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Tom DePlonty
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Composer and software professional living in MA. Equality and justice for all, and compassion always. All unattributed pictures posted are mine.

Find my music at https://paragate.bandcamp.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/tomdeplonty.
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Playing with bubble glazing
Two greenware porcelain pots that were bubble glazed - the pots are white and covered with patterns made by covering the pot with pigmented soap bubbles and letting them pop, leaving a fine trace of blue bubbles on the surface
February 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Beeswax crafts at the Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, Massachusetts
A display of flowers, swans, and a Christmas tree molded from beeswax; in the foreground a display of multi-colored flowers, made from dyed wax, mounted on a natural wax disk.
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Studio of Daniel Chester French, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Studies for the Lincoln Memorial statue and the doors of the Boston Public Library are seen in the background. In the foreground is French's last (unfinished) piece, Andromeda.
A sculptor's studio, with studies and pieces in marble on display.
January 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Coasters. When I was making pottery more actively I used to make these small square blanks all the time, and use them to try different design and carving ideas.
A picture of five white porcelain coasters, painted with an abstract design in blue, black, and pink, with the design being similar but not identical on each coaster.
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts
A picture taken at twilight of the six glass towers that are part of the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. The glass panels of the towers are inscribed with numbers, representing the victims of the Holocaust, and also quotes.
January 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Detail of an untitled installation by Damon Jespersen and Gordon Pryzbyla (2021) at Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, Massachusetts
An art installation installed in a grassy field outdoors. It features face masks, with eyes closed, slightly larger than life size, painted gold, sitting on posts at about head height, tilted upward and forward. They are spread over the field, and the field and faces are covered with a single large, black, rectangular net that drapes in curves from the faces to the ground. The installation is large, with the net stretching forty or fifty feet in the long direction.
January 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
The picture is taken from a 3rd-flooe walkway looking into the museum courtyard. The courtyard is ringed by inward-facing walkways on three floors. The garden below is filled with plants and art that recalls a variety of eras and locales, including classical Rome and Renaissance Vienna.
January 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Payala Qiatsuq, Snowy Owl (2004), Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
A sculpture called Snowy Eagle, by artist Payala Qiatsuq. It is a stylized depiction, carved from white stone, of a snowy owl, its wings extended over its body and its beak open, as if calling.
January 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Day 20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

On the piano constantly during my childhood. To my mind the best stuff was at the beginning and at the end.
The cover of the piano anthology "Easy Classics To Moderns"
December 24, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Day 19: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

The confluence of a great tournament with great commentary by a great player - Bronstein being probably the best player ever to not quite win the World Championship.
The cover of the English translation of David Bronstein's book of the Zurich International Chess Tournament of 1953.
December 23, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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Also a town in Massachusetts - always wondered where the name was from
A picture of road signs, one pointing out 2A East to Athol Circle. (Athol is a town in western Massachusetts.)
December 23, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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City Hall Boston, Massachusetts, in all its Brutalist glory
Boston City Hall, a concrete and brick structure in the Brutalist style, photographed from Congress Street at twilight.
December 22, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Day 18: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge
December 22, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Day 17: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
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The cover of Ursula LeGuin's novel The Lathe of Heaven
December 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Day 16: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Take that, Julian Jaynes!

Seriously, a fantastic book that completely changed my perspective on being conscious, and especially on the nature of time.
December 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Day 15: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
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The cover of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
December 19, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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Peter Gerakaris, Spotted Owl Mosaic, at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
A tile mosaic of two stylized spotted owls, their bodies touching in a way that suggests affection. The mosaic is mounted on a large vertical stone, and displayed outdoors.
December 19, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Ha! Some years back I listened to a webcast performance of Vexations for a while.
December 18, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Day 14: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

One of the finest non-fiction books I've read.
The cover of Richard Rhodes' book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, featuring a picture of the Trinity explosion.
December 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Day 13: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
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Another one that really didn't age well for me. Thought he was the bees knees when I was a teen, but can no longer see what I saw then.
December 17, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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"Night", by Antonio Lopez Garcia, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A sculpture, made of dark metal, of what appears to be a baby's head, with its eyes closed. The head measures about 8 feet tall by 5 wide, and is displayed on a stone pad outside of the museum building, which is seen in the background.
December 17, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Make up your mind, happiness.
Two fortune cookie fortunes, one reading "A lifetime of happiness lies ahead of you", and another saying "Look around; happiness is trying to catch you."
December 16, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Day 12: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

One of those books I wonder if anyone else has read.
December 16, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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The birthplace of American composer Charles Ives in Danbury, Connecticut.
A modest white wood frame house, surrounded by trees, with a sign out front saying "Charles Ives Birthplace"
December 15, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Day 11: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge
THe cover of Norman Juster's book The Phantom Tollbooth, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. The cover shows the main character, a boy named Milo, with another character, the dog Tock, who has a watch face on his side.
December 15, 2024 at 2:46 PM