Remy Dean: December 2012

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

2012... that was

Yuletide greetings
and all the very best
for 2013, Year of the Serpent!
+
dates for the diary:
This summer, 7 August - 7 September 2013, there will be an exhibition of photography by Remy Dean at at Oriel Maenofferen Gallery, Llyfrgell Blaenau Ffestiniog Library, Canolfan Maenofferen, Blaenau Ffestiniog, LL41 3DL. Telephone: 01766 830415.

Random

How I learned to deeply appreciate the audio-visual culture of #Japan from shakuhachi #music in space to #DavidBowie, from Kiki to #KyaryPamyuPamyu & beyond past-past-past lives. 'Japan, Sound & Vision' published in 'New East' [post-script by @yuriminamide.bsky.social] medium.com/new-east/jap...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Aug 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM

'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1975) • 50 Years Later read my #movie #review of Peter Weir's timeless mystery told in the lyrical language of dreams @framerated.co.uk: 🌄 medium.com/framerated/p... #cinema #history #Film #Australia

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jul 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM

a piece of #HomeDance perfection from #欣小萌 (Xin Xiaomeng) 💯 for clever concept (it's all done with mirrors) + #cosplay ('Honkai: Star Rail' Puppet Herta) + interpretation + precision + presence + song ...all in dynamic yet elegant harmony view via #BiliBili: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1kh4... #宅舞

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jul 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM

🌊 🐚 🌧️ cloudburst off the coast beyond the Dwyryd Estuary #landscape #seascape #photography from #Eryri

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jul 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM

'The Possessed' (1965) is 60 years old "Though it does eventually serve up perversity & madness, it’s a brooding piece that borrows from the visual language of European arthouse to present a poetic & sophisticated murder mystery..." @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ medium.com/framerated/t... #movies #Bluray

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jul 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM

💃 🎶 ⚔️ 'KPop Demon Hunters' (2025) — fun family fantasy with laughs aplenty & some spooky scares plus astute parody for those keyed into K-Pop culture..." my #review of Netflix big summer hit #movie is published @framerated.co.uk: 👹 medium.com/framerated/k... #KPop #music #horror #comedy

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jul 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM

'The Quatermass Xperiment' (1955) can legitimately be called iconic - themes, imagery, & legacy all combine to make it so. read my #movie #review of this seminal #SciFi #Horror beautifully restored by Hammer in 4K & still enthrals 70 years later... @framerated.co.uk 🦑 medium.com/framerated/t...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jul 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM

'The Box Man' (2024) • new #Bluray from @thirdwindowfilms.com my #movie #review of Gakuryū Ishii’s new adaptation of Kōbō Abe’s 'unfilmable' novel as a compelling philosophical ponderance of identity @framerated.co.uk 📦 medium.com/framerated/t... #Japan #cinema #horror #philosophy #literature

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jun 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM

"So, how does one know if it’s Home Dance?" Find out more 💃 medium.com/signifier/ho...

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— Signifier (@signifier.bsky.social) Jul 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Arrow Video #Bluray 'Dark City' (1998) 🕛 Gothic-noir-science-fiction-psychological-crime-mystery with profound subtext presented in its original theatrical version & the superior Director's Cut read my 5⭐ #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ medium.com/framerated/d...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jun 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Tai Katō's 'The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost' (1961) is a memorably macabre if convoluted version of the J-Horror classic my review of the new #Bluray from @filmsradiance.bsky.social is published @framerated.co.uk 👻 medium.com/framerated/t... #Japan #cinema #movies #folklore #history #horror

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jun 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM

'Hong Kong 1941' (1984) Po-Chih Leong's lyrical tale of love & loss set amidst the horrors of war showcasing superb early roles for Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip & Alex Man my new #Bluray #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ medium.com/framerated/h... [original title 等待黎明 / Waiting for the Dawn]

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) Jun 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM

'This Island Earth' (1955) • 70 Years Later 🌏 a look back at Cold War paranoia & the Nuclear Nightmare through the lurid lens of Golden Age Sci-Fi in this influential classic my retro #movie #review is published @framerated.co.uk 🛸 medium.com/framerated/t... #film #cinema #history #SciFi

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Mángzhòng #芒种 Grain in Ear 🌾 starts today (5-21 June) time to harvest awned grains, sow rice & have mud fights... here, a metaphor of love that ran its course & with 106M YouTube views must be most popular song by #音阙诗听 (Yinque Poetry) + Zhao Fangjing's celestial voice❤️‍🩹 🎶 youtu.be/q2WvTaqe9zU?...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM

...like so much SEA-Pop #music & Chinese culture I was guided to 'Grain in Ear' #芒种 🌾 by #Yaorenmao #咬人猫 🧸 aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat 🐾 via this elegant, ethereal, empyrean #dance version 💝 🧚‍♀️ youtu.be/WzLqZ9Rz4RU?...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM

'The Mescaline Drawings of Henri Michaux' @remydean.bsky.social on using #art to map the mind-body interface "...opening dialogues between #science & creativity, the rational & irrational, the real & surreal" 🌵 medium.com/signifier/th... #ArtHistory #history #medicine #psychology #drawing

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— Signifier (@signifier.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM

'The Bells of Death' (1968) ...a classic example of early 'New Wuxia' grounded in visceral physicality 🥋 my #movie #review of Feng Yueh’s dark & dynamic revenge tale is now syndicated @framerated.co.uk ⚔️ medium.com/framerated/t... #HongKong #cinema #China #wuxia

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM

'Daydreamers' (2023) — undead brothers must choose between love, lust, or loyalty in this stylish Vietnamese #vampire #horror read my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🩸 medium.com/framerated/d... TY @darkstarpics.bsky.social #cinema #Vietnam

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM

'Killer Cop' (1975) a narcotics cop uncovers a conspiracy involving a shadowy cabal of capitalists manipulating political activists during Italy's Years of Lead in a gripping poliziotteschi - new @filmsradiance.bsky.social #Bluray my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🚔 medium.com/framerated/k...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM

in honour of Yaorenmao's Birthday 🧸 I wrote about Chinese Home Dance & her position at its pinnacle @signifier.bsky.social 💖 medium.com/signifier/ho... I also compiled a YouTube #playlist of some of her best original choreo 💃 youtube.com/playlist?lis... 💝 Happy Birthday 🎂 #咬人猫Yaorenmao 祝您健康快乐

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM

my photogram 'Cosmic Medusa Corpse' (©2012) is the header image for the article 'Shadowplay: #Photography without a Lens' published @signifier.bsky.social 💡 medium.com/signifier/sh... #art #ArtHistory #history #painting #sculpture #biology #botany #science

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) April 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM

'Frederic, Lord Leighton' @remydean.bsky.social examines the styles & techniques of Britain’s most lauded #artist with 'Flaming June' - one of the great #Victorian paintings, once lost & now restored to its former splendour medium.com/signifier/fr... #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration

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— Signifier (@signifier.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM

💫 always brightens the weekend when #Yaorenmao (aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat 🐾 #咬人猫 ) shows up unannounced for a fan-feed livestream 🧸 2 hours of cheery chat with lots of lovely songs sung beautifully 💞 heartfelt & uplifting ✨

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM

...& thrilled to see the actual artefacts at UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian & Sudanese #Archaeology: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... - sketches in stone of Akhenaten & #art of the Amarna - which featured in my article for 'The Signifier' @signifier.bsky.social ▶️ medium.com/signifier/ak...

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— Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ (@remydean.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

2012... that was

About Remy

Remy Dean: Author

Remy Dean: Artist

Contact & Commissions

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This, Part Four

This, part three

This, part two:

This, part one:

The Race Glass

Final Bough

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creative courses

Prints by Remy

Scraps

Evolution of Western Art

Nirvana

Nine Inch Nails

A Twenty-Year Lunch Time

Celine Dion: Let's Talk About Love

Suede

Workout: Building Henry Rollins

Hellfire: Life According To Nick Cave

Crumbling Rock

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Remy Dean

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

2012... that was

About Remy

Remy Dean: Author

Remy Dean: Artist

Contact & Commissions

Remy writes for these sites

This, Part Four

This, part three

This, part two:

This, part one:

The Race Glass

Final Bough

Random

creative courses

Prints by Remy

Scraps

Evolution of Western Art

Nirvana

Nine Inch Nails

A Twenty-Year Lunch Time

Celine Dion: Let's Talk About Love

Suede

Workout: Building Henry Rollins

Hellfire: Life According To Nick Cave

Crumbling Rock

Glimpse

Remy Dean also contributes to

Selected On-line Articles By Remy Dean At Other Websites

Selected On-line Articles About Remy Dean At Other Websites

Followers

Labels

Blog Archive

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COPYRIGHT

DISCLAIMER