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Deny Fear

9 Aug, 7 tweets, 3 min read

Remembering Tove Jansson on her birthday 🎂
With a Moomintroll doll in Helsinki, 1954
Photo: Lehtikuva
"If I could live it all over again, I'd do it completely differently. But I won't say how."

"It was the utterly hellish war years that made me, an artist, write fairy tales. Flight, catastrophe & homelessness are powerful themes that directly connect the two first stories with reality."
- Tove Jansson

Cool that Tove Jansson (1914) & P. L. Travers (1899) share a birthday today; one born in Finland, the other in Australia. Both writers brought so much joy with their creations.

"The forgotten possibility of life as a gift suddenly becomes thinkable. The fire burns in the stove. One curls up to sleep and recognizes the silence and makes friends with oneself."
- Tove Jansson, "The Island"
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📷 Reino Loppinen, 1956

Tove Jansson by Hans Gedda, 1967
"The Moomins are not so much cute as strangely familiar, as though Jansson happened to look in a new direction and find these tender and serious fellow-creatures, who had been with us all along."
- Sheila Heti

Tove Jansson by Reino Loppinen, 1956
A classic picture of the artist in her atelier. Today we're celebrating the birthday of the great artist & writer 🎂

“In Moominhouse they had pancakes for luncheon – big yellow pancakes with raspberry jam. There was porridge from the day before as well, but as nobody wanted it they decided to save it for the next morning”
- Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

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Remembering Philip Larkin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Fay Godwin, 1974
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Kingsley Amis asked him if he'd ever thought about becoming the Poet Laureate.
"I dream about that sometimes - and wake up screaming. With any luck they'll pass me over."

I love when artists turn out to be photographers, whether serious or just the snapshot type. Here's Philip Larkin's portrait of Kingsley Amis. Amis's own caption of the photo: "Kingley Amis in 'writer' pose."

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Philip Larkin by Humphrey Ocean
acrylic on canvas, 1984
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"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."

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8 Aug

Remembering Benny Carter on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ted Williams, 1960s
"Carter belongs to that select circle of pure-jazz musicians who tend to represent the best of their times."
- Whitney Balliett

Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie by Allan Grant, 1948
Today we're celebrating Carter's birthday 🎂
"He didn’t satisfy anyone’s picture of a jazz genius as a troubled, mercurial man-child; he was private and professional."
- Ben Ratliff

More Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie by Allan Grant for Life magazine, 1948
- “Eel-ya-da,” which sounds like bebop triplet note
- "Bell man! where have you been"

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7 Aug

Remembering Stan Freberg on his birthday 🎂
📷 Slim Aarons, late 1950s
A clause in all of his advertising contracts read:
"The decision as to what’s funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg."

Stan Freberg by Jack Manning, 1983
He opened his own ad agency, Freberg Ltd., in 1958. His slogan was "More Honesty Than the Client Had in Mind." His corporate motto: “Ars Gratia Pecuniae” (Art of the Sake of Money).

And now a word from our sponsor:
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After which, we return you to this Stan Freberg birthday thread... 🎂🧵

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7 Aug

Remembering Nicholas Ray on his birthday 🎂
With James Dean at the Griffith Park Observatory, during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause
📷 Floyd McCarty, 1955

Nicholas Ray at his desk
📷 Dennis Stock, 1962
"Mr. Ray may well be his own most complex, riveting hero. He's a romantic with a fiercely realistic view of things."
- Vincent Canby

Coffee with Nicholas Ray ☕️
He's on the set of the Wim Wenders's The American Friend. Ray had a cameo in the film, along with fellow filmmakers Jean Eustache & Samuel Fuller.
📷 Caterine Milinaire, 1977

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7 Aug

Happy birthday Peter Bonerz 🎂
With the Bob Newhart office gang, & special guest star Raul Julia
CBS, 1973
Bonerz acted in 137 episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, & directed 29.
My favourite sitcom 📺

Peter Bonerz directing Friends
📷 Ken Hively, 1996
Bonerz directed 12 episodes

Peter Bonerz directed one of my favourite episodes of Friends, The One with Chandler in a Box (season 4, episode 8)
Photo: Paul Drinkwater, 1997
Today we're celebrating Bonerz's birthday 🎂

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7 Aug

@NPGLondon

Remembering Howard Hodgkin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Annie Leibovitz, 1993
@NPGLondon
"To be an honest artist now, you have to make your own language, and for me that has taken a very long time."

Howard Hodgkin by David Montgomery, 1980
The extended Hodgkin family included Thomas Hodgkin, the physician after whom the lymph node cancers Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin were named, & the artist & critic Roger Fry. John Eliot Gardiner was a cousin.

@Tate

Howard Hodgkin
Dinner at West Hill, 1964-6
@Tate
@artukdotorg

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