Motes for Inspiration

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Unique video footage of everyday NYC in the mid-1980s.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/new_ ... _the_1980s

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Sound familiar?

Sir Patrick Stewart: You're safe now.

A real-life beautiful man in action.

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From Bulgarian artist Kalina Toneva: Hushpuppy, heroine of the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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Tour the stacks at the New York Public Library

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Photographic portraits from the 1980s.

ClampArt Exhibition: NYC, c. 1985

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"The Word: Cannibalize" puts me in mind of the Beast and his underworld realm.

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A moment from Father's era of life Above...

MoonOverNYC1946.jpg

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A child's dream of maybes in a moment of aloneness.

The Music Box

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They were wrong.

Freaks are beautiful.

To This Day (video)

"To This Day" (poem text)

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Life

A (beautiful!) tactile comic for the blind.

http://www.hallo.pm/life/

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The mainstream world's introduction to Andrew De Leon.

http://youtu.be/u7dPlCzUG44

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As a follow-up to the previous mote...

Here is a sample of Andrew De Leon's work in contemporary genres.

Of interest (to me, at any rate ), is the rich musical heritage at play. Here are feature five other countertenors of previous generations for contemplation.

David Daniels

Andreas Scholl

Gianluca Belfiori Doro

Alfred & Mark Deller

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Connecting Detroit's present with New York's past:

Camilo José Vergara, "Everyday Life in the Hood"

Leland Bobbé's 1970s NYC portraits

Arthur Tress, EPA documentation, U.S. National Archives

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From Neil Gaiman, on the value of Story:

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I'd include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you've escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in.

So no, they're not escapist. They're escape.

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A masterpiece from 1981.

Roy Dotrice in Mister Lincoln.