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50 Shades of Grey is the book that Robin Thicke would write if Robin Thicke was literate.

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OUCH

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#quoted for truth

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Aka Tombo

There is something quite Western and a bit jazzy about how Ryiuchi plays this most Japanese of pieces.

#Ryuichi Sakamoto #Aka Tombo #piano #Japanese #classical #jazz inspired

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Erwin Olaf - Royal Blood Series

Probably a bit more gruesome than my usual posts, but this absolutely fascinates me, especially since I’m a total history geek and know the real stories of these incredible ladies.

Diana, Princess of Wales (née Lady Diana Spencer)

Jackie Kennedy

Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of All the Russias

#art #Erwin Olaf #royal blood #Princess Diana #Jackie Kennedy #Empress Elisabeth #Sisi #Empress Alexandra #Romanov

Ondioline.

Another early synthesizer, from France. The Stereolab song "Jenny Ondioline" refers to it and its creator, Georges Jenny.

#ondioline #synthesizer #synth #keyboard #stereolab

French racing driver Francois Cevert was a Beautiful Boy.

Sadly, he died in 1973.

#Francois Cevert #beautiful boyz #Racing Driver #French #rip

Ellison Onizuka (RIP) having dinner in space, during mission STS-51-C.

#space food #dinner in space #shuttle #space #microgravity #chopsticks #Ellison Onizuka

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What happens when you are recording and your cat says hello? ADORBS.

Daphne Oram - Purring Interlude. Early Female Electronic Music Pioneer.

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Daphne Oram recorded a little electronic piece based around her cat.

#Daphne Oram #women invented electronic music #women #cat #Purring Interlude #BBC Radiophonic Workshop #electronica #synth #synthesizer

Pauline Oliveros. Electronic music pioneer since the 1950s, although her main instrument is an accordion.

#Pauline Oliveros #women invented electronic music #electronica #synth #synthesizer #accordion

Queen Kwong.

Also producing some good music lately.

#Queen Kwong #girls with guitars #performance

Old image of Chelsea Wolfe.

Her collaboration with Russian Circles is my new favourite song.

#Chelsea Wolfe #girls with guitars #guitar #performing #russian circles

Icona Pop performing.

#Icona Pop #performance #electro #pop music #women invented electronic music #synth #synthesizer

An image search for "Queen Astrid of Belgium" brings up an extraordinary portrait of her dead, laid out, her head bandaged.

It reminded me of a Marlene Dumas painting.

I decided not to link to dead Astrid, but here is a Marlene Dumas painting from 2005, Skull of a Woman.

#marlene dumas #skull of a woman #skull #bones #death #Astrid #Belgium #death portrait

More retro European royals: Astrid, Queen of the Belgians.

Astrid was quite interesting and ahead of her time, a media darling in the style of Princess Diana, but during the 1930s. She also died in a car accident.

She looks a bit like one of the Mitford sisters in this picture.

I first got interested in images of old Euro royalty from my postcard collection. I like postcards of things that no longer exist, like extinct duchesses.