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Caribbean Vernacular Architecture, fretwork rooted in local or African history and symbolism.

See "Creole and vernacular architecture: embryonic syncretism in Caribbean cultural landscape", Patricia Elaine Green

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“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority. Invariably, it is the man who believes himself to be physically lacking in heroic attributes who speaks mockingly of the hero.” - Yukio Mishima, ‘Sun & Steel’ (1968)

“Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.” - Cormac McCarthy, ‘Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West’ (1985)

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FL and Adama, shot by Stéphane Gaboué

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Blueberry Cured Salmon (Blueberry Gravlax)

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Lemaire | FW25, backstage

shot by Cristina Stolhe

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cecil b. demented (2000)

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Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Die Geschichte aller bisherigen Gesellschaft ist die Geschichte von Klassenkämpfen (…), 1975 [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich]

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Maison Martin Margiela Ensemble Photographed by Ronald Stoops s/s 1991

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Let Freedom Sing

Small Othello recording from the 1950s.

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Reel to Reel recording

Autographed reel-to-reel tape (2 sides) of Paul Robeson’s May 4, 1958 concert in Detroit, Michigan. 

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Paul Robeson, April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976.

With Anna May Wong and Mei Lanfang. Photo by Fania Marinoff.