Mitsuki Nonaka

My head is buried in a new book by fellow BlueSky user @robgotobed.bsky.social! I just received my new book and I’m excited to laugh out loud. #booksky 💙📚

Cyanotype of a cassette.

Cyanotype of a cassette.

Several cyanotypes of cassettes.

Cabinet opened to show it is jam packed with boxes of cassettes collected by @thepuckhag and me since the Reagan administration

Spent the morning making tapes.*

* Using old cassettes to make cyanotypes while listening to the local college radio station which is playing Eno, Patti Smith, Wire, The Fall, Chameleons, Mission of Burma, so hello, from 1983, the apocalypse is fine.
#CyanoTapes

87/365, 88/365, 89/365, 90/365

Drunken Boater Hits Swimmers in N. Carolina Lake, Killing Girl, 10, Police Say A woman was also critically injured in the collision, which happened on Shearon Harris Reservoir, about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, N.C., the authorities said.

A drunken boater struck three people who were swimming in a North Carolina lake over the weekend, killing a 10-year-old girl and critically injuring a woman, the authorities said.

Collaboration with illustrator Honojirotoji. The boy learns about life through his master's death. The scenes that focus on light and dark, painted in monochrome, expressing the mystery, secrecy, and uncertainty of the ritual, are fantastic and beautiful.

"THE HEART OF THE SPRING / William Butler Yeats Translation by Ryunosuke Akutagawa"

Collaboration with illustrator Honojirotoji.

Do You Know What’s Really Surreal? and do you know your Veristic Surrealism from your Automatist or Organic? A brief introduction to the first major movement in Postmodern…

"Surrealists thought of themselves as revolutionary & later went on to demand that art be ‘magical’ & should transcend both religion & politics... driven by the desire to make our private realities public… to make art that questioned & ultimately transcend 'reality'..."

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The Juggler card from Austin Osman Spare tarot deck (c.1906); Pamela Colman Smith illustration, The Hierophant card from Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot (1909); The Wheel of Fortune card by David Palladini for the Linweave tarot, Brown Company (1967); Frieda Harris, original painting of ‘Death’ card for Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot (1937-43).

'Tarot: Origins & Afterlives' explores iconography & how artists, mystics & writers have transformed the cards. Frieda Harris paintings for Aleister Crowley’s 'Thoth' deck are a highlight of the Warburg Institute's #exhibition, till end of April 2025

booking info: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/tarot...

four film stills: Giuliana Calandra as Amanda Righetti discovers a doll hanging in her living room; a freaky automaton approaches the camera in a period interior; David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi in the front of a small car; a childish drawing from a disturbed mind.

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'Deep Red' (1975) • 50 Years Later — superbly crafted mystery & suspense in Dario Argento's absorbing & definitive #giallo

read my retro #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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#Italian #film #horror #cinema #history

"THE HAPLESS CHILD / Edward Gorey"

The girl in the story had a sad ending. However this work could also happen in real life, and similar incidents are happening in real life.... He may have been a journalist who communicated facts through the viewfinder of a picture book....

"THE EPIPLECTIC BICYCLE / Edward Gorey"

This work is for the enjoyment of blank spaces. It's not only visual, so The key to the truth lurks in the connections between the stories. The fact that he doesn't say much and leaves us hanging is one of his greatest charms.

"One of Kyōsai’s chōjū-giga (鳥獣戯画) which is a genre of animal caricatures. In the drawing above, a tanuki and a weasel dance with a cat wearing a red chanchanko-style jacket and a with split tail — this is a yōkai known as nekomata (妖怪 猫又). They have been joined by two cavorting moles and are all are dancing happily together. This finely detailed picture, which appears to be a sketch or a work in progress, is a dynamic composition showcasing the artist’s fluid and expressive style..." more in article via link in post

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'Happy in Hell'

@mitsukinonaka.bsky.social explores Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Memento Mori & how the ukiyo-e artist combatted uncertainty & the concept of death with creativity & humour…

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#art #ArtHistory #history #Japan #illustration #イラスト

YouTube video by DEVILOOF Official DEVILOOF - 因習(Official Music Video)

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new DEVILOOF #horror MV retells 'Ghost of Yotsuya' (I reviewed excellent 1959 film) & stars Tadanobu Asano from 'Shōgun' 2024 (I also reviewed) where he appears with Hiroyuki Sanada, star of 'Legend of the 8 Samurai' my latest review! Synchronicity!

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Tomie Junji Ito

The Drifting Classroom Kazuo Umezz

World Apartment Horror Satoshi Kon

Blood on the Tracks Shūzō Oshimi

4 classic horror manga that I love an you need to read right meow!

what is your favorite horror manga?
#booksy

Books with those titles

Tender is the Flesh of THE LAMB. He is my BROTHER. The Eyes are the Best Part!
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All 5 star books right here!

"The Doubtful Guest / Edward Gorey"

It came to house one day out of the blue. It was an all-black, tapir-like creature with a trademark pointed nose and Converse sneakers. The family embraces this strange and mischievous creature. It’s a humorous work about symbiosis with the unknown.

"π (1998) / film director Darren Aronofsky"

"The world is made up of numbers"
Pythagoras, the sage of Samos, loved numerology.
Mathematician Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is obsessed with the 216-digit number derived from pi.
A masterpiece of madness along with Omen.

"The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey"

A picture book filled with all the unreasonableness in the world. Extremely cruel and depressing moment of death, delicately depicted in only two colors, black and white. The most frightening part is that it could happen in real...

two very complex prints from Thirty-six Transformations: ‘Ii no Hayata Killing a Nue at the Imperial Palace’ and ‘Gamo Sadahide’s Samurai, Toki Motosada Throwing down the Demon King who lives on Mount Inohana in Kai Province’ (both c.1890) by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka - patterns swirl around figurative elements in dynamic compositions

'Cruel Paintings by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka'

@mitsukinonaka.bsky.social on Japan’s Last Ukiyo-e Master who loved yōkai all his life but what he wanted to convey was the mystery of human beings...

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#art #ArtHistory #Japan #イラスト #illustration #history

Texas Teen Killed Goat at School Barn Used for Livestock Contests, Police Say A 17-year-old said that she had poisoned the animal with pesticide because she thought its keeper was a cheater, the authorities said.

A 17-year-old Texas girl has been charged with animal cruelty after she killed another teenager’s goat by force-feeding it pesticide because she believed the goat’s keeper was a “cheater,” according to the authorities.

Thank you so much! It does quite kinky, but I'm proud of it... 😅

That Time President Carter Was Menaced by a ‘Killer Rabbit’ Mr. Carter’s 1979 confrontation with a swimming rabbit was a “throwaway story” that became emblematic of his problems at home and abroad.

In August 1979, a reporter for The Associated Press broke the news that a “killer rabbit” had attacked President Jimmy Carter. It was a “throwaway story,” the reporter said, but one that took on a life of its own and became emblematic of the president’s problems at home and abroad.

‘Beauty Composing Poetry by Lamplight' painted in the Edo Period by Katsushika Ōi shows a lady thinking with brush raised by a stone garden lamp that illuminates some cherry blossom in the dark starlit night

'Hokusai’s Daughter — Apprentice to Master'

@kimvertue.bsky.social tracks how the father-daughter duo became two of Japan’s greatest Ukiyo-e artists

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#Japan #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration #イラスト

"The Ring / Koji Suzuki”

The origin of the strangen Sadako. Beautiful and fragile. The circumstances and bizarre fate of the lone her deified existence. A masterpiece of Japanese horror about the mechanism of the “curse"!

Your image of her will surely be overturned...

⬇️ a sample of the crossover #art I mention in my #movie #review of 'Tomie' (1998) newly released @arrowvideo.bsky.social #Bluray🎀

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#illustration #イラスト #horror #kawaii

YouTube video by ヨルシカ / n-buna Official ヨルシカ - 太陽（OFFICIAL VIDEO）

love the arty collage MV to this beautiful song - vocals by Suis are always emotive, the lyrics are poignant, evocative yet speak of something ineffable, joyous, heartrending, hopeful, all at once (even in translation)💐

Yorushika 🎶 Sun 🌄 太陽 🦋 ヨルシカ
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four film stills: Miho Kanno as Tomie holds up a black and white photo; Mami Nakamura as Tsukiko with her ear to the floor; a school class photograph with one of the faces scratched out; Mami Nakamura as Tsukiko face to face with Miho Kanno as Tomie with a jetty and lake in the background.

'Tomie' - Ataru Oikawa's 1998 live-action reworking of Junji Ito's seminal #manga is an unusual psychological J-horror with emotional complexity & sapphic undertones

my #movie #review of the new #Bluray from Arrow Video
@framerated.co.uk :

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#Japan #horror #cinema

The outlandish prologue and the first frame, which radiates a unique talent, have a huge impact! The more you follow the story, the more terrifying it becomes.... You will surely be drawn into this world.

"Shibatarian / Katsuya Iwamuro”

A must read for 80's horror lovers! The Japanese title of "The Return of the Living Dead," a film that is the antithesis of a conventional zombie film, is "Battalion.” From this Battalion, the buzzword "Obtalian" was even born.

@remydean.bsky.social reviewed J-Horror TOMIE on Arrow Video Blu-ray medium.com/framerated/t...