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Captain Howdy
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Occasional maker of pictures.

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luketurner.bsky.social
Was lucky enough to to see a press screening of Rose Of Nevada, the new film by Mark Jenkin earlier (for a forthcoming tQ piece) and my goodness, what a tense, eerie and beautiful film. As ever with his work, the heavy use of sound is as potent as the cinematography; absolutely loved it.
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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mel.bzky.team
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
zenithedtom.bsky.social Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · Dec 20
Signs and portents
A wall behind some traffic lights with a mural of Mr Blobby that’s been partly stripped off leaving an ominous pink and yellow polka dotted silhouette
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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Cats by Shou Xin
January 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
captainhowdy.bsky.social
"I know his name!"
[Inserts cassette tape into car stereo]
Henry Cavill as Connor MacLeod, looking all 21st century against a backdrop of red lanterns in the first photo from the upcoming "Highlander" remake.
January 28, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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davidmbarnett.bsky.social
COUNT DOWN: Action movie in which Gerard Butler and Jason Statham embark on a high-octane mission to assassinate Dracula in his highly-fortified Transylvanian Castle.
January 28, 2026 at 3:43 PM
captainhowdy.bsky.social
Needed a distraction, found a distraction.
The 'Being John Malkovich' movie poster which shows a crowd of people stretching back and out of sight. They are usually holding John Malkovich face masks (on a stick!) in front of their faces, but all of the masks now feature a bald-headed zombie from "Shaun of the Dead". Four rows back, and to the right of the image, is Shaun, tucked in among all the zombies with a red tie wrapped around his head.
January 28, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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trahias.bsky.social
Monokubo (Japanese, 1994–2022)
"Giant Cat in the Snow Forest", 2018.
Illustration.
Japanese Artist and Illustrator Monokubo imagined a World where Larger-Than-Life Animals roam the Land and live among us.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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daveyjones.bsky.social
As nature intended
Opening panel of a 2006 cartoon called Porn Free; "Dr Bill Robertson was the warden of Barntonstone National Park, the largest natural ripped-up jazz mag reserve in the West Country." Which would be incomprehensible to youngsters nowadays.
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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owenexiehurcum.bsky.social
Writing up my Excavation Report for the recent community excavation in Sackville Gardens has given me the chance to handle our finds again, so I thought I'd share a few of my favourite contemporary (1970-present) finds from the site...

📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper.

1/9
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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HT @brianbutterfield.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social
John Alcorn, 1971. From: “Circues - A Book To Begin On,” by Mary Kay Phelan.

#illustration #1970s #JohnAlcorn #MaryKayPhelan
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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stevesparshott.bsky.social
Paddington Bear (the film version) and the half-skeletal soul-eating bear thing from Annihilation were made by the same VFX team. They wanted to name Annihilation Bear after a less salubrious London railway station. It's called Homerton.

I am not making this up.
matthighton.bsky.social Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 4d
I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
RIP Sly Dunbar, drums on everything
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1I...
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
YouTube video by GraceJonesVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Happy 50th birthday* one of the most important figures in my childhood**
Ivor the Engine E01 | The Railway
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January 26, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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umvelhomistico.bsky.social
ARTE
January 23, 2026 at 5:45 PM
captainhowdy.bsky.social
I really need to consider the new life that awaits me on the Off-World Colonies.
January 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Weapons (2025), dir. Zach Cregger
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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desdelboy.bsky.social
Morning all.

Toys on the washing line at Coseley. Photograph Birmingham Live.
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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danielgray.com
London backgrounds from 101 Dalmatians, 1961
January 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
captainhowdy.bsky.social
Dredd knows how to deal with bubbles, both speculative and objective.
A panel from a Judge Dredd story about BOING - the highly protective, transparent bubble that comes in a can - showing one person being electrocuted as their BOING bubble makes contact with some live cables. This is classed as "Terminal BOING" and is accompanied by the victim's scream of "AIEEE!". The central image shows Dredd on his Lawmaster and firing his Lawgiver at another perp-in-a-bubble. Dredd is saying "No telling how many more lives will be lost! Gotta stop them... INCENDIARY!". The end image shows the perp burning inside their bubble, while at the same time being very helpful by fighting through the pain to inform us that they are on fire.
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
captainhowdy.bsky.social
From this day in 2020.
The cover for a PS1 game featuring a head and shoulders shot of a sceptical Jimmy Hill wearing a suit and tie. The title of the game is "REKKEN" and it's done in the same font as TEKKEN because details matter.
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
In 1976, Yorkshire TV's children's show Music Scene highlighted the importance of music in TV productions by adapting M.R. James' MR HUMPHREYS AND HIS INHERITANCE. Oh, and it scared the pants off its young audience with this startling stop-motion sequence!
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions.

Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/

Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.
A wall of pingu model heads, hundreds of them, each with a different expression A side close up showing the variety of eye beak and mouth expressions / movements
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM