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Marc Bolan, #BOTD 1947. . Mark Feld, was raised in N16 and became one of the ‘Stamford Hill boys’ known in the area for their style and attitude. This photo by Don McCullin taken in 1962 shows Bolan, aged 15, for an article in Town magazine titled ‘The Young Take the Wheel’.

It's Marc Bolan's 76th birthday. In May 1965 the then-unknown 18 year-old Mark Feld marched to Trafalgar Square with Donovan, Joan Baez and others to protest the Vietnam War. I wrote about it here: andnowitsallthis.blogspot.com/2022/09/you-sa…

Shapeshifters as witches & tricksters show the interconnection of the world, the psyche as a being in flux, with no boundaries: human turns into animal, animal into human, male into female, & life is a dance between polarities that defies stasis. That is magic. #FairyTaleTuesday

Our film on Pauline Boty continues to shape up nicely in the editing room and lots of events celebrating this wonderful artist planned in October & November.. I am the Sixties I am Pop I am Art You just didn’t realise.. 📷Michael Ward

Pauline Boty’s Collaged Wall - 1964 📸 Roger Mayne

"What happens to the characters in my films is not important. People think that the events in a film are what the film is about. Not true. A film is about the characters, about changes going on inside them..." Monica Vitti #botd

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson

The Offering by Theodoros Ralli, 19th c.

Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles. Yukio Mishima, 'Spring Snow'

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Records Shops of Soho, 1946-1996. There’s only four there today

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” ― George Orwell

"My poem is, or should be, useful to me for one reason only: it is the account of my individual effort to move from darkness to some measure of light" ~ Dylan Thomas Died on this day, in 1953 🎨 Mark Rothko thanks to Gerbera

"I wanted to recount the multi-dimensionality of a day, a conscious life unfolding like a spiral, without defining boundaries, abandoning any idea of plot in favour of a free narration, a chat." --- Federico Fellini on '8½' (1963)

Pauline Boty with her painting 5 4 3 2 1 , Holland Park - 1963 📸 Michael Ward

Delia Derbyshire - Dr Who Theme 1965 / United Kingdom / Tomorrow’s World BBC Electronic music pioneer Derbyshire demonstrates the pre-synthesizer techniques she innovated to create the sound of the iconic theme in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ⚡️sound on⚡️

"Can anyone be anything but a rebel in a conventional world like this?" ~ Jack Kerouac

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„I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.“ Tove Jansson * August 9, 1914