🌼 🌷 🏵️ 'Preserving Paradise' - how we can manipulate the environment to suit our aesthetics @kimvertue.bsky.social discusses Marc Quinn’s ‘The Garden’ & our eternal desire to capture & keep the essence of beauty. 🌻 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #flowers #landscape #sculpture

lovely short [14.min] film about local artist Falcon Hildred whose drawings & watercolours document the area in & around Blaenau Ffestiniog... with cameo appearance from fellow #artist Carole Shearman (we often meet them & chat on dog walks) ▶️ youtu.be/f2m2BK0PcCg?... #art #hustory

Hello World!👋 This is the Bluesky debut of 'Found Worlds' a Medium Publication for diverse writers & readers. Let's share our journey of discovery as we explore global culture, arts, languages, travel tales, histories & media - a search for knowledge, beauty & connection. medium.com/found-worlds

#butterflies #conservation Explore what makes each British butterfly unique, pick your favourite & help them take flight 🦋 you can learn & vote @savebutterflies.bsky.social until 7 June 🌼 britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk #illustration by Richard Lewington⬇️ www.richardlewington.co.uk

🪟 👗 📷 'Lady of Light' — a new fashion in photography @remydean.bsky.social on how Clementina, Lady Hawarden, forged her own genre to light the way for #fashion & fine #art #photography "In the mid-1800s, becoming a photographer was like joining a cult" 🪑 medium.com/signifier/la...

🐛 🏵️ 🦋 'Merian’s Metamorphosis: Discovering the Cycle of Life' @kimvertue.bsky.social takes a closer look at the #art & #science of C17th illustrator & pioneering entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian 🐜 medium.com/signifier/me... #art #illustration #イラスト #biology #botany #entomology #ArtHistory

At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.

Watching butterflies slows time - so why not take a break and notice their beauty 🦋 You can also let us know when you’ve seen a butterfly on the #SignsOfSpring survey: www.field-studies-council.org/signs-of-spr... In partnership with @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth

🪨 🧚‍♀️ 🐕 🏰 🧁 🐉 🦄 🔥 🛩️ #ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel 📚 🆓 free to subscribe for a limited period Chapter 11 published today! "You’ve seen that face, haven’t you! No way was I going into the woods on my own – at night – to say, ‘Hi,’ to that creepy thing!" threerealms.substack.com/p/wanted

🐣 💎 ❄️ 'Cracking Spring Bling!' @kimvertue.bsky.social tracks the success of Alma Pihl & her exquisite Fabergé #jewellery #design that grew out of #folklore to rank among the most coveted & costly creations craved by collectors 🥚 medium.com/signifier/cr... #art #history #WomensHistoryMonth

🪞 ✂️ 🕴️ revisiting this insightful article by @kimvertue.bsky.social about Frida Kahlo & some of her revelatory self portraits that challenge feminine stereotypes for #WomensHistoryMonth 🪑 medium.com/signifier/al... #art #ArtHistory #painting #illustration #Mexico

RIP Len Deighton - a great author & chef here's an archival interview from 2014 when he spoke to @kimvertue.bsky.social for our sister publication 'The Scrawl' 🖋️ medium.com/the-scrawl/l... #BookSky #writer #writing #fiction #movies

Rakiura is such a good mother - still compulsive viewing, especially on #MothersDay (UK)💕

'A Romance of the Little Forest' 两个人的小森林 (2022) is a feel-good, silly, cute, will-they-won't-they romcom. Esther Yu as a beauty-vlogger & Vin Zhang as a botany professor. Took a few episodes to settle into, now deeply immersed as regular ‘comfort food’ viewing. on Viki: www.viki.com/tv/38805c-a-...

'KPop Demon Hunters' sequel confirmed @netflix.com & you can read read my #review of the first #movie @framerated.co.uk 🎤 medium.com/framerated/k... via BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #KPopDemonHunters

"largely overlooked since her death, a major retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in 2023 helped to place Richier centre stage once more & acknowledge her #art" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Germaine Richier’s Hybrid Beauty & the human form in extremis ✝️ medium.com/signifier/ge... #WomensHistoryMonth

currently watching the rewarding Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest + fluff-lump chick! 🪶 www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2... #birds

🌹 🌷 🌺 'Mother of the American Modern' No one painted flowers quite like Georgia O’Keeffe. @kimvertue.bsky.social looks at some of the artist's early blooms & "a totally new approach to still life, one that merged realist elements with abstraction" 🌼 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #painting

👩‍🍼 🎨 🖌️ 'This Woman’s Work' Paintings by Berthe Morisot now command some of the highest prices at auction of any woman #artist, but @kimvertue.bsky.social discovers that it wasn’t always this way… 🖼️ medium.com/signifier/th... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history #WomensHistoryMonth

#RemyReviews 'Forbidden Planet' (1956) • 70 Years Later looking back on the development & legacy of the Shakespearean #scifi classic that brought the Golden Age to the screen & changed everything, maybe inspiring #StarTrek my retro #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🛸 medium.com/framerated/f...

📚 📖 🐦 for #WorldBookDay listen to Red Sparrow Writer Remy Dean re-tell a traditional #FairyTale from the #folklore of #Wales 🐕 it features #fairies🧚 & their magical #dogs 🐶 watch the video of @remydean.bsky.social reading from the epic #fantasy novel #ThisThatAndTheOther ⬇️

#RemyReviews John Boorman's excellent 'Excalibur' (1981) my #movie #review of the mythic epic masterpiece remastered @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K #Bluray & it's never looked better! "For it is the doom of men that they forget." @framerated.co.uk 🐲 medium.com/framerated/e...

🐇 🐇 🐇 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! It's a rainy St. David's Day in #Eryri but here's some golden sunshine on our local #Moelwyns woodlands with hope for a brighter future for all🍻

#ThisThatAndTheOther 🐲 my #WebNovel written with @zelcariad.bsky.social is publishing on #Substack, revised & improved as we go, so existent fans will find added value, especially as it's currently free to read & we'll be commenting on the #folklore behind the #fantasy 🦄 threerealms.substack.com

📐 ✏️ 🦋 the #mathematics & #architecture of natural beauty - an exploration of the Platonian ideal by #artist Rafael Araujo #interview & #art showcase via Autumn Salon: 🐚 www.theautumnsalon.com/aswritings/i...

'Leonardo da Vinci, the Way of Water' "water fascinated Leonardo & it’s believed his first #drawing was of water" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores how aesthetics & mechanics flow together in the work of the great Renaissance #artist who was Master of Water for Florence 💦 medium.com/signifier/le...

'What the Impressionists Saw' - the #art of making the private public & the unremarkable remarkable @kimvertue.bsky.social selects three #paintings of women to explore the interconnectivity & shared influences of the Impressionists 🎨 medium.com/signifier/wh...

Kaguya & Tsukimi Yachiyo 🌼 'Ray' from 'Cosmic Princess Kaguya!' MV cleverly continues a few core story threads 🐙 read my #anime #movie #review @framerated.co.uk ❣️ medium.com/framerated/c... かぐや (夏吉ゆうこ) x 月見ヤチヨ (早見沙織) #超かぐや姫 ❗ youtu.be/356MRZ6P5h0?... #アニメ #music #JPop

🌿 🌼 🍀 "Have you ever sat in the grass of a summer meadow, perhaps as a child, to make a daisy chain, or to examine a cricket singing? Only to be mesmerised by the many plants & flowers flourishing together at your feet?" 🌱 medium.com/signifier/to... #art #ArtHistory #botany #illustration

Selected #art writing from the Signifier team: transgressive stained glass, mothers' love, still life, living life long, ghosts, #illustration, collage, #kawaii culture & Remy on Remy + more! Our Winter #Solstice 2025 🎄 Newsletter has dispatched! Are you Signified? medium.com/signifier/a-...

👁️ 👁️ 👁️ standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny) #landscape #photography from #Eryri #Moelwyns #folklore

“Creatures” #art by Zel Cariad was our December 2023 #exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery : 6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie... #ContemporaryArt #animals #folklore #illustration #イラスト

'A Relic for Kazimir Malevich' (new work photograph ©2025) #art #photography

the Vale taking delivery of our 1st instalment of winter with a light dusting of snow on the #Moelwyns peaks & temperatures more like the average for mid-November bright'n'fresh'n'bracing at 8:30 a.m ⛰️ #landscape #photography from #Eryri

Remy has written about Gustav Klimt's tree #paintngs 🌳 medium.com/signifier/kl... ...& the iconic poster favourite, 'The Kiss' 😘 medium.com/signifier/th... #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration

the #fungi fiesta in our local woods reaching its finale 🍄 with a variety of mushrooms recycling deadwood & bringing new life

"unusual for a woman to make it as an artist at that time but her own father said that she painted beauties more skilfully than himself ... he was Katsushika Hokusai" 'Hokusai’s Daughter' by @kimvertue.bsky.social 🏮 medium.com/signifier/ho... #Japan #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration #イラスト

Claude Monet #BOTD 1840 Once reviled, now revered, his famous #paintings of Water Lilies reflect on the tragedy of war, express a hope for peace, & celebrate the joy of creation 🖌️ @kimvertue.bsky.social looks beyond the surface of Monet’s Final Masterworks of #art 🪷 medium.com/signifier/fo...

glad to see 'The War Between Land & Sea' miniseries has been rescheduled back to this year - starts 7 December, BBC1 - not quite the Christmas Special we're used to but something to help fill the #DoctorWho gap... still not sure about the new 'Sea Devils' 🌊 www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea... ⛰️

Illumined Thinking — Bright Ideas from the Bauhaus @remydean.bsky.social remembers the first product from the Bauhaus as a sort of introduction, in itself, to what the influential design school were all about... 💡 medium.com/signifier/il... #art #design #history #ArtHistory

#RemyReviews 'Shogun’s Samurai' aka 'The Yagyū Clan Conspiracy' (1978) Kinji Fukasaku's impossibly intricate & enthralling 'Shadow History' saga of devious samurai powerplay my #movie #review of the newly restored #Bluray @framerated.co.uk ⚔️ medium.com/framerated/s... #Japan #cinema #history

Are Ziggy Stardust & Thomas Jerome Newton the same person? Such parallels landed David Bowie a starring role in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976) @remydean.bsky.social discusses how two iconic personae fused multimedia fictions in a Pop Art cycle of creative feedback ⚡ medium.com/signifier/wh...

‘Tis the season for #DarkMatter 🎃 Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek highlights Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns in the ATLAS Control Room. One pumpkin features a schematic of the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, and the other a dark-matter candidate event display.

🖼️ 🫟 🪟 A Small Thing But My Own @kimvertue.bsky.social looks back on the technicolour emotions of Howard Hodgkin & how daubs of vivid colour & elusive forms represent intangible feelings about solid reality 💎 medium.com/signifier/a-... #art #painting #ArtHistory #illustration #GraphicDesign

🔥 🧨 🎆 remember. remember... 'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' learn about the artist's 'Road to Fame' in our article by @kimvertue.bsky.social 💥 medium.com/signifier/hi... #art #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #fireworks

...it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods🍄 a couple more 'architectural' mushrooms

💀 🦇 👻 & another classic go-to #horror #movie for #Halloween🏰 'Catacombs' (1988) "promises everything one expects from #classic #Italian horror in the style of Bava, Fulci & Argento..." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🕸️ medium.com/framerated/c...

cool group photo & I urge any of my pals 'down under' to catch the tour if it comes to a venue near you 🎶

Just scraped in with my last few ratings before Halloween deadline & as usual, some great short films this year🎬 I look forward to seeing if the judging panel agree with my recommendations again 👻 Notifications go out 30th November so, best of luck to all who submitted their Twisted mini-movies 🙀