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During her studies, she came across the single, “Once in a Lifetime,” an Afrobeat-inspired tune from Talking Heads. Encouraged by the African sound of the record, Angelique Kidjo told her fellow students about the rhythms she heard. They insisted — incorrectly — that it was rock. “I said, ‘That’s not rock and roll,” she told the L.A. Times. “It’s African music.”

Perhaps fueled by that experience, Kidjo’s Remain in Light recreates the 1980 LP as an authentic Afrobeat record that dives head-on into the Fela Kuti-inspired aesthetic of the Talking Heads original. Though a widely heralded classic, the group’s album only scratched the surface of West African funk. They synthesized the sound, blending it with pop and rock to make it more palatable for mostly white American listeners. Conversely, Kidjo’s interpretation feels more legitimate and offers an unfiltered representation of the Motherland’s polyrhythmic dance.

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weird dog what lives in your basement

this is Bajnok, another character from my work-in-progress graphic novel. he's based on gorgonpsids.

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riso constellations 💫 noctua & corvus

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Tomas Sánchez.

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Gordon Mortensen (1938) American

Yellow Iris

Reduction Woodcut Print

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a typical example of a juvenile turkey vulture perched next to a leucistic adult turkey vulture. leucism is a lack of pigmentation in feathers; it can be throughout the full body, or distributed in patches, like in this bird.

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Bayou fleet

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夕陽に照らされて

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not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay

You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras

We Were Emergencies by Buddy Wakefield

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably In the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

The City Limits by A.R. Ammons

There Is a Lake Here by Clint Smith

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John Clymer (1907 - 1989). Bear Drawings. Ink on paper.

National Museum of Wildlife Art

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Keramic studio - 1899 - via Internet Archive

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Swallow tailed cardinalfish (Verulux cypselurus) in Sulawesi, Indonesia

by scubaluna

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Peace

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To The Painters of Pompeii - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

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Sometimes, when a wishing well has taken many, many offerings, all that gold starts to attract wildlife…

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100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

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