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Wendy O'Rourke
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Oct 15
I cherish these photos taken by my dad in the early 1970s
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We The People - When I Arrive (1968) youtu.be/sEQpfvIFT0Y?...
RCA Victor 45 rpm single
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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We The People - My Brother The Man (1966) #RIPWayneProctor
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We The People - My Brother The Man
YouTube video by Bolt24 Hot Sounds
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February 17, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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RIP Wayne Proctor, We The People lead guitarist and writer of some of the greatest garage/psych tracks, 'My Brother, The Man', 'You Burn Me Up And Down', 'Mirror Of Your Mind' and this monster. That sounds isn't a sitar, it's a home made octachord and Wayne played it.

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WE THE PEOPLE in the past 1966
YouTube video by SeagreenSerenade
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February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Delphine - La Fermeture Éclair (1967)

French adaptation of In The Past by We The People
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Decca – 26.129 Belgium green single sleeve
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Current #mood 🦉
My 1970s owl candle holder
February 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Penny Wall Piece by Suzanne Ditsler #FiberArt
This item is a decorative wall hanging inspired by the style of a traditional American penny rug. Felted wool circles in various colors organized in a grid and connected by a wire or mesh framework. Penny rugs were popular in the 19th century, made by thrifty homemakers recycling wool scraps from old clothing. Image: Holland Arts Council
February 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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German cinema poster for the Italian film Escalation (1968)
Escalation is a 1968 Italian film directed and written by Roberto Faenza. The poster art features psychedelic designs in bold colors framing portraits of stars Claudine Auger and Lino Capolicchio. Poster artist is uncredited.
February 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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The Association ~ Everything That Touches You
(Warner Bros 45, 1968 - mono)
#NowPlaying #TheAssociation #ValentinesDay #MusicSky

A really stunning song and a mind blowing production from legendary American producer Bones Howe.
One of my favorites🌟

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1968 HITS ARCHIVE: Everything That Touches You - Association (mono)
YouTube video by AnotherProf
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February 14, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Tête dada (Dada Head)
painted wood
1918
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)
Switzerland

The first of a series of 'dada' heads that the artist completed in the late teens to early 1920s.

#art #sculpture #dada #dadahead #surrealism #sophietaeuberarp #switzerland #modernart #modernsculpture #handmade
This polychrome Dada Head (cat. rais. no. 1918/9), which belonged to Jean Arp, is probably the first in a series of turned wooden Dada heads that Taeuber created in Zurich between 1918 and 1920. She settled there in 1914, after extensive studies in decorative arts (embroidery, weaving, and woodworking), first in St. Gallen, then in Munich from 1910 (in the Workshop for Free and Applied Arts, founded in 1901–1902 by Obrist and von Debschitz, both influenced by Jugendstil and the Vienna School), and finally in Hamburg in 1912–1913. It was in Zurich, in the autumn of 1915, that she met Jean Arp, who introduced her the following year to the Dada group at the Cabaret Voltaire. Challenging the traditional hierarchy between applied arts and fine arts, the couple began to create, in addition to tapestries, "sculptural vessels" in turned wood, such as the Dada Cup of 1916 (Strasbourg, MAMC). This latter work foreshadows the spherical form mounted on a stem of the Head of 1918. Its geometric schematics bring it close to the puppets made of cones, spheres, and cylinders that Taeuber created the same year for the play *The Stag King*, an adaptation of a tale by Carlo Gozzi (the 18th-century Venetian satirist) and a modern allegory of psychoanalytic debates. This latter commission brought Sophie Taeuber great success. *The Head*, whose decoration is reminiscent of the works of Klimt and the Wiener Werkstätten (Taeuber worked in one of their Zurich branches in 1917), is more abstract. The subsequent versions, on the other hand, are closer to puppets with their protruding noses and resemble humorous portraits. One of them depicts Jean Arp in 1918 (*Dada Head. Portrait of Jean Arp*, on loan to the Kunsthaus Zurich); it was followed by a self-portrait with pendants (1920, New York, MoMA). The existence of two other heads - Head with antenna, reproduced in the magazine Zeltweg (1919) and in Merz, no. 6, and Head with branch of pearls - is attested only by photographs.
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Carlos González Bogen, Homage to Malevich, 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137708
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of William H. and Wendy Luers
February 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Jonathan Bree - You're So Cool #MusicMonday
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Jonathan Bree - You're So Cool
YouTube video by Lil' Chief Records
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February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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The Tyranny of O by Burleigh Kronquist
A typographic black "O" amid vibrant, striped colors symbolizing the "absurd beauty" of everyday objects.
February 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Florence Miller Pierce
(1918 – 2007)
Split circular forms in black, brown and orange over beige background
February 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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"The Encounter". Johannes Itten. 1916.
February 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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The Third Booth - Mysteries (1968) youtu.be/wHQxKweL4mQ?...
Thunder Records yellow label, 45 rpm single
February 16, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Funoon Arabiah, No. 1, 1981 designreviewed.com/artefacts/fu...
February 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Bose 901 Continental Speakers (1974)
A pair of Bose 901 speakers in woodgrain on metal tulip pedestal base
December 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Design by Pierre Guariche, Alain Marcot and Guy Lagneau, France (1971) #ArcoLamp #Castiglioni
French open plan modernist living room interior decorated in earth tones with modular seating, built-in cabinetry, and a central fireplace. The photo is from 1971, but the space was designed in 1968 and features Poul Kjaerholm PK22 chairs and an Eero Saarinen Tulip Armchair. The prominent arched floor lamp is the iconic Arco model by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos.
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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Murano glass lamp by Carlo Nason for Mazzega, Italy 1970s
Lattimo (milky white) with blue tinting spherical lamp that diffuses light softly from an incandescent bulb.
February 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday #NewOrder
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Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
YouTube video by BBC
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February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Happy #ValentinesDay 🫶
1960 Valentines card referencing beatnik culture Guy with bongos : HI BABY-BE MY (heart symbol)-BEAT! Girl with telephone: JINGLE ME, DADDY-O I'M FOR You!
February 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Otis Redding - Don't Mess with Cupid (1966)
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Stax – 169024 The Otis Redding Story – Vol. 4 45rpm single, France
February 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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#Hair of the week

Heart Head appeared in Stern Magazine in May 1965
Heart-shaped bouffant hair style with an arrow accessory
February 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Globe Lamp by Verner Panton (1969)

Image: Verner Panton Design AG
March 24, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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Verner Panton, Copenhagen, Denmark 1971
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some sort of 70's design fever dream
February 8, 2026 at 12:18 PM