@Impitoyable
 Paris, France
Joined November 2009
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Manneken Puss. – at Paris, France
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One of the things I love about this film is that the specific quality of that light is so distinctively London. When you know, it’s almost unmistakeable.
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There were four M41 tanks used in the film and they were all operated by the Belgian army with real training ammo (as opposed to fireworks in the barrels or mock-up tanks). A Belgian Army colonel admired Kubrick’s earlier works and lent him the tanks.
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Dylan Gill Art
@DylanGillArtOct 25
Pablo Picasso Firsts steps 1943
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The publishing history of these uniform French editions is interesting: they’re not really paperbacks; they’re actually unbound. What you would do was buy the book in this form from your bookseller and take it to your bookbinder to be prepared for your library. 1/2
Christopher Howse@BeardyHowseOct 24
It's an interesting cultural aspect of aesthetics. Spanish books, like French ones, used to be issued in paper wrappers. Some were then bound in boards. British books of the same age, before paperbacks came in, were published as hardbacks, which look to us more finished.
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In Anglophone publishing, books would be pre-bound in hard covers until Allen Lane invented the paperback. French publishers still release the unbound “grand format”, and later the “livre de poche” with a cover illustration, the equivalent of the British A-format paperback. 2/2
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Doreen Fletcher@DFletcherArtistOct 25
‘Autumn, Turners Road, E3’ 1987. A block of flats stands where this little park used to be- a quiet oasis near the busy Burdett Road. @ahistoryinart @thegentleauthor
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Mine is that his 1960s Anthony Newley music hall period was by far more interesting and enjoyable than anything he recorded subsequently.
Halloween Jack@red_mutant_eyesOct 24
That ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust’ is one of his lesser albums. I know why it is vaunted but I think it’s inferior to lots of his other albums. Hate ‘on’ me all you like.
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This is getting ridiculous: bracketing 10-year periods in music (or anything) at the zeros is *arbitrary*. They didn't start a new season with a new cast between 31/12/1979 and 01/01/1980. Free your mind of these categories. Instead, think of the decade 1967-1977, or 1973-1983.
/d/@ldgafllysfmOct 24
Once you experience 60s and 70s music you’ll never stop wanting to beat the 80s to death with your bare hands
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.stuff@vintagestuff4Oct 24
Pool Party Zoey Frank 🎨
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Carl 📷@carl_thompson70Oct 23
A bloke tending to his motor, 1988 Cuba Street, Isle of Dogs London 📷 Tim Brown
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This is actually true, but it has nothing to do with the group itself. Being overrated is not about what’s being rated, but about who’s doing the rating. Beatles fans of today would embarrass the most hysterical Beatlemaniac of 1964 with their quasi-religious fervour.
Lee Wakefield@Wakefield90Oct 23
Unquestionably The Beatles
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The answer is simple: artists find inspiration in places where others see vanilla. This happens to be about movies, but someone like Lynch can be moved by a curtain, huckleberry pie, the texture of a mouse's skin or a snakeskin jacket.
Eric Trommater@etrommaterOct 23
How did a man this vanilla taste in movies make Blue Velvet? How do you put The Apartment on your top list and make a film that looks like Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising?
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I had to think about this, but I think it was when Michael Foot was in a wheelchair as a result of tripping on the stairs at the point of becoming Labour leader in 1980. It appealed to my 8-year-old self that Mr Foot had broken his foot.
King Abert
@Abert_SquirrelOct 21
What is the oldest political news story you can remember? For me it's Joe Biden being selected as Obama's VP.
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Jon Cooper@jon_cooper75Oct 22
Trellick Tower W10
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Christian Rutherford@ImpitoyableOct 22
Replying to @mags_mclaugh
I’ve always loved Robert Wyatt’s 1982 rendition of Shipbuilding, but Costello’s lyrics have always annoyed me. They don’t make much sense as a general anti-war song, but as a comment on the Falklands Conflict, they’re utterly meaningless.
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Ben and Josh in competition to see who can speak with the most glottal stops. (New?) Josh should realise that Ben is unbeatable: he can put glottal stops in words no one has even attempted. #TheArchers
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Modernism in Metroland@mod_in_metroOct 19
Swiss Cottage Library, Camden 1964 Basil Spence and Partners modernism-in-metroland.co.uk…
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Mordecai@MenschOhneMusilOct 16
Seula Yi, Concrete gym, 2023.
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Mordecai@MenschOhneMusilOct 17
Fernand #Léger, Les quatre acrobates, 1954.
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lusso
@luussssoOct 16
The Japanese Metabolist architecture of the Fuji Television Building by Kenzo Tange Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan (1996)
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Mordecai@MenschOhneMusilOct 15
Eugen Schönebeck, Bird I (1963 64).
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