Rob Klippel

We The People #NoKingsOctober17

Obsession: Ever searching for that which can't be found. Keniji Haino insheepsclothinghifi.com/keiji-haino-... youtu.be/AYOhR0Xt3uo?...

This is why Why we fight Why we lie awake... When we die We will die With our arms unbound... Come hell #NoKingsOctober17 youtu.be/oLSOzcEQjiE?... youtu.be/66f4lIXTnNk?...

"Maybe you heard of Nat Turner, the rebellious slave He's well known because he misbehaved Or, rather, he behaved in ways that aligned with his people's freedom So, of course, you know, the system needed to delete him" 🎈 Remembering Nat Turner on the date of his birth, 10/2/1800. Hanged in 1831.

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." Virginia Woolf

"I like to play all the time. I guess, maybe I'm funny." Elvin Jones youtu.be/DSskn81FAj8?...

Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the similar incident involving Rosa Parks. Her efforts weren't publicized because she was too young to be taken seriously... apparently.

"It may not be music, but it's something quite like it." Max Eastley Installation at no)toon) Festival Haarlem, Netherlands March 2007

Gillian Wearing Self Portrait 2000

"All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom." Patti Smith youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0?...

"Everything in life is a test of empathy" Phillip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"You’re very poetic." "No, just sad.” José Saramago Blindness

Red Rocks Morrison, Colorado "To someone who had lived with anxiety, those rocks were speaking to me quietly that a sense of security does not come from the absence of anxiety, but from the strength to hold anxiety and still not fall." A North Korean Defector's Reaction

When Pat Martino suffered a near-fatal seizure, he was left with severe memory loss. He had no memory of guitar... he even forgot the identity of his parents. He relearned guitar, note by note, from his own recordings. His teacher was a stranger... himself. youtu.be/QGti6Fox6WE?...

N. K. Jemisin The Fifth Season "You are she. She is you. You are Essun. Remember! The woman whose son is dead. You're an orogene... Only three people here know what you are, and two of them you gave birth to. Well. One left who knows, now." #HowBooksBegin

"Our dreams make us large." Jack Kirby

Let's decide that posting here is not art. Then let's talk together about art. L.H.O.O.Q., 1919 L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved, 1965 Marcel Duchamp

Kurt Vonnegut's advice to high schoolers: “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction... no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience BECOMING, to find out what’s inside you, to MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW.”

National SO-111N Portable Phonograph & Keyboard (1960s) "Sometimes I think all I'm ever doing is trying to convince myself I'm alive" insheepsclothinghifi.com/japanese-por... youtu.be/ecIPJaxkZ7w?...

This tan suit kills fascists. #ObamaAppreciation

No Kings Protest Arvada, Colorado 6/14/26 For Democracy. For the future. For our children. For Good.

"As a child I never imagined that all of the real monsters in the world would be human." Mobeen Hakeem mobeenhakeem.tumblr.com/my-writing Painting Misty Lindsey

Sonny Rollins 🎈

"I found out today, we're going wrong" youtu.be/eE-TTVNbdGE?... My cousin was killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." I wonder if he ever heard this song and what he might have thought about it. #MemorialDay

"The day the mountains move has come..." Yosano Akiko 1878-1942 Author Poet Feminist Pacifist Social Reformer (The anime/manga character from Bungo Stray Dogs is named for her.)

"Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde 1934-1992 Professor Philosopher Poet Civil Rights Activist Intersectional Feminist

When your heart is breaking and all you can do it cry. Alexis Winter

"... like they're waiting for permission to live a little softer again." If you can, find someone to rescue... or let them find you. youtu.be/Eztcg8aDkIg?...

"If there's something that you wanna hear You can sing it yourself" youtu.be/a_n3E8vnAfE?...

I play guitar. This is my sheet music: 🎨Cy Twombly "Untitled" 1967

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) “Surrealism is meant for me, because I am a pretty realistic person, but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed."

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) The Church 1936

We The People (2-legged, 4-legged, and bare-assed) No Kings 3 28 March 2026 Broomfield, Colorado

We The People No Kings 3 28 March 2026 Broomfield, Colorado

"Look at these three words written bigger than the rest, with special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, 'We the People' ... was not written for chiefs, or kings, or the warriors, or the rich or powerful, but for ALL the people!" - James T. Kirk #NoKings March 28

That will be 3 slaps. youtu.be/RuOEEu--j2Y?...

Jean Tinguely by Dennis Hopper 1963

Barbara Kruger Untitled (Questions) 1990 "Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes the longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?"

D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically... We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." #HowBooksBegin

Light is built a brick at a time.

See I Got Back Up Misty Lindsey

The most pathetic person in the world is someone with sight but refuses to see. Inspired by Helen Keller and her famous quote on vision.

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