@earlofedgecombe
Composer, Music Supervisor, Sound Designer, Mixer (The Abyss ,The Wire, Treme, Neptune Frost) Bass/Guitar/Cello/Gravikord. Bastard son of William Blake & The Velvet Underground, literally. https://blakeleyh.com Harlem ~ New Orleans ~ London
WALLPAPER: Gordon Parks’ photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s are essential viewing in London www.wallpaper.com/art/photogra... @wallpapermag.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
Good Evening Motherfuckers it’s Friday
take note of the size, but also the terrain
A photo of a large rectangular puddle set into turf.
Portal number 34.
Illustration of a woman walking beside a lion. Two more lions walk behind them.
'There was great joy when she arrived, for they all believed that she had been torn to pieces by the lion, and was no longer alive. But she told them what a handsome husband she had, and how well off she was.'
-The Singing, Springing Lark, Brothers Grimm.
🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat
Forgetting why you walked into a room isn’t a sign of cognitive decline. It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.
‘Think of a loincloth as an act of diplomacy: the malo loloa, a long loincloth made of barkcloth, was a metaphor for Hawaii forming alliances.’
Susannah Clapp visits the British Museum’s Hawaii exhibition.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
was thinking about neuroqueer, and neuroqueering, and why I wasn’t using the term for myself yet. And so, using it now. Because of course.
about neuroqueer:
@dr-nicky.bsky.social
neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-a...
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order Read end section on Trump and nukes and Iran
On the reality TV president and his nuclear series finale: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...
Incredible to realize that it's only been 28 days since the last Bandcamp Friday. It feels like an eternity.
Anyway I released an EP 28 days ago, and it's still fresh today.
History Lesson: The flagship company of Brill Building pop music (actually located across the street at 1650 Broadway) was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Who says you can't go home again?
*If you're into filmed documentation of the past here's a French diplomat wandering through China in 1901 with a movie camera
*The material culture is amazing. No industrial products. Nothing imported. The Chinese have never seen a camera
www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...
Incredible to realize that it's only been 28 days since the last Bandcamp Friday. It feels like an eternity.
Anyway I released an EP 28 days ago, and it's still fresh today.
If he’s wearing white like that and testifying against building housing, it’s legal to hit him with overripe fruit.
[quietly tries to point out the the military/industria complex has always been a mechanism for transfer public funds to private capital]
Way mo’ crashes.
It’s almost like if someone’s basic needs are being met, they’re less likely to commit crimes
[Exit Murderer.]
Will this finally free Godzilla once and for all?
in a post-credit scene, Dan Crenshaw appears in Noem's apartment and tells her he's putting a team together
Man hanging from a giant helium-filled kangaroo. Aided by four other balloons, he is attempting to cross the English Channel to France by flying off a fucking big chalk cliff.
'David Kirke sets off from Beachy Head in East Sussex, in a giant helium-filled kangaroo. Aided by four other balloons, he is attempting to cross the English Channel to France.'
John Downing, 1986
This is called ‘confident heart’ and it is available as an original drawing www.chloecumming.com/chloepencilh...
Ever wondered who the people behind NYC’s street names are?
A new interactive map reveals the stories behind 2,500 co-named street signs honoring famous New Yorkers—and unsung heroes—across the five boroughs.
Check it out here: on.nyc.gov/4iIjQvY
How is there a king cake baby in my hamentaschen?
An unexploded Iranian missile in a field in Syria, surrounded by shepherds and sheep.
A picture worth a thousand words.
Quiet zone, Jackson Square, New Orleans
Coming July 21, friend! Thanks for reading!!
