🎙️ my 2025 in review 📻 shout-out to the 2 podcasts I've dipped into most often this year: The Lydian Spin 🕷️ lydianspin.libsyn.com @vampirevideos.co.uk 🩸 www.vampirevideos.co.uk 🔽 Lydia Lunch photograph by Darla Teagarden @darlateagarden.bsky.social via The Quietus thequietus.com/interviews/b...

📖 🛶 🐈 I learnt a few new words from this excellent article by @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social about artist-illustrator Edward Gorey. One of them was 'ailurophilia'. an ideal read for #Caturday via @signifier.bsky.social 🐾 medium.com/signifier/mi... #illustration #イラスト #art #ArtHistory #BookSky

#RemyReviews 'Perfect Blue' (1997) - flawlessly crafted thriller dissects selfhood "...a superbly intricate plot where everything falls into logical place during the final act" my #anime #review of @alltheanime.com's new restored 4K UHD & #Bluray @framerated.co.uk ▶️ medium.com/framerated/p...

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed PERFECT BLUE on 4K Ultra HD medium.com/framerated/p...

My head is buried in a new book by fellow BlueSky user @robgotobed.bsky.social! I just received my new book and I’m excited to laugh out loud. #booksky 💙📚

Spent the morning making tapes.* * Using old cassettes to make cyanotypes while listening to the local college radio station which is playing Eno, Patti Smith, Wire, The Fall, Chameleons, Mission of Burma, so hello, from 1983, the apocalypse is fine. #CyanoTapes

87/365, 88/365, 89/365, 90/365

A drunken boater struck three people who were swimming in a North Carolina lake over the weekend, killing a 10-year-old girl and critically injuring a woman, the authorities said.

"THE HEART OF THE SPRING / William Butler Yeats Translation by Ryunosuke Akutagawa" Collaboration with illustrator Honojirotoji.

"Surrealists thought of themselves as revolutionary & later went on to demand that art be ‘magical’ & should transcend both religion & politics... driven by the desire to make our private realities public… to make art that questioned & ultimately transcend 'reality'..." medium.com/signifier/do...

'Tarot: Origins & Afterlives' explores iconography & how artists, mystics & writers have transformed the cards. Frieda Harris paintings for Aleister Crowley’s 'Thoth' deck are a highlight of the Warburg Institute's #exhibition, till end of April 2025 booking info: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/tarot...

🔪 🎹 🪞 'Deep Red' (1975) • 50 Years Later — superbly crafted mystery & suspense in Dario Argento's absorbing & definitive #giallo read my retro #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🩸 medium.com/framerated/d... #Italian #film #horror #cinema #history

"THE HAPLESS CHILD / Edward Gorey" The girl in the story had a sad ending. However this work could also happen in real life, and similar incidents are happening in real life.... He may have been a journalist who communicated facts through the viewfinder of a picture book....

"THE EPIPLECTIC BICYCLE / Edward Gorey" This work is for the enjoyment of blank spaces. It's not only visual, so The key to the truth lurks in the connections between the stories. The fact that he doesn't say much and leaves us hanging is one of his greatest charms.

🎨 👻 🖌️ 'Happy in Hell' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social explores Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Memento Mori & how the ukiyo-e artist combatted uncertainty & the concept of death with creativity & humour… 💀 medium.com/signifier/ha... #art #ArtHistory #history #Japan #illustration #イラスト

⛩️👹🎎 new DEVILOOF #horror MV retells 'Ghost of Yotsuya' (I reviewed excellent 1959 film) & stars Tadanobu Asano from 'Shōgun' 2024 (I also reviewed) where he appears with Hiroyuki Sanada, star of 'Legend of the 8 Samurai' my latest review! Synchronicity! VIEWER DISCRETION 🎶 youtu.be/IxkJeoxZ0WM?...

4 classic horror manga that I love an you need to read right meow! what is your favorite horror manga? #booksy

Tender is the Flesh of THE LAMB. He is my BROTHER. The Eyes are the Best Part! . All 5 star books right here!

"The Doubtful Guest / Edward Gorey" It came to house one day out of the blue. It was an all-black, tapir-like creature with a trademark pointed nose and Converse sneakers. The family embraces this strange and mischievous creature. It’s a humorous work about symbiosis with the unknown.

"π (1998) / film director Darren Aronofsky" "The world is made up of numbers" Pythagoras, the sage of Samos, loved numerology. Mathematician Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is obsessed with the 216-digit number derived from pi. A masterpiece of madness along with Omen.

"The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey" A picture book filled with all the unreasonableness in the world. Extremely cruel and depressing moment of death, delicately depicted in only two colors, black and white. The most frightening part is that it could happen in real...

'Cruel Paintings by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social on Japan’s Last Ukiyo-e Master who loved yōkai all his life but what he wanted to convey was the mystery of human beings... medium.com/signifier/cr... #art #ArtHistory #Japan #イラスト #illustration #history

A 17-year-old Texas girl has been charged with animal cruelty after she killed another teenager’s goat by force-feeding it pesticide because she believed the goat’s keeper was a “cheater,” according to the authorities.

Thank you so much! It does quite kinky, but I'm proud of it... 😅

In August 1979, a reporter for The Associated Press broke the news that a “killer rabbit” had attacked President Jimmy Carter. It was a “throwaway story,” the reporter said, but one that took on a life of its own and became emblematic of the president’s problems at home and abroad.

'Hokusai’s Daughter — Apprentice to Master' @kimvertue.bsky.social tracks how the father-daughter duo became two of Japan’s greatest Ukiyo-e artists medium.com/signifier/ho... #Japan #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration #イラスト

"The Ring / Koji Suzuki” The origin of the strangen Sadako. Beautiful and fragile. The circumstances and bizarre fate of the lone her deified existence. A masterpiece of Japanese horror about the mechanism of the “curse"! Your image of her will surely be overturned...

⬇️ a sample of the crossover #art I mention in my #movie #review of 'Tomie' (1998) newly released @arrowvideo.bsky.social #Bluray🎀 via @framerated.co.uk : medium.com/framerated/t... #illustration #イラスト #horror #kawaii

love the arty collage MV to this beautiful song - vocals by Suis are always emotive, the lyrics are poignant, evocative yet speak of something ineffable, joyous, heartrending, hopeful, all at once (even in translation)💐 Yorushika 🎶 Sun 🌄 太陽 🦋 ヨルシカ youtu.be/Qgj3xHRlGr8?...

'Tomie' - Ataru Oikawa's 1998 live-action reworking of Junji Ito's seminal #manga is an unusual psychological J-horror with emotional complexity & sapphic undertones my #movie #review of the new #Bluray from Arrow Video @framerated.co.uk : medium.com/framerated/t... #Japan #horror #cinema

"Shibatarian / Katsuya Iwamuro” A must read for 80's horror lovers! The Japanese title of "The Return of the Living Dead," a film that is the antithesis of a conventional zombie film, is "Battalion.” From this Battalion, the buzzword "Obtalian" was even born.

@remydean.bsky.social reviewed J-Horror TOMIE on Arrow Video Blu-ray medium.com/framerated/t...

Tony Todd, a prolific actor whose more than 100 film and television credits included “Candyman” and “Final Destination,” died on Wednesday. He was 69.

Yorushika / n-buna - Aporia 🪂 animated MV 🎶i spirit of new NHK anime series 🪐 youtu.be/fhTFysCtF6g?...

" Yasha (夜者) / author Nahoya Kohno (河野那 歩也)" Vampires use their kin, but this Yasha one is different from them. He gives notice of his next target. so, to him this is a game. More like a gods than an ogre? How will the protagonist, given his power, face the xenomorph of unknown purpose?

'The Silent Plight of Joseph Beuys' @remydean.bsky.social recalls the intimate installation #art that has a memory of its own & comments on increasingly relevant global issues... medium.com/signifier/th...

'The Snow Woman / 怪談雪女郎' (1968) An absolutely beautiful, spooky, poetic, emotionally devastating horror movie - one of the excellent triple-bill presented in the Daiei Gothic boxset & I can think of no better #Halloween👻 viewing! My #movie #review @framerated.co.uk: medium.com/framerated/d...

'Cruel Paintings by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, Japan’s Last Ukiyo-e Master' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social explores the life and works of an artist who loved yōkai all his life, but what he wanted to convey was the mystery of human beings. medium.com/signifier/cr... #art #イラスト #illustration #ArtHistory

‘The Ghost of Oyuki & Her Twin' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social explains how ‘Hangonkō no Zu' & other Ghost Paintings by Ōkyo Maruyama templated the genre & defined ghosts in Japan… more ideal #Halloween reading 👻 medium.com/signifier/th... #Japan #イラスト #art #ArtHistory #illustration

'Ghosts in Words & Pictures' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social takes a peek inside ‘Ghost Story Picture Books’, the popular #Japanese illustrated #horror anthology ideal #Halloween reading👻 medium.com/signifier/gh... #Japan #イラスト #art #ArtHistory #horror #illustration

intense re-read of Junji Ito's inspired 'Tomie' collection over the weekend - she's inhumanly beautiful & seemingly evil but have her repeated experiences with humans & the pain they cause made her that way? Besides, she's not really a girl at all, more of an 'it' ...she's an 'it girl'🫀 #manga #イラスト

seminal street #art of Sari Dienes + writing on Japan's Ghost Story Picture Books, Kate Bush recalls Reich's Rainmaking machine, a radical Romantic #painting of people in peril, & animalising art + more! Our October 2024 Newsletter has dispatched! Are you Signified? medium.com/signifier/ma...

'Ghosts in the Words & Pictures' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social peeks into the world of Japan’s spooky picture #books through ‘Ghost Story Picture Books’ - the popular contemporary #horror anthology medium.com/signifier/gh... #illustration #イラスト #illustrations #folklore #ghosts #art #Japan

'History of Devil Drawings & the Subcultures of Japan' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social considers the changing face of gods & devils, culminating with the #illustrations of Kazuma Kaneko: medium.com/signifier/hi... #art #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #mythology #folklore #gaming #history #Japan

This month marked the beginning of Year Six for The Signifier. That's over five years of weekly updates of quality writing on #art, #design, & #media. Thank you so much to those who have been with us from the start & welcome to our new readers, there's plenty to catch-up on : medium.com/signifier

'Artistica!' #art by Bonnie Lautenberg was our August 2022 #exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery : 6️⃣ medium.com/signifier/si... #ContemporaryArt #cinama #movies #painting #photography

Available at our Medium publication, read @danowen.bsky.social’s review of ALIEN: ROMULUS medium.com/framerated/a...

Is he a pessimist or a romantic? I wrote an article about the work of Takeshi Kitano, one of Japan's leading film directors. If the article captures your interest why don't you read! medium.com/cinemania/sh...

'History of Devil Drawings and the Subcultures of Japan' @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social considers the changing face of gods and devils, culminating with the illustrations of Kazuma Kaneko medium.com/signifier/hi... #イラスト #illustration #manga #anime #art #ArtHistory