darker patches on the right A leaf with alternating lines of dark and light green, and white A green leaf with sections of rectangular segments bounded in yellow-green borders A fan-like leaf with alternating sections of lighter and darker green radiating from the lower left
January 31, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Beautiful illustrations of iron interacting with rocks, from the publication of a paper, "On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata", delivered by the botanist and geologist George Maw to the Geological Society on April 22nd 1868: publicdomainreview.org/collection/o...
January 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Seed catalog cover
Northrup, King and Co.
Minneapolis, Minn.
1929

Image: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection of the National Agricultural Library via @archive.org; archive.org/details/CAT3...
Catalog cover in tones of yellow-green, dark green and grey, with an elaborate illustrated plant/floral pattern of leaves and vines emerging from a pot. Copy: CATALOGUE NORTHRUP, KING & CO'S SEEDS AND FEEDS WHOLESALE ONLY SAVE FOR REFERENCE
January 24, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Images from Owen Simmons' The Book of Bread (1903), a reference manual for commercial bakeries which includes striking pasted-in silver bromide prints and dazzling chromolithographs of bread. Read the book, and see more of its images, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-bread
January 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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A vintage tile floor circa 1920 in tan, pale green and red with a pinwheel pattern and a chain link border.
January 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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L'espérance by Vincent Huot (2016)
Acrylic on canvas painting features layered geometric rectangles in orange and pink over a white background
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Ceiling lights, last week, Eclipse Records, downtown Saint Paul
A view toward the ceiling with a series of 25 or so globe lights suspended over a staircase at different lengths in a closely spaced curving formation. The upper lights are light blue, the lower lights are red. Three corresponding globes are on the wall. There are also white, blue and purple lights mounted flat against the suspended ceiling.
January 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Hockey sweaters peaked at that moment, and it's been downhill ever since.
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Jan 1
On this day in 1893, Barney Stanley was born in Paisley, Ontario.
In his hockey career he won a Stanley Cup and recorded 143 goals and 216 points in 217 PCHA/WCHL games. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1963 and died in 1971.
A black-and-white vintage photograph of a male ice hockey player standing full-body against a plain light background. He has short hair, is smiling slightly, and wears a dark striped sweater with a large cougar head emblem on the chest and a "C" patch on the left sleeve, indicating he is the team captain. He has padded shorts, striped socks, ice skates, large gloves, and holds a wooden hockey stick vertically in front of him with both hands. The photo has an old, slightly worn appearance.
January 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Dec. 31, 1933: Minneapolis hotel workers restore bottle holders used as Prohibition-era plant stands to their original function. (Tribune)
Photo of two men in jackets and ties, one appearing to mop his brow. Caption: It's been a long time since anything like this took place, but Saturday Ernest Friedly, right, and Mike Zurich, employees at the Hotel Radisson were hard at work cleaning and polishing buckets and stands in preparation for New Year’s Eve festivities. During prohibition years the buckets were used for flower pots.
January 1, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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I started this account one year ago today and posted about music history at least once per day throughout 2025. Whew! It’s pretty neat to accumulate 1,000 followers. Thank you for following, liking, commenting, etc. I have no plans to stop.
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Cover detail from “Minneapolis,” a quarterly magazine of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, November 1930

Artist not credited.

Image: Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association Collection of Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
A square-ish, stylized illustration of elements of the Minneapolis skyline showing the Gateway Pavilion in the lower foreground, and simple silhouetted outlines of buildings in shades of black, grey, red and pink, with a bit of detail on the main central business district buildings in the center. Industrial buildings, several with billowing smokestacks, recede into the background in the upper portion. The illustration is framed in a grey border. The issue (linked) was subtitled MINNEAPOLIS PROGRESS NUMBER, with much of the issue given over to articles about commercial, industrial and civic improvement.
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Foggy Frozen Mississippi River
Tree branches and a railroad bridge over a frozen river
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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“I've compiled a list of the water towers I saw this year . . . this is just a small selection.”
watertoweruc.bsky.social 高水 湧基／UC @watertoweruc.bsky.social · Dec 28
今年見た給水塔をまとめてみた。
団地以外の給水塔に限定しても今年は9基には全然収まらないのでごく一部の抜粋。全ては来年半ば頃には明らかにできる(はず)。
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Amending this opinion after a visit today: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts/Art is the best place in Minneapolis. I realize there are other opinions. That is mine.
chrissteller.bsky.social Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · Feb 16
I feel like "Mia" is one of the best places in Minneapolis. It is free to visit.
Gallery interior with a visitor standing before a colorful painting View from upper window to downtown skyline across snowy park Entrance to current photo show: The True America, with photos by Ernest Cole One of Cole's street photos from the late 1960a-early 1970s in New York: A young Black man in yellow and orange attire, holding an early boom box
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Wall lettering reading “The Art” on lower floor of Minneapolis Institute of Art. Arrow points to adjacent staircase to left of wall, going up. Image: me, taken earlier today.
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Architectural rendering on display at Eclipse Records, yesterday, Saint Paul
A framed painting showing what I’m presuming is an at least somewhat-imagined midcentury downtown St. Paul scene at street level. Sunny, blue-sky summery day. Businesses seen include Dayton’s, W. T. Grant, Woolworth’s, the Golden Rule, and a building signed KLM. Some figures walking around. About two cars. Looks about 1960, I’d say.
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Couldn’t sleep. Went out.
Starry night over a Welsh town Low moon over the roof tops at night.
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Lighting fixture, this afternoon
Cathedral of Saint Paul
Saint Paul, Minn.
A single, wall-mounted lighting fixture with a dozen or so cylindrical lights against a flat stone wall, casting a warm glow against the stone behind it.
December 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Chicago Athletic Association.
The ornate stairway and mosaic tile floor of the Chicago Athletic Association.
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“My favorite tempo is watching clouds move, right?”

In this short CBC video from 2020, Jerry Granelli (1940-2021) talked about his approach to drumming for “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
How Jerry Granelli wrote the drums for A Charlie Brown Christmas
Jerry Granelli, the legendary jazz drummer behind A Charlie Brown Christmas, explains how he wrote some of the rhythm for the 1965 classic holiday special.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Still from A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS. Charlie Brown is seen with his back to the viewer, wearing a cap and jacket and holding his spindly Christmas tree, looking up quietly at the bright stars in the cold night sky.
December 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Gateway Park at Christmas
Minneapolis
Ernest A. Kjorlie, photographer
1937

Image: Hennepin History Museum via Minnesota Digital Library; collection.mndigital.org/catalog/hchm...
Night scene of large lit Christmas tree alongside Gateway Park pavilion. Snow on the ground. Hotel Nicollet looms in background with scattered lights in windows, large lit sign on top. Lone figure is seen standing in far distance on right. Lights of city in background.
December 17, 2023 at 12:45 AM
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Trade catalog images, ceramic tile
J. Romeu Escofet (firm)
Barcelona
1915

Images: Avery Library (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/fabr...
Ceramic tile pattern bordered in red, yellow, blue and white, with what looks like floral patterns in similar colors in the main field Ceramic tile pattern bordered in yellow, green and brown ovals, with a red, dark green and grey pattern in the main field featuring curved lines and diamond shapes Ceramic tile pattern bordered in red, gold and yellow, another border in white, yellow, red and blue, and kaleidoscope-looking patterns in similar colors in the main field Ceramic tile pattern bordered in red, yellow, green and white, with what look like floral patterns in white, blue, yellow and red colors in the main field
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM