It might be the wine, but I am moved and staggered by people’s generosity, helping me rase nearly £900 for my charity 26 mile walk I am doing on Saturday. Absolutley blown away. That said, any more would be incredible ❤️ www.justgiving.com/page/adamske...

More ears. Interesting how the ear grows over the decades. Your nose too, never stops growing.

Ears

#Film89ShotOfTheDay No.3175 Unfaithful (2002) Director: Adrian Lyne Cinematographer: Peter Biziou

Three Studies of Rock Hudson II Collage, Post-Processed 2026

This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

Three Studies of Rock Hudson II Collage, Post-Processed 2026

Bollocks. The most hostile, racist and xenophobic Home Secretary for years, and that was a low benchmark, stays in post. So, Burnham still planning on his government promoting Reform then it seems, at least on immigration. That worked well for his predecessor.

Today marks 17 years of Dark Entries Records, what a journey this has been! Grateful to still be here, sharing music we love ❤️ Thank you for the support that keeps us going. Extra special love to all the talented artists we’ve been fortunate to work with 💕

Great shame about Keegan. My stepfather was a NUFC season ticket holder and adored the man. Probably the only person he was ever starstruck by and he wasn’t easily impressed. Tyneside will be very sombre today- he’s probably second only to Bobby Robson in black and white affections.

I am haunted by obsessive disorder which I must excise whenever it visits. It usually takes the form of counting but when I get a song stuck in my head, I have to listen to it over and over again to get rid of it. This morning I woke up with an Anastasia song going around in there. Kill me.

I rarely think about Sirk when thinking about films that I revisit obsessively- I’m a man of simple tastes so it’s Robocop, Once Upon a Time in the West/America, Cleopatra, Doctor Zhivago- but this has to be in there. Now watching. Because I have to be up in five hours so of course…

New From Us on That '70s Movie Podcast: Night Moves!!!! Tune in to hear my avalanche of praise for this New Hollywood landmark . . . open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Failing chanteuse Marian Washburn (Maureen O'Hara) admits to shooting her friend, successful vocalist Susan Caldwell (Gloria Grahame). Her manager, Luke Jordan (Melvyn Douglas), and Police Insp. Jim Fowler (Jay C. Flippen) doubt her story. "A Woman's Secret" (1949) #filmnoir

Fuck yeah

LOVE and celebrations at the World Cup final in New Jersey while the host country and its allies bomb children in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon.

This is an important change in policy from the current authoritarian regime. VPNs have mitigated the damage caused by the pathetic online safety act, and hand some power back to users. Keep government and age verification out of our online spaces.

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

Vicariously enjoying the football just from the angry bluesky posts

Im surprised Madonna didnt get a bigger reaction from the Argentinian crowd considering that goal she scored against England with her hand in 86

Isn’t the point that the dialogue in some films is supposed to be incomprehensible in situations where it would be, so as to recreate an experience, to further immerse you? As somebody who lives with a measure of deafness perhaps it doesn’t bother me as much as it does others.

The More I See 2024 Ukraine/Gaza/Desensitisation/Apathy The more I see, the less I scream.

Liz 2024 When I opened my studio five years ago my first large format picture was of Richard Burton, which @mrenglish.bsky.social and his spectacular wife bought. This changed my life. So when Andy turned 30 a couple of years ago, I knew what had to be done. Silver leaf on OSB board is 👌🏽

Terry Hall 2023 When my family spectacularly imploded in the 90s, ‘Home’ was an immense comfort. When I later heard him talk candidly about his health I felt his compassion reverberate through me. This painting is not good, but it was the best I could muster at the time. I cried when Terry died.

Looking at the work you made yesterday once the thrill of making has died back can sometimes cause you to question your judgement; ‘how the hell did I ever think *this* would fly?’. But I’m pleased with yesterday- two out of three pieces ain’t bad. I have made nothing today yet, for shame.

Farage has made porn? I suppose if you’re going to do it you don’t want to soil your own carpets.

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

Study of a Dog https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/study-of-a-dog-1952

It’s gggggggrrrrrreeeeeeaaaaaattttttttttttttt.

I wonder how many AI bros are asking chat gpt to summarise Homer, saying they’ve read ‘the book’, and then claiming it’s better than the film just so that they can own the libs who dared enjoy a film that features a black woman in a role they think should be preserved for an aryan princess.

It's weird that an army of guys who never leave their houses deciding to boycott a movie didn't have more of an effect.

We urgently need enforced disclosure of AI usage in TV shows & other media. These AI models use stolen work to displace human labour. It is reasonable to demand disclosures that let you avoid media made with them. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Librarians are being criminalised for refusing to bend to the political will of the fascism and Christian nationalism that seeks to erase LGBT+ and PoC narratives in the USA. It makes a mockery of the first amendment. “They don’t have to burn the books they just remove them”. Highly recommended.

Impeccable taste. Connery and Bacon.

Making things is a kind of madness, really, to build your own version of the world around you instead of living in it.

Jon Savage argues that the foundational aesthetic of pop culture is intertwined with gay identity. True. I’d go one further than that, in that all post enlightenment art movements can be traced back to those whose talent was incubated in homosexual subcultures. (After Jeremy Deller)

When art is relegated to the hinterland of our culture, and acceptance is not absolute, its eventual discovery is always a revelation. This is how your friends and neighbours live, and it’s narrative with a velocity that cannot be ignored. Put it on billboards www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Finally, after eight months of dashed hopes, locked in on a new studio today. If you’d like to support what I do in phase two and- more importantly- the exciting work I have planned, you can follow me on insta @christopherjamespainter or buy a print from christopherjamesart.bigcartel.com

If you’re wondering who did that wonderful cut up it’s the same undiscovered genius who did the cover to the novel @jameschristopher.bsky.social

Connery by @www.johnbleasdale.com is available here. I’d also recommend the audio read by the peerless @caiross.bsky.social Cover painting by me. Prints at christopherjamescreativestudio.com plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

If you haven’t read John’s novel, get some of this good medicine down your neck. Then buy it. The book’s brilliant, and I’ve heard the cover is good too.

Artistic practice does not have to be elevated to the philosophical to have merit. Sometimes a fuck is just a fuck, not love, and sometimes a square is just a square. The act of painting in itself has a level of profundity that need not be explained, or cannot. It just is. And it’s sorcery.

No Manifesto, only truth.

Think of all of the chance and happenstance, the stars that collapsed to provide the material for your existence. The chances of you then becoming an artist are so slim. That all had to occur to get you to this point, before you apply the paint to your canvas. It’s a miracle. You make miracles.

Sam Neill also co-directed (with Judy Rymer) this great film about NZ cinema

Sad news. One of the good souls. It’ll have to be The Omen III tonight, in glorious tribute. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

That was great tennis

Badlands Transparency Print Collage 2026