Wayne Bamba

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Annie Leibovitz Annie Oakley's Heart Target, Private Collection, Los Angeles, California, 2010

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Red veiltail goldfish. The complete aquarium book. 1936 ed. Frontispiece detail.

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Angel of Death

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Chris Killip. Terraced house and coal mine. Castleford, Yorkshire. 1976

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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abandoned coal mine in my hometown

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As someone that grew up watching Old Hollywood films, Sidney Poitier was one of the few Black actors that I saw from that era ALLOWED to portray Black people in a realistic light. I saw myself in him. I saw every important Black man in my life in him. Thank you, sir, with love. RIP Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 - January 6, 2022)

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happy birthday, billie holiday // april 7, 1915 - july 17, 1959 // “there’s no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up”

“Behind me, Billie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, humming a few bars. Her voice sounded different to me now. Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure- and make music that wasn’t there before.“ President Barack Obama “Once, when [I was] playing at the Apollo, [Billie] was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterward, we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don’t know if it was the right thing to do - I asked her for her autograph.”  Ella Fitzgerald  “With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing.“ Frank Sinatra “If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it’s Billie Holiday.“ Barbra Streisand “She could express more emotion in one chorus than most actresses can in three acts.” Jeanne Moreau “I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that’s cool. Let’s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.“ Erykah Badu "Billie Holiday….she is so subtle, she can milk you with two notes. She can go no farther than from a to b, and she can make you feel like she told you the whole universe." Janis Joplin "My great hero is Billie Holiday." Tim Curry

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Fred Zinnemann’s HIGH NOON celebrated its U.S. premiere in New York City #OnThisDay in 1952.

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A train ride through Garden of the Gods, perhaps the most famous filming location for old western films and television shows - among other genres.