Saturday night watch-party was 'Scoob!' (2020) negative reviews delayed us getting to this - but we found it thoroughly enjoyable - yes, 3D CG #animation didn't quite feel right to begin with & some character dynamics didn't quite scan, but we laughed a lot & got invested in the story...

Been down the beach today? 🌞 view of Porthcawl's Trecco Bay lookout tower & North Devon on the horizon, just visible in the hot & hazy distance... #landscape #photography from #Cymru #Wales

We've thrown open the floodgates 🌊 #writers - please consider contributing to Signifier #artists - please consider showcasing your #art with us submission guidelines 👁️ medium.com/signifier/si... #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #photography #drawing #painting #FolkArt #writing #ContemporaryArt

...reminds me very much of the wonderfully poetic MV for 'Painting' by #Yaorenmao😻 (aka Ririchiyo the #BitingCat) with a similar emotive narrative - an all-time fave for me... 🧸 #咬人猫Yaorenmao 🏮 #咬人猫 💗 丹青 🎶 youtu.be/j5LwsbcmDro?... #China #Mandarin #music

Loving this short, simple & beautiful cinematic MV for a short version of Yin Lin's 'Pear Blossom & Snow' listen to full song via DreamerMusic official🍇 youtu.be/mx2ZIbVeOCY?... #银临 × 小卡 🎶 youtu.be/tNi4nnUZuOM?... #music #China

finally finished ranking my batch of #CardiffMiniFilmFestival entries 🤞 good luck to all who entered 🎥 simply completing & submitting is an achievement worth celebrating 📽️ handful of memorable gems among so many 'Black Mirror' pastiche & #Zombies (with one stand-out among those) #horror #movies

#RemyReviews 'The Dark Crystal' (1982) • new 4K UHD + #Bluray from All the Anime "...an unusual film, it’s stood the test of time & looks as amazing as it ever did & just as quirky ... immersive magical world-building" my extended #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 💎 medium.com/framerated/t...

for our Friday Night Feature in honour of Sam Neill we enjoyed his brilliant performance in John Carpenter's Lovecraftian #horror 'In the Mouth of Madness' (1994) - long time since I last watched & it was even better than I remembered - reconfirmed as one of my all-time favourites

Yin Lin sings 'Ballad of Jinling' (Tureleon x Ban An) with MV shot during her visit to Jinling... her silver-smooth voice & instrumentation make me feel like I've just watched a top-quality C-Drama #银临 🎶 youtu.be/eMkwQ24bwlo?... #music #Mandarin

Return to Thra in stunning high definition! 🌟 @remydean.bsky.social’s review of Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 puppet masterpiece, THE DARK CRYSTAL, is here. If you think you know this fantasy classic, wait until you see the detail on the new Blu-ray. www.framerated.co.uk/dark-crystal...

now watching 💥 DIR EN GREY 💀 LIVESTREAM 5 DAYS 🥀 playlists compiled from live sets chosen by each member premiering on their official YouTube channel - final week selected by Kyo🖤 these are pure magnificence 🤯 🎶 youtu.be/AYuk5TmKvVs?... #music available after the premiere until Thursday ▼

A delight to say I’ve written an essay for Arrow’s new 4K edition of 50s SF classic Forbidden Planet. Glad to see I’m on booklet duties with lovely @johnnymains.co.uk. Thanks again to @neilsnowdon.bsky.social for asking me to write about one of my favourite films. www.arrowfilms.com/p/4k/forbidd...

baked Ogmore 🌞 ruins of a castle built in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest as they attempted to push on into Wales - first built in the early C12th, improved & fortified for the next 300 years - originally its deep mote was replenished daily from the tidal river - hot #history research visit...

10 never released & now remastered #DavidBowie songs, with band featuring Jimmy Page on guitar, recorded with producer Shel Talmy who signed the Manish Boys in Dec 1964 BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'I Want Your Love' 🎶 youtu.be/N6ex9-8XcOU?... #music - gets quite interesting about midway

enjoying DAMNED (no 'the') very much 🌸 they have mid-career Dir En Grey all over them... in a good way. Loving their epic-neuro-mantic-cyber-punk-goth-metal-VK-theatrics all the way 🖤 sure can play as well as pose ☠️ nice vocal textures, too... STAIN 🎶 youtu.be/44SDrR9Qu1M?... 🐦‍⬛ #music #JRock

🎁 the first 16 chapters (that's all of Book One) are all still available to read with a FREE subscription 🆓 threerealms.substack.com 📚 #booksky

🍃 👁️🖌️ 'The Dürer Tree' "Trees are a gauge of time passing ... at a multi-generational timescale..." @kimvertue.bsky.social finds #history & meaning in the shade of Dürer’s lovingly rendered Linden study 🌳 medium.com/signifier/th... #art #painting #ArtHistory #history #folklore #illustration

#RemyReviews Mario Bava's 'Kill, Baby... Kill!' (1966) • 60 years old! "...a suspenseful ghost story that sits just as comfortably alongside the psychological thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock as with Hammer's Gothic #horror..." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk🎞️ ⚪ medium.com/framerated/k...

💕 🧸 🐰 Nui-katsu #ぬい活 - trend in which #Japanese adults take our soft toys with us & photograph them in cafés & at travel destinations. @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores the history & background & explains, "they are ourselves, our friends, & our idols..." 🎀 medium.com/found-worlds... #kawaii

Yay, Adam Savage (Tested) concurs with me on Minoton! Here he gets up close with some iconic creatures created, sculpted & brought to life by Ray Harryhausen & my 5 Marvellous #Movie Moments with Mythical Monsters @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ medium.com/framerated/r... ▶️ youtu.be/2AzLzJKWJHc?...

RIP Sam Neill - versatile actor who imbued his performances with subtle humanity. Plus 'In the Mouth of Madness' is among my favourite horror films of all - one of the few to do the Lovecraftian mythos justice. ...here's Dan Perrin's personal tribute @framerated.co.uk🎞️ medium.com/framerated/r...

#RemyReviews Romolo Guerrieri’s 'The Double / La controfigura' (1971) "a psychological narrative that builds around various atmospheres instead of plot points or twists" read my #movie #review of @filmsradiance.bsky.social 4K #Bluray restoration @framerated.co.uk: 🏖️ medium.com/framerated/t...

...which reminds me of travels with Sparky when he was a plushie pup - seems I was practicing Nui-katsu before I knew it 💕 here's some pics from our trip to #Prague via remydean.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-tu... more about #ぬい活 via @foundworlds.bsky.social 🌏 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel #kawaii

STILFOLD creates industrial origami from sheet metal "A straight fold simply changes direction. A curved fold changes the physics — it places the metal into a balanced state of tension & compression, so the geometry carries the load instead of the mass" www.designboom.com/design/stilf... #design

we walk the forested #Moelwyns slopes nearly every day - here's one of our local shady lanes & in such hot'n'sunny, record-breaking heatwaves 🌞 "everybody wants one, a shady lane, everybody needs one"🎶 more of a breeze today... but temp set to climb🌡️ stay cool 😎 #landscape #photography from #Eryri

Saturday watch-party was: 'The Sheep Detectives' I thoroughly enjoyed its well-constructed whodunit plus the sheep worldview & mythos reminded me of what 'Watership Down' did for rabbits. Jack Heslop's balanced #review @framerated.co.uk 🐏 medium.com/framerated/t... youtu.be/pyZI5oM6hWk?...

💚 🍃 🌳 #ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel Chapter 18: The Greenwood “…& what eyes he had! From beneath a heavy brow of shaggy moss, his eyes shone bright & clear, as if lit from within. They were green. The greenest green imaginable.” 🪲 substack.com/@remydean/p-... 📗 #booksky #fantasy #folklore 🐉

4 years on... & still loving this masterpiece of Panmedia Pop #Art from the ingenious, inimitable & mercurial #Yaorenmao 🐰 #咬人猫 🧸 #宅舞 💎

Bayeux Tapestry arrived at British Museum #exhibition 10 Sept 2026 – 11 July 2027 info: www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/... Seeing this epic visual narrative in its Bayeux Museum was memorable - recommended if you can get a ticket 🎟️ later this year BBC report 🏹 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DIR EN GREY 💀 LIVESTREAM 5 DAYS 🥀 playlists compiled from live sets chosen by each member premiering on their official YouTube channel - week 4 selected by Shinya🖤 ICYMI 🎶 youtu.be/czwPZll9TUA?... #music available after the premiere until Thursday ▼

💥👁️‍🗨️⚡ 'The Methods I Used to Survive 10 Years of Weekly Deadlines' by #Japanese #manga #artist Kazuki Yamamoto (山本航暉） "...by the time the final chapter ran, I had drawn over 10,000 pages across 62 volumes — every single one of them in ink, by hand." 📚 medium.com/found-worlds... #イラスト #illustration

💀 Only on Medium, @remydean.bsky.social Ranked his favourite Ray Harryhausen monsters to mark 106 years since he was born. 🗡️ 🐍 medium.com/framerated/r...

🏚️ 🩸 🏛️ 'When Brit Art was the ‘It’ Art' @remydean.bsky.social remembers when, suddenly, in the final decade of the C20th, #art in Britain became vitally important again & considers a few high-profile pieces that became emblematic of the movement 🦈 medium.com/signifier/wh... #ArtHistory #culture

Will I watch a football drama? ...I think so! Esther Yu Shuxin #虞书欣 ✨ stars in #灿如繁星 ('As Bright As The Stars' aka 'Road to Success') warning ⚠️ extended trailer contains spoilers (hope I forget before I get round to viewing...) ⚽ youtu.be/jIJCNn73bhg?...

😻 Yay 🥪 Chirpy! 🥜

more hearty fridge leftovers weekend brunches: 🌶️ refried gochujang chickpea curry with ribbon-cut egg-roll 'noodles' - a great 'kick-start' with spicy fire & slow carbs 🧀 leek & cauliflower cheese - a comfort food all-purpose fix: cover it with cheese sauce & grill #cooking #food #vegetarian

🌟次回の出展イベントは7月26日(日) スプラス5周年感謝展です。 似顔絵ワークショップもします🙇‍♀️ nanaekawahara.blogspot.com/2026/06/even... #illustration #イラスト

🛸 30 years ago, Roland Emmerich gave us INDEPENDENCE DAY. But how does the 1996 alien invasion blockbuster hold up decades later? @danowen.bsky.social looked back at the VFX, Will Smith’s star-making charisma, and that iconic presidential speech. www.framerated.co.uk/independence...

YUI has been adding classic back catalogue to her official YouTube - gearing up for a slight return? Or simply generous with the new nostalgia... 『again』🎶 youtu.be/S2IOrt-n2fc?... #JPop #music

#art + #folklore + #dogs Titan & Mary were among the first batch of Cicorc I made. They were 'discovered' as part of a residency more than 10 years ago... 🐕 medium.com/@remydean/ci...

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed BULLET IN THE HEAD from @arrowvideo.bsky.social medium.com/framerated/b...

Justin Richards RIP (1961-2026) #DoctorWho Author 💙💙➕📚

Well, that week went by... it's Friday once again! 💥 for 5 consecutive weeks, DIR EN GREY are holding LIVESTREAM 5 DAYS - playlists compiled from live sets chosen by each member premiering on their official YouTube channel - week 3 is underway selected by Toshiya🖤 🎶 youtu.be/QjUB1JrGD0I?... #music

#RemyReviews 2 classics from #Japan released OTD my #movie #reviews @framerated.co.uk Tai Katô's 'The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost' (1961) • 65 years old 🏮 medium.com/framerated/t... Tokuzô Tanaka's 'The Betrayal' (1966) • 60 years old ⚔️ medium.com/framerated/t... #Japanese #horror #cinema #history

+ #RemyReviews 'Clash of the Titans' (1981) • released OTD 45 years ago "As Ray Harryhausen’s last cinematic extravaganza, it remains a fitting showcase to celebrate his signature stop-frame magic..." my #movie #rview @framerated.co.uk🎞️ 🐍 medium.com/framerated/c...

#RemyReviews 'The Andromeda Strain' (1971) • released 55 years ago "...slow build of intense suspense ... to a great ‘nerve-shredding’ final act ... Robert Wise is perhaps the most underrated of the truly great directors." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk🎞️ 🦠 medium.com/framerated/t...

"All the chairs mentioned in this article, the №14, the Ant, the №7 & those of Charles and Ray Eames are all still available today, either as expensive artisan replicas or in mass-produced versions." 'Bent into Shape: Arne Jacobsen's Ant Chair' by @remydean.bsky.social 🐜 medium.com/signifier/be...

WIP: overhauling my creaky old website - adding a few more project galleries & pages - trying for a cleaner, easier navigation - do have a look & if you find anything you like, please share it 🫶 remydean.blogspot.com #art #fiction #photography #books #booksky

Thank you @arrowvideo.bsky.social for my comp copy of Soylent Green. Very happy with the booklet and how my essay is laid out with the images. Rewatched the film last night and, heck, Eddie Robinson made me cry again! Such a lovely performance and swan song. Added a few words here: boxd.it/f1yv4P