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im 12 years old sitting on my bed reading it’s midnight it’s summer my window is open the crickets are very loud but very soothing my room smells dusty and warm and no one else exists. im 12 years old. the feeling never goes away.

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Pink Floyd Photo Andrew Whittuck (1966)

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Robert Plant at the Wembley Empire Pool in London, U.K. (November 20th-21st, 1971. Exact date unspecified.)

Photo by Michael Putland.

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a great blue heron at dawn and dusk

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Joel Meyerowitz, Storm Over Corn Hill Beach, Truro, Cape Cod, 1976

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Anastasia Trusova — “Through The Walls”, 2020

Acrylic on linen (70 x 70 cm)

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Jamie Wyeth, The Thief, 1996, Oil on panel

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JAWS 大白鯊

Roy Scheider got slapped 17 times to get this shot. Bruce has gotten a lot of the glory over the years, so I wanted, for a change, to celebrate the incredible characters and their small town New England drama that make this movie what it is.

It’s the 50th Anniversary of JAWS. In 1975 JAWS was the highest grossing movie of all time, and was released overseas in dozens of countries. But you won’t typically find Taiwan on that list, because in 1975 Taiwan was no longer recognized internationally.

But it was released in theaters there in 1975, known in Taiwan as 大白鯊. My Mom personally watched it during its release, and even remembers billboards of it. But because of the complicated history of Taiwan, it’s not well documented.

I wanted to fix that and give Taiwan the flowers it deserves, so I made a retro Taiwanese JAWS poster. All text is in Traditional Chinese, which is distinct to Taiwan, HK, and Macau. My mom is always asking, ‘How come you make all these posters in Japanese? Can’t you do a Chinese one for once?’ So this one is for my Mom.

I want to give a big shout out to Rob Jones for art directing this. Thank you to my Mom for helping me translate and format everything Taiwan-accurate. And of course, thanks to CODA for having me in their official JAWS 50th Anniversary art show.⁠

The exhibit opens at Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank, NJ with a reception on June 28 and will be on view through July 13.

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Circling the Sun, Nancy Friedland

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felt like i was living in a painting

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Comet C/2023 A3 on September 28, 2024

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A black and white cat Unknown photographer 1986

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Mallard (Anas platyrhyncos) & Red-Winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

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Mike Hall - Sea view

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Petrolisthes violaceus, a species of porcelain crab, in Los Molles, Chile

by Diego Gutierrez