Victoria Ridley
@victoriaridley.bsky.social
Tireless researcher/writer for an upcoming book on the artist, Jim Morrison of The Doors. No, it hasn't all been said...or seen!
This:
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#JimMorrison #TheDoors #MLIS #booksky #bookshelfie
❤️ history, music, art, oceans, mystery
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This:
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#JimMorrison #TheDoors #MLIS #booksky #bookshelfie
❤️ history, music, art, oceans, mystery
🇨🇦
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Thrilled to release the cover illustration for my book, "Freeway." Publication: late 2026. Photo credit: Jack Rosen
#JimMorrison #amwriting #booksky
#JimMorrison #amwriting #booksky
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Normalize having a book on your bookshelf that, when pulled, opens the door to a secret room.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Normalize having a book on your bookshelf that, when pulled, opens the door to a secret room.
From the Doors' earliest recording session, World Pacific Records, Sept. 2, 1965.
youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ4...
youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ4...
The Doors - Hello I Love You (1965)
YouTube video by The Doors
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November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
From the Doors' earliest recording session, World Pacific Records, Sept. 2, 1965.
youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ4...
youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ4...
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I'll leave my thoughts with the sea ..
(It's too good a day to leave.)
(It's too good a day to leave.)
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I'll leave my thoughts with the sea ..
(It's too good a day to leave.)
(It's too good a day to leave.)
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The Doors’ ‘When You’re Strange’ Returns to Theaters in 4K With Exclusive New ‘Riders on the Storm’ Collaboration zurl.co/5YMbF
The Doors’ ‘When You’re Strange’ Returns to Theaters in 4K With Exclusive New ‘Riders on the Storm’ Collaboration - That Eric Alper
The Doors’ 60th anniversary celebration continues with the re-release of Tom DiCillo’s GRAMMY Award-Winning documentary film When You’re Strange. Remastered in 4K for the first time, the film will feature an introduction from John Densmore and Robby Krieger and the worldwide exclusive debut of a newly recorded performance of “Riders on the Storm” featuring Densmore, Krieger, and […]
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The Doors’ ‘When You’re Strange’ Returns to Theaters in 4K With Exclusive New ‘Riders on the Storm’ Collaboration zurl.co/5YMbF
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Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
September 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.
Just. Keep. Reading.
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“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac
― Jack Kerouac
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac
― Jack Kerouac
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"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature
✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature
✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature
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Waking up at 3am is always a bad idea. Your bleakest thoughts live there.
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Waking up at 3am is always a bad idea. Your bleakest thoughts live there.
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Time travel exists between the pages of a book.
This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.
This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Time travel exists between the pages of a book.
This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.
This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.
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Genius is Complicated: Francisco Goya
Court favorite and witness in the same body. He painted saints and butchers with the same eye, royalty and prisoners under the same light. He served a king he despised. Genius here isn't charm, it's stamina for truth, and that bill always comes due.
Court favorite and witness in the same body. He painted saints and butchers with the same eye, royalty and prisoners under the same light. He served a king he despised. Genius here isn't charm, it's stamina for truth, and that bill always comes due.
October 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Genius is Complicated: Francisco Goya
Court favorite and witness in the same body. He painted saints and butchers with the same eye, royalty and prisoners under the same light. He served a king he despised. Genius here isn't charm, it's stamina for truth, and that bill always comes due.
Court favorite and witness in the same body. He painted saints and butchers with the same eye, royalty and prisoners under the same light. He served a king he despised. Genius here isn't charm, it's stamina for truth, and that bill always comes due.
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Not sure if it's an official legend or not, but one can definitely feel Monet's ghost in the water garden at Giverny, especially on a misty morning.
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend
#31DaysOfHalloween
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend
#31DaysOfHalloween
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Not sure if it's an official legend or not, but one can definitely feel Monet's ghost in the water garden at Giverny, especially on a misty morning.
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend
#31DaysOfHalloween
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #Myth&Legend
#31DaysOfHalloween
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For anyone that needs this.
October 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
For anyone that needs this.
This morning, Niagara Falls, Canada
📷my photo
📷my photo
October 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This morning, Niagara Falls, Canada
📷my photo
📷my photo
Near the grave of Jim Morrison, Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
📷my photo
📷my photo
September 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Near the grave of Jim Morrison, Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
📷my photo
📷my photo
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Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom, 1590, by Abel Grimmer. Truly one of best early modern cityscapes, with many wonderful incidental details showing urban life in my youth!
September 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom, 1590, by Abel Grimmer. Truly one of best early modern cityscapes, with many wonderful incidental details showing urban life in my youth!
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The invention of photography had major impacts on art. Some artists imitated photographic effects. Others deliberately differentiated their works from the “diabolical invention” ~ compare Van Gogh’s portrait of Eugene Boch, & a photo of him
www.artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial...
www.artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial...
September 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The invention of photography had major impacts on art. Some artists imitated photographic effects. Others deliberately differentiated their works from the “diabolical invention” ~ compare Van Gogh’s portrait of Eugene Boch, & a photo of him
www.artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial...
www.artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial...
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Alphonse Mucha depicts exhausted Slavic peasant woman as she sits, hopelessly alone, in frozen, famine-struck field, throwing back her head in resigned despair. As the wolves move in, does the star represent hope? (Winter Night, 1920s)
September 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Alphonse Mucha depicts exhausted Slavic peasant woman as she sits, hopelessly alone, in frozen, famine-struck field, throwing back her head in resigned despair. As the wolves move in, does the star represent hope? (Winter Night, 1920s)
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"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
September 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
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Walker Library in Newcastle my favourite. Used to have its own building then moved to a small part of a leisure centre. Apparently will be expanded soon. 🧪
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
August 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Walker Library in Newcastle my favourite. Used to have its own building then moved to a small part of a leisure centre. Apparently will be expanded soon. 🧪
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Les Petits Métiers de Paris Un Cocher de Fiacre
Today, 30 Aug, is the feast of the Irish St Fiacre whose name - by way of the 17thC hôtel from which they first ran - is that for a Paris taxi.
Postcard: Photographer and Publisher: C. Malcuit (Paris) MFA, Boston.
Today, 30 Aug, is the feast of the Irish St Fiacre whose name - by way of the 17thC hôtel from which they first ran - is that for a Paris taxi.
Postcard: Photographer and Publisher: C. Malcuit (Paris) MFA, Boston.
August 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Les Petits Métiers de Paris Un Cocher de Fiacre
Today, 30 Aug, is the feast of the Irish St Fiacre whose name - by way of the 17thC hôtel from which they first ran - is that for a Paris taxi.
Postcard: Photographer and Publisher: C. Malcuit (Paris) MFA, Boston.
Today, 30 Aug, is the feast of the Irish St Fiacre whose name - by way of the 17thC hôtel from which they first ran - is that for a Paris taxi.
Postcard: Photographer and Publisher: C. Malcuit (Paris) MFA, Boston.
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St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, carved stone, Troyes, c. 1500-1530 (V&A Museum, London)
August 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, carved stone, Troyes, c. 1500-1530 (V&A Museum, London)