Ellen McCarthy

Stories in; @TheOghamStone, @PressSans, @RiverbedReview,
@SilverApplesmag. MA @UL #CreativeWriting. Pushcart nominee. And I do a little teaching @WaterfordLibs

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

One of the most inventive and fun scenes in 1930s film... Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon dancing upon the giant typewriter in "Ready, Willing, and Able" (1937)

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

She's wonderful.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

A lovely clip of Daphne Du Maurier aged 64. I miss this generation of women who looked as they were and felt no shame.
Refusing to be crushed by ageist, sexist expectations & not being modified to look 35 forever.
#actingYourAgeCampaign #DontCastHerOut

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

I love the enthusiasm of its little legs jumping and reaching for the sky. #ladybirds #nature

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Here is what a ladybug taking off looks like in slow motion 🐞

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Shots like this, I'm not sure I want to know how. I prefer to just believe in the magic of movies. #film

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

The incredible tracking shot in Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA from 1964. This is insane.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

George Harrison wrote Something about his wife Pattie Boyd.

This video is the only time you see The Beatles with their significant others, and it's wonderful.

Sinatra called it the greatest love song in 50 years, and he was probably right!

[Rob O'Hanrahan @RobOHanrahan]

A valuable flute went missing yesterday from the owner's bike on the way to a lunchtime session in Cassidy's in Camden St. It has huge sentimental value and a reward has been offered.

If anyone sees it, please send a DM.

RTs appreciated.

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum]

Happy first day of winter! ❄️

Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley was a pioneer in photomicrography and the first person to photograph a single snowflake using a microscope fitted to a bellows camera.

For over half a century, he documented endless snow crystals, revealing the vast variety of variations hidden within a simple hexagonal form.
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📸 Wilson Alwyn Bentley American, “[Snow Crystal],” ca. 1910. Gelatin silver print.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Pre AI and CGI. Simplicity is beautiful. #animation #shortfilm #bluedanube #Blackandwhite

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961.

The Blue Danube.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

This is the most beautiful dress ever made. #moviedresses #style #AudreyHepburn

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Audrey Hepburn in her own voice describing her very first haute couture film gown - Givenchy's marvelous creation for "Sabrina" (1954)

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

In preparing for Pulp Fiction, Christopher Walken practised reading children's stories...
"Hello little man." #Christoperwalken #threelittlepigs #pulpfiction

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN reads The Three Little Pigs in classic Walken style. Terrifying.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

It feels like the camera is sliding us along from one element of the song to the next. #creation #music #roll

[𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢’𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚕 @SalvadorDafti]

The Stones coaxing an early version of Sympathy for the Devil into shape, as Jean-Luc Godard captures proceedings on camera. A fascinating look into a song being built.

Olympic Studios. 1968.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Spider Show Dance! Nature is beautiful. 🥰 #nature #spiders

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Courtship dance of a peacock spider
https://t.co/rgBG3YqZaB

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

How did the first crow figure this out? #crows #birds

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

#DidYouKnow 🤔?

When a Crow feels sick, it goes to an Ant nest and deliberately disturbs it. This is called 'anting'. The Ants get angry and start climbing on the Crow. But the Crow doesn't move. It stays still with its wings open. The Ants then spray formic acid on the Crow. This acid helps remove germs and fungi, like a natural medicine.

After this, the crow feels better. So Smart! 🐦‍⬛

🎦 Credit: Damn That’s Interesting.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Happy birthday Jane Austin. 250 years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. #Emma #JaneAusten250

[ً @pandparchive]

on this day in 1775, marked the birth of jane austen. happy 250th birthday to the eternal literary icon!

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

How often is doing nothing the right course of action? How often do we miss moments of accidental brilliance? #life

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

David Bowie promotional photo for Diamond Dogs, 1974. Photo by Terry O'Neill. The dog was initially calm, but every time the strobe light flashed, it would bark and leap toward the light. While everyone else in the studio ran for cover, Bowie remained seated and completely unfazed, creating the famous contrast captured in the image.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Her eyes are mesmerising. Very unsettling and very beautiful. #portraitphotography #portrait #blackandwhitephotography

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum]

Man Ray’s portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati is emblematic of the transitional period between Dada and Surrealism, the experimental mouvement flou-flou (“blurry” or “out of focus”).

The effect wasn’t intentional. A short circuit in the studio lights and Casati’s refusal to stay still blurred the image—an accident she adored, insisting it “portrayed her soul.”

See this and more in “Man Ray: When Objects Dream,” on view through February 1, tracing his radical innovations across the 1910s and 1920s.
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📸: Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris), "Marchesa Luisa Casati," ca. 1922, Gelatin silver print. © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

life's illusions... This photo is stunning. #jonimitchell

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Joni Mitchell, singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet, genius... and skater #WomensArt❄️
(Photo by J. Bernstein)

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

I love these moments at a concert. And I love this song. Magic. #Wishyouwerehere #DavidGilmour

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

50,000 people singing along to “Wish You Were Here” with David Gilmour in São Paulo, Brazil, 2015.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Dancing for eternity. ❤️#moviemagic #ballroomdancing

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth dance to the tune of “I’m Old-Fashioned” in the 1942 Columbia musical “You Were Never Lovelier”.

[Ellen McCarthy @EMcCarthyWriter]

Little dude #thebiglebowski

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

A great snap of Lloyd Bridges with his son, Jeff.