Sunday = Reading Is FUNdamental Day
Newsletter + On This Day
In my book, Sundays are for reading, reflecting, and resting. Today’s a good day to slow down, feed my curiosity, and explore some new and old ideas.
Maybe you’re in a reading kinda mood too?
Whether you're in the mood for news and views about art and design, entertainment and history, or photo and videos, this motley mix of articles and videos is intended to catch your eye and/or spark your imagination:
ART + DESIGN
JUDGE MAKES OWNERSHIP CALL ON BASQUIAT… (ARTnews)
KEITH HARING WAS HERE (CBS Sunday Morning) 📺
$50 PAINTING COULD FETCH $150K AT AUCTION (artnet News)
ENTERTAINMENT + HISTORY
100+ NEW ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SEAN COMBS (USA Today)
"ANTI-WOKE" YOUTUBERS ARE A PLAGUE (D’Angelo Wallace) 📺
$621M LEGAL BATTLE FOR THE ‘SOUL OF THE INTERNET’ (Rolling Stone)
PHOTO + VIDEO
HOW ROBERT FRANK PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES… (Hyperallergic)
META UNVEILS AI VIDEO GENERATOR (Bloomberg Technology) 📺
HOW TIME WORKS = 80 PICS OF WORN-DOWN THINGS (Bored Panda)
After some Sunday "Fun" Day reading, please don’t forget to reflect and rest.
Thanks for reading and subscribing!
Clint
P.S. I fell down a research “rabbit hole” yesterday and am working on a new photo montages featuring Allen Ginsberg and his family, friends, and lovers.
ON THIS DAY = OCTOBER 6
BIRTHDAYS
1887 = Le Corbusier = Swiss-French architect and painter
1921 = Giovanni Michelotti = Italian automotive designer
1963 = Elisabeth Shue = American actress
EVENTS
1600 = Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1791 = France adopted The French Penal Code of 1791, marking it as the first Western European country to decriminalize same-sex acts.
1892 = Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson dies in Sussex, England, at the age of 83.
1927 = The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie," is released.
1968 = A group of 12 people congregated for the first meeting of the Metropolitan Community Church in Huntington Park, California. Founded by Rev. Troy Perry, the religious organization centralizes its ministry efforts around the LGBTQ community.
1989 = Bette Davis dies in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at the age of 81.
1998 = Matthew Shepard was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming. He would later succumb to his injuries. Click here to find out more about the mission of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
2010 = Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
2020 = Eddie Van Halen dies in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 65.
WORDS OF WISDOM
“SPACE AND LIGHT AND ORDER. THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT MEN NEED JUST AS MUCH AS THEY NEED BREAD OR A PLACE TO SLEEP.”
LE CORBUSIER
“OLD AGE IS NO PLACE FOR SISSIES.”
BETTE DAVIS
FOUND PHOTOS OF THE DAY
Ha! Sunday being a day of rest. Around this house it is laundry, cleaning (housekeeper took the week off) picking up and unloading groceries.
Oooh, looking forward to the Ginsburg! Orlovsky & Kerouac were sizzling hot! People forget how important he actually was, & not just to the burgeoning movement, either.