tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85759154842085167742024-03-16T00:56:06.183+00:00Remy Dean"Imaginative Fantasy at its best... Wonderful work. Heartily recommended." - Redbutton review of 'THIS'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-10587196673186457062024-01-15T16:58:00.003+00:002024-02-08T20:13:40.021+00:00SGWRS BACH: 'Tracing the Land' <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UDoeXoy684d_kbpORE3Ymzf5DuFSYIBuyeQIn4X5HuOh_oNXv-8aXr9DFDy29i8wIA4lhLyeFEZ1k1TCy7eAj6vTfsm440SohuP_thdUGsWBEYEWLOWgDUIyg8q2ygcpLJU4jogAoO6k3_2LiTfEGeejF3Al5ELgq_iuYj91XZrv8SCuuxMa30S9QukH/s1000/bafkreib7xqsj3o4lec5pr4tej5yaejj2rmre36bpkzoa4mx2dtobwvptta.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="707" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UDoeXoy684d_kbpORE3Ymzf5DuFSYIBuyeQIn4X5HuOh_oNXv-8aXr9DFDy29i8wIA4lhLyeFEZ1k1TCy7eAj6vTfsm440SohuP_thdUGsWBEYEWLOWgDUIyg8q2ygcpLJU4jogAoO6k3_2LiTfEGeejF3Al5ELgq_iuYj91XZrv8SCuuxMa30S9QukH/w452-h640/bafkreib7xqsj3o4lec5pr4tej5yaejj2rmre36bpkzoa4mx2dtobwvptta.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">I am pleased to be part of this varied and intriguing line-up... </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">SGWRS BACH: 'Tracing the Land'</h3><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>SPEAKERS</b>:</span> <b>Ellis O'Connor</b> (Painter and Artist in Residence at Mawddach Residency), <b>Emma Barley</b> (Photographer, Gallery Owner, Curator), <b>Remy Dean</b> (Author and Artist), <b>Dr Joe Hope</b> (Lichen Expert), <b>Peter Ogden</b> (UNESCO advisor), <b>Jane Williams</b> (Artist and Potter). </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sgwrs-bach-tracing-the-land-tickets-771706664407" target="_blank">More information and tickets via <b>EventBrite</b></a><b> </b></p><p>Event organised by <b><a href="https://www.mawddachresidency.com/" target="_blank">Mawddach Residency</a> </b></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-45862277276837627932024-01-04T12:59:00.025+00:002024-01-18T21:12:30.706+00:00...and that be 2023<p> </p><p><b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wishing You Health, Happiness, and all the very Best for 2024! </b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4960339936915950607" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><div style="color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;">Here's an incomplete summary of what I did, made, and published in 2023: </div><div style="color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that seemed a short year! Looking back, quite a lot was done although the outcomes don't seem to match my sense of unrelenting activity... What <i>was</i> I doing?</div></div>I'm not getting into global issues here which were a mixed bag, heavy with bleak and there's a review of the year <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ph5n5" target="_blank">here at BBC News</a> if one needs reminding. In this post, I'll endeavour to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative... it's all about me and what I enjoyed doing and discovering. <div><br /><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Published Fiction </b></span><div><br /></div><div>My short story <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/horror-hounds/perceived-value-d94c8fed57bb?sk=68373c3a490be5c8a3a157fdea22be77" target="_blank">Perceived Value</a></span></i> was published in online magazine <i>Horror Hounds </i>which also published <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/horror-hounds/final-bough-7741dc3b5ead?sk=c3f21bc4210a4b6e1af5b98877b0fbf6" target="_blank">Final Bough</a></span></i> in its entirety with reproductions of the original illustrations by Katie Hone that appeared in the first limited-edition print run, back in 2008.<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhvGg_pIQ0p9Lv3VmV7BgzcAikHIB-yspaItUVPnki_z9dIJsi7a6EX8teAOQ8_MXGkAN2bRynM-HiUisB0EMupTIRPRlG4RcDUeZuEDgMbsdgU2Eyc76z67eVUuog3HMEKU9FMWr3_rtY6OjFDulkGj48rbZKFmoKENuJsOtL8zqJKsRQhaVGFo7T7l5/s1121/darkness.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1121" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhvGg_pIQ0p9Lv3VmV7BgzcAikHIB-yspaItUVPnki_z9dIJsi7a6EX8teAOQ8_MXGkAN2bRynM-HiUisB0EMupTIRPRlG4RcDUeZuEDgMbsdgU2Eyc76z67eVUuog3HMEKU9FMWr3_rtY6OjFDulkGj48rbZKFmoKENuJsOtL8zqJKsRQhaVGFo7T7l5/w640-h528/darkness.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">illustration by Katie Hone for <i>Final Bough</i> (2008)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Behind the scenes, I wrote two full scripts and two additional short treatments for a potential television series that probably won't ever reach the production stage. In which case (focussing on the positive, remember) I have the groundwork for a set of short stories or graphic novels. Watch this space. They're something like magical realism, maybe. Difficult to sum-up the vibe... Horror but imaginative and uplifting? I hope I have conjured wonder and amazing creatures with a supernatural-folkloric fusion. So, if you are an illustrator looking for graphic novel scripts or an eager television producer, please do <a href="https://deanauthor.wixsite.com/dean/contact">email me</a>. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Cinema Critique </b></span></h2><div><div><br /></div><div>My contributions for <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated" target="_blank">Frame Rated</a></span></span> have been predictably varied - my personal choice of six highlights are... <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkElXCAtZTfKZh0zAho-FYNp9eCM2mvEPoBRaajfrl9WxtuMXhWwCKS_3UEfSP_gCbg05SgFqsF7haFi6d2_DDkafW7KFiIzLrcKdmkS66yjaZCz3ytLJ7qgjqTRvRjmWPe8_63WnlZ0cKUgTHPwsinQd3QRdalN8yVdmXTmYnzEJxK95Uvwm-9GUqhHk/s1440/MixCollage-04-Jan-2024-08-54-PM-7515.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1440" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkElXCAtZTfKZh0zAho-FYNp9eCM2mvEPoBRaajfrl9WxtuMXhWwCKS_3UEfSP_gCbg05SgFqsF7haFi6d2_DDkafW7KFiIzLrcKdmkS66yjaZCz3ytLJ7qgjqTRvRjmWPe8_63WnlZ0cKUgTHPwsinQd3QRdalN8yVdmXTmYnzEJxK95Uvwm-9GUqhHk/w640-h480/MixCollage-04-Jan-2024-08-54-PM-7515.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><br /><div><div style="color: black;">A review of what may be my all-time favourite film, <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/brotherhood-of-the-wolf-2001-4k-ultra-hd-studiocanal-bccb6c2eaa6d?sk=bb75770057fd855b58d6a731343d34f5" target="_blank">Brotherhood of the Wolf</a></span></i> (2001), Christophe Gans' take on the Beast of Gévaudan folklore - a fantastic and rather surprising action-packed, martial-arts, monster-movie, period-drama, intrigue-thriller... and so much more! And for the newly restored Director's Cut debut on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, I also had the opportunity to talk with Mark Dacascos about his starring role as the mystical Mani - you can read the interview transcript or watch the video <b><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/an-interview-with-brotherhood-of-the-wolf-star-mark-dacascos-5d866af0da41?sk=da212b46ecadf1e76ff27dd6bcb35b21" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/the-fall-of-ako-castle-loyalty-honour-and-revenge-39d56c56e263?sk=d02d49c13d640ca085c10cfe36a960cd" target="_blank">The Fall of Akō Castle</a> / Akô-jô Danzetsu</span></i> (1978) is among the most important, and gorgeous, historical epics of Japan’s rich cinema heritage, telling one of the nation's most retold tales. It’s a perfectly paced, serious samurai movie based on what happened during the first years of the 18th-century and with this new high-definition restoration by Toei studios looks and sounds better than ever. </div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Among the reviews I really enjoyed researching and writing last year were two early, highly influential, giallo-esque classics. One from the maestro, Mario Bava, with what is sometimes cited as the original and still definitive example of the genre: <span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/blood-and-black-lace-1964-limited-edition-4k-ultra-hd-arrow-video-c8e32f7ec911?sk=681fe93d537b085d38814ae6aa0e4fce" target="_blank">Blood and Black Lace</a></i> </span>(1964), with its beautiful use of expressionistic colour in some inspired cinematography and a twisty plot that was astoundingly original at the time. Another seminal psychological horror-thriller from Spain, one of too few from auteur Narciso Ibáñez Serrador: <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/the-house-that-screamed-1969-blu-ray-arrow-video-58072752de7?sk=2ef2b3bf1868c5af2cbcf82168bf2fe2" target="_blank">La Residencia </a>/ The Finishing School / The House That Screamed</span></i> (1969) exploring themes of awakening sexuality and the subjugation of natural desires as a tool of authoritarian control, as well as being a great gothic horror. </div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Finding inspiration in real historic events and persons, director Kinji Fukasaku was bold enough to fuse chanbara, period drama, Japanese ghost story, and Hammeresque supernatural gothic horror in the highly entertaining Edo-period fantasy <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/samurai-reincarnation-1981-blu-ray-eureka-masters-of-cinema-e19c38d26abd?sk=90f6c3658b9952178d2c967af6ff61a9" target="_blank">Samurai Reincarnation</a> / Makai Tenshô</span></i> (1981). With very satisfying results. </div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;">In my most popular extended review published in Frame Rated you get three-for-one with the boxset of newly restored versions of <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/tod-brownings-sideshow-shockers-1925-1932-timeless-classics-of-the-macabre-e9c0eea00864?sk=6632c34cddeaea7bbf9a6add453914c7" target="_blank">Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers</a></span></i> (1925–1932) which comprises his infamous <i><span style="font-size: large;">Freaks</span></i> (1932): a controversial fusion of strange soap and horror - accompanied by two I had never sen before, and very few had ever seen these prints of <i><span style="font-size: large;">The Mystic</span></i> (1925): an entertaining and satisfying supernatural thriller - and <span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Unknown</i></span> (1927): gruelling but absorbing intense psychological thriller and my personal favourite of the trio. </div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><h2 style="color: black; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Curating Contemporary Art and Illustration</span></b></h2><div style="color: black;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div>I have also continued as curator for <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank">The Signifier : six : shot : gallery</a></span> and was pleased to host some super fresh illustration showcases. <a href="https://zelcariad.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Zel Cariad</span></a> closed 2023 with her fascinating exhibition <i style="font-size: medium;">Creatures</i> on show over the festive seasons and <a href="https://lit.link/en/nanaekawahara" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Nanae Kawahara</span></a> rang-in 2024 with her whimsical yet profound exhibition <i>View</i>. And you can view both for free using the links below (click on the colourful images):</div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3j6gDpqL3wSNEWe5jXG7tOxmTWBTHvqoT9GxQTglFtJfzBK_fHVo4h0R-vPcjgu23PZ2dNePO5NmIJsbuFs_TYbXGx24orhvoA8NBKWXGVSvOrifV79l2WCm-_mPsZ9aPpJtXP70Yg7PB25NLjDijbA7eaAA9O1iGrYk2rOPEvVXauqJH03isiwJq00_a/s1288/creatures.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="1288" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3j6gDpqL3wSNEWe5jXG7tOxmTWBTHvqoT9GxQTglFtJfzBK_fHVo4h0R-vPcjgu23PZ2dNePO5NmIJsbuFs_TYbXGx24orhvoA8NBKWXGVSvOrifV79l2WCm-_mPsZ9aPpJtXP70Yg7PB25NLjDijbA7eaAA9O1iGrYk2rOPEvVXauqJH03isiwJq00_a/w640-h234/creatures.jpg" width="640" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">submissions guidelines for artist can be found in this edition of Signified newsletter: </span><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/ghosts-fairy-tales-haunted-windows-and-humanism-2442edfa161b?sk=61069ba65420f47143699137b5b6484e" style="font-weight: 700;" target="_blank">HERE</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiF031QXVAoWpOkbqvAGyLwsddOQ9uTBtZHTR-cF3JW2UCbtk7SjvJsFA8d48wDDOAWF-rD-hPEp09e9QdQNCwq2cb3eX1MXtoy75_IomJ197p0XPuXdOi6hs7qdij7J4cWXAF1kbQldZ35roXFLEpwUSqq74r4TFJ2f2FKJpTLFuywoJtaNmm3SoMTpW/s1288/view.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="1288" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiF031QXVAoWpOkbqvAGyLwsddOQ9uTBtZHTR-cF3JW2UCbtk7SjvJsFA8d48wDDOAWF-rD-hPEp09e9QdQNCwq2cb3eX1MXtoy75_IomJ197p0XPuXdOi6hs7qdij7J4cWXAF1kbQldZ35roXFLEpwUSqq74r4TFJ2f2FKJpTLFuywoJtaNmm3SoMTpW/w640-h234/view.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Writing on Art and Design</b></span></h2><div style="color: black;"><br /><div>I have contributed several online articles about art, art history, design, and media. <br />For <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank">Signifier</a></span> my personal choice of six highlights are... </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/depletion-to-completion-6ff2329c18dd?sk=8957cb65be2a8592614d12190a92fd92" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCA9WiP4iagrFS0qH-btuV4NnrxkHlhVrQ9XPejAvRYnmL6e1tkeyeKexP5Kfp3bFJ4BHkXUyHELNfAOUFpkT9dNxnEXpIjxrNNA83zZBUwVD7W2BAO6FbnEniXjJtXpZ38FHJIqjEFlUHs5NgqhQnEW2gx9TQJtmvxfcVWOHV7Eq94wlW60QiYl0ENE5Y/w640-h290/sig_FGT.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/depletion-to-completion-6ff2329c18dd?sk=8957cb65be2a8592614d12190a92fd92" target="_blank">Félix González-Torres and Depletion Art</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/kapoor-and-me-now-and-then-7914856b4528?sk=376ac104e300383b01495bd6bf92be55" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_rLjk0Wq5Nc2y1gC1iTWIcOEU8-PhvN4gzwEf08YL8LXeWobH04bR1hQIQpKJ3jHGfdl4lnLwNn83_VubU9IHPtEIafFVBGPP38sNHCG1h7UErkYtDgfZA_BqpiqoezFf_q4N-HvTtB07M4HSko-67jPG0ukz6kcXFkpWMKsayD_X5SxwiWS0hgai-sx/w640-h290/sig_marsyas.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/kapoor-and-me-now-and-then-7914856b4528?sk=376ac104e300383b01495bd6bf92be55" target="_blank">Intersections with the works of Anish Kapoor</a> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/poster-boy-c26cdc346de9?sk=7e34fcdf352a6e559f23a91b7c35844f" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jgrUxVkJG28mjd2XYK_PlVuZ_YzJhzrednGpR30bJHUo_kYcxRijqTrKGGAAois4S89Hb6iGtjPgRp0ZXF4sx8sJp_4EtgCDK6bmYvL-g4YoG-r8zMVXgAuh8KEMom3pVM-sTHaE5VBiV5zMX6ZPnH4sIYs4O4GuxvVcWV9svkZA0je4Bq3hJqI2AThX/w640-h290/games.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/poster-boy-c26cdc346de9?sk=7e34fcdf352a6e559f23a91b7c35844f" target="_blank">Abram Games: Poster Boy </a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/dressed-up-in-art-710ed3ffc590?sk=2f4ef19c5f5a3dba6c7223602f282ccc" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sib-eqkhOkdT_wXVGJtiQ95XjWprNgB3kGW9G0DH-mMHz-mYUax5W7Cx7xaKZ6RkwrF8to0NuhswFJQ4awzkqRkxvEtGN4dlPdI_CFS9dIoN7T_UdWCwkLQYmtyMx0CEF4iWJnOR75M4tzR5uBT-3hWJogsvxmVN-s52B1aa34fpD49IYbU0votUSuoA/w640-h290/sig_schlemmer.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/dressed-up-in-art-710ed3ffc590?sk=2f4ef19c5f5a3dba6c7223602f282ccc" target="_blank">Costume as Concept and Sculpture</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">My updates on this weblog are sporadic, with occasional bursts... To keep up with what I've produced, as well as information on forthcoming events and live appearances, the best SNS is my new <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/remydean.bsky.social" target="_blank">Bluesky</a> - if you are on Bluesky, too, come say "hello" - and of course, most of my long-form writing appears online at <a href="https://remydean.medium.com/" target="_blank">Medium</a> sooner or later, so please do follow my account there. <br /><br />I began using my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCxen2L-eWVY78bqXbjQEkg" target="_blank">YouTube</a> channel more over the last few months - there are plans in the pipeline, so check-that out from time to time, or <i>subscribe</i> for what I think may be surprising content later this year?</span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://remydean.medium.com/" style="margin-left: 0em; 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margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;">__________________________________</div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><b>in memoriam </b></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1JepMsrCJyHRylLd6kYRpnhltlLXcn1SiFm-VgSPh-1G6P-1LHe6rGJjrlUCaXiWuWhoPA0trbYn3j2PvRR_xc_bEBtaFU72CFU2rvJsd8qYnfniexLQ0eNYV-8QwWQh2aQJP0cMMsAdiSl-PJGTltEZCLQGclYJiLhsgatsKtJbIJUj49_ha8jWR-dKg/s1000/cWWkVEbD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1JepMsrCJyHRylLd6kYRpnhltlLXcn1SiFm-VgSPh-1G6P-1LHe6rGJjrlUCaXiWuWhoPA0trbYn3j2PvRR_xc_bEBtaFU72CFU2rvJsd8qYnfniexLQ0eNYV-8QwWQh2aQJP0cMMsAdiSl-PJGTltEZCLQGclYJiLhsgatsKtJbIJUj49_ha8jWR-dKg/s320/cWWkVEbD.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAI5ZWe-5IfFgZkeefSNQqWFa_h7WvV7jOKEavolUU_LR4rPQVzHnVKIOoQqRSObqeCEx2Cn2Ou_E8AQjvQxYi187SAGXKVexbUjFmEOQlp8yUV4TIrJKP6AZF6ahkKX7_AxFv6wf92xxM-IsMAM1fLj5g0Mmgm0l6aC0sjfM8T8Dx8GLV8WeWNpCZU3q/s1000/lake_barnum_sml.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAI5ZWe-5IfFgZkeefSNQqWFa_h7WvV7jOKEavolUU_LR4rPQVzHnVKIOoQqRSObqeCEx2Cn2Ou_E8AQjvQxYi187SAGXKVexbUjFmEOQlp8yUV4TIrJKP6AZF6ahkKX7_AxFv6wf92xxM-IsMAM1fLj5g0Mmgm0l6aC0sjfM8T8Dx8GLV8WeWNpCZU3q/s320/lake_barnum_sml.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><b>Mr Barnum (2009 - 2023) </b></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;">A Relentlessly Loving and Energising Presence</div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;">Best Friend to the Whole Family</div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-9307913734375910032023-05-16T13:53:00.005+01:002023-05-17T12:53:33.985+01:00Mark Dacascos - Meeting one of my Heroes (Who is Sometimes a Villain)<p>I recently enjoyed a quick-fire chat with actor, top entertainer, martial arts superstar, and delightful gent, <b><span style="font-size: large;">Mark Dacascos</span></b>. </p><p>We chatted about a variety of things but his career is so rich and varied that I had to focus on asking about what may be my favourite film of all, <i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Brotherhood of the Wolf</span></b></i> (2001) which has just been released by <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brotherhood-Directors-BLU-RAY-Discs-Region/dp/B0C15DQBZP/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><b>StudioCanal on HD Blu-ray as a 4K Director's Cut </b></a>supervised by Chritsophe Gans so, of course we touch upon Mark's work on Gans' debut feature, the beautiful live-action adaptation of the classic manga, <i><b>Crying Freeman</b></i> (1995). </p><p>We also cover his recurring super-villain role as Giyera for seasons three and four of Marvel's <i><b>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</b>, </i>facing-off with Keanu Reeves in <b><i>John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum</i></b> (2019), and finally bring things right up-to-date with <b><i>Knights of the Zodiac</i> </b>(2023), the current series of <i><b>Warrior</b></i> (2023) and, of course, <i><b>Iron Chef</b>. </i>(Can you guess what Mark's favourite meal is?) </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/an-interview-with-brotherhood-of-the-wolf-star-mark-dacascos-5d866af0da41?sk=da212b46ecadf1e76ff27dd6bcb35b21" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1242" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFw1cQfbOagFYC7Ib1Y_PgE5ty3ZuKFyMMnrbokPIwzI1MKPi8ItBSkLmFSEbx0oUoCYQwvtpnB5zz2gacMIrYUGKjTFrAIaShqKJoQmKsLdhKeHKM99xTa6iJTB1I9p-urnuldnTNaOUtvryeGPcVLA_yBI_Egt0st6P8pciAdAg84VCeyV1y5eSZUg/w640-h360/dacascos_vid_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>You can read the transcript published in <b><a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank">Frame Rated</a></b> where the uncut video has also been posted - I kinda became a vlogger by accident... The video may not be HD but you can see and hear Mark Dacascos clearly and he is a lively and entertaining interviewee, as one might expect. </p><p>You can read, watch, and listen to my interview with <b>Mark Dacascos</b> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/an-interview-with-brotherhood-of-the-wolf-star-mark-dacascos-5d866af0da41?sk=da212b46ecadf1e76ff27dd6bcb35b21" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a> - a <b><a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank">Frame Rated</a></b> exclusive. </p><p>You can read my extended review of the new Director's Cut of <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/brotherhood-of-the-wolf-2001-4k-ultra-hd-studiocanal-bccb6c2eaa6d?sk=bb75770057fd855b58d6a731343d34f5" target="_blank"><i><b>Brotherhood of the Wolf </b></i> <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a> - also published in <b><a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank">Frame Rated</a></b>. </p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_CBJicX8t2o3uiccAK2b7BFBfug4kk1FHXAKkf_SLDaYH2PiMEUb4GtdCHYoXI3jEXgna7NsB61rbU4TQtPXyqKKfGO7HpFiupRiWl8LNnOtg3IbaI6Wob5KArs_5x9WcOYFVv9vyt_qCX5Ij7RS1zgzO6ie97aBwsAGIWLSD1AA4PBmsAjGdOAQvw/s1364/BrotherhoodWolf02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="1364" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_CBJicX8t2o3uiccAK2b7BFBfug4kk1FHXAKkf_SLDaYH2PiMEUb4GtdCHYoXI3jEXgna7NsB61rbU4TQtPXyqKKfGO7HpFiupRiWl8LNnOtg3IbaI6Wob5KArs_5x9WcOYFVv9vyt_qCX5Ij7RS1zgzO6ie97aBwsAGIWLSD1AA4PBmsAjGdOAQvw/w640-h272/BrotherhoodWolf02.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Mark Dacascos as Mani in <i>Brotherhood of the Wolf</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001092/" target="_blank">Mark Dacascos IMDb filmography</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_dacascos" target="_blank">Mark Dacascos on Twitter</a> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-38270359534561839152023-02-04T15:36:00.006+00:002023-03-02T11:58:51.177+00:00THE ASEMIC TERRAIN - Exhibition<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/the-asemic-terrain-e842ef581bb6?sk=3a215caffea78b6ac24deb693551dd25" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-kONeUN9ZvUemrTVBXCYEKBa1Z82SLYRUBvKrSa7NAPVuFQN58cF55iP0HnOscO_mjzwki6aWlAcKsRKwSwVT9h-3jZ-sGEhT7l7Lv_8O_SxBWCw8cLlyOPW37eu4BZPvlNE07fi7DzeVPhbWZcwZKnd12XA04MJMg2pN8i2mgiBdSBXd_w8J21dTLQ/w760-h428/six_feb23_Dean.jpg" width="760" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">A showcase of my drawn poetry and visual writing is the current exhibition at </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Signifier : six : shot : gallery</b></span></a> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I </b></span>have this idea that our living landscapes are already poems written in a language of minerals, chemical processes, and ongoing energy exchanges. It is an unfinished epic poem, already spanning billions of years but with a fractal metre of minutes, months, millennia… land stanzas spanning portions of our perceptive interaction through the lens of living. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Our word ‘poem’ proceeds from the French <i>poème</i>, Latin <i>poema</i>, Greek <i>poēma</i>, already an ancient variant of <i>poiēma</i> meaning ‘fiction’, derived from <i>poiein</i> meaning to ‘create’… <i>ergo</i> : Creation is pre- and post-literate Poetry : <i>ad infinitum</i>...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/the-asemic-terrain-e842ef581bb6?sk=3a215caffea78b6ac24deb693551dd25" target="_blank"><b>click HERE to continue reading</b></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-86472302665597562072023-01-03T18:17:00.014+00:002023-01-16T01:25:39.530+00:0022 into 23 - Happy New Year!<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b>The close of 2022</b> marked my second year as curator of <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Signifier : six : shot : gallery</span></b></a> which officially launched January 2021 and, every calendar month since, has hosted an artist’s showcase of just six images linked by aesthetics, techniques, processes, philosophies, formal or conceptual elements. </div><div><br /></div><div>Some of those exhibiting with us are already well-established, internationally renowned artists, some have gone on to win major accolades since featuring. That’s not saying they wouldn’t have without the six shot! They were clearly on those positive trajectories when selected, but Signifier believes their successes are worth celebrating. Plus, it’s a welcome vote of confidence in the acumen of the curator’s eye. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can read my summary of all 24 exhibitions <a href="https://medium.com/signifier/two-years-of-the-six-shot-gallery-6a068a1ed1f8?sk=044570b38e077de8f080edc9e029a6e2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="828" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8LXcS2p4BJiROcKnMszJJC7mACYa5ufONssK1IN4rTkNx13dOTkD65ZhhNSmDYS7XNiKXc1DeDYbgi2ft3kxafMOdrgXT5JqaqP26l2JhZAA_K7cZ_Z27VlnN6EiKV4TKfuWpuG3qWwheN6GiMn43jPmGBPxp74jLX0eMqtmxYyFLGM9ocKkdqKCoA/s16000/1_bcgETVsBJy9gCLuXSJPVHQ.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>...and I am very happy to announce that year three is off to a stonking start with an exhibition by one of my favourite creative persons, <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://jonathanmeades.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jonathan Meades</a></span></b>, who you may know better as a television film-maker, newspaper columnist, and audacious author. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can view his six shots, <i>Treyfs and Artknacks,</i> <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/treyfs-and-artknacks-f2e96026de24?sk=ec307330f2c61334602269e65074bc90" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b>. </div><div><br /></div><div>I continue writing as a critic at <a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Frame Rated</span></b></a>, which keeps me in fine company among a top-notch team of movie buffs and film fans. During 2022, I wrote retrospective reviews for a couple of mainstream 1980s crowd-pleasers that I still love: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/poltergeist-1982-40-years-later-6de1cb9bc2b8?sk=dccd6079ca0af144b7c8267dac93c161" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="828" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEvtkgKcdgqVD4G4TKwxsr0IaSYu3JXlaqP5HBBn7SruFzkfD3YOcnLrDhQO7d7IKwFHCeWW5Q868UBWj2Mthx8d10_Mm6fgGKOPydD1JAdSQTrfzOMQlPNkmh2JnX7zNF0vqy3wZ2818fab7s3JF_0HJgOuC7Obu9x9C8vdg1_5fkRjfHNHI64lxPA/w400-h199/POLT_6j6NFDFNaglsj-5Y.jpg" width="400" /></a> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/e-t-the-extra-terrestrial-1982-40-years-later-9eae76c952c6?sk=584c8dc5491bf77557a7eb0189c9a80f" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="828" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFd5KbXDDLFNidRQ8RjyvKgC1d96g5XaXa7498SwwVfAJaZ4yYL3ENpSQhWu0XrppvtwEmakh2XORaMcUvcMPmIFLnusjl6sOpWeLKChy-OhJCIfTFLKeyS7KSc_dXqR2LRjXOgUn8E6PIxN2sdKYGVIxFMqkPNzEaE0-IPfanaNdcTZLqAVN1zo4hQ/w400-h199/ET_ArIkGdrC0q.jpg" width="400" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...as well as plenty of other, perhaps more 'cult' favourites, a few of which I link to below including high camp horror, visionary science fiction suspense, a seminal Vampire classic, a dreamy Japanese thriller, Italian <i>Giallo</i> essentials, and an edge-of-the-seat Korean thriller... (kudos for knowing the film before clicking on the thumbnail to read the extended reviews): </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/dr-phibes-rises-again-1972-50-years-later-e2d25f2099c1?sk=483aaa7109711dc33b0bfca06609bacd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="828" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvprmpi-AHJn3iqYYK-BB0bsEpN52RrNHh6w3BOXbhDABIcnbmeSyeFhZ6gHAxI2BDZb0eZju_OYkuf_0zuetfBZIaBsuP9IwyDt_HhPLRoaMB0bztnvJETvfKrz9NTSXvj-mPBleyzMB0Wzj-M_26TDBE_8pmQ9TSQVhA_LSxFNjG_8Y5V3bTC8utw/w400-h216/0_GLI.jpg" width="400" /></a> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/demon-seed-1977-45-years-later-1732008dc814?sk=bc18336cff3312025a4f43f3d40c4bc2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="828" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcXDKgmmrGRDPlZTOgC-0sGZ7E5oDq81iD9R6M7YuZRViobMYhvHA63ichlRPTgSJiCNCdnFrhk1MjO67uDoxgA7bT6LAP7kYG5RFAygK_9al8NYMTAGrpQjLc8al7WpNP6UrltFH2XZPbGiXCUgsHSL5i87gXhYLD3WV6DlMShoyvnAHCjcyRIyABg/w400-h216/0_blhur.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/vampyr-1932-blu-ray-eureka-masters-of-cinema-efaa4b058bea?sk=c9f3543f002dea86aeca652e92cad338" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="554" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeG4S8-PTKBfSJcflOtIRFjR44NXGZ1ZZhtoZtmX8DnMlS05qPoeq7QanQizfS5YbA5_5hioZYjgncoCw547WP0pvlQvx9vCU0diDZvmZjbbNMhMCgUzyFlJjeanw7Q5HJ-gYOi8WfO0ck3H76X0vt7SXNFV0XrCSEFz4A4epMRGjHqHrZsnyfwDp4LA/s320/0_8Fdu.jpg" width="320" /></a> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/to-sleep-so-as-to-dream-1986-blu-ray-arrow-video-a31a1ed1eff1?sk=db5923dd1223a2df7f2483f560b6e909" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="554" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAS9J3cnYL1PKCfslsAI8-Oecl8oOvpGz5ZZbs9yrUq8OcApW18Z1WgKueH2eyqfEzy__qXAEsmZ7msPqjBiulBCCmqE4a9gs94SRHr86tRhPcobaBuJ9NDjDJv7C818xylzxdnHq_bnIuOFn7HWZMpZf0L4-48z1LfIP3V3gHufsLATaQyx9RZxu2Q/s320/1_YXvQ.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/giallo-essentials-1972-74-blu-ray-arrow-video-d10fe3dbf313?sk=65aee14387ec816f79ce43d8d5c76e69" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="1362" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ZTJq8DM2wV0E7VkJ6iLYWjiLTsgDRI43rA9u40EHR632t-2BmTMIcaXiF5kL3KjU7SeSJNJOXbeN1iyvQXxchrtOJ4q0BwHdqJhaTb10dMcOAkwzcIT0mP5zJBkqIoYrMMcJrx8c-Wijfm5Xx7OnwnJohHxqd4os3PGLJpJpWxRgKHIb3-ri9mMhQg/w390-h162/SmileBeforeDeath01.jpg" width="390" /></a> <a href="https://medium.com/framerated/midnight-2021-blu-ray-eureka-entertainment-montage-pictures-be107c1ac089?sk=68993984b46d834e283f96f2fc1230a3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="1360" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxnybmKFdlIJOsAgcIgR6ZAyi9SL26yOkLDOtPnnznxTVoFlAoePKl7MeoQa6PX1pJrWFAYkr-KLJJ1xs5YNbNhyL9lLJL-klG0ILpEPfkhzQjLYfCb561oIaKMotT4-dHNozU9A64as4aQLZ7l6YYeDlmrgeKTD3qd58vAI782IcO9FJ92fqFaP1jLQ/w394-h163/Midnight02.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In addition to curating the aforementioned <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Signifier : six : shot : gallery</b></span></a>, I also edit <a href="https://medium.com/signifier" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Signifier</span></a><b style="font-size: large;"> </b>publication on Medium<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>and contribute regular articles on art, design, and media. My most popular pieces this year included articles about the art of chess, Gustav Klimt's paintings of trees, an ancient magical scroll featuring nine Chinese dragons, an overview of Joan Miró, a celebration of J-Pop-Art phenomena Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and a School of Athens Renaissance reunion... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/piece-works-concepts-of-chess-88462f5ded32?sk=f4a7f48d91fd6eb1d6d7beb6e7568b8e" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="519" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQKx_1FvF8ii3tUPxOwBcb9xvVL4FDXLsMJW8VlBdFv2Ba71nrGppRG4uwD2JKmPCgICd_Xn6mm6ftp008DBlng3YJWExyLHoXQKa3Zq1keC4zQfwjFVYpUWFb9xOF3sFj34E5O0Hj-KQIImKsiajQ4AVbys5StOOUvyBQpGeyA-XUDyz4kGkCxCz7w/w238-h256/1_In8VR8mpL_RH5De.jpg" width="238" /></a> <a href="https://medium.com/signifier/klimts-tree-paintings-6806d679b5f6?sk=54777b4d081e76859c2175c83b022bcb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="900" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLd5vpQOeec9rcMIhWSsSiUjQLBLJX9MRAYm-iGpz5GSpuxYr_sAR9Rqc0d9ai0T6Zb59oWw9N5neiUI_laTJM1jttc6dIVX-x7I-qkzxMRRA4qATc4sqBb-RvHQKxfZE0ninffJPaZt8ya-6cFo8GcYvZ-c6HTxdmkSDecAVSGHUrDQ-gDyqTyUafA/w258-h256/1_cDH1bMjJAV.jpg" width="258" /></a> <a href="https://medium.com/signifier/nine-dragons-in-a-handscroll-fedcb6063b58?sk=dbce5abe984ee7674f5bf125ad6124e7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="579" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--2pChc6QvzY6GRML1aUjDPIrz8fgV-riD5hUsTXc7kkQo6lL_Zdpludum08bELQrkXbyWT3r99TePnGooD6zelrUSUykvehInhJ8yHfTvO7_zxJnVs5uJr90RxxKUk7oFHgRYA3lXCXeE1SXXSL5W2H384vwY2viO1od41OKv-ONmM9aPsePBTDgMw/w257-h257/EOiCtURTOanLzYg.jpg" width="257" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/head-to-toe-with-joan-mir%C3%B3-eeccda8096c3?sk=7831923290b661d6218fda4d5465967c" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="800" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypvgtCbvWESQ-_4_CDwIWn6yv3xpBVvIZi2LwsibObo10cdbB7-g1pnCANNwqDWfOQ4F9Q7OIqoIzNTxdrxIU4zA586kP7qaSkGQlMmgvmRROv6XGJD-8-Lmd4nL0jjDe6atbAvMERCkJD-vIYpP8aaCirygKSGPqiShcDka9XnbmSVdOEo0CPsxsJw/w278-h243/1_ggw5kZiBg.jpg" width="278" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/take-a-bow-the-power-of-kyary-pamyu-pamyu-1fc84cc7cf42?sk=4f0bae29e411553fb5be0dcb378fc487" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlf6dTzJAW9FU0WsybviUuyMiilScLGR3bnK2NESeg8_A8ZWlRIKxL1HXCmfVreL3uBsbZsZ8TwDwBiTTjiKpN25k3WJ0jqRYCo23cIFE6sHygbxFb64IeOx0MeSbLZck_CEgQKGEaIqgPiEfOSeaztSZCVyT38D2WnMEBhcIv11WxxY5HDmrGC8RCDg/w244-h244/kppdonut.jpg" width="244" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/a-school-of-athens-reunion-4ec9fa081d4b?sk=77a9c399670bd469a2e89a3f970e7287" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="440" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFt2JKdotUNlbvp2W8D1VOezFw4J7WVqppVyIs024t8Jp1OjBtbNUzcgp0TU6VPUFVIkUtyh1gRHeNs1VkqJ9Z3Q6m0aamTXRXcUW8317mRBoese8F-txnfey57bxVCdpxivFKT9T2RduAE-y8EkYBH8Tj71YnGceg588uIaueT-r0eznaOvdYQLZGQ/w246-h246/1__Jmg3.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>As for fiction,</b> my best-selling book of 2022 was a close tie between <i><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2020/07/this-week.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>This That and The Other</b></span></a></i> Books One and Two, and when Books Three and Four catch-up, I assume pressure for Part Five will mount! Zel and me are sure looking forward to <i>That! </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Big 'thank you' goes to all those who have joined Rietta and Carla on their adventures across the Three Realms so far. All your support - whether that's reading the books, sending us letters of encouragement, or helping to spread the word on social media - is always appreciated... and for those yet to get involved in the epic fantasy adventure, please <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08DYCN2FP/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">check-out the four-book sequence so far via amazon</span></b></a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">That's all for now, except for me to wish you and yours all the very best for 2023!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><p>For news and updates follow me on </p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DeanAuthor" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>|<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://remydean.medium.com/follow" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;">Medium</a> </span></p></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-37664625256089055942022-07-16T16:04:00.012+01:002022-09-04T19:47:37.344+01:00Inside the Cave of Wild Humphrey Kynaston <p>Shropshire Council's <i><a href="http://www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Great Outdoors</span></a></i> website have kindly used my text about Wild Humphrey Kynaston in their new virtual walk-through of his cosy cave abode. Thank you, <a href="https://folklorethursday.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Folklore Thursday</span></a> for first publishing my article titled, <i>A Real Robin Hood: Tales of Wild Kynaston and his Satanic Steed, Beelzebub</i>, in which I retell some of the surviving tales about the Shropshire outlaw and highwayman, whilst looking at the real historical backdrop to his life. </p><p><b>Nesscliffe Hills and The Cliffe Countryside Heritage Site</b> is steeped in 3,000 years of human history, an Iron Age hillfort, saw pits where trees were planked by hand on site, World War II trenches, squatters cottages, an observation post, a terrace where archery competitions were held two hundred years ago, and <b>Kynaston's Cave</b> - hideout of Wild Humphrey the Highwayman. A new online walkthrough takes you inside, accompanied by my text commentary...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHv-F2yKVwxf-UWOBF5uk0LTfC6kdYoTa7JK4mGIh3q_gSgGBTvphVdGF0ziAd4v-t3LjltPnCNZqlJ_YftQrQU2f5jhZUflR3GpJ7VHa7ltonsbKhD3k9gGcNxTCiVrdgzAhfdnkBdBbdTOFsuwueuYBt69EaCZBciQaowk_TfBcKN_1LCmC44hiRA/s1366/KynastonsCaveTxt1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHv-F2yKVwxf-UWOBF5uk0LTfC6kdYoTa7JK4mGIh3q_gSgGBTvphVdGF0ziAd4v-t3LjltPnCNZqlJ_YftQrQU2f5jhZUflR3GpJ7VHa7ltonsbKhD3k9gGcNxTCiVrdgzAhfdnkBdBbdTOFsuwueuYBt69EaCZBciQaowk_TfBcKN_1LCmC44hiRA/w640-h360/KynastonsCaveTxt1.jpg" width="640" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm31Zf2u6xK0iZe-ly3LkaSNpGP9rkYCQfu39ltskhHC3eEK2UfcE6Wif5FvaWmr4HLHVdspxJgOw9-U0T6Lb4eOjL7hYLcWmkU3tNI5S2X7zaW-zlIAEGwJVeA1w_SszNyMsh9DhccZtMOi2siKjxdC0o3HrJACUY4pKUKO27iJzd3B5_GFneYgWuIQ/s1366/KynastonsCaveInt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm31Zf2u6xK0iZe-ly3LkaSNpGP9rkYCQfu39ltskhHC3eEK2UfcE6Wif5FvaWmr4HLHVdspxJgOw9-U0T6Lb4eOjL7hYLcWmkU3tNI5S2X7zaW-zlIAEGwJVeA1w_SszNyMsh9DhccZtMOi2siKjxdC0o3HrJACUY4pKUKO27iJzd3B5_GFneYgWuIQ/w640-h360/KynastonsCaveInt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><p>You can make a virtual visit via <a href="http://www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk/site/nesscliffe-hills-and-the-cliffe-countryside-heritage-site/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">this link </span></a>- scroll down the informative article to find VR compatible, 360° walkthroughs of the <b>Nesscliffe Hill Camp</b> dig - conducted during the summer of 2021 by Southampton & Oxford University Archaeology Departments; and a look inside the small but, for the time, well-appointed hideout of <b>Kynaston’s Cave</b> - a Scheduled Monument, situated high up and cut into the vertical quarry face of distinctive red sandstone, accessible only by a long flight of treacherous steps that are <i>not</i> safe for public use! </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-51965313924534849282022-01-07T21:28:00.011+00:002022-07-16T16:11:55.859+01:00...onward into 2022<p><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">Happy New Year! </span></b></p><p>Here is a brief round-up of things I did in 2021 that may be of interest to others... </p><p>I already summarised the first quarter <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2021/03/what-have-i-done-in-2021-so-far.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">HERE</span></a> which saw plenty of my writings published, about film and art, plus a virtual author's tour of schools for World Book Day following-on from a couple of virtual residencies. </p><p>The summer saw more writing, but a lot of it was 'in the background', including a new lease of life for an array of television script ideas, due to an injection of funding to facilitate their collaborative development. It may be a while until any of that is likely to be unleashed, though! </p><p>My visual art also explored avenues anew and collided with text to take things in a whole new direction... I wrote a related piece for <a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Signifier</b></span></a> about this merging and morphing into post-literate abstraction - click image below to read for free: </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/writing-to-escape-the-words-a43b651b9e97?source=friends_link&sk=d2c849f0585111794f69fd1ae2bafd87" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="1208" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4ffJx9Mcy_vrx3_poAufCSdc512rC5nu8qUMTVgL0uZNpM2R9cWMUAs1r4P53VSYg77bEpVLSWSi7GhRdtJYdJCA7s-FpZfcqocM8zWEyHuqP8SyFpL0kKsL4ndhf58Nbaf38J4bRNom4c1wYczqp7JAfit3U0qjUraHolCPdy1tfhpn_A0nYc1pwEg=w640-h176" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing to Escape the Words in Signifier</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I am honoured to have been accepted as an Arts Council of Wales Associate and looking forward to exploring all that may entail. In my role as Creative Consultant in Education I offered distanced learning, a mentoring programme, and also oversaw a collaboration with the forward thinking school Ysgol y Foryd, near Rhyl, and two inspiring artists, Sal Maguire of <a href="https://www.roundthetwist.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Round the Twist</span></b></a>, and Liam Rickard aka <a href="https://worldwidewelshman.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WorldWideWelshman</span></b></a>, who helped the pupils explore illustration, folklore, climate, and to write and perform their own original (and super-catchy) songs - one about the myth of the fearsome, flood-bringing Afanc, and another that's a pop party anthem.<div><br /></div><div>This creative adventure continues with the preliminary planning of a second educational project, and I'm looking forward to developing this into 2022 with three new Creative Practitioners - <a href="https://taradean.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Tara Dean</span></b></a>, along with Libby Edwards and Stuart Loughland of <a href="https://magiclightproductions.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Magic Light Productions</span></b></a>. The potential is immense and I can only expect... the unexpected! </div><div><br /></div><div>I was inaugural Curator for <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Signifier : Six : Shot : Gallery</span></b></a> which featured a dozen artists in its first year: Stephen Green, Julie Upmeyer, Lou Gunstone, Tim Pugh, Elin Hughes, David Thomas, Jan Gardner, KK Sharma, Géraldine Swatridge, Darren Neave, James Milne, and currenlty samples from my <i>Biodes</i> series are the <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/biodes-871976e6bb27?source=friends_link&sk=cf412eccf5b253b072172c0339691ad7" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">January 2022</span></b></a> exhibition. The Signifier’s Six Shot is an online gallery that showcases just six images linked by aesthetics, techniques, processes, philosophies, formal or conceptual elements. The accompanying statement by the artist may not necessarily explain the work but will help build a deeper and more meaningful engagement with it. </div><div><br /></div><div>(I am currenlty sorting out the Six Shot schedule for 2022, so if you would be interested in showing work, feel free contact me with your proposal and a request for guidelines.)</div><div><br /></div><div>I continued to contribute regular articles on art, design, and media to the <a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Signifier</span></b></a> publication and you can 'jump in' with these selected examples - try to guess the subject before clicking on the image: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/deep-in-the-wood-trees-as-art-4b6130217c0f?source=friends_link&sk=1bf0fc081d44d60f8c6766d1ed0931a8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZOAFLk-ItC9YtQ25NHnmz1KtrIhR-K9CJlpr_ItrMGCK-aDdb6QeFLr77jzAEuZL9-X8Cd9g4pFLzxARshV8MnrHJXXKlCf_MUPmeXxT6l9lkYVdxfArzBwrIzrm6g_e6_Vg_cz_hj0qP9fv6Xrm5_WpopoEO9QHUl9VZVuwj0fK9R-hmw2EQMrdRxw=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/franz-marc-seeing-through-it-all-4d6e73f2e616?source=friends_link&sk=a59d4db46bc48b2c8d29a6883e9a2662" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJJWQfJMskNJgg7Zt-oyV81V29i2H561QYesxlRpVL4kT2duXTmpM6_Gx4zt9q2-c5psX9zPTGD4aHzS0xfJG0NiFXvT7cyxaysOnvFzG0WCKJy1FjtlK6hiREQbRsyA9cyMYVv3JtRRXKz1iyP3t1MxnYUh-54Yv53KEh1zvZYpgzzBWIYN3TVEzoyQ=s320" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/the-art-of-weaving-past-into-future-424e54c85837" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2e2ZZmEqIscalvSXQOl3j5tI5DpGT1_kaG-212K61_aARoCN-OnVC_1V6FquGDp6Q2Wv23o0eM-hOxV6X4hFP6qjTsuVsFTX4tWVurzy91tImxKSZozn0_YFDEA9vw1d62bR1eHZdnLxKXWMKnFCel7jmGT89vnqit5peYEOBOfqnsHimD0yJ4uQMGg=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/the-self-the-hare-the-hands-ee06074a4f5b?source=friends_link&sk=ddc5f823bc1b904ff356629a4046dfd7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQlS3VXJm2rKQwbO2dLG-tPfZEVylHNUiRu_lsSB6TOvqCyMVFVKx7eFLXRTAXbFuJ5vwPFWjVtrUHKCSCeZT2ndZe5X9qH0sIKrVnXlpdANYNfoUfJ8gdJmKv_RCFbQR-pJv2mdlKppjMA5XAGt_nLbuiTS1s_tJG0Ue0hR7LgbzGaZhDsBEBlgWiug=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/whose-shoes-c10eaab7f78f?source=friends_link&sk=7674c05cd2994eb2a5087f1b94d499b4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidQVSbW7wAfoBybl5yroO_D3hLUj0hYGNffeUnGJcdq8FMhkg4zfBtboJHpYy2OVxdpjwvKutKUyyVl9j8lfKsKzAkQjNreYK3_W43M34HH1MFqSTDj2h64PRK4HpDWQPl87-4ES5nCVP3d9amm6ByjJc6kUUKBb7r9AG7W9Crm1GPIBV0QdJeO8mQ9A=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/nouveau-or-deco-b4856cd801fd?source=friends_link&sk=a916c0e3de4e29a4c9c7843c149957e6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7iqsNoXgD_p9q9z4sABgEAxipsrZxJs8o3fxYIfGQV3pvtYSMhmv7V0p4rvrS5IiIDXeT3yxdKHZzFKt09h69ek90jW0yNP0ITEPQ3CfRyOCkU8bfWWrN3qoLw6WVAl_rPSMJGPCopMK3kTNCG6mq6GO7InCI74o8Y06w1AwPPJ-1nOHCvZhcedsC4g=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>...and I enjoyed writing regular reviews of film and television as a critic at <a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Frame Rated</span></b></a>. Here are a few choice retrospectives, 'deep-dives', and reviews I particularly enjoyed - see if you can identify the movies from these stills before clicking-through to the reviews: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/the-abominable-dr-phibes-1971-50-years-later-1c8d7bd982ce?sk=a92ad1ecbf8d7c0bc491bef9eac40457" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1366" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh130-p3GfSdz7_i5o94551DnM9Km_qvNS25yDZqVG9cELxdRgH0z5GjGPXf52MbnxCZIFm_dO69raOp9hF3TBHTauYfB-tozZkdO_XAlwaJyOjmST_3HsTvyaQaQ3Z2EGwRyaNMvEF4xwxAJXHL9lo8otp9Sc47NXckJVCfm6IsyZdl1r1N_gwdwJwKQ=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/excalibur-1981-40-years-later-b19b55d05190?sk=cb984907438e0e9fb90c5aaf49774f81" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1366" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSYCoRIFmNSG-XUp0VPjdidUekG2L_t5itJl6Q8J9tiJvQ_GW8_wVxb6BJnFk7VENBp_NvX8XI9139HBWnDKCmKPOEB0jTW1VPKfOEHoIg0NiPxfBAoNf81E2kVx8hDTaH3Ol1039DP4wKAXWyyie7CEmm2QV0tIfua56OzetXZTdVERH1iPUq-dErBg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/y%C5%8Dkai-monsters-collection-1968-2005-blu-ray-arrow-video-219c83408cff?sk=c06f8a26531062590f3ebfd8e74d1be0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKSZakcu9fbTPfEYk2pbcCSY3sLCQqRIwRxCO56d0zG1zrah-qY6T7ae5CZdoJ1xnkoOlXzQL_YhZjlsAmhh1NuZGX3O98OOVc5ZsZSsdY51gz5WElsCYpgy0dCSE1rCjcQvAg1uFT5899IO7P-Ly8RI7o6NrYHgZgdd6O6C81EYaaL-5W2NrgZfct-g=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/night-of-the-hunter-1955-blu-ray-criterion-collection-f2e3810cb46c?sk=538197fae6a12ce2ed532ddc5ce3b3dc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdFZYghHPcbiKBTDFB7R-DM_7GoQfLKg2RKTp-L-IL-DWS-8htqG2GBGfz-7Y1ZQHtWklQ2G2wvCUIfQ_9G3R35A8Se67QZm7_L32nsi3HHyC-2JElTX8nQisGh_75A2pzzmUSCMbageJx15dEJPf9d8w4tb8Uh7Tb2UV9i2Wc2UhEDVtNf5p6QU2SQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/wolfen-1981-40-years-later-6939f6a4c8c4?sk=fa3f1f6366a37c262db56b856c4430fc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="1000" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpCes_JhZ9ogpcH06f5LBZfpucKCG-Pya4WUxlmvC6X7RAl-SMK4mhgJFdTJECxq6-e2s215YojgrqJMT6Kvj9UyurNyNn-uNxu6MXuE5HU2INmX1WNawSxfW86m6Y_koIA_hVWDWzRsryBBR2Vnp6R3RSe6LOddb9lGv6__gwlrzmIXEXV0Az4ka8UA=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/murder-by-decree-1979-blu-ray-studiocanal-vintage-classics-9fef886c5c84?sk=3f0ec2c0294e6c08d88ec391b700e816" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="1000" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh0NF_s3AjD4rXfVEGHOEMB484arBoJpSyD8PGjILrx1KjGN6do2QrA9zVqn8mbEN3inbZM4YRaxZRfgXcQtkPEtDoZN1zoe0sH2HiiG7lGMNgPJIhKPbdYOeYYecqugbYPeijfIfPWkekttClIYpdOSnbf5gCrgfGaGw5MUxH4uCS35FPLBG2vYNyhw=s320" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/karloff-at-columbia-1935-1942-blu-ray-eureka-classics-b8f593c81337?sk=9184ffb949e1ce0c06c19ec131afcee1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="700" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyyO-vsJ-z8l-MGIJ5sLEe_ei783parUSoeElTgIDkerWQrEiiw9NGqY9zVvS4L5GJNtT64jUTQsg4pmjYbD7fVJcIPJbQ8wr-faL9kU_3hY8ZpeXIY0l6nAh_d-S4NT2ctUVtzJ7oG9SBYL6jyN8Vl_piuXTN2wOJmV0F1K7G8YZk-jY3n2kdxBAI_w=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/framerated/bringing-up-baby-1938-blu-ray-criterion-collection-40cb8d6b26d5?sk=29c1f95f0d25c9eb26a2c7fdd1837980" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="700" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKjZvxQUbKlOFNFMgXu41onGAs-E5IIWou1OSHm37oRkEqyuvkqcd2doC8ky72CVZzoh7HgAaC2Cz2BcGzuCYehsNLgevtnD3j6GkN-nNO9qPD_oVBBccYgDRFWFU69jqpA3EbcHzT6dSWwGa0lbfaIOENeREqG5hQge1Y3vC2PRP4b0KfE1Wi5IMFHQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Simply spreading the word via your social channels would be a big help and won't cost a penny. So, take a moment to share articles, art, and reviews that you found of interest because, chances are, others may also. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Much of my online writing is syndicated to the Medium platform where I am listed as a Top Writer in the categories of Art and Movies. If you haven't yet, please consider subscribing to Medium via - <a href="https://remydean.medium.com/membership" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">this link</span></b></a> - I receive a small referral fee and you get unlimited access to <i>The Signifier</i> publication and <i>Six Shot Gallery</i>, plus <i>Frame Rated</i> and all the quality writing on Medium, which is focussed on providing a smooth reader experience across multiple devices and platforms. It’s a great deal!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The best way to support any indie author, is to purchase their books! If you enjoy the work of a writer, then a reader review on your preferred peer-sharing platform is a brilliant way to show support and get the word out to others who may also enjoy their books. If you know anyone who enjoys reading “imaginative fiction at its best,” <i><span><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2020/07/this-week.html"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">This, That, and The Other</span></b></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i>is my latest series of epic fantasy adventure novels, written with Zel Cariad, and the first four are available from <a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/p/red-sparrow-books.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Red Sparrow Press</span></b></a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">That's all for now, except for me to wish you and yours all the very best for 2022!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;">For news and updates follow me on </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #400058; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DeanAuthor" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>|<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://remydean.medium.com/follow" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;">Medium</a> </span></p><div><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/biodes-871976e6bb27?sk=cf412eccf5b253b072172c0339691ad7" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeDqo2IMBZVs4m5wgMxfL3YMrheRQt0MJdxMtAuGC4QNF64Yxb92g9NV2nDGZTYgE9R8lrklIYa8fdkFn0kye2_AMjdwzLw3zpM7xLa0Esp_5qhZuy8BYgi98-PbnYa0c1TBUhb2xFoAl8OdS7VBcCGU4Me71NXkXvBjOZuEyGzpH2Pl_9dbvlKbIBhw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-15125868378440575282021-03-24T19:10:00.006+00:002022-02-13T15:05:06.160+00:00What Have I Done in 2021 So Far?<p>A rapid round-up of my 'what-when-where' for the first quarter... </p><p>First up, I have to say I'm so glad to live in the age of modern medicine and vaccines, in a country with a National Health Service... focusing on the positives here, in a time of many negatives. Never 'Back to Normal'. Only 'Back to Better' is acceptable.</p><p>Despite the past 12 months of COVID-19 control lockdowns, I have managed to get on with some art activity 'out there'. Curating the <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">. six . shot . gallery .</span></a> for the new online initiative from <a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Signifier</i></span></a> has been inspiring. I suppose you could say that I led by example with <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/the-stars-at-our-feet-d96e4dfd666f?source=friends_link&sk=f335b76318fe65a4a7cbe8ad91d24686" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Stars, At Our Feet</i></span></a>, the inaugural exhibition to welcome in the New Year, and have been followed by two really intriguing, enigmatic and poetic online shows from <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/porth-annwn-variations-a06538ebee2b?source=friends_link&sk=8b755490424585ba85a227929e5b2b90" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stephen Green</span></a> and <a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier/possibilities-of-a-pond-an-origin-story-3eb1ccbd9c6a?source=friends_link&sk=671ba635f80c143c4d2157ac5a5d802d" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Julie Upmeyer</span></a>. I look forward to artist Lou Gunstone taking the slot for April, adding a bolder splash of colour with his illustrative, pop-art vibe... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="1296" height="280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lfq9RdyjAdE/YFqGF46q3bI/AAAAAAAAEmM/9fQiOaORP_sVHIXwyMjmTohOU-qyS-oewCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h280/SignifierSisShotPromo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've also been regularly contributing articles about art and design in context for <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank"><i>The Signifier</i></a></span> publication. You can 'jump in' with these selected examples - try to guess the subject before clicking on the image: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/choco-lart-dc9e75449ca?source=friends_link&sk=5855f0cf392704c794c85e0efd9caa0d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PW7ips4Fu_0/YFqFKhXXxEI/AAAAAAAAEl8/ljSEacezdKE-BvlEx05fuY35Sj17_XqJwCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h181/kitkat_sig.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/mad-as-munch-2c4bc4fff234?source=friends_link&sk=31daf6cf81487306a9ed938b63a0e5c3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1UuWGetb8I/YFqE8cDLMFI/AAAAAAAAEl0/dRdtaQgadU0uf0FwnAoNniXzmgrmVcrLACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h181/munch_sig.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/father-of-the-renaissance-545bbd390a5d?source=friends_link&sk=294e21995d4af04314a5108ffcdd8c54" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-daCLJWbN0Os/YFshAPIYWBI/AAAAAAAAEnk/C0TbNDWr2sUfJ6NAzKAoEMyBw3wZ_jSNACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h181/Giotto_-_Scrovegni_sig.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://medium.com/signifier/bauhaus-barcelona-and-beyond-4be8e2af46f1?source=friends_link&sk=5534b63ed2463ecff058e65f8c996b24" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="700" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IlvksSJ7RKg/YFshvLJA4eI/AAAAAAAAEn0/kI-xqGyZUNURW-d6CtJx_kC3nPmECT38ACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h181/meis_sig.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">...and I continue writing regular reviews of film and television as a critic at <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank">Frame Rated</a></span>. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Here are a few reviews I particularly enjoyed writing recently - kudos if you can identify the movies from these stills before clicking on them: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/investigation-citizen-suspicion-1970/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="1024" height="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XgCbcQ--eGU/YFflW-5Q-lI/AAAAAAAAEko/nDuQLDJEk9A4yNnrDihgWC0yZigtNZVnwCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h216/Investigation12-1024x553.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/kagemusha-1980/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="1024" height="215" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c-coMa8S1hs/YFfmR7y_OaI/AAAAAAAAEk0/yUCt_P5hdVIjt5uCdk4tjTT3IHZejTZaQCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h215/Kagemusha01-1024x552.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/viy-1967/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="1024" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OcSlGpKizYY/YFqKnhud-4I/AAAAAAAAEmk/-pXpT4oAfMg7rFDUQBJj30uZXcCpp5K1gCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h248/Viy01-1024x750.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/the-bloodhound-2020/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1268" height="243" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m7p4ktWRRQ0/YFfnjKXU5GI/AAAAAAAAElI/8tX2HdyKMM8TOZaaY7BVeTYLWPbVNf4BACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h243/Bloodhound01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The readership for <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/kindle/series/B08F2LX8K7/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">This</span></i></a> is growing slowly but surely as more people get to know Rietta and Carla, joining them on their adventures across the magical realms of <i><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2020/12/2020-went-astray.html#This_Reviews" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">This, That and The Other</span></a></i>... </p><p style="text-align: left;">I thoroughly enjoyed a few virtual author visits to primary schools for this year's World Book Day, to talk about my favourite books from childhood and to read from <i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-That-Other-Book-ebook/dp/B01MDRIJGT/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank">This Part One</a></span></i>. I was able to be there without travelling, and without that travel time, I could appear live in more places on the day than would've been otherwise possible. Through the magic of modern media, I even managed to be in more than one place at the same time! Big <i><span style="font-size: medium;">thank you</span></i> to the schools for having me, to all those who listened to my stories, and for sharing the amazing art you felt inspired to make - see if you can spot your 'work in progress' below... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6lDERvBAB4/YFqUVsN8XcI/AAAAAAAAEm0/G7QuqXJwmkYARj0mWN-6bBAHk76H7r7mQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1714/WBD2021d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1714" height="476" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6lDERvBAB4/YFqUVsN8XcI/AAAAAAAAEm0/G7QuqXJwmkYARj0mWN-6bBAHk76H7r7mQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h476/WBD2021d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">As an author, I've enjoyed concentrating on writing (I could get used to this!) but much of my 'work' had been leading creative educational workshops in schools, colleges, and the wider community, so the pandemic definitely hit some of my main outlets pretty hard. I know I'm not alone in this and have been privileged to continue working for the Arts Council of Wales, helping to facilitate their forward-thinking <a href="https://arts.wales/creative-learning/about-creative-learning/lead-creative-schools-scheme" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lead Creative Schools</span></a> initiative. It has been a challenge to innovate and adapt, using a 'blended approach' to accommodate these challenging times for the schools, the children and their families. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I have also been developing workshops and courses for digital delivery and hope to offer free preview access to 'friends and followers' in the near future (watch this space). In the meantime, I have launched my '<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RemyDean" target="_blank">Buy Me A Coffee</a>' </span>page (if you're feeling kindly, then a 'coffee' is always very much appreciated) where I will be offering goodies such as signed prints and exclusive downloads... </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/cof-brosesu-processed-memory.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5OlVTTSK_j0/YFsuDXfkSsI/AAAAAAAAEn8/WxmrX5Sfo2AC_QacgGz_VTA6037J6EIAwCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h160/f8dedebaf8784142a32177cc277fa3ba.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/land-poems.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1333" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9pwLpZfxbkc/YFsuMPzpC9I/AAAAAAAAEoA/Yv204-63J6k3gpV61-b8x9DD8DHF79IcACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h150/2f6f764a22303e3342f54f364b455512.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">There is also a growing selection of <a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/p/red-sparrow-merch.html" target="_blank">merchandise for <i>This, That and the Other</i> at the <span style="font-size: medium;">Red Sparrow Press</span> website</a> including lovely mugs and specially designed stationery. The best way to support small indie publishers and their authors, is to purchase their books or simply to help spread the word via your social media. If you enjoy the work of a writer, then a reader review on your preferred peer-sharing platform is a brilliant way to show support and get the word out to others who may also enjoy their books. Huge thanks to those who have taken time to write reviews of my books on Amazon and Good Reads already! Of course, sales of merchandise can also help a lot... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGw4LPqFVNc/YFsu5-PBWAI/AAAAAAAAEoM/4Qx2V1lb2Xwk0E_qA_hjAsfwNTICIKi_ACNcBGAsYHQ/s256/Lucky_living_zippers_web.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGw4LPqFVNc/YFsu5-PBWAI/AAAAAAAAEoM/4Qx2V1lb2Xwk0E_qA_hjAsfwNTICIKi_ACNcBGAsYHQ/s256/Lucky_living_zippers_web.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/p/red-sparrow-merch.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vGCeF3zClkQ/YFsu58CmaII/AAAAAAAAEoU/6c7YruGOrBoWO21EZ0ZMPLCHdv4MFtv-gCNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/Scrufty_mug_ani.GIF" width="200" /></a><a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/p/red-sparrow-merch.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="256" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGw4LPqFVNc/YFsu5-PBWAI/AAAAAAAAEoM/4Qx2V1lb2Xwk0E_qA_hjAsfwNTICIKi_ACNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/Lucky_living_zippers_web.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/p/red-sparrow-merch.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="256" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZC28RugOCL4/YFsu50GLJNI/AAAAAAAAEoQ/rlygnIXER5EWO3mwcBGFWc-WkhmqqYFggCNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/Smugly_mug_ani.GIF" width="200" /></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i>The dogs and dragons of This - who can resist Scrufty, Lucky, and Smugly?</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">For news and updates follow me on </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DeanAuthor">Twitter</a> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>|<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://remydean.medium.com/follow">Medium</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-27845930439747604752020-12-29T11:02:00.021+00:002021-03-24T11:42:05.243+00:002020 Went Astray <div><br /></div><div>2020 unravelled like a teaser trailer for The End of the World! </div><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps the comet was an omen? </div><div><br /></div><div>Neowise C/2020 F3 was a rare and beautiful sight in the clear night skies of Spring but it just happened to coincide with the whole world going strange and scary. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9W71ws2GM1o/X-hwhbnZpQI/AAAAAAAAEgE/7Nb4r99n7r4udgd3WjerJ-0NueKEnZluACNcBGAsYHQ/s512/CometC2020F3-Neowise-20200716.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="512" height="340" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9W71ws2GM1o/X-hwhbnZpQI/AAAAAAAAEgE/7Nb4r99n7r4udgd3WjerJ-0NueKEnZluACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h340/CometC2020F3-Neowise-20200716.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><b>Comet Neowise photographed by NASA's Hubble Telescope in August 2020</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The planet seemed to catch on fire and huge swathes of important habitats went up in smoke across every continent. Not only was this a disaster for the wildlife that lived in those locations, the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere really fed into the same global warming cycle that had been a catalysts in the first place. The wildfires were probably the most significant global disaster, though just a small component in the current climate crisis, of course! Droughts ravaged many parts of the world as temperatures soared to record highs, whilst in other parts there was flooding of 'biblical' proportions, brought on by more storms ever named in a single year... </div><div><br /></div><div>Then came the Corona-virus pandemic. Enough has been said and written about that all year, so I shan't dwell upon it here. Suffice to say that it may well be a practice run for regular, and possibly more virulent, pandemics to come so it's important to learn as much as we can from this experience. Possibly the most important 'take-away' from this is that viruses don't respect your political views. There's no point protesting against a microbe! Politicians need to put people before profits and the NHS has to be better funded! Also, we witnessed a global demonstration of how, when we feel threatened, humans can become highly irrational and easily distracted. Let's change our ways and work out how to 'pull-together' next time... </div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, the politics of the last few years have tended more and more toward division rather than unity... it's an old ploy to take power from the masses - set them squabbling over something relatively trivial, like say, Brexit. Polarize the population and then flood those debates with lies and uncertainty. If people think that facts are 'fluid', then how will they decide what to believe? It leaves them free to select anything that supports what they already believe, so they will seek out 'news' and views that simply agree with their own world view. Of course public response to non-trivial issues, such as equality and environment, can also be manipulated using this method. </div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, mentioned Brexit there, didn't I? Sorry. Ah, well, we are going forth with some sort of last-minute deal that, after spending more than our entire subscription to the EU since we joined in 1973, seems to be only a bit worse than what we started with. And that's better than it nearly turned out - so let's be looking for the potentials - in the hope of finding at least some tangible benefits? Thankfully, I managed to avoid mentioning Trump (another global disaster!) But I should mention BLM, which became a rallying cry for much-needed social evolution. </div><div><br /></div><div>2020 was a mess. Perhaps the best thing some of us can say in its favour is, "It could've been worse and at least we made it through!"</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Now, there's a new year looming, a time for each to reflect and think ahead. Look back on what we have done and forward to what we can do to steer toward the future we really want. </b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I chatted with Julie McNicolls Vale at <i><a href="https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cambrian News</span></a></i> for their <i><span style="font-size: medium;">maes</span></i> supplement, back in August... here's the published feature about creative life in lock-down Wales, being a virtual artist in residence for the Arts Council's Lead Creative Schools online programme with Tredegar Park Primary, taking part in Plas Bodfa's international <i>Unus Multorum 2020</i> online art festival, and my new epic fantasy book <i>THIS </i>(part four) written with Zel Cariad and concluding Book One of our <i>This, That and The Other </i>trilogy! </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MlHukO77XjIW-S-Ac_5_zOWGF2yfO49f/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="248" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2n6_DFswPuo/X9OfHxMy04I/AAAAAAAAEfU/aDbLbNMi-o8EtCRtYdY_15QoVedVTA-XACNcBGAsYHQ/w310-h400/Dean_CambrianNews_small_aug_2020.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Click thumbnail image to read PDF</i></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Lock-down life suited me fine. I got to spend time with my family and enjoy daily exercise together walking our dog in our local woodlands. I do realise the experience would’ve been a real challenge, and not so idyllic for many, especially those alone in an environment with limited access to natural spaces… and of course, all the NHS staff, carers, and essential support workers that have tirelessly kept our society going have been doing a difficult job very well. But for us, watching the ancient forest go through its cycle of life for a whole year was a constant comfort. It was endlessly fascinating and a privilege to be afforded the time to be on intimate terms with the flora and fauna of the ancient landscape, peaceful and left almost undisturbed by other humans. </div><div><br /></div><div>It gave us hope for a better, greener future after lock-down, as people realised they didn’t really need half the ‘baggage’ of the modern world to survive. Perhaps they've glimpsed the cons of capitalism? We’re still hoping that we never get back to ‘normal’ - only <i>back to better</i> is acceptable. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">My year in books </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">- one small step for Fantasy, </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">one giant leap for this Fantasy author!</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Four years in the making, <i>THIS</i> arrived complete and published in four parts from <a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Red Sparrow Press</span></a>. Me and my 'creative consultant', <a href="https://zelcariad.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Zel Cariad</span></a> had a wonderful time putting the story together, pick'n'mixing bits'n'pieces from folklore and fairy tales and bringing them right up to date into the modern imagination. I also posted a <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/illustrations.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">small gallery of my illustrations</span></a> used on the paperback book covers, which saw the year in as part of <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2019/11/wales-and-its-fairy-tales-at-oriel-ty.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Folklore and Fairytales of North Wales</i></span></a> exhibition at Oriel Ty Meirion, over winter 2019-20...</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>THIS </i>is just the beginning... the first book in the trilogy, <i>This, That and The Other</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>We really appreciate our readers who have been supporting us so far and helping to spread the word, and a very warm welcome to our new friends who can step into the story via the samples below and join the journey with Rietta and Carla as their friendship is tested across the three magical realms... </div><div><br /></div><div><a id="This_Reviews">As summed-up in a few reader reviews</a>: "<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Bursting at the seams with magic</b></span>," and, "<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>will be enjoyed by fans of fantasy of all ages, especially those who like the classics like the <i>Narnia</i> saga</b></span>," and, "<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">a lovely depiction of friendship</span></b>," and most recently a <i>Red Button</i> review that proclaimed <i>THIS</i> was, "<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>imaginative fantasy at its best, wonderful work and heartily recommended</b></span>..."</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="550" src="https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/card?asin=B01MDRIJGT&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_pdH4FbY8N0PRF&tag=scrawlmagazine" style="max-width: 100%;" type="text/html" width="336"></iframe>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="550" src="https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/card?asin=B08CRX3LTL&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_pfH4FbDKEP444&tag=scrawlmagazine" style="max-width: 100%;" type="text/html" width="336"></iframe></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">My year in art<b> </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">- really, 20:20 should've been <i>great</i> for visual arts</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">...and in many ways it was!</span> </div></div><div><br /></div><div>As an author and artist, I enjoy working solo much of the time, but I was also fortunate to have several outlets for creative collaboration during isolation. </div><div><div><br /></div><div>Just before the nation went into lockdown, I was installing an <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2020/06/unus-multorum-2020-online-festival.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">epic wall drawing in Plas Bodfa</span></a>, an arts centre in Angelsey, for a major arts festival involving more than 100 international artists. The pandemic was already affecting many of those artists from other countries who found themselves adapting to send their work or to present it virtually. Then, one week before the final installation and opening to the public… well, that’s when everything changed. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mGjfWwmhj44/X-pbxvgWMhI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/iJqRciNbRBMHoQEWEH_VU0uoUrgVnPj7ACNcBGAsYHQ/s1172/RD_PB_Corridraw_Films.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1172" height="436" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mGjfWwmhj44/X-pbxvgWMhI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/iJqRciNbRBMHoQEWEH_VU0uoUrgVnPj7ACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h436/RD_PB_Corridraw_Films.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span><b><i>Corridraw</i>: Writing on the Floors photographed by Kim Vertue, </b></span></div><div><span><b>Writing on the Walls stills from the film, <i>Possibilities of a House </i></b></span></div><div><span><b>produced by <a href="https://culturecolony.com/" target="_blank">Culture Colony</a> for Plas Bodfa</b></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The instigator and curator, <a href="https://www.julieupmeyer.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Julie Upmeyer</span></a>, who has boundless energy and drive, refused to let things drift and instead organised a series of online and virtual events that became the <a href="https://www.plasbodfa.com/unus-multorum-2020" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Unus Multorum 2020</i> </span></a>Online Arts Festival. This involved several live-streaming events and she also facilitated a virtual environment using Zoom and social media for the artists involved to interact and collaborate. <i>Unus Multorum</i> also incorporated the launch of Plas Bodfa Objects, a selection of limited edition Artist's Multiples that migrated far beyond the exhibition environment, taking the Festival across the country and beyond - via mail order. My contribution was a <a href="https://www.plasbodfa.com/objects/cicorc-conwy-by-remy-dean" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">special edition of <span>10 Cicorc</span></span></a>... </div><div><br /></div><div>I think that, although I didn’t meet many in person, I got to know more of my fellow artists than I would’ve at a ‘real world’ event! I’m also pretty sure that more people around the globe got to see the art who wouldn’t have been able to get there in person, even under normal circumstances. </div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-00bZ_uneIFc/X-qU59_j6lI/AAAAAAAAEgo/VsTLq2BUuccLZLyUQPgrfsxtlcM3zQyBgCNcBGAsYHQ/s680/cicorcbodfa.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-00bZ_uneIFc/X-qU59_j6lI/AAAAAAAAEgo/VsTLq2BUuccLZLyUQPgrfsxtlcM3zQyBgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/cicorcbodfa.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Two Cicorc pals, 'James W. Fisher' and 'Arkinholm', exploring Plas Bodfa <br />photographed during lock-down by Julie Upmeyer</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span>I love a good residency and also enjoy leading creative workshops in the community. Alas, such opportunities were unrealistic during a global pandemic! However, through the Lead Creative Schools programme, part of the national </span><a href="https://2019.creativelearning.arts.wales/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Creative Learning</span></a><span> initiative helmed by the </span><a href="https://arts.wales/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Arts Council of Wales</span></a><span>, I did manage to deliver another virtual residency which worked out rather well, at Tredegar Park Primary School - coincidentally, situated in the grounds of my ancestral home! We all shared adventures exploring islands of the imagination. Currently, I'm working with another fantastic school, Ysgol y Foryd in North Wales, on an exciting new project that will take us into 2021, involving food, fun and story-telling - watch this space [...you can read the artist call-out for this exciting Lead Creative Schools project as a PDF <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QwEjU8i2NpJZAJ6V4LnxDXGikJ7rUuQD/view" target="_blank">HERE</a>]</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Another thing that 2020 has encouraged is greater generosity in the sharing of content online. For example, in partnership with The Red Sparrow Press, I was able to make <i>THIS</i> part one available as a 'FreeBook' on the Medium platform, initially during schools closure, but it ended up staying there all year... and I have enjoyed visiting many online galleries and exhibitions, so I've seen more world-class art than I would've done on the usual trips to London and Cardiff. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span>I began the year with a presentation at </span><a href="http://orielcolwyn.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oriel Colwyn</span></a>, The North Wales Photography Gallery, of my project, <i>The Stars, at Our Feet</i>. So, it's quite fitting that photographs from that series will feature as the inaugural exhibition at <i>The Signifier's</i> new online initiative - <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://medium.com/the-signifier" target="_blank">The Six Shot Gallery</a></span> - which I will then be curating for the rest of 2021 to showcase the work of a different contemporary artist each month. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3xYVWPq43tI/X-sKEorx5cI/AAAAAAAAEhI/InoQQGcL7pkrVnNjZ-RO8cdjwEdRRiypwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1386/Oriel%2BColwyn.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="1386" height="222" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3xYVWPq43tI/X-sKEorx5cI/AAAAAAAAEhI/InoQQGcL7pkrVnNjZ-RO8cdjwEdRRiypwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h222/Oriel%2BColwyn.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Presenting <i>The Stars, at Our Feet</i> at Oriel Colwyn in pre-lock-down 2020<br />photograph, left, by Kim Vertue, and right, courtesy of the gallery</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Aside from <i>THIS</i>, the fantastic new novel, my recent writing has appeared in the following online publications:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank">The Signifier</a></span></i> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">- for which I have contributed regular articles on the history of art </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://folklorethursday.com/author/remy/#sthash.eciTCORZ.IUcSZ82O.dpbs" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Folklore Thursday</i></span></a> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">- for which I contributed a piece on the marvelously misconstrued collection of Welsh mythologies known as <i>The Mabinogion</i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank">Frame Rated</a></span></i> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">- for which I continue to write regularly as a film critic, often in-depth retrospectives of classics, occasionally reviews of new releases... </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Wishing you all the very best and with a very special, "Thank You!" to everyone who has been reading what I've written and appreciating the art I've made. I especially hope you are enjoying spending time in the Realms of </span><i>This That and The Other.</i><span>.. and... I'm very excited to announce that there<i> is</i> a publishing deal in place for the next book, so will be working on </span><i>THAT</i><span>, again with Zel Cariad's invaluable input, and if all goes to plan, the wait for </span><i>THAT</i><span> (part one) won't be too long! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Roll-in and roll-on, 2021! </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W6g8jC43GJ4/X-qWFL1tB_I/AAAAAAAAEg0/n-0RI-nWum0GkksgMn60XEhInoSpQEYKQCNcBGAsYHQ/s669/download.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="669" height="318" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W6g8jC43GJ4/X-qWFL1tB_I/AAAAAAAAEg0/n-0RI-nWum0GkksgMn60XEhInoSpQEYKQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h318/download.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-70507760033256128652020-07-13T11:03:00.002+01:002020-09-18T09:22:53.482+01:00THIS is complete!<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This Part Four : This Fair Land, Wherein Dreams and Magics Meet </i>is now published and concludes Book One of <i>This, That and The Other</i>.</span><br />
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Time is running out.<br />
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After their narrow escape from the besieged Citadel, Rietta and Carla must finally fulfill their promise to the Fair Ones. Using powerful magics stolen from the Elfyn empire, they seek to protect the Three Realms by reciting an ancient and dreadful spell...<br />
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They soon learn that things are not as they expected. As hopes of their safe return home are consumed in fire and darkness, the girls realise that there are dire consequences. Now, more than ever, they must rely on each other and the magical friends they have made on their journey.<br />
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But is everyone who they appear to be in the final, thrilling instalment of <i>This</i>?<br />
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<i>This That and the Other</i> is imaginative fantasy, on an epic scale. The story follows the special friendship between two girls who embark on a magical adventure together, across the three realms. It is a modern fable inspired by fairy tales and folklore whilst remaining relevant to today's most important issues, in the tradition of <i>The Neverending Story, The Box of Delights, The Chronicles of Narnia</i>…<br />
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I am an author and artist. I am not a full-time politician or government official. I have no easy-fix solutions... but wouldn't it be lovely if the 'economy' simply collapsed and became nonviable, so we were forced to find another way of coexisting based on mutual care and respect for each other and all aspects of our natural environment?<br />
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We created money, and the resulting economy was a way of helping society run smoothly. It was there to <i>serve</i> us, but now it seems we are its slaves, expected to make sacrifices that risk our lives and even 'life on Earth' in order to save the unsustainable 'economy'. This makes no sound sense.<br />
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One step away from such economic slavery would be to introduce a functional guaranteed basic income, as a first step in disassembling our money-driven economy and replacing it with a <b>creative human-driven 'green' economy</b>. As the nations of the world consider global recovery, we all need to re-think our priorities. Now would seem an ideal time to 're-boot' and do this.<br />
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Environmental recovery is essential.<br />
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Plas Bodfa, based on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, is hosting a series of brave and exciting arts initiatives.<br />
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Last year, I was fortunate to be selected for the inaugural 'artists takeover' under the banner of <a href="https://www.plasbodfa.com/sui-generis" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Sui Generis</span></i></a> - an ambitious project that brought more than 60 international artists together to respond to the location that has been many things including a family home, a steakhouse, a care home, a tapestry studio with visitor centre, and is now in transition once more into a family home with attached studios and arts centre!<br />
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Participants from across Europe, Australia and the Americas all contributed some amazingly varied work and <i>Sui Generis</i> was listed among the <a href="https://www.plasbodfa.com/top10wales" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Top 10</span> art events in Wales for 2019</a>.<br />
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My two, linked contributions were, <i><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/all-we-are.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">In Lieu (of All We Are)</span></a> </i>- a text-based installation in one of the several bathrooms, and <i><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/corridraw.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Corridraw: Escape Route</span></a></i>, which featured large-scale gestural writing, drawn directly onto the walls of the passageways, and brought together concepts I have been exploring in the <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/as-part-of-residency-i-experimented.html" target="_blank">Writing to Escape</a> </span></i>and <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html" target="_blank">360</a> </span></i>series.<br />
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This year, artist-instigator-curator <a href="https://www.julieupmeyer.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Julie Upmeyer</span></a> decided to do something even bigger that would involve more than 100 creatives. This 2020 event was titled <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.plasbodfa.com/unus-multorum-2020" target="_blank">Unus Multorum</a></span></i> and followed a similar, installation-driven format, whilst integrating the launch for<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.plasbodfa.com/objects" target="_blank"><span>'Plas Bodfa Objects'</span></a></span> - a selection of exclusive artists' multiples.<br />
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Due to the lock-down in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the way that the art was to be revealed to the public had to be re-imagined. So, instead of an 'open-house' approach scheduled for April-May, the exhibition has morphed into an extended global arts festival with a series of virtual events including regular uploads of online galleries that showcase the work already installed and some of the work-in-progress that was intended for inclusion. There is also a programme of monthly video live-steams, each linked by a broad theme and featuring some of the artists talking about their work.<br />
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Along with <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.fionadavies.com.au/" target="_blank">Fiona Davies</a> </span>(joining us from Australia), <a href="https://sianhughes.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Sian Hughes</span></a> and duo Stanley & Bould, I was a guest for the first live-stream in May, with the theme of 'House', and here I talk about my contributions to the <i>Unus Multorum 2020 Festival</i> which are <i>Corridraw: Continuum</i> - an extension to <i>Escape Route</i> already near-complete when lock-down was brought in for Wales, and the Plas Bodfa edition of 10 new <i><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/cicorc-conwy-traditional-conway-cork.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Cicorcs</span></a> </i>- the lucky cork sea-dogs...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-21779316552987061952020-04-04T18:50:00.001+01:002020-06-03T12:53:47.391+01:00100 Film Reviews <br />
Dario Argento's <i><span style="font-size: large;">Inferno</span></i> (1980) is forty years old and still seems fresh to me! So, I've written a retrospective review of what is one of my favourite horror films of all-time - which is only fitting to mark the 100th review I've penned for the online movie magazine, <i>Frame Rated</i>.<br />
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I can still clearly recall writing my first review for the (free to read) top-notch cinema and television review site... that was back in 2017 and it doesn't seem like nearly three years ago since I enjoyed a re-watch of John Woo's action movie game-changer, <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/face-off-1997/" target="_blank">Face/Off </a></span></i>(1997) ...fantastic fun watching Nicolas Cage and John Travolta trying to out-act each other!<br />
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I tend to write fairly in-depth, long-form reviews, usually around 2,000 words, though some are considerably longer... Which means they add up to over 200,000 words... That's equivalent to a few novel-length books! About three book's worth of writing in the time it's taken me to write... well, three books, as it happens!<br />
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(In case you didn't know - parts one, two and three of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-That-Other-Book-ebook/dp/B01MDRIJGT/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">This</span></a></i> are out now - scroll down previous posts <b style="font-size: x-large;">↓ </b>to find out more and, during UK Schools Closure 2020, you can read part one as a Freebook on the Medium platform <a href="https://medium.com/@RemyDean/this-90eacdf27798?source=friends_link&sk=20304e00a20dc144261149dfb4a2f19c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a>.)<br />
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It's only when you look back on things as a writer, that you realise that every word set next to its neighbour to grow into a sentence that works with the next sentence to create mood, milieu or meaning, has almost alchemically combined to tell a story, to flow toward a conclusion, to build a body of work. Writing is certainly a kind of magic, a distillation of thoughts, memories and time...<br />
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So, perhaps, like me, you are in corona lockdown? Considering what movie to watch next? Have a scroll though <a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/author/remydean/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">my back-catalogue of film reviews at Frame Rated</span></a> - there's a good range of classics, dating back to the 1920s, right up to current releases. If you love cinema, you may well enjoy them - I work quite hard at the research stage and endeavor to include info and observations you won't easily find elsewhere... Pretty much any genre you like will be at least touched upon - there are Westerns, Noir, War, Martial Arts, Mystery, Suspense, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Courtroom Drama, Historical Epic, Art-House, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror!<br />
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... and then, check-out all the other great film writing <a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/" target="_blank">at <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Frame Rated</i></span></a>... which celebrates its 5th online anniversary this year, in June.<br />
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...and here's my 100th review:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ince his directorial debut, <i>The Bird with the Crystal Plumage</i> (1970), Dario Argento became known as a prominent proponent of the Italian <i>giallo</i>. Except for the historical satire, <i>The Five Days </i>(1973), his first five films and two television shorts all helped to define and consolidate this important new sub-genre. Their domestic box-office success earned him a degree of celebrity in his Italian homeland, where he also became known as a director who enjoyed challenging expectations and playing with established tropes—even those he’d established <i>himself</i>. But, it wasn’t until he broke away from <i>giallo</i> with his first full-blooded supernatural horror that he gained any substantial international traction.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On the strength of its Italian success, the US distribution rights for <i>Suspiria</i> (1977) were snapped-up by 20th Century Fox. They immediately ran into resistance from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), who refused it certification. It was unlike anything they’d seen before and the explicit, though artfully balletic, murder scenes were deemed gratuitously violent. Fox decided to distance themselves from it and resubmitted it through International Classics, their subsidiary company dealing with foreign and arthouse fare. After trimming eight-minutes of the more extreme gore, they were granted an R-rating and, although it wasn’t released until August, it ended up being Fox’s seventh highest-grossing release of 1977. Of course, their biggest movie that year was <i>Star Wars</i>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">...<a href="https://www.framerated.co.uk/inferno-1980/" target="_blank"><i>continue reading at </i>Frame Rated</a></span><br />
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Incidentally, my latest long-read article for Folklore Thursday also published this week and you can read that <a href="https://folklorethursday.com/legends/a-year-and-a-day-my-top-5-characters-from-the-mabinogion/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span> </a>:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-10496125186834807702020-02-25T11:11:00.000+00:002020-03-24T12:33:32.498+00:00THIS part 3 is OUT NOW - the fantastic adventures of Rietta and Carla continue!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;">This month <i>This</i>, part three is published by The Red Sparrow Press. </span><br />
You can catch up with parts one and two in this previous post <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2019/07/this-parts-1-and-2-out-now-in-paperback.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span>...</a><br />
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<i>This That and the Other</i> is imaginative fantasy, on an epic scale. The story follows the special friendship between two girls who embark on a magical adventure together, across the three realms. It is a modern fable inspired by fairy tales and folklore, in the tradition of children's classics like <i>The Neverending Story</i>, <i>The Box of Delights</i>, <i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i>… and suitable for all who love magical adventures.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>PART THREE : THIS CITADEL, WHEREIN THE ELFYN ROYAL RESIDE</b></span><br />
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The Elfyn Citadel is a place of magics and mysteries that Rietta and Carla are eager to explore.<br />
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The handsome young Prince takes a special interest in them as they begin to unlock their own magical powers using talismans, spells, wands and ancient books of stone that they alone can open. It all seems so much like a fairy tale, until the terrifying King of Bones pays a visit and the girls are coerced into hunting a unicorn.<br />
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As the Mumblebone menace grows, they discover that everyone seems to hide a secret. It becomes increasingly hard to tell friend from foe and soon the girls realise they are in far greater danger than they ever imagined.<br />
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You can preview and purchase <i>This</i> part three on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-three-Citadel-Wherein/dp/B0849HM38G/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank">amazon <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><br />
...also available as an e-book and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-three-Citadel-Wherein-ebook/dp/B0849N7DYP/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank">free on Kindle Unlimited <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><br />
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<b>Part four</b> is set to follow later this year and is expected to be released in both e-book and tree-book formats - watch this space... and if it is not too much to ask, do help to spread the word - you can tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/RedSparrowPress" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">@RedSparrowPress</span></a> and let them know that you enjoyed the books, and you could post a little review on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeremy-Dean/e/B0034PNSWK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">amazon</span></a> or on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7959053.Remy_Dean" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">GoodReads</span></a>. A really BIG "<i>thank you</i>" to those who have already done that! Those reviews really do help small indie publishers like <a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Red Sparrow</span></a> and their authors, like me!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-27097402669870984042020-01-02T18:05:00.000+00:002020-03-24T12:34:40.161+00:00All the very best for 2020 !<br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">...<b>s</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">o</span>, looking back on the year, it seemed a bit 'front-loaded', starting off with three major creative projects: <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2018/12/close-2-edge.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">YMYL-2-EDGE</span></a> was already underway and bridged nicely from 2018 into 2019 with my mentoring of nine artist-makers as they innovated their practice by exploring cutting-edge tech at Pontio's fabLAB in Bangor, culminating in the exhibition and associated programme of events - you can remind yourself of all that entailed <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2018/12/close-2-edge.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then there was the Lead Creative Schools Project at Rhos Street School, in Ruthin, which I helped to facilitate, mostly 'behind-the-scenes' this time as the Arts Council of Wales Creative Agent. I think it went really well and developed naturally from initial concept to final outcomes with the pupil group really taking ownership and steering it all to success with the expert guidance of our Creative Practitioner, <a href="https://www.elfinbow.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Elfin Bow</span></a> - if you want to see what I consider to be a great example of Creative Learning through the Arts watch the short video below, and if you want to know more about what the Lead Creative Schools initiative is achieving, then you can read all about it <a href="http://2018.creativelearning.arts.wales/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Red Sparrow Press published the first two parts of <i>THIS</i> in paperback and then the latter portions of the year were mostly consumed by writing and restructuring the 'final' installments (see top of this post). Illustrations for <i>THIS</i> were featured in the exhibition 'Folklore and Fairy Tales of North Wales' at Oriel Ty Meirion (<a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/2019/11/wales-and-its-fairy-tales-at-oriel-ty.html" target="_blank">see previous post <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a>) and the books were a focus of several creative workshops and storytelling appearances at the wonderful <a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/conwy/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">RSPB Conwy</span>.</a>.. where there were badges!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">...and talking of badges - I was chuffed to be recognised with a 'Top Writer in Art' virtual 'badge' for my work editing, and writing for, <i><a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank"><b>The Signifier</b></a></i>, an arts publication for the Medium platform - you can check that out <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/signifier" target="_blank">HERE</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-91857235636670901792019-11-02T08:54:00.001+00:002020-06-21T19:10:08.831+01:00Wales and its Fairy-tales at Oriel Ty Meirion<br />
A selection of prints featuring my illustrations for <i>This, That and The Other</i> are currently on show in a mixed exhibition at Oriel <a href="https://www.tymeirion.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Ty Meirion</span></a> Gallery, Dyffryn Ardudwy, one of the most exciting small galleries in Wales. The show, which runs until 5 January 2020, has the theme of 'Folklore and Fairy Tales of North Wales'.<br />
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a magical, mixed selection of superior quality art including prints and paperbacks by Remy Dean <br />
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My prints are a signed and numbered edition and you can also browse and purchase paperbacks of my current epic fairy-tale fantasy, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-That-Other-Book-ebook/dp/B01MDRIJGT/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>This</i></span> Part 1</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-two-Realm-Wherein/dp/1690783850/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>This</i></span> Part 2</a>, as well as my spooky short horror novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014N57H9E/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Final Bough</i></span></a>, a contemporary tale of the supernatural with a traditional twist, set against the legend-rich landscape of Snowdonia and inspired by local folklore.<br />
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You can read some of my relevant articles online at <a href="https://folklorethursday.com/author/remy/#sthash.eciTCORZ.IUcSZ82O.dpbs" target="_blank">Folklore Thursday <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">1. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER - an introduction to the Folklore of the Three Realms </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">"A lot of folklore is concerned with other realms. Worlds that exist apart, yet overlap or interact to varying degrees. It is this aspect that aligns many features of myth, folklore and religion around the terrestrial realm we all share… and the idea of the Three Realms has been repeatedly explored through stories, art, psychology, and now the existence of separate realities is widespread in scientific thought. Why does the belief in the Three Realms persist so prominently across multiple cultures spread far and wide, geographically and historically?"</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. THE FOUND HOUND - retelling a traditional Fairy-Story of Wales </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">"How you care for any animal in need is one way the Fair Ones of Wales judge you & decide whether to bestow epic curses or life changing luck.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mwpt_lBlbAc/XZBR-RcokoI/AAAAAAAAD_M/owfV8icIoOUwQH2ORQynWlHmNFQA2P9xQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/RSPB_flyer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mwpt_lBlbAc/XZBR-RcokoI/AAAAAAAAD_M/owfV8icIoOUwQH2ORQynWlHmNFQA2P9xQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/RSPB_flyer.JPG" width="300" /></a>I will be storytelling, chatting and hosting creative workshops at THIS live all-day event, alongside <b>Zel Cariad</b>, co-creator of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-one-Realm-Wherein/dp/1075771129/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">This, That and the Other</span></a></i>, and with fellow writer <b>Kim Vertue</b>, author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Dragon-Caf%C3%A9-Kim-Vertue/dp/1074542746/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the Dragon Café</span></a></i>, which was illustrated by Zel!<br />
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Please note that the morning events and exhibition of fantasy illustrations are open to all visitors to the reserve (free for members) and the afternoon storytelling sessions and illustration workshops are ticketed events with limited places, so please book directly with RSPB Conwy<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-13432411460216587422019-07-12T08:14:00.000+01:002020-04-16T11:33:47.608+01:00THIS parts 1 and 2 OUT NOW in Paperback<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week saw two new paperback editions of <i>This</i>, parts one <i>and</i> two, published by The Red Sparrow Press. This comes after much anticipation and slowly building sales of the exclusive e-books on Amazon. So, <i>thank you</i> to all who have already purchased the first two parts of <i>This</i> for Kindle, or read them on Kindle Unlimited, for making <i>This</i> possible...<br />
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<i>This That and the Other</i> is imaginative fantasy, on an epic scale. The story follows the special friendship between two girls who embark on a magical adventure together, across the three realms. It is a modern fable inspired by fairy tales and folklore, in the tradition of children's classics like <i>The Neverending Story</i>, <i>The Box of Delights</i>, <i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i>… and suitable for all who love magical adventures.<br />
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It began a long time ago, but for Rietta, it really began when she met Carla, another very special and extraordinary person, and realised that they shared the same dreams. Or perhaps it all started when Rietta and Carla found the severely injured dog in the woods, becoming firm friends as they tried to nurse it back to health and happiness. Then there was the 'thing' that they glimpsed watching them from the shadows, and the mystery of the missing standing-stone… but when they find the key to another realm, well, then things really start happening!<br />
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You can preview and buy <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-one-Realm-Wherein/dp/1075771129/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><i>This</i> part one on amazon <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><br />
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<b> <a href="https://thatrealm.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-is-free.html" target="_blank">for duration of schools closure 2020 </a></b></div>
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<b><a href="https://thatrealm.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-is-free.html" target="_blank"><i>This</i> part one is presented as a freebook at Medium </a></b></div>
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<b><a href="https://thatrealm.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-is-free.html" target="_blank">via this special link HERE</a></b></div>
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Rietta and Carla have stepped into another realm. Now they are lost in a wonderful world of natural beauty, magical wonder and very real peril. They find reluctant allies among the spirits of the great Greenwood, before setting out to find Dreamers Dell in the hope of fulfilling their promise to help the Fair Ones. Along the way, they meet a mechanician, with his amazing mechanical animals, and fall-in with a band of Elfyn warriors.<br />
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When they are introduced to a mysterious and sinister mumblebone, they soon realise that things are getting much more dangerous than they ever expected. Though, as the girls discover more of This extraordinary realm, they also discover that they, themselves, may be even more extraordinary.<br />
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You can preview and buy <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-part-two-Realm-Wherein/dp/1690783850/scrawlmagazine" target="_blank"><i>This</i> part two on amazon <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><br />
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<b>Part three</b> is set to follow later this year and is expected to be released in both e-book and tree-book formats - watch this space... and if it is not too much to ask, do help to spread the word - you can tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/RedSparrowPress" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">@RedSparrowPress</span></a> and let them know that you enjoyed the books, and you could post a little review on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeremy-Dean/e/B0034PNSWK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">amazon</span></a> or on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7959053.Remy_Dean" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">GoodReads</span></a>. Those reviews really do help small indie publishers like <a href="https://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Red Sparrow</span></a> and their authors, like me! Another BIG <i>thank you</i> for that!<br />
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The Red Sparrow have also asked me to contribute to an official <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thatrealm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">This, That and The Other</a></span></i> blog where I will answer readers' questions and write the occasional 'behind-the-scenes' post about the inspiration behind the books and hopefully share some insights about the background to the characters and events in the story - which you can <a href="https://thatrealm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">check-out <span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a> and watch it grow...<br />
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at <a href="https://www.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/en/Residents/Libraries-and-archives/Your-local-library/Blaenau-Ffestiniog-library.aspx" target="_blank">Oriel Maenofferen Gallery</a>, Llyfrgell Blaenau Ffestiniog Library</div>
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all the above is mentioned in this interview feature for the <i>Cambrian News</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-85040325346513772002018-12-09T09:12:00.000+00:002019-04-02T15:44:19.791+01:00Close 2 the Edge<br />
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Mae'r byd celfyddydol a’r byd technolegol yn dod at ei gilydd i archwilio ein profiad dynol yn y byd modern: arddangosfa o weithiau a gynhyrchwyd yn ystod rhaglen YMYL-2-EDGE Helfa Gelf yng <a href="https://www.bangor.ac.uk/about/pontio/innovation-spaces.php.cy" target="_blank">Ngofod Arloesi <span style="font-size: large;">Bocs Gwyn</span> Pontio</a>, o ddydd Sadwrn 19 Ionawr tan ddydd Sul 10 Chwefror 2019. (11:00 - 17:00 dydd Mercher i Sadwrn ac 12:00 - 17:00 ddydd Sul.) </div>
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Art meets tech to question our human experience within the modern world: an exhibition of works produced during Helfa Gelf's YMYL-2-EDGE programme in <a href="https://www.bangor.ac.uk/about/pontio/innovation-spaces.php.en" target="_blank">Pontio’s <span style="font-size: large;">White Box</span> Innovation Space</a>, from Saturday 19 January – Sunday 10 February 2019. (11:00 – 17:00 Wednesday to Saturday inclusive, and 12:00 - 17:00 Sundays)</div>
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For more info on the Edge2 Programme and to read the original call-out and brief, <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://remydean.blogspot.com/p/courses.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></div>
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You can read interviews with Edge2 participating artists at <a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">IAWN</span></b> = the <b>I</b>ntegrated <b>A</b>rts & <b>W</b>riting <b>N</b>exus</a>:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2018/09/lorna-bates.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Lorna Bates</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-green-man-edge-2-ymyl-artist.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Stephen Green</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2018/10/david-thomas.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">David Thomas</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2018/10/drawing-from-land-interview-with-susan.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Susan Cantrill-Williams</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2018/12/sarah-holyfield.html#more" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Sarah Holyfield</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2019/01/ann-catrin-evans.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Ann Catrin Evans</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://iawndiolch.blogspot.com/2019/01/emily-meilleur.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Emily Meilleur</a></li>
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The Edge 2 mentoring and exhibition programme has been a great opportunity and a fascinating process for the mentor/curator and artists involved. To hear more about their experiences using new technologies to innovate and push boundaries in their creative practice, do join us at Pontio, White Box/Bocs Gwyn, Level 2, Prifysgol Bangor, Ffordd Deiniol, Bangor,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>LL57 2TQ</div>
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[ Sorry, both events SOLD OUT ]</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-91946091936785721412018-10-05T23:31:00.000+01:002019-11-23T20:17:51.994+00:00Regenerating the Doctor<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;">FROM THE REMY DEAN ARCHIVE : 1998</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;">Interviews with the 7th Doctor, <b>Sylvester McCoy</b>, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.17px;">Director <b>Graeme Harper</b>,</span></div>
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<i>Nearly 30 years ago, the Doctor was going through a very dark time... It seemed that it was not the Daleks, the Cybermen nor the Master who proved to be the Doctor's nemesis, but </i><i>Jonathan Powell, aka 'The Controller' (of BBC1). The Doctor attempted to escape his fate through the big screen with the movie, starring Paul McGann, in 1996. Then all went quiet... </i><br />
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</i> <i>It was twenty years ago, in 1998, that I conducted the following interviews with three key players who had witnessed the show's demise, and also provided a glimmer of hope that it may one day return. Little did I know back then, that it would not happen until Julie Gardner, Head of Drama at BBC Wales, joined forces with Russell T Davies to reboot </i>Doctor Who<i>... in 2005. That was a hiatus of 16 years, meaning that a whole generation of British children had been denied the experience of growing up with 'their Doctor' to provide hope and inspiration. </i><br />
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</i> <i>Now, with the impending new series featuring a completely new regeneration of the Doctor, to be given form by Jodie Whittaker, and with Chris Chibnall as the</i><i> new show-runner, with </i><i>a new format, and a new Sunday time-slot, it seemed an ideal opportunity to re-publish these historic interviews, which have only previously been published on paper in </i>The 5 Times<i> issue 16. So here they are online for posterity.</i><br />
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<i>DOCTOR WHO</i> IS THE LONGEST RUNNING SCIENCE FICTION SERIES AND ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND BEST LOVED. <i>DOCTOR WHO</i>, AS A SERIES, DEMATERIALISED FROM BRITISH TELEVISION IN 1989, YET LOYAL FANS OF THE SHOW KEEP IT VERY MUCH ALIVE AND AWAIT ITS RETURN. A ONE-OFF TELE-MOVIE SAW THE LATEST REGENERATION OF THE DOCTOR IN THE FORM OF PAUL McGANN AND THERE WERE PLANS AFOOT TO PRODUCE A NEW SERIES, THEN ALL WENT QUIET AGAIN. FANS HAVE HAD TO CONTENT THEMSELVES WITH THE PLETHORA OF ORIGINAL NOVELS, ARCHIVE VIDEO RELEASES AND CONTINUING RE-RUNS ON THE UK GOLD TELEVISION CHANNEL.<br />
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THIS YEAR, AT CANNES, THE BBC ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAD PLANS TO PUT BIG MONEY INTO THE PRODUCTION OF A BATCH OF THEATRICAL FEATURE FILMS AND LET SLIP THAT ONE OF THESE MAYBE A <i>DOCTOR WHO</i> MOVIE. A RECENT EDITION OF RADIO TIMES (13-19/6/98) REPORTED THAT THE FEATURE FILM WAS "CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT", BUT ALAN AIRES, AT THE BBC CORPORATE PRESS OFFICE, DENIED THAT ANY SUCH PROJECT WAS UNDER WAY. HE TOLD <i>THE 5 TIMES</i>, "THE BBC ARE KEEN TO EXPLOIT DOCTOR WHO AGAIN, BUT NEED MORE FUNDING THAN LAST TIME THE BBC MADE IT." WHEN PRESSED ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT CANNES HE STATED, "SUCH A PROJECT IS NOT EVEN IN DEVELOPMENT, AT PRESENT IT IS JUST A GLEAM IN THE EYE."<br />
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IN THIS SPECIAL EXTENDED FEATURE, <i>THE 5 TIMES </i>TALKS WITH THREE MAJOR FIGURES FROM THE BBC ERA OF WHO. <b>JOHN NATHAN TURNER</b> WAS THE PRODUCER OF THE SHOW DURING ITS LAST TEN YEARS AND WAS AT THE HELM WHEN IT WENT DOWN.<br />
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</b> <b>GRAEME HARPER</b> HAD WORKED ON <i>DOCTOR WHO</i> SINCE 1966, FIRST AS A RUNNER WORKING HIS WAY UP IN THE BBC AND EVENTUALLY DIRECTING THE STAND-OUT EPISODES, <i>THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI</i> AND <i>REVELATION OF THE DALEKS</i>. WHEN THE BBC BEGAN PLANS TO MAKE THE <i>DOCTOR WHO</i> FEATURE FILM, <i>THE DARK DIMENSION</i>, HARPER WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE PRODUCTION...<br />
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<b>SYLVESTER McCOY</b> WAS THE FINAL INCARNATION OF THE DOCTOR FOR THE BBC AND APART FROM HIS CAMEO ROLE IN THE RECENT MOVIE, WAS LAST SEEN STROLLING AWAY ON HORSENDEN HILL AND INTO HISTORY, OR MAYBE THE FUTURE, WITH THE INSPIRATIONAL LINES:<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">" THERE ARE WORLDS OUT THERE WHERE THE SKY IS BURNING, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">AND THE SEA'S ASLEEP AND THE RIVERS DREAM. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">PEOPLE MADE OF SMOKE AND CITIES MADE OF SONG. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">SOMEWHERE THERE'S DANGER, SOMEWHERE THERE'S INJUSTICE. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">SOMEWHERE ELSE, THE TEA'S GETTING COLD.... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">COME ON, ACE, WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO. "</span></div>
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...that was 1989.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">BACK IN FASHION </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">WHO IS JOHN NATHAN TURNER</span></div>
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<b>What projects have you been involved with recently?</b><br />
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“I’ve been editing Nicholas Courtney’s autobiography, which is not just about his time on <i>Doctor Who</i>, but his whole life. And all being well, a children's series, for which we've already done the pilot, which I produced and wrote, called <i>Big Step</i>. It's about a friendly giant and Tom Baker did the narration. It looks fairly set to do a run of 26 episodes."<br />
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<b>You have taken a lot of flack for making changes to the format which many fans see as the downfall of <i>Doctor Who</i>. How would you respond to that and how do you feel about it in retrospect?</b><br />
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"I feel that I've come back into fashion. I was there for such a long time and inevitably, you are popular for a year, then unpopular for the next. You're in favour then you're out... One has to take it all with a pinch of salt. Although some of the flack I received was highly personal and totally unnecessary. I don't think anybody should have been subjected to it, let alone me.<br />
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"How do I feel now? The tide seems to have turned. Let's face it, I kept it going for a long time and the minute I went... not a lot has happened since."<br />
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<b>Probably a lot of the things you were blamed for were not solely your decisions, the changing of schedule and format for example...</b><br />
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"Producers are asked for their opinion, and you say leave the show where it is. But it's the channel controllers that decide. It was one controller who decided to change the shape of the show into a 45 minute series. Then we had three years of being twice weekly and each year they changed the nights and the time slots. So I don't think the show was very well treated by the controllers at that time - but there was nothing we could do, except to ask and keep asking."<br />
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<b>Were the BBC constraints at all frustrating? On set at such a time and off by such a time or the lights go out… all the bureaucracy involved, it seems to be a little like working for the civil service.</b><br />
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"I think things are incredibly different now - I know they are. But remember, I was working for the BBC for twenty-odd years, so that bureaucracy becomes almost a way of life. You can't really beat the BBC, you can play the system, but you can't beat it. But so long as you have experience and know how to go around things, which doors to knock on and which phones to ring... It was an extremely happy period of my life.<br />
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"The most troublesome areas were time and money. But I think that every producer will tell you the same thing about every show they've ever done. I bet that deep down they think <i>Titanic</i> didn't have enough money!<br />
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"We were constantly hit by the constraints of not having a very large budget and not having a great deal of time in which' to achieve what we wanted to achieve. I am very proud, in many ways, of the talents of the creative people involved, the designers in particular, and the directors."<br />
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<b>Do you know the real reasons behind why they did cancel <i>Doctor Who</i>? Was it purely down to the viewing figures and complaints from Mary Whitehouse?</b><br />
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"I had been trying to get off the show for a very long time, and finally they said, 'OK you're definitely moving on'. And for a few months that was OK, but after a few months I noticed there was no sign of the new guy coming in. There wasn't a lot of stuff on the shelf to hand over. So it was only then that I discovered that we were 'resting' it for a year. Then it ceased to be my problem and gradually I realised that they were 'resting' it for two years, and so on. But I was never told, 'This is the end of <i>Doctor Who</i>', it was only the end for a year. Which is why we altered the end of the final story and added the voice-over to leave it slightly up in the air."<br />
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<b>What was the low-down on Colin Baker leaving? The story we've heard from him is that he found out, only at the last minute, that he was no longer required. He was expecting to be the Doctor for at least another year and personally felt he would like to have continued beyond that. Why was he effectively sacked, was it pressure from the controllers again?</b><br />
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"I think that Colin's story is as near as dammit. There was pressure for him to go. The reason I was given, to tell him, was that he had done three years, and the optimum period for a Doctor was three years. When I made the point that he had held the mantle of <i>Doctor Who</i> for three years, but he had only done two seasons because of the hiatus - I was told that it still counted as three. I think Colin's reportage of the events is accurate."<br />
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<b>What do you think of what's been happening to the show since your departure?</b><br />
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"Well, I was madly envious of the movie! The amount of money that was spent, the spectacular effects and the wonderful sets. But my reservations are two-fold. I didn't really think the story had much substance, it wasn't what I would call Whoish enough.<br />
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"Secondly, I was dying for Paul McGann to get up to speed. I felt that they spent far too long giving him this bumpy regeneration and the amnesia and so on ... Which I think you can do, as indeed I did do myself ... I think you can spend a hundred minutes showing his recovery, if it's the first hundred minutes of a run of 26 episodes.<br />
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"I would have preferred him to be right up to speed and - <i>bam!</i> - right into a new series of adventures. I wanted to see what he was like ... and when I saw what he was like, I appreciated it and enjoyed it, but then there wasn't enough of it, because all of a sudden, the film was over.<br />
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"So those are my two basic qualms with it, but on the whole, I thought that artistically it was splendid, and I liked him."<br />
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<b>Any views on what may happen to<i> Doctor Who </i>in the future?</b><br />
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"Well, stick with it! I think it would be a wicked waste if there weren't any more.<br />
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"Clearly, whilst the merchandise is not selling in the proportions that it used to when it had the TV transmission to back it and promote it, they are still selling substantially well. And it's amazing that there are these semi-professional spin- offs that happen and there is such interest in them and they are making money.<br />
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"It seems to me that it would be an enormous pity if there were no more. But what the chances are, I really wouldn't hazard a guess. You can't really read the organisation like a book, signs and indications mean nothing, contracts and the dotted lines do. Whenever there's a statement, I'm always highly dubious, but I don't think it should be ruled out. The show still has friends at court.<br />
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"It seems miraculous that Marvel can still publish the monthly magazine, and the BBC itself still publish the novels. Somebody somewhere is just missing the next step, which is to put the show back into production."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">GIVING THE DOCTOR DIRECTION</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">GRAEME HARPER</span></div>
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<b>I remember talking to you quite a few years back, about your involvement with the abortive BBC telemovie, <i>Doctor Who: The Dark Dimension</i>, what happened with that and how far did you progress it?</b><br />
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"I was asked to do the film. I sat down to six weeks pre-production, actually at BBC Enterprises offices, and started to prepare and plan - officially - the making of a movie which was for both television and theatrical release. A small theatrical release, but what they were really looking for at Enterprises was a big thirtieth anniversary video and book combined sales project, a box set or whatever. That was how it was initiated and started, then Alan Yentob got wind of it and knew it would appease all the fans by having a television version, then Enterprises also thought it would be nice to have a theatrical release as well.<br />
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"So, despite all the rumours you might of heard, and whatever the BBC officially put out, I actually sat down, officially, and was paid for pre-production. So were various other people."<br />
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<b>Some of those rumours were that footage was actually shot, involving Tom Baker...</b><br />
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"To my knowledge that's groundless. It had nothing to do with me, anyhow."<br />
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<b>Who was actually involved with writing <i>The Dark Dimension</i>?</b><br />
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"Adrian Rigelsford was the writer, and after quite a bit of re-writing and several drafts of the script, I honestly believe, hand on my heart, that the script was one of the best I was ever going to do in my life! It was a story in which the Doctor appeared, as opposed to a major <i>Doctor Who </i>story. But a very good story, and a very good one for <i>Doctor Who</i>."<br />
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<b>Any chance of it ever coming to fruition?</b><br />
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"I very much doubt it. I think what Adrian might do is take the various elements and turn it into something else, which is not <i>Doctor Who</i>, because it was a great science fiction story."<br />
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<b>Would you take up <i>Doctor Who</i> again if given the chance?</b><br />
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"I'd love to do it again!<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>*</b></span></span> I've always wanted to, providing that it was brought up to date in its concept and also on film. I thought it lost a lot in the old studio techniques, compared to what else was around, and what it had to compete with. I know that was kind of part of its cuteness, but I think it would have been better if John had been given more money to shoot it on film. Then along came the movie which we were going to do in Panavision or whatever, so that would have been a great opportunity. And indeed the film that was made, directed by Jeff Sachs, I thought looked visually brilliant. I just thought, because they were putting so much money into it, the script could have been better - that could sound sour grapes, and I certainly don't mean it to be. I wanted it to be good and a huge success and for them to do some more! That would be good for all of us, so we were all gunning for it. That happened three years after ours, and I was hoping that there might have been a film series to be made, which is where it would have led if it had got a few million more viewers."<br />
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<b>To what would you attribute the lasting appeal and continual regeneration of the show?</b><br />
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"Gosh, that's difficult to say. The main thing is the Doctor, the character. A wonderful, cantankerous old so and so. The various actors who have played him have all had it in one form or another, whether the young Peter Davison, or Tom Baker... "<br />
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"And good stories with great monsters! Everyone looked forward to a good monster so they could get frightened behind the sofa. And strangely enough, those funny old dustbins called Daleks still seem to work! Isn't it funny, when you think of all the things that came out of Star Wars and Alien, and there was <i>Doctor Who</i> having to compete with all that with a few dustbins - <i>brilliant!</i> And they worked, people loved it and still do."<br />
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<b>The stories are definitely what keep the fans going back to it over and over, one story of <i>Doctor Who</i> has more ideas than most other SF series would get to in an entire run.</b><br />
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"Yes! I'm sure there were flops as well, but most of the stories were so well constructed. Well thought out. A lot of people cut their teeth on <i>Doctor Who</i> and have gone on to do great things."<br />
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<b>You were involved with <i>Doctor Who</i> going right back to Patrick Troughton's era, along with many other BBC productions along the way. What memories of your time on <i>Doctor Who </i>still remain fresh?</b><br />
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"Two main memories...<br />
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"I suppose my Doctor was Tom Baker. He was the one I enjoyed the most. Not my period as a young boy - because I was working with him. But I thought he had a marvellous mixture of that cantankerousness and Harpo Marx. I loved his shocker hair and his constant surprised look at the world. And any image I remember of Tom Baker is always bright big eyes, looking permanently surprised as if in shock about life being the way it is.<br />
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"I have a wonderful memory of a <i>Doctor Who</i> I did with Michael Bryant directing, which was shot in a big china clay pit in Cornwall. In those days, <i>Doctor Who</i> could afford twelve stunt men as well as a co-ordinator, in the early seventies. We did this huge, nine day shoot meant to be some strange alien landscape with the twelve stunt men doing some amazing battles...<br />
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"When you have twelve stunt men on a shoot, you're gonna have a lot of fun, because they're usually very lively and very silly. I remember one evening in the hotel, and they had heated the outdoor swimming pool, in February. Well, we all got plastered one night and decided that we ought to make use of the pool and go swimming. It was one 0' clock in the morning on a very cold night - one word of the heated swimming pool and the twelve stunt men took their clothes off, in the bar, and ran naked down stairs to the lower area. They thought they were going through my room, which was near the pool, to get out through the French windows and out. So they all jumped over the bed, shouting 'yippee!', twelve of them plus their entourage of a friends. But it wasn't my room! It was the First Assistant's. I was the junior Assistant Floor Manager. So the First Assistant, Nick John, and his wife - who were trying to have a nice evening - were rudely disturbed by all these naked people jumping over them in the middle of the night!<br />
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"That's a great memory - very silly!"<br />
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<b>Are you a science fiction fan?</b><br />
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"I love it, yeah, I haven't read masses. I think there is also a lot of mileage in science fiction. There's a very big audience for it. I was thinking with Adrian that we should concentrate on some of the ideas we were trying to develop together. Because of workloads we never really got to it. But there's been plenty happening over the last few years and I'd really love to do some more.<br />
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"I like <i>Starcops</i>, I was one of the two directors with Chris Baker, both of us and the Producer felt there was a lot of mileage in that, and we could have got a really big audience, but it was lost. They were really interesting and should have gone to another series at least, and then decided whether to do more."<br />
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<b>What did <i>Doctor Who</i> do for you?</b><br />
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"It gave me a tremendous amount of experience in two main ways. One in handling performances fast, because you don't get very much time to rehearse. Five days to rehearse per two episodes, or fifty minutes. You have to get your act together in the way you plan the show, so you go into the studio knowing how you're going to shoot everything ready for the effects that may be added at a later date, at the same time concentrating on getting good performances where they could just get bogged down with the technicalities of being in the right place at the right time. To give a good performance in void is quite difficult. So you have to be there with them giving love, care and attention so they know they're more important than the effects. If you got naff performance and naff effects, you're on a loser. I think in the end it goes back to the story telling, and the acting.<br />
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"I don't think you'll fool the audience, but when they know they're watching a good story, they'll forgive the creaky sets ... Because they forget and get wrapped up in the story and the people.<br />
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"That was a good lesson, because on any production now, the director is lucky to get a day's rehearsal or even a read through. Actors are expected to turn up with a performance and do it. Of course, they can turn up with a performance, but it might not be the one you want! "So you have to really get to grips with it right away and go after the performance you need. <i>Doctor Who</i> really taught you how to go about the craft in that way."<br />
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<b>What, of the many things you have done since, have stood out for you?</b><br />
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"I did a series called <i>Stay Lucky</i>, with Dennis Waterman in the early nineties. The producer of that, Andrew Benson, was asked to take over producing <i>The New Statesman</i> and I had been working with him and getting along very well, so he asked me if I'd consider doing it. I was thrilled to work on such an evil comedy. That opened the door for me to other comedies. So I'm now able to be offered both drama and comedy. My heart is really in drama, but I love doing comedy!<br />
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"I did <i>The Broker's Man</i>, which is a series with Kevin Whately about an insurance investigator... It's a different and interesting role for Kevin - not the nice clean cut boy from next door that all the mum's love, though I'm sure they'll still find him endearing. He plays a guy on his uppers struggling to make a living for himself, while trying to crack all the frauds that are going on ... The music is by Alan Clark who is one of the originators of Dire Straits, so the music is also very interesting.<br />
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"I've been working ever since <i>Doctor Who</i>, so there are many other things. <i>September Song</i> was a lovely thing to do. <i>Heartbeat</i> - I really enjoyed working on those. <i>House Of Elliot</i> really stands out - and very different from <i>Doctor Who</i>!"<br />
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<b>Any thoughts on the future of <i>Doctor Who</i>?</b><br />
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"Bring back <i>Doctor Who</i>! I don't think it'll ever happen, it has died its death. I think there's now a jinx on <i>Doctor Who</i>. I think the film was it, that was the return and now they'll move on...<br />
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"What was lovely about <i>Doctor Who</i> was that it did creak along, no matter how much JNT wanted to up-date it, which he did very well and sold it to America, and pushed the fandom... But I think its appeal was that it was slightly antiquated and something of the sixties. People solidly put their backs into it and made it as good as it could be, despite the lack of money, I think people loved it because it was its own little world, a time warp all its own, and that’s what made it popular."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THE ONCE AND FUTURE DOCTOR… </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">SYLVESTER McCOY</span></div>
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</b> <b><i>Doctor Who</i> still has a huge and loyal following, what do you think keeps it alive?</b><br />
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"I think because there's no more <i>Doctor Who</i> on the telly, then the videos, the CD-ROM, and releasing the books slowly, in a sense keeps it alive. But what really keeps it alive are the conventions. Conventions used to be peripheral to the making of <i>Doctor Who</i>, now they have become the centre. I enjoy them a lot, they can be tiring, but I do enjoy them. I enjoy exercising that performance part that you don't get a lot in plays, responding directly to an audience. You get to use performance muscles that don't necessarily get used in acting in films, on telly or theatre."<br />
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<b>How did it feel, being the face of <i>Doctor Who</i> during the period when the BBC were messing about with the format, trying to turn it into panto? How did you deal with the frustrating dichotomy of being the public representative of the show, yet having no control over it?</b><br />
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"He's just an actor learning his lines and trying not to bump into the monsters...<br />
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"...I didn't know it was going to finish when it did. Although I didn't have a lot of say over the three seasons, during the second I was beginning to get some say. By the third, I became a much more serious, mysterious Doctor - I liked that. I thought that over the years, too much had been given away about the Doctor's past, that they had filled-in too much of his background. And what made it attractive in many ways, was the mystery of the early days. So the idea was to try and get back to that. So it wasn't as frustrating, because it was slowly happening. What was frustrating was that we didn't quite get to it by the time we finished.<br />
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"What was also frustrating was that there was a feeling that it was becoming successful again, during my tenure... There was an upsurge in the general fandom, magazine sales, a general feel that we had turned a corner, and that we were getting towards something that would make it take off again. We may have been wrong, but that's how it felt. And if we'd done a fourth season we would have found out.<br />
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"I know that the viewing figures were on the downward curve, but the second season did incredibly well. We were getting nearly seven million against Coronation Street - which was unheard of! That was the high point. "But for the third season, Coronation Street were heavily advertising, because they were bringing out a Friday edition, but the BBC didn't do any advertising for <i>Doctor Who</i>. In fact, when the season started, there was nothing in the Radio Times. Also, normally every October, JNT had a big press call for <i>Doctor Who</i>. Everyone knew it must be autumn because there was a <i>Doctor Who</i> press call. It was a very established thing, but that year, he didn't do that. He thought that he was going to leave, half way through, and waited for that to focus all the press attention.<br />
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"So the figures did not look that good, sadly. But I think we definitely had something. We were getting somewhere. So it was very frustrating in that way, but the frustration didn't come until afterwards, when they said it was off. We were all saying, 'Hey, wait a minute - we haven't finished yet!' - It was a shame.<br />
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"I was also a little frustrated just after I took over, when I had no control over it. Because I didn't know what was going on. I didn't even know what I had let myself in for! There were a lot of attacks from all over the place... "<br />
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<b>Probably sparked off by the abrupt departure of Colin Baker...</b><br />
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"I hadn't really followed what had happened to Colin, I didn't know what had gone on. But I was thick skinned enough to think I would win out, because there was a lot of condemnation in the beginning. I knew that much of it was that silly thing, where people make-up their minds about something before they've even seen it. I mean wait till you've seen it and then you can judge... and if you don't like it, fine. But there were people already writing articles about how dreadful it was before they could have seen it!<br />
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"I think it's maybe a very British thing - that we condemn when we think we know, when we don't really." During your time as the Doctor, we saw a lot of development, you had changed into the darker jacket and revealed some darker aspects of the character. If you had gone on to another season, what further developments might we have seen?<br />
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''We would have gone more so. It might have created a completely new part of the myth. There was always a triumvirate, or something - I didn't do a degree in <i>Doctor Who</i>! But, I think there '\' has been mentioned the three that founded the Gallifreyan civilisations. We were moving toward the revelation that I was perhaps one of those three ... All this time, for twenty-six years, you had thought the Doctor was one thing but, in fact, he's something else.<br />
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"That seemed to me to be a really good way of creating more mystery. Whilst keeping all the traditional <i>Doctor Who</i> elements and carrying on with the comedic front. But letting people know, more and more, that it was a front and behind was a very serious person, a complex being. "I was trying to be all different facets of the other actors who had played the Doctor as well. I was trying to do that all the way through - I would have kept that going. It was more fun, as an actor, to think that, 'this is a Colin Baker moment, or a Patrick Troughton moment… I mean not actually becoming that character and doing a John Pertwee impression but thinking it."<br />
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<b>You were glad to come back briefly for the movie, to hand over to Paul McGann?</b><br />
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"Yes, I was... I felt that it had enough of the seriousness. I didn’t have much dialogue – I was silent and interesting… and I enjoyed that. But I have a theory that <i>Doctor Who</i> didn’t really work in America because I was in it, not that I was bad, or good or whatever - not that kind of judgement. But my character, being in it and changing into Paul McGann was a complication.<br />
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"It was too complicated for a new audience to take, and that's exactly what they were after in the States - <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a new audience. But by putting me in it, and not keeping me in all the way through - which would have been better – it got complicated.<br />
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"If they had just done this rip-roaring Paul McGann adventure and grabbed the X-Files audience, then they could have gone on to tell the story of where the Doctor came from. They could have easily done that later, it doesn’t have to be a linear story - it's time travel after all, could have gone over the place!<br />
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"The majority of the people watching the movie didn't know anything about <i>Doctor Who</i> and didn’t know what that means. In Britain, the majority of people. Even those who don't watch <i>Doctor Who</i>, know what it's about. It’s part of our culture, they know the Doctor can change from one person into another. The movie did very well over here, nine million viewers and video sales too…”<br />
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<b>How did the filming for <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the in the USA contrast with making <i>Doctor Who</i> for the BBC?</b><br />
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''Well it was very different, it was very 'Hollywood'. Equally professional, all the technicians and make-up, and wardrobe and so on. They would call you 'sir', and they expected the actors to be horrid. If you weren't, they were first a little uncertain about you, waiting for the 'crunch', until after a while they realised that the 'crunch' wasn't going to come.<br />
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"They liked Paul and I very much, probably because we were British actors and were used to mucking in much more, Hollywood has much more of the individual star thing, whereas British actors are more theatre based, so we are always part of the team work. Even though we have just as big egos as the American stars, they're not used [0 sharing - just the opposite. They don't even get to a together in the same way, their relationship is with the camera, and they're very good at that.<br />
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"Over there, they loved us for that 'way' we had. When I get shot - that was the last scene that I filmed, at three-o-clock in the morning, laying in a puddle in the middle of Vancouver, freezing. After that, I as done. The wardrobe lady and the make-up lady went up to the Producers and said, 'could he not just stand up afterwards and say sorry you missed, so he can stay here and be in the film? We don't want him to go'. But they felt the same way over Paul..."<br />
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<b>Would you like to go back to playing the Doctor?</b><br />
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"Yes. I think I would go back if given the opportunity. <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span><br />
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"I wouldn't be surprised if, in maybe in ten years’ time, someone came along with the idea of reviving <i>Doctor Who</i>. They have to get things to fill up 250 channels of television from somewhere…”<br />
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<b>What have you been up to lately?</b><br />
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“Off to Africa – yellow fever in this arm, tetanus in this arm, injected with polio and plagues – to hopefully get a documentary done about a charity called WarChild. They’re trying to start up a project in Liberia - where they've had a terrible civil war - to build a village for children, because they are all orphans - with complete back-up of education, modern drainage, the lot. Pavarotti is involved, he's going to do a concert to raise money.<br />
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"I'm going out there to film this for the charity to use. 'And at the same time. I'm going to do a little bit of entertainment for the kids in the refugee camps already there."<br />
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<b>Are you taking the ferrets with you?</b><br />
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"No! I'll be using crocodiles down the trousers... " (an expression of mild horror visits his face as he considers the possibilities) "...their teeth don't join together, they interlock and don't let go!"<br />
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"I'll also be reviving Puck in <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, but not the play, it's the opera. I did it years ago with the Welsh National Opera. And bizarrely, after fourteen years, they've asked me to come back and do a platform of it - which I'm looking forward to."<br />
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<b>If you had a TARDIS, which historical personage would you most like to go back and have dinner with?</b><br />
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"Richard III. I know he got bad press. All that was complete propaganda. From what you can read about him, he was most likely quite a good king. He did one or two things in his time which were really rather liberal, but because the other side won, the Tudors, they re-wrote the history and turned him into a villain. So I'd like to go back and see if he was.<br />
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"The Bishop of Ely was an enemy of his, and Thomas Moore was under the tutelage of the Bishop of Ely, and Shakespeare got his history from Moore, so it all got warped. But a great play!<br />
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"I'd be interested to go back to Roman times too. Maybe I'd want them to be more like Asterix and Obelisk, than they really were ... "It would be so wonderful to have a time machine. There's so much I'd love to find out about first hand!"<br />
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<b>The future - what do you hope it's going to turn out like, what do you think you'd really find if you went there in the TARDIS?</b><br />
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"I'm optimistic, really. I hope, I think that man will conquer space. To find water on the Moon... that's the start. First the Moon, then we can conquer near space.<br />
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"We do tend to be like royal personages of old, who used to go on their procession round England. Stay in one castle until so much shit and rubbish built up that you couldn't stand the smell. Then you'd go on to the next castle. I think in one way, mankind's doing that to the Earth. We have to find another castle we can get to. If we stay here, we might make it very dangerous for ourselves to live...<br />
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"We either have to stop soon, or come up with some new invention which is going to get us out of the rut.<br />
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"We need a solar battery that'll work off a flicker of light or something, because it seems to be energy, or lack of it, that holds us back and creates a lot of the pollution...<br />
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"We need to find another planet, hopefully with nobody there, so we can live on that one while this one gets better. And then when that one gets messed up, we can come back here while that one heals."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">These three interviews were first published </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">*</span></b> It is really nice to know that Graeme Harper did return to <i>Doctor Who</i>, directing 13 episodes of the New Series from 2006 - 2009: <i>Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday </i>(for which he won the 2007 BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Drama Director), <i>42, Utopia, Time Crash</i> (the Children in Need minisode), <i>Planet of the Ood, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End,</i> <i>The Waters of Mars</i> and was finally recognised for his work on <i>Last of the Time Lords</i> (2007) along with the classic story, <i>Warrior's Gate</i> (1981). He also directed three stories of <i>The Sarah Jane Adventures</i>: <i>The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, Enemy of the Bane</i> and <i>Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?</i><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">**</span></b> </i>Sylvester McCoy also got the chance to return as the 7th Doctor for an animated webcast, <i>Death Comes to Time</i> (2001 - 2002) and to play his part in the Time War for the 50th anniversary TV special <i>The Day of the Doctor</i> (2013). He continues to be a mainstay for the <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who---the-7th-doctor-collected" target="_blank">Big Finish Audio Adventures</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-82225913393110109482018-02-13T22:36:00.002+00:002018-06-17T12:55:44.977+01:00Projects 'Archive'<br />
I will be adding an archive to highlight a selection of projects, both past and on-going, including information and sample images that are representative of the associated works.<br />
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for my writing, read samples<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> “In this exhibition I have selected recent works that consider the differences</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">between intended meanings and interpretations. This is a continuing exploration </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">of </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">poetic landscapes, both real and imagined, searching for common-ground for </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">writing and visual art to cohabit.” - <i>from Artist's Statement</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Remy Dean : Dysphasia : Partial List of Works </b></span><br />
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<b>‘Land Poems’</b> (2017)<br />
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Digital prints made with a photographic process using colours sampled from landscape. Compositions are guided by the interaction of lines using poetic rhythm and metre. Although the 'poems' are linear in structure, they may be ‘read’ in multiple directions, beginning from any square. It was my intention to capture the essence of the land through its colours and transient moods. My initial approach to this photography series was informed by the famous ‘lozenge’ paintings of Piet Mondrian.<br />
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This set of 'Land Poems' was produced as part of this year’s Creative Residency at Plas Tan y Bwlch, the Snowdonia National Park Authority's Environmental Study Centre, in Maentwrog, Wales.<br />
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<b>‘Writing to Escape…’</b> (2015 – 2017)<br />
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Ongoing series of prints resulting from written drawings of visual and narrative stimuli. Expressing emotions whilst avoiding the deliberate formation of words and so, perhaps, circumventing the cultural dogmas often attached to words and languages. One perceptive viewer described this as, "a tiny form of dance, recorded visually". Precedent for this kind of approach can be found in the calligraphic scroll paintings of China and Japan, and in the modern works of Joan Miró, Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, Hans Hartung, and others…<br />
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<b>‘The Stars, at Our Feet’</b> (2016)<br />
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iron : leaves its mark upon the slate in nebulae of rust in a starscape of tiny pits and scratches left by the footsteps of quarriers. The slate, once above their heads, now at their feet, reflecting the infinite night above. Ancient mineral memories… of the blood, of the land, of the stars : iron<br />
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The poetic image of slate miners returning to their barracks on a rare, clear night, their heavy work-boots splashing in the puddles, mixing the reflection of the stars with their own. This and the recent classification of the Snowdonia National Park as a Dark Skies Reserve were the seeds for this series of photographs, its title suggested by an old poem by an anonymous Cwmorthin miner. Produced as part of my 2016 Residency at Plas Tan y Bwlch.<br />
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You can read an article about <i>The Stars, at Our Feet</i> in <i>EGO</i> Magazine<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://ego.today/dec17/#p=68" target="_blank">HERE</a></span><br />
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<b>‘Cicorc Conwy’</b> (2015 – 2017)<br />
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Before setting off on longer than usual voyages, sailors would have ‘one’ last drink in their local pub before em<b>bark</b>ation onto their ships and boats. They would enjoy a favourite tipple, smoke a pipe and sometimes they would make a small model dog with corks and match-sticks. These tiny cork companions would travel with them to distant ports in exotic far-off lands and upon their safe return would be gifted to their children. A limited edition, hand-made series of these <i>objet-avec-courte-histoire</i> will be available for adoption, each with accompanying information and story booklet.<br />
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<b>‘The Questing Beats Back-Catalogue’</b> (2017)<br />
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A selection of re-issue CD covers from obscure, or non-existent, bands signed to the legendary 1980s art-rock/alt-punk label based in Stoke-on-Trent.<br />
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<b>‘Sugar Rush’</b> (2015 - 2017)<br />
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A series of objects, photographs and information commenting on the shaping of the local landscape and culture... taken with a spoonful of sugar. From sugar and slaves… to sheep and slate…<br />
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</div><b>'#Moelwyns'</b> (ongoing, since 2007)<br />
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Selected prints from the series of photographs documenting my attempt to capture the ever-changing moods of the Mynyddau Moelwynion mountain range, the transient atmospheric conditions that only people who are lucky enough to live here, in Snowdonia, really get to know. I see the Moelwyns and walk their slopes almost every day of the year... They remain the same, yet continually change. They never get old. To keep up with this series on twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40DeanAuthor%20%23Moelwyns&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">click here</span></a>.<br />
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</b> <b>'Illustrations for THIS' </b>(2017)<br />
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Illustrations for the forthcoming illustrated edition of <i>This</i>, by Remy Dean with Zel Cariad, Book One of the <i>This, That and the Other</i> trilogy - imaginative fantasy, on an epic scale. The story follows the special friendship between two girls who embark on a magical adventure together, across the three realms. It is a modern fable inspired by Welsh fairy tales and folklore, in the tradition of <i>The Neverending Story</i>, <i>The Box of Delights</i>, <i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i>… <i>This</i> is published by <a href="http://theredsparrowpress.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Red Sparrow Press</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Blaenau Ffestiniog LL41, UK52.998337 -3.944893999999976652.9601015 -4.0255749999999768 53.0365725 -3.8642129999999764tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575915484208516774.post-89471618646575276932017-09-19T16:46:00.003+01:002017-09-26T12:39:59.363+01:00Same Plas, Another Time...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The current exhibition in the Stable Block at Plas Tan y Bwlch, Maentwrog, includes a selection of my responses to the Creative Residencies I have undertaken there. More related works will be shown later this year, in a solo exhibition at the <a href="https://www.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/en/Residents/Leisure-parks-and-events/Museums-and-the-Arts/Canolfan-Maenofferen.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Canolfan Maenofferen Centre</span></a>, in nearby Blaenau Ffestiniog.</div>
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You can read more about these Residencies <a href="https://remydean.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Plas%20Tan%20y%20Bwlch" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://dean-evolution.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/david-nash-wooden-boulder-1978.html" target="_blank">Wooden Boulder</a></span></i>, the ground-breaking landscape ‘drawing’ by <a href="https://dean-evolution.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/David%20Nash" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">David Nash</span></a> recorded a journey from the mountain slopes above Maentwrog, down into the river Dwyryd that finally carried the hunk of wood out to sea via the tidal estuary at Portmeirion. As it went its leisurely way, drawing a line through space-time, it recorded the rainfall run-off in the tributaries it travelled.<br />
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It has been fifty years since <i>The Prisoner</i> was filmed at Portmeirion. Patrick McGoohan, as Number Six, was chased across the sandy expanse of the estuary at low tide by a wobbly white orb known as ‘Rover’. Perfect white orbs feature in the work of Briony O Clarke, who is in the final year of her low-key residency as the Village Artist. I visited in 2014, when she explained her desire to work with the land, how she wanted to devise a way to produce drawings from the swell of the sea. Last week, I was back at the historic holiday resort and popular tourist attraction to see how it has all developed. What I found was a piece of art that rivals Nash’s ‘Boulder’ for innovation and invention in the field of landscape art.<br />
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Drawing upon her recent research experiences in Oslo, where she worked with the University’s Department of Informatics, Clarke has produced art that merges the mystical folklore of tide and time with information technology and digital data collection. In one corner of her temporary studio, situated in ‘Number Two’s Dome’, she has built the <i>Scrying Pool</i>, a continuous vortex of water contained within a black Perspex bowl. The swirling mini-whirlpool distorts its surroundings in ever-changing rippling reflections. It is an elegant installation that recalls the 1960s lava-lamp Rover nursery that could be seen in the circular Village Control Room. It is also part of a printing process that Clarke has developed from the ancient art of Japanese Suminagashi, where hand-ground pigments and clear oils are floated on the surface of water. Instead of laying paper onto a still surface, pages are carefully introduced into the flow, taking prints from the fluid patterns.<br />
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The culmination of Clarke’s four-year residency is <i>Sea Fax</i> a machine that allows the sea to send us messages of its beauty. A buoy, far out in the Atlantic, measures the levels of the tide and the rhythm of the waves, wirelessly sending this data to Clarke’s contraption, which reminds me of 2001’s Monolith, having a lie down.<br />
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Is it a modernist monument, or an understated tomb marker? A pool of water contained within this pure black, table-sized rectangle, is mechanically set in motion to reproduce the conditions out at sea from the live data it is receiving. Clarke then uses pigments ground from locally sourced stones, slate, granite and marble, to produce prints in the Suminagashi tradition. Miraculously, these automatic drawings, transmitted from the sea, often resemble the most beautiful and elegant watercolour landscapes of zen painters. The sea sends us pictures, drawn with the land itself.<br />
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Gently. Carefully. Mysteriously.<br />
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read a short<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://www.portmeirion-village.com/blog/2016/august-2016/marbeling-magic/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">interview</span> with <span style="font-size: large;">Briony O Clarke</span></a> at the Portmeirion website</div>
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