Abril F. Bustamante
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Book lover with a talent for digressions.
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Odilon Redon, Wildflowers in a Long Neck Vase, c. 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135089
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January 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Odilon Redon, Wildflowers in a Long Neck Vase, c. 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135089
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135089
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Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Coraline (2009), dir. Henry Selick, Laika
October 2, 2024 at 4:28 AM
Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Coraline (2009), dir. Henry Selick, Laika
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Elizabeth Cotten, folk/blues music pioneer, was born on this day in 1895. She taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed but she played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. A little thread!
January 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Elizabeth Cotten, folk/blues music pioneer, was born on this day in 1895. She taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed but she played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. A little thread!
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𝑅𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝐶𝐵𝐺𝐵, 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 10𝑡𝒉, 1979.
📸Bob Gruen
📸Bob Gruen
January 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
𝑅𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝐶𝐵𝐺𝐵, 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 10𝑡𝒉, 1979.
📸Bob Gruen
📸Bob Gruen
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“It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didn’t seem my life until I started to write,” Louise Glück writes.
Writing as Transformation
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
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January 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didn’t seem my life until I started to write,” Louise Glück writes.
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Francis Kurkdjian has created a host of beloved perfumes, including Baccarat Rouge 540; a re-creation of Marie Antoinette’s signature scent for the Palace of Versailles; and a fragrance meant to evoke an old dollar bill, with the artist Sophie Calle.
The French Perfumer Behind the Internet’s Favorite Fragrance
Francis Kurkdjian had a runaway hit with Baccarat Rouge 540. Now, at Parfums Christian Dior, he’s trying to make his mark on a storied fashion house.
www.newyorker.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Francis Kurkdjian has created a host of beloved perfumes, including Baccarat Rouge 540; a re-creation of Marie Antoinette’s signature scent for the Palace of Versailles; and a fragrance meant to evoke an old dollar bill, with the artist Sophie Calle.
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Walter Richard Sickert, Miss Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Isabella of France, 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113643
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113643
January 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Walter Richard Sickert, Miss Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Isabella of France, 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113643
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113643
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Confession time. I started my 12yo on the gateway drugs of Harry Chapin and Jim Croche, and that has led to exploratory Gordon Lightfoot and just now, a sniff of Stan Rogers. I tried to stop it, but I'm a heavy Sea Shanty user myself, and addiction runs in families.
January 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Confession time. I started my 12yo on the gateway drugs of Harry Chapin and Jim Croche, and that has led to exploratory Gordon Lightfoot and just now, a sniff of Stan Rogers. I tried to stop it, but I'm a heavy Sea Shanty user myself, and addiction runs in families.