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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️
@remydean.bsky.social
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Author + Artist

'This, That, and The Other' novels 📚 written with Zel Cariad

find me on Medium ➡️ https://remydean.medium.com/

linktree 🌐 https://linktr.ee/remydean

interests include film & TV, art & music, science & fantasy, 咬人猫 & 宅舞
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'My Name is Julia Ross' (1945) at 80 years old!

"a cleverly constructed mystery thriller with inventive twists that are hard to predict & a distinctive visual flair that falls somewhere between Gothic & Noir"

my classic #movie #review @framerated.co.uk
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four black and white film stills: Nina Foch is threatened by a sinister shadow; Marilyn Johnson as the nurse is spookily underlit and staring; a 1940s styled man and woman in an open-topped car; Dame May Witty as the elder Mrs Hughes in the garden of an imposing house.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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...
David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton wearing a fedora and looking pensive in the closing scenes of the film 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976)
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I have fond memories of the old Cairo Museum of Egyptology in all its part-uncatalogued cluttered glory but the newly opened Grand #Egyptian Museum looks impressively spacious as the largest dedicated to a single #culture

via DesignBoom 🌴 www.designboom.com/architecture...

#art & #archaeology
four photographs by Iwan Baan: the exterior of the huge building in glaring sunshine through palm trees; the vast main hall with its angled architecture by Heneghan Peng; another hall with large display cases containing artefacts; a set of very wide steps with a group of large, throned stone figures.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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'Sana' (2023) + 'Sana: Let Me Hear' (2024)

Takashi Shimizu's compelling new #JHorror #GhostStory duology fits a subgenre featuring infectious media where an intangible image or sound can possess people

read my #horror #movie #review @framerated.co.uk
👻 medium.com/framerated/s...
four film stills: Nagisa Shibuya as Miss Kimijima looking perplexed with blood on her fingers; Tomoko Hoshi as Sana Takaya grinning in the darkness under a duvet; Alan Shirahama and Makita Sports as Tsugutoshi Gonda looking horrified by something we can't see; a classroom with Hayase Ikoi as Hitomi & Tomoko Hoshi in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Just listened to JODRELL BANK AT 80 from Radio 4 (now on BBC Sounds).
This is a *wonderful* prog celebrating JB & Bernard Lovell, with fab interviews & archive stuff.
Hannah Peel is a great presenter, suitably awestruck by the telescope, & her specially-written piece is hauntingly beautiful...
Archive on 4 - Jodrell Bank at 80 - BBC Sounds
Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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おねだり🍪🐶
#illustration #イラスト #sketch
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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enjoyed 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' - a fresh, retro-futurist take on an alternative #MCU. World-building & characterisation perhaps a little rushed but also effective. Lovely production design.

I concur with @danowen.bsky.social's #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🚀 medium.com/framerated/t...
The Fantastic Four: First Steps — family interplay and retro-futurism fuel refreshing superheroism
Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a space god.
medium.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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“Excuse Me, But Where Do You Come From?”

#art by Victoria Si Wah Dong was our November 2022
#exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery :

6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie...

#ContemporaryArt #illustration #printmaking #weaving
art by Victoria Si Wah Dong - a colourful collage of woven paper, uncontained by a frame with irregular border elements of photography and text can also be seen among the bright lines, curves and chequer patterns
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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always excited to hear new Skindred
...never let down, always elevated 💥

You Got This 🎶 youtu.be/PwNnlNnu3s8?... #music
Skindred - You Got This (Official Video)
YouTube video by Earache Records
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November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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fun read with an added kick of nostalgia 👻
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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weekend watch-party lined-up tonight🍿
🤔 this... or 'Fantastic Four: First Steps'?
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"Wouldn't have minded seeing an owl."

That time of year draws near & November's 'Birds of the Month' @rspb.bsky.social are a trio of owls & a trio of geese who may be getting fat...

🦉 www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...
photograph via RSPB of a Short-eared Owl looking toward camera resting on snowy ground - with a striking face pattern of white, pale browns, grey with yellow eyes
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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#RemyReviews

'Sana' (2023) + 'Sana: Let Me Hear' (2024)

Takashi Shimizu's compelling new #JHorror #GhostStory duology fits a subgenre featuring infectious media where an intangible image or sound can possess people

read my #horror #movie #review @framerated.co.uk
👻 medium.com/framerated/s...
four film stills: Nagisa Shibuya as Miss Kimijima looking perplexed with blood on her fingers; Tomoko Hoshi as Sana Takaya grinning in the darkness under a duvet; Alan Shirahama and Makita Sports as Tsugutoshi Gonda looking horrified by something we can't see; a classroom with Hayase Ikoi as Hitomi & Tomoko Hoshi in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Introduce yourself with:

One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺

so, for today, these...
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#RemyReviews

'RoboCop' (1987)

"...'I like violence in movies,' said Paul Verhoeven as he warmed to what he realised was a mythological narrative of rebirth followed by the struggle between good & evil for possession of a soul."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: three of the villains Jesse D Goins as Joe, Kurtwood Smith as Clarence, & Ray Wise as Leon; night scene of RoboCob viewed from a low angle as he strides toward camera with his police car in the background; the heavily armed robot enforcer 'Ed 209' presented by Ronny Cox as Jones; Peter Weller as RoboCop with his visor removed.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed SANA + SANA: LET ME HEAR medium.com/framerated/s...
Sana + Sana: Let Me Hear — compelling ghost stories from a J-Horror sensei
A band discover a mysterious cassette tape containing only a simple melody, which comes with sinister consequences for those who hear it…
medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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'Go Round' 💞 new song & MV from Kizuna Ai x Daoko

🎶 youtu.be/AbImHCMJNfE?...

'What the Future Sounds Like: the #JPop #Art of #HatsuneMiku & #KizunaAI' is a longish article I wrote @signifier.bsky.social

💗 medium.com/signifier/wh...
KizunaAI「Go Round（feat.Daoko）」Official Music Video
YouTube video by KizunaAI - A.I.Channel
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November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Yaorenmao😿 Perfume🥹 on extended hiatus❤️‍🩹
while waiting quietly 🌸 we cherish all they gave

🌸 good news 😃 #KPP 💗 back in full FX 🎉
youtu.be/vTCz2QkwMUM?...
Genjitsu-Touhi
YouTube video by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Topic
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November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Mark Ryden's recent print 'Creatura' is less disturbing & more enigmatic than many of his works, like a glimpse into a magical glade where secret wisdom may be gleaned. Reminiscent of a search & find #illustration: Granny Grey, Moths, Bees, Desert Rain Frog, Fungi, Bacteriophage... Love this one 🔍
image via HiFructose - https://hifructose.com/2025/10/07/mark-ryden-x-creatura/ - a large black cat-dog creature with a wise inscrutable expression dominates the left of the image with a similarly pensive and wise looking young girl kneeling beside a big eyed kawaii beast - the image is packed with tiny creatures such as a miniature elephant and stag, a huge snail and a bacteriophage, owls, moths, bees, platonic solids, fungi - feels like a glimpse into a secret magical glade.
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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🔥 🧨 🎆

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
the woodblock print 'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' in which a silhouetted crown watch falling fireworks by lantern light, reflected n an expanse of water
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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while we wait for new material from #Yaorenmao 🧸 #咬人貓 (aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat) this seemingly legit channel shares some livestream highlights ✨ like an impromptu cover of Lala Hsu's 'Riding a White Horse' 身騎白馬 - entrancing as ever 💗 (in Mandarin)

🎶 youtu.be/El5uY18gp2Y?... #music
【咬人貓】身騎白馬 20250329直播 [Yaorenmao Channel]@Yaorenmao
YouTube video by -Mingxian-
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November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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light review of Patti Smith's new memoir, 'Bread of Angels' & an overview of her hugely influential career

BBC 🐎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#music #art #poetry
Trailblazer Patti Smith on influencing artists like Taylor Swift
Patti Smith's new memoir is about love, pain, her musical journey and discovering her true identity.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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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
abstract painting by Howard Hodgkin called 'Night and Day' (1997-1999) is a frame in vivid green and yellow around a swathe of deep blue across orange...
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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John Woo's 'Face/Off' (1997) • 28 Years Later

"...we’re in on the joke & consciously assess how 'Nicolas' Travolta is, & just how 'Cage' John will become. Their infectious exuberance is central to the film’s appeal."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: John Travolta and Nicholas Cage grapple with each other whole holding guns; they are in freefall as a speed boat flies through the air behind them; Dominique Swain chats on the telephone while relaxing in her underwear; a copy of John Travolta's face is backlit in a glowing 'dish'.
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Richard Long’s #landscape #art is the land itself

@remydean.bsky.social shares a long walk through some of the ground-breaking artist's oeuvre that spans the globe in distance & could also be interpreted as spanning a timeline of geological epochs

〰️ medium.com/signifier/a-...
two black and white photographs of expansive barren landscapes with large geological features in the distance and subtly altered terrain in the foreground: in the left image, stones have been moved to form a paler, clearer, circular area and in the right image, a darker, wavy line has been produced by repeatedly walking in a sandy looking plain.
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM