#Sun Magazine

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Photograph of Luciano Pavarotti at Villa Pace with Rosa Ponselle at the piano, used in 1982 in an issue of The Baltimore Sun Magazine.

N.B. - Luciano Pavarotti remembers his encounter with Rosa Ponselle: As a boy in Italy, growing up in my hometown, Modena, I can hardly remember a time when the name Rosa Ponselle was unfamiliar to me. (…) One can imagine how I felt, having grown up admiring an artist whom I had known only from a series of prized phonograph records, meeting her in person—and not only meeting her, but actually "singing" with her! (…) It was at Villa Pace, her magnificent home in the Greenspring Valley near Baltimore, that I met and sang with her. My visit to her villa was the culmination of a telephone-and-letter friendship that had begun a few years earlier. (…) After much animated conversation and a splendid meal, we made our way into her expansive music room, where, before she sat down at the piano, she said to me apologetically, "Luciano, I'm not in form today. Every day when I get up in the morning I try out my 'pianissimo'. If it's there, I'm in top form, and I can do anything. Today, it isn't there, but we'll sing together anyway, in full voice." And sing we did! From fragments of arias and snippets of duets to the beloved Tosti songs so dear to us both, we let our voices mate in one long shimmering line of harmony. My only wish was that we could have been transported magically into a modern recording studio, so that the whole world could have shared this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

(Rosa Ponselle & James A. Drake - "Ponselle, A singer's Life", foreword by Luciano Pavarotti - Doubleday & Company, Inc. - Garden City, New York, 1982)

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Image Credit & Copyright: Nicholas Roemmelt (Venture Photography)

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Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps: Now this was a view with a thrill. From Mount Tschirgant in the Alps, you can see not only nearby towns and distant Tyrolean peaks, but also, weather permitting, stars, nebulas, and the band of the Milky Way Galaxy. What made the arduous climb worthwhile this night, though, was another peak—the peak of the 2018 Perseids Meteor Shower. As hoped, dispersing clouds allowed a picturesque sky-gazing session that included many faint meteors, all while a carefully positioned camera took a series of exposures. Suddenly, a thrilling meteor—bright and colorful—slashed down right next to the nearly vertical band of the Milky Way. As luck would have it, the camera caught it too. Therefore, a new image in the series was quickly taken with one of the sky-gazers posing on the nearby peak. Later, all of the images were digitally combined. [Robert Scott Horton]

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In any group, look for the person that others are afraid of “upsetting,” and you will find the prime manipulator, the power-wielder. The large error is not in being materialistic, sensual, or obsessed with the physical world, but that people do it poorly, with so little perception and style. Often people do not see what is in front of them. Like the “practical” men who build cities that are not only ugly but inefficient as well. The true test of the spirit is not in getting away from this material reality, but in how deeply you can feel and understand what is happening here. It is tragic that so many of us undervalue the magical, unusual realm in which we dwell.

[The Cosmic Airdrome :: BY THADDEUS GOLAS :: OCTOBER 1990]

[excerpt from "Alive On all Channels]

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Goldie Hawn, 78, and partner Kurt Russell, 73, still look so young as they live it up on a yacht while on... https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/11640590/goldie-hawn-kurt-russell-ageless-yacht-vacation/

[crabsnpersimmons]

me: i'm gonna clean up my desk so my sketchbook doesn't fall every 3 minutes while i draw today!

[3 hours later.]

me: ...i have made a miscalculation...

cleaning up my desk is proving to be a much bigger task than i thought, so here's an old comic i can't believe i haven't posted yet:

and a bonus ending:

anyways, i'll see you all soon after i clean up my desk

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A magazine of Cover, starring Phillup and her team.

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Children's magazine ad for Capri Sun Pacific Cooler flavor, March, 1991. Disney Adventures Magazine.

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"Sword of the Seven Suns" Planet Stories #30 (1947) Cover by Allen Anderson

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Magnificent landscape. Simplicissimus magazine. June 9, 1924.

Internet Archive

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i made this for a literary magazine, do you like it ?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Saul Steinberg’s Last Self-Portrait.

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You can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them.

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Sunbeams, November 2020

The Sun Magazine

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rory culkin photographed by frank sun (2014)

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Had some fun with the Adobe InDesign program :D

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