Richard Ayoade Takes Bob Mortimer to Hamburg

 I know nothing about Hamburg but I’ll watch anything with Richard Mortimer in it.

TriBeCa Triplex Comes With A Keith Haring Mural

Image: Tim Waltman, Evan Joseph Photography

When Keith Haring was still a student at the School of Visual Arts in the 1970s he painted one of his distinctive murals in what was a student exhibition space in TriBeCa. The mural was covered over and temporarily forgotten. In 2001 Haring’s mural was discovered and authenticated during a renovation. The current owner, a tech executive, is selling the property for $25 million.

 

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Trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.

Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is the first chronological book in  CS Lewis’s series. It is Greta Gerwig’s first film since her megahit Barbie, opening in theatres for eight-weeks on 12 February before it streams on Netflix starting 2 April, in the studio’s first global theatrical release.

Portrait Of The Day: Neisser

This portrait of 16-year-old aspiring pentathlete and fencer Neisser, captured by James Clifford Kent as part of a project in Cuba, has made it to the shortlist for the National Portrait Gallery London’s Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize. The  photograph was taken in his family’s living room, without lighting or set design.

Canadians Abroad (1956)

This documentary shows Canadians who relocated to London and Paris 70 years ago. The interviewer is a young Fred Davis who was ubiquitous in those days. He speaks with a pompous MP, novelist Mordecai Richler, a businessman, a hockey coach, actors, painter Jean Paul Riopelle, a Unesco employee and his family and an artist.

Canadians Abroad, Don Haldane, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Death By Firing Squad

I haven’t seen checked in on Jesse Welles lately. Miss Cellania posted his new song about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s announcement  that the Pentagon would livestream the military execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist convicted by court-martial of murdering 13 and wounding 32 at Ft. Hood, Texas, in 2009. No one can argue that this was a heinous crime but both Republican and Democratic critics have stated that the public execution was beneath the United States. I am against all capital punishment but this is even more egregious. Livestreaming an execution is what we have come to expect from ISIS and Al Qaeda, not America.

*Update*: Bowing to public pressure, Trump has cancelled the livestream of the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

Soap Charmander

South Korean sculptor BUDALJO carves a Pokemon Charmander from a block of soap.

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Penguin Donut Factory

They may not be particularly efficient but they sure are cute.

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Stuart Walton – Terraced Houses

Stuart Walton is a self taught British Postwar and Contemporary painter.

Now here's something I think remarkable. Look very carefully. This isn't a high quality monochrome photo of a bygone street scene. It's a pencil drawing! By the artist Stuart Walton, born in Dewsbury in 1933. I love it!

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— Adrian Littlejohn (@yorksfella59.bsky.social) September 19, 2026 at 11:26 AM

Hard Core

We think that music and art should be made by humans and not artificial intelligence. We are the Knights Of Molino.

 

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