Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs.bsky.social
Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. 🙏🏼🌎 🕊️
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard
Budapest HU║Long Beach CA
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard
Budapest HU║Long Beach CA
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Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs.bsky.social
· Nov 11
a starry night sky with trees silhouetted against it
ALT: a starry night sky with trees silhouetted against it
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“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853–1890.
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853–1890.
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Hey MAGAs, Bad Bunny is gone. Really provocative stuff. Some Latin music, dancing, a wedding scene, more dancing, flags from Western Hemisphere brought out, US flag in the front.
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Hey MAGAs, Bad Bunny is gone. Really provocative stuff. Some Latin music, dancing, a wedding scene, more dancing, flags from Western Hemisphere brought out, US flag in the front.
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
I was today years old.
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I was today years old.
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926.
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
February 9, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926.
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
"Arctic dreams in Scoresbysund, Greenland 🇬🇱. One week aboard the Opal schooner — living on the sea, landing by zodiac, and photographing ice, wilderness, and silence like nowhere else on Earth."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
February 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
"Arctic dreams in Scoresbysund, Greenland 🇬🇱. One week aboard the Opal schooner — living on the sea, landing by zodiac, and photographing ice, wilderness, and silence like nowhere else on Earth."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
Congratulations to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall last night in New York.
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Congratulations to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall last night in New York.
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
Tonight, as Bad Bunny sings in his native Spanish, sharing the stage with Californian punk rockers, Green Day, I'll reminisce growing up in a bilingual, immigrant family. I'll ponder the beauty and genius of America; a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages.
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Tonight, as Bad Bunny sings in his native Spanish, sharing the stage with Californian punk rockers, Green Day, I'll reminisce growing up in a bilingual, immigrant family. I'll ponder the beauty and genius of America; a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages.
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
"Holendrechterweg, Netherlands."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Spaski Schippers©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Spaski Schippers©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
"Holendrechterweg, Netherlands."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Spaski Schippers©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Spaski Schippers©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
Ellen Louise Clacy, British painter, 1853–1916.
The Return of the Prodigal Daughter in the Year of the Great Plague, 1887.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Annan Museum, Scotland | Virtual Art Museum
The Return of the Prodigal Daughter in the Year of the Great Plague, 1887.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Annan Museum, Scotland | Virtual Art Museum
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Ellen Louise Clacy, British painter, 1853–1916.
The Return of the Prodigal Daughter in the Year of the Great Plague, 1887.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Annan Museum, Scotland | Virtual Art Museum
The Return of the Prodigal Daughter in the Year of the Great Plague, 1887.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Annan Museum, Scotland | Virtual Art Museum
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
— Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform the beautiful, breathtaking ending of Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform the beautiful, breathtaking ending of Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
February 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
— Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform the beautiful, breathtaking ending of Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform the beautiful, breathtaking ending of Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
"Popocatepelt vulkán, Mexikó."
The ultimate act of faith, building this church, at this specific location.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 From Medárd©️
The ultimate act of faith, building this church, at this specific location.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 From Medárd©️
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"Popocatepelt vulkán, Mexikó."
The ultimate act of faith, building this church, at this specific location.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 From Medárd©️
The ultimate act of faith, building this church, at this specific location.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 From Medárd©️
"Icefalls ... Haffner Canyon in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Photo by Jon Handforth©️
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Photo by Jon Handforth©️
February 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
"Icefalls ... Haffner Canyon in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Photo by Jon Handforth©️
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Photo by Jon Handforth©️
On the eve of what would have been his 90th birthday, my heart is filled with gratitude and appreciation for my late father, Szabolcs Soby Kalman. He lived an exemplary life, on both sides of the Atlantic. May he rest in eternal peace.
February 9, 1936 - April 9, 2024.
🤍🕯️🕊️
February 9, 1936 - April 9, 2024.
🤍🕯️🕊️
February 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM
On the eve of what would have been his 90th birthday, my heart is filled with gratitude and appreciation for my late father, Szabolcs Soby Kalman. He lived an exemplary life, on both sides of the Atlantic. May he rest in eternal peace.
February 9, 1936 - April 9, 2024.
🤍🕯️🕊️
February 9, 1936 - April 9, 2024.
🤍🕯️🕊️
Elizabeth Lee Miller, American photographer, 1907–1977.
"A successful model in New York in the 1920s before moving to Paris, Lee Miller became an established fashion and art photographer, and an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue during WWII."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Fotograficamente©️
"A successful model in New York in the 1920s before moving to Paris, Lee Miller became an established fashion and art photographer, and an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue during WWII."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Fotograficamente©️
February 8, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Elizabeth Lee Miller, American photographer, 1907–1977.
"A successful model in New York in the 1920s before moving to Paris, Lee Miller became an established fashion and art photographer, and an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue during WWII."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Fotograficamente©️
"A successful model in New York in the 1920s before moving to Paris, Lee Miller became an established fashion and art photographer, and an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue during WWII."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Fotograficamente©️
"We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."
— Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden perform Adagio, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, composed in 1907.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden perform Adagio, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, composed in 1907.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 AM
"We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."
— Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden perform Adagio, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, composed in 1907.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden perform Adagio, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, composed in 1907.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
"In each picture is a whole lifetime imprisoned, a whole lifetime of fears, doubts, hopes, and joys. Whither is this lifetime tending?"
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
"In each picture is a whole lifetime imprisoned, a whole lifetime of fears, doubts, hopes, and joys. Whither is this lifetime tending?"
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
"A dainty Vörösbegy (European robin), perched on a branch in the Hungarian countryside."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"A dainty Vörösbegy (European robin), perched on a branch in the Hungarian countryside."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
February 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
"Burning sunrise at the windmills of Kinderdijk yesterday morning, in the Netherlands' South Holland province."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
February 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"Burning sunrise at the windmills of Kinderdijk yesterday morning, in the Netherlands' South Holland province."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
“If you keep your heart open, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
February 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
“If you keep your heart open, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
Rest in Peace, legend.
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
February 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Rest in Peace, legend.
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
I came. I wept. One of the great artists and visionaries of our time, is gone. His films remain, in perpetuity.
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
February 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I came. I wept. One of the great artists and visionaries of our time, is gone. His films remain, in perpetuity.
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
Sending a warmhearted shout-out to my new followers from Poland 🇵🇱 .
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
February 6, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Sending a warmhearted shout-out to my new followers from Poland 🇵🇱 .
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️