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Spring Soon ...
After winter
A dramatic black-and-white close-up photographic portrait of artist Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, presented in high contrast with deep shadows and rich tones. She is shown from the shoulders up, facing slightly to her left but gazing upward and off-frame with a calm, intense, and contemplative expression. Her face is sharply defined, featuring high cheekbones, smooth skin, almond-shaped eyes with a direct yet introspective look, a straight nose, and full lips set in a subtle, serious line. Her dark hair is pulled back tightly into a sleek bun or chignon, emphasizing the elegant lines of her neck and jaw. She wears a dark, deep V-neck garment that reveals a light underlayer at the collarbone. Behind her floats an abstract, textured background resembling a large, circular moon-like form dotted with irregular light spots and organic patterns, evoking a sense of mystery and modernism.
A vibrant large-scale oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe titled Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), depicting an enormous close-up view of a single white jimson weed (datura) flower dominating the canvas. The flower is rendered with precise, sensual detail: its trumpet-shaped bloom is pure creamy white, with velvety petals that curl gracefully outward and inward, their edges tinged with subtle pale green and yellow highlights. At the center, the flower's throat reveals delicate green pistils and stamens with small white anthers. Surrounding the blossom are bold, sweeping dark green leaves and calyxes in deep emerald and jade tones, their forms curving fluidly to frame the flower like protective waves. The background transitions from rich green foliage at the bottom to a luminous blue sky with soft cloud-like gradients at the top, creating a sense of the flower floating ethereally against the heavens. The style is characteristically modernist and magnified—clean lines, smooth gradients, intense color contrasts, and a focus on organic form that conveys both serenity and bold sensuality.
#OTD in 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe died at the age of 98.
O'Keeffe, a prolific artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, NY skyscrapers & New Mexico landscapes, is recognized as the "Mother of American modernism."
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#WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #art
Has Doug ever once acknowledged Raymond Moriyama, the world renowned 🇨🇦 architect of the original Science Centre? TVO made an excellent doc on him. Highly recommend watching, though it makes all this even more heartbreaking. He sadly passed away in 2023 (at 94!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoIh...
Photo of Canadian architect Ray Moriyama in front of a drawing of the Ontario Science Centre, what was then known as the Centennial Museum of Science and Technology.
Ray Moriyama. Canadian architect of the Ontario Science Centre.
The hockey stuff is a nice preview of how Trump will ruin the World Cup.
PM Mark Carney now has the highest approval rating of any Prime Minister in Canadian history and it’s one he earns every single day by working hard, speaking truth to power and being the best of who we are as a nation. 🇨🇦
5th Avenue and East 36th Street, New York, 1983
#photography
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#newyork
Yours Again, 2026
Heart On
Joyce Wieland
1961
Chefs kiss
Ice flowers are as 'cool' as they sound!❄️🌼 The rare natural spectacle only appears in specific freezing conditions.
Watch more video: https://ow.ly/IEtE50YbYpe
The Bright Exit, 2022
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It’s a strange phenomenon that JD Vance says his most repulsive things when he’s trying to be funny.
A candle light vigil to honour Pretti and “all victims of ICE” is set to be held in front of the U.S. Consulate located at 360 University Ave, Toronto at 5 p.m. on Tuesday January 27th. Guests are encouraged to bring candles, wreaths, photos, and signs to demonstrate their solidarity. 🇨🇦❤️
Federal agents hiding behind masks contributes to abuses. It signals no accountability. It lets agents know they can act as a nameless, faceless, camouflaged, armed abuser and nobody will know who did it. It is antithetical to everything this liberty loving country stands for.
I'm not going to applaud the government for funding food banks because food banks are by definition, a policy failure 🙃
When grand juries have been impaneled to hear testimony and evidence on the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, then we can begin to talk about the Trump admin doing something tangible. Until that, all this is just PR damage control that only the extremely naive will fall for.
Every single time. 🥴
Oh yes, that’s what I meant 😁
Written by himself. ⭐️
“Governor” again? He was so jealous of PM Trudeau. PM Mark Carney gave an engaging, eloquent speech that poked at him and it’s rattled him good.
It’s posts like this that make Canada and other countries want to do deals with China and leave the United States all alone. This is the language of an abusive ex.
Canadians took massive casualties fighting the American war in Afghanistan.
Trump says we never stepped up. JD Vance says he's sick of our "sob stories".
MP Jamil Jivani is best friends with Vance. Will he deliver a simple message from Canada?
Trump and Vance can go F--k themselves.
Never again.
Cold weather ≠ no climate change.
Global warming raises average temperatures and disrupts atmospheric patterns, which can push Arctic air south.
The planet is still warming — one cold wave doesn’t change that.
cons of winter: freezing, slushy, snowstorms, bone-chilling winds, wearing too many layers, ice storms
pros of winter: dogs in lil' booties
'Gaslight' comes from a play and movie of the same name in which a man attempts to trick his wife into believing that she is going insane.
We promise we're telling the truth.
