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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Some fascinating facts about spider eyes & although many have poor definition, some species can see with clarity comparable to cats or owls ("Wouldn't've minded seeing an owl.")

How does the world look through a spider’s eyes?
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photograph via The Conversation of a pale jumping spider with shiny black eyes - "Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are among the few invertebrates with large camera-like eyes like those seen in most vertebrates (including us). Their eyesight is sharper than any other spider and is comparable to that of pigeons or cats. Portia africanus can image up to about 75 cm, relying on shape and colour to identify prey. Jumping spiders detect movement with their secondary eyes, which give a blurry image. The spider then turns and focuses its primary eyes onto the object. These give a sharp image. The spider then uses its lateral eyes to judge distance, and when close enough (2-3 cm) it jumps."
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another timely RP as #Halloween🐺 approaches...
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timely RP as #Halloween🧙‍♀️ approaches...
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get to know me in 3... Films (Horror 2/3)

'Inferno' (1980) is a gorgeous centrepiece in Dario Argento's 'Three Mothers' trilogy & "takes the 'don’t go in there' trope to a new level..."

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Inferno (1980) • 40 Years Later
An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings…
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timely RP as #Halloween💀 approaches...
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get to know me in 3 Films (Horror 3/3)

'The Abominable Dr Phibes' (1971) a work of art that "...belongs as much to the world of Jeeves & Wooster as it does Hammer horror"

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) • 50 Years Later
Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife’s death…
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on #WorldMigratoryBird day check the arrivals & departures board for some highlights to look out for in your area of the UK - there are some big ones: swans 🦢 ducks 🦆 geese... or would you rather knot?

via @rspb.bsky.social 🪶 www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...
photograph via RSPB of a Knot - small pale grey and brown wading type bird
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near-complete #fossil skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as new species of ichthyosaur, the "sword-dragon"

via BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
photograph by Dean Lomax of the elongate fossil skull with very large eye socket and long narrow snout with many tiny teeth
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'From Beyond the Grave — Unearthing Japan’s Forgotten Photographer'

@remydean.bsky.social finds a haunting beauty in the unique #art of Ukai Gyokusen which has finally surfaced after being, very literally, buried in the past

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#photography #ArtHistory #Japan #history
very damaged ambrotype photograph by Ukai Gyokusen - the image of a man with a shaven head can be discerned, a head and shoulders portrait, but a quarter of his face is obscured by damage to the image
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valley mist & low cloud lifted with sunrise revealing a beautiful bright autumn day - warm sunshine, hardly a breeze & lots of 🐞 ladybirds, scouting for somewhere to overwinter, perhaps...

[pic 9 a.m] 🌤️

+more #Moelwyns #landscape #photography from #Eryri:
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landscape photograph by Remy Dean of a series of valleys and distant mountains lit with patches of sunshine and shadows cast from low mists and parting clouds
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💃 dual 💖 nature 🌸 of the goddess 💃
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MARiA seems to be going through some bother, let's hope things get clearer after the dust settles for all involved - here she shares screen with #Yaorenmao 🧸 #咬人貓 aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat for #Caturday 😻 more power to the both of them 🫶

宵闇胡蝶 🦋 Midnight Butterfly
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【りりちよ・メイリア】宵闇胡蝶[Yoiyami Kocho] OFFiCiAL【踊っちゃってみた第10弾】
YouTube video by GARNiDELiA
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correction: 3 weekends to #Halloween👻
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"Uh-oh, dropped the white flask!" *
 
4 weekends to Halloween🎃 so revisiting one-frame horror stories from Brian Coldrick's long-running 'Behind You' series of illustrations via: briancoldrick.tumblr.com
 
* reference to 'This, That and the Other Book 3: This Citadel, Wherein the Elfyn Royal Reside'
Illustration of a child standing in a store room, he has dropped one of the vessels taken from many on the shelves. The caption reads: "he had only wanted to look inside... it was just full of dust." Behind him, a tall translucent skeletal figure is taking form, it is wreathed in a long spine and wears four, horned masks...
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amazing staging for two phenomenal talents ⛵ recorded live at last year's Mid-Autumn Moon Viewing Festival Gala 🌕 beautiful poetic song - conjures #Xianxia poetics & a tide of deep emotions 🌊

Ghost Huang x Dimash: 'I Came To Honor Mortal Life'
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Dimash & Huang Xiaoyun - «I Came To Honor Mortal Life» (CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Party 2024)
YouTube video by Dimash Qudaibergen
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...and again, it seems!
'What Has the #ECHR Ever Done for Us?'
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Whatever you think of RTD, he knows television and knows the warning flares need to be sent up. Television and journalism need to start questioning and pushing back. Pushing back hard.
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Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
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To acknowledge Halloween/October, here’s a list of all my Hammer film reviews you can read on Medium. medium.com/@frank_c_col... #Hammer #Horror #Filmsky 🧛🧟‍♂️🎃👻👹💀
List: Hammer Films | Curated by Frank Collins | Medium
Hammer Films · Reviews of films made by the legendary British studio. · 13 stories on Medium
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Daiei Gothic Vol.2: Japanese Ghost Stories (1960–1970)

3 sumptuous essentials of Japan’s supernatural #cinema for #Halloween 👹 my #review of new @filmsradiance.bsky.social #Bluray box set

Demon of Mount Oe
The Haunted Castle
Ghost of Kasane Swamp

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a set of nine images in three columns: first column shows the slip-cases for Blu-rays and to the right of each is two film stills from the respective release: Kazuo Hasegawa as Shuten-dôji embraces Sachiko Hidari as Ibaraki-dôji in ‘The Demon of Mount Oe’ - both wear white kimono; and Sachiko Hidari in partial demonic form as Ibaraki-dôji; a women's face lit by candlelight; a fierce black cat with outstretched front legs and bearing its teeth; a woman is shocked to see a disfigured face behind her, reflected in a circular mirror; a bald man's head is partially obscured by an illustrative splash of red, superimposed on the image.
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'World's End Girlfriend' new song from Radwimps with a nicely shot MV 🏵️ sweet narrative (though if the guy had been 'stalking' the girl it would've landed differently) I note that roof spaces feature very often in Japan's media 🌃

ワールドエンドガールフレンド 🎶 youtu.be/PgRIBlMIGfo?...
#JPop #music
RADWIMPS - ワールドエンドガールフレンド [Official Music Video]
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Rightbackatcha, Theyla 🫶
It was too cloudy for a clear view of the moon, but its light set the clouds aglow 😶‍🌫️
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a few more belated #WorldFungusDay finds from recent woodland walks - not sure about the mustard or beige groups but I recognise the freshly erupted earthballs 🟤 I find #fungi forms pleasing...
three photographs by Remy Dean: clump of mustard yellow mushrooms; a group of four or fine pale beige 'frilly-looking' mushrooms; and earthballs among grass.
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a couple of days late for #WorldFungusDay but here's some #Fungi spotted during our walks with Dr Eccles in local woods - I know the fly agaric 🍄 but unsure of the other chestnut brown ones - #Mycology
three photographs by Remy Dean: a group of at least six fly agaric toadstools with their distinctive red caps with white spots; two examples of fairly large chestnut brown mushrooms in woodland undergrowth...
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Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Viewing Festival 🥮

月白 ⚪ 'Moon White'
🧸 #咬人猫 🪷 #Yaorenmao 🐾

- a tender song about friends & family being united by the light of the same moon even if separated by time & distance 🐇 so fresh ethereal, elegant, magical 💓

🌝 但愿人长久,千里共婵娟 🍂

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【咬人猫】月白 ❤️ MV [Yaorenmao Channel]
YouTube video by 咬人猫Yaorenmao
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The Medieval Moonage 🌝 3 early #fantasy tales about travelling to the Moon, from Britain, Italy, & Japan via The Conversation:

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dreamlike traditional illustration for "The Receding Princess"   sequence from かぐや姫の物語 (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) appeared in 'The Japanese Fairy Book', 1908 - a figure rises through clouds to a golden pagoda while a man on a balcony is waving or beckoning and a group of archers huddle below... A knight who has lost his mind must travel to the moon to find it - black and white engraving of a huge moon filling most of the frame and two people in a chariot pulled through space  by four winged horses
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'The Man in My Basement' (2025)

my #movie #review of Nadia Latif's psychological thriller from a novel by Waler Mosley now on #Hulu / #Disney+ starring Willem Dafoe & Corey Hawkins - a promising premise lost in protracted pondering...

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four film stills:  Willem Dafoe as Anniston Bennett Corey Hawkins as Charles Blakey stand in a dark basement room; Corey Hawkins as Charles Blakey shining a torch into the darkness; and holding an African mask to obscure of his face; and standing in a kitchen looking a bit forlorn.