Remy Dean 🎃

@remydean.bsky.social

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Author + Artist

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

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

linktree 🌐 https://linktr.ee/remydean

interests include film & TV, art & music, science & fantasy, 咬人猫 & 宅舞

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:00 PM

"Looking becomes physical ... the artwork can remain completely still while the viewer becomes active..."

the application of scale, proximity & peripheral vision in #art when the artist doesn't intend to show us the whole picture all at once:

DesignBoom 👁️ www.designboom.com/art/peripher...

Herbert Bayer,'s diagram showing his theory of the Extended Field of Vision (1930) - figure with an eye for a head places the eye at the center of an expanding field of images. Pictures occupy positions overhead and below the conventional eye line. The viewer faces several directions at once. Bayer described the arrangement as an ‘inclusive picture’ of possible viewpoints, with exhibition material extending beyond the frontal wall.

@signifier.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:15 PMReposted by @remydean.bsky.social

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'Beowulf versus Grendel, the Rematch!'

@remydean.bsky.social on the "oldest story in the whole group of Germanic stemmed languages, an important landmark in the development of #literature, striking in its apparent modernity

🔥 medium.com/signifier/be...

#folklore #fantasy #illustration

‘Beowulf and the Dragon’ (1931) detail of a lithographic illustration by Rockwell Kent showing Beowulf, sword and shield at the ready

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:35 PM

unusual chalk-smudge clouds, with passing airliner, over the sunlit slate piles - a crisp autumn morning walk...

[pic 10:30 a.m] ⛅

#Moelwyns #landscape #photography from #Eryri

landscape photograph by Remy Dean of a deep blue sky mottled with unusual chalk-smudge clouds, with passing airliner that seems tiny, over sunlit slate piles that create a 'V' shaped slope

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:30 AM

outstanding Saturday night feast from [New] Hong Kong Take Away, Llandudno (right opposite the station on Augusta Street) 🍜 generous portions, fabulous flavours with plenty of what there should be in each dish (see alt text) #food

Hong Kong Special Starter Box (Spare Ribs, Salt'n'Chilli Crispy Chicken Bites, Spring Rolls, Prawn Toast, Crispy Seaweed, Sweet'n'Sour Sauce, Prawn Crackers), Hong Style Sweet & Sour Crispy Chicken, Char Siu (Roast Pork) with Ginger & Spring Onions, Noodles.

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:46 PM

an anagram?

...from CHANGES:STOKE:CITY - my very first public #photography #exhibition (Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 1987)

via 📷 remydean.blogspot.com/p/changessto... #art

black and white photograph by Remy Dean of a section of canalside where a set of signage letters are leant against a wall with bricked-up doorways - among the visible unbroken letters are: R a o o

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:50 AM

#RemyReviews

Joseph H. Lewis' 'So Dark the Night' (1946) • is 80 years old

"When the murders start, things briefly hot-up. The middle act is quite engrossing... but the narrative offers up so little reward elsewhere…"

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

🌃 medium.com/framerated/s...

four black and white film stills representing the film's noir stylings

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:27 AM

...revisiting the #music of my youth 🖤 loved bauhaus (another logo painted on that schoolbag) & I vividly recall watching this performance of 'Kick in he Eye' as it aired (& numerous playbacks on Betamax) ...what a bassline👁️

🎶 youtu.be/tB6otj27f3s?...

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:44 PM

#RemyReviews

'The White Reindeer' (1952)

patchy #folklore film in which a newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get help with her love life & is instead turned into a white reindeer vampire... but not as good as that sounds

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

🦌 medium.com/framerated/t...

black and white film still: a figure raises approaches another swathed figure or a strange antlered shrine in a snowfield where numerous antlers protrude from the snowscape

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:21 AM

another of my all-time favourite artworks: “I Like America & America Likes Me” aka 'Coyote' by Joseph Beuys (1974–1976) incorporates performance, installation, #photography & conceptual art...

my article @signifier.bsky.social asks where is the actual #art here?

🐺 medium.com/signifier/i-...

promotional poster for Coyote: in the dominant black and white photograph, Joseph Beuys reclines on a bed of straw, holding a walking cane, in the corner of a well-lit room with a coyote standing nearby looking toward the camera

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:01 AM

Yaorenmao's #dance cover of ‘Calc.’ (2017) is flawless 🎸 note signal-rich choreo & precise use of background framing 🧸 & see my long-read article @signifier.bsky.social

'Home Dance & the Biting Cat' 💃 medium.com/signifier/ho...

#咬人猫 #宅舞 #Yaorenmao #HatsuneMiku #music
🎶 youtu.be/H-0u5804xjY?...

@framerated.co.uk Oct 6, 2026, 8:05 AMReposted by @remydean.bsky.social

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL medium.com/framerated/t...

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:44 PM

Something I'm very aware of as a reviewer of so many films from around the world - often the original language, the dub, & the subtitles tell completely different stories... current AIs have no chance with such cultural subtleties.

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 11:42 AM

what living in the future used to look like: a hauntological imagining of where we could've been by now - notions of domestic utopias & the #design behind them

#exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of #Art till 14 March 2027

DesignBoom preview 🏗️ www.designboom.com/architecture... #architecture

four images via DesignBoom: Bob Lerner for LOOK Magazine, Anne Anderson in RCA Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen, 1959, in which a 1950s 'housewife looks thrilled at a robot floor cleaner in a modernist interior; Rick Guidice for NASA, Cutaway of Torus Wheel Habitat , 1975, envisages the habit section of a huge space station; Hamilton & Goody Architects, Monsanto House of the Future, 1956, is a cross-shaped structure with window walls and the design drawing shows it elevated off the ground in a woodland setting; Alexis V. Lapteff, Family Departing Visit with Grandparents in their Commuter Helicopter, 1947, illustration of a small orange helicopter in a garden.

@signifier.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:52 PMReposted by @remydean.bsky.social

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'Do You Speak Design? The ‘Ekco’ of Wells Coates'

@remydean.bsky.social tunes-in to the fluent design-language of Wells Coates who was a major influence on broadcast #design from household radios to studio #architecture

🔘 medium.com/signifier/do...

three black and white photographs: the distinctive curved facade of BBC Broadcasting House and two studio interiors designed by Wells Coates. A colour 'catalogue' photograph of his Ekco ‘AD65’ Radio in the best-selling brown Bakelite edition on its stool-like floor-stand.

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:35 AM

Yes! (sorry, Marc)

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:11 PM

Yes... so many. Thanks for the memories. I remember OMD and Soft Cell being way better than they had to - Mark duetting with Jim Thirlwell, too? Oh... remember Classix Nouveaux? They rocked, proper, like.🤘

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:52 PM

Formative indeed. An exciting time for music: tail-end of Glam, into Goth & New Romantic & on to Experimental. First gigs were Kraftwerk, Bauhaus & Southern Death Cult? Then I lose track of the order. But Ultravox & Toyah were early on. I have a very clear memory of Icehouse supporting Simple Minds.

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 5:24 PM

I still have the bag! I may write something about it & how important music was to the identity of teenage me...

@remydean.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:00 PM

current Top 3 series enthralling the whole family📺

'The Ark'☄️ fast-paced intrigue in space

'Avatar: The Last Airbender'💨 takes time for world-building & character-development

'Frieren'🧝 can't praise this beautiful #anime enough - so distinctively original & the best high fantasy in a long time

three promotional posters for the series listed in the post - images represent multiple key characters

@signifier.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 3:18 PMReposted by @remydean.bsky.social

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David Hockney’s Dog Days

“…I realised I was #painting my best friends, Stanley & Boogie. The subject was not #dogs but my love of the little creatures.”

@kimvertue.bsky.social on how Britain’s favourite artist found solace in canine inspiration

Signifier 🐾 medium.com/signifier/da... #art

photograph showing the wall in David Hockney's studio with many paintings of his dogs hung on it - detail form a larger photograph used on the back cover of his 1998 book 'Dog Days'

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