I had permanent residence for 20 years until an official at Narita wrongly cancelled it on a re-entry. Immigration admitted it was a mistake, but I never got it back.
22.11.2025 00:40 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@studionib.bsky.social
Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
I had permanent residence for 20 years until an official at Narita wrongly cancelled it on a re-entry. Immigration admitted it was a mistake, but I never got it back.
22.11.2025 00:40 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Masaka! This is not the Japan I remember.
22.11.2025 00:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Pen and watercolour Illustration of a town at night with characterised smiling face moon looking over.
Moon Town, an old exhibition piece from Japan days. #illustration #townscape #kidlitUK #kidlitART
19.11.2025 09:42 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The illustrated cover of the 'loss and grief reading list' shows multiple rain clouds with a sun poking out from one of them. It is superimposed over a bookshelf.
Nov 17-23 is Bereaved Children's Awareness Week.
Theย Loss and Grief reading list is a curated selection of 24 titles that focus on the topic of bereavement. Itย is a guide to stories that empathise, comfort and hopefully connect with young readers.
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Hi Bluesky friends! What's the best alternative to Google as a web browser? I'm really getting fed up of seeing 2 or 3 pages of sponsored ads appearing before proper results, plus all the unwarranted AI guesswork.
24.10.2025 15:28 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I'm chiefly an illustrator, a good part of my career was in Japan, where I lived for over 20 years. But recently I translated a Japanese folktale ใคใใฎใใใใใใ (Tsuru no Ongaeshi)) for an ESL app. It was an interesting challenge, the reading age is quite young so many subtle nuances and requirements.
16.10.2025 07:47 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Picked up a mint condition Technics SL1210 turntable at auction. Grief over my wife's death led me to abandon all my vinyl in Japan when I returned to the UK, it's 20 years since I've spinned discs. But now, maybe pick up the pieces again. All I need is another deck, a mixer, and some records!
10.10.2025 07:54 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I left Musk's miasma a year ago for exactly these reasons.
08.10.2025 08:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Zack on Bold Politics podium
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Delft tile with a landscape scene of three figures crossing a bridge under a tree, buildings and a boat in the background. All are hand-painted in blue on a white background.
Delft tile showing a fisherman on a riverbank, with sailing boat, ducks and a distant town.
These blue and white delft tiles are more than decoration: theyโre snapshots of 17th- and 18th-century taste, trade, and storytelling. Imported from the Netherlands, delftware tiles were popular for their gleaming tin-glazed surfaces and crisp cobalt designs.
06.10.2025 08:01 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0At a population of 340.1 million in the US, that would be 113 million people? Oooh!
03.10.2025 07:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the ยฃ232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the ยฃ14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
every good scholar needs: a desk; some ink; a demon monkey hovering menacingly above, clutching his own book; and a quill
26.09.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 61 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Quote with your yellow art! ๐
The mermaid's dance, from the #HansAndersen story 'The Little Mermaid' 'Ningyohime' ไบบๅฝขๅงซ (Hyoronsha Publishing, Tokyo)
#kidlitart #kidlitUK #illustration
What a great interview with Jeff Mills on #BBC6music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social I met him in Tokyo back in the day in Maniac Love, such a humble genius.
28.09.2025 10:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.
22.09.2025 18:12 โ ๐ 771 ๐ 174 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 6pen drawing sketch of clouds from a train window
pen drawing sketch of an English landscape with an electric pylon from a train window
pen drawing sketch of a train passenger
pen drawing sketch of a train passenger
Some more recent scribbles on the train to London - clouds, pylons, people. #sketchbook #trainsketching
22.09.2025 16:20 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Autumn is absolutely one of the best times to visit Japan, I miss the golden fauna.
22.09.2025 07:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
How do we fix this mess?
16.09.2025 06:34 โ ๐ 2614 ๐ 1084 ๐ฌ 133 ๐ 169Hello Brian, what an inspiring theme, thank you for sharing the call-out! Here's a few wintery samples from previous book commissions. Website is johnshelley.com
15.09.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0V&A East Storehouse is a fabulous new museum, utterly unique, with the addition of another building next year. I visited before the Bowie section had opened, so another trip to be planned.
14.09.2025 08:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I used to draw a web comic many years ago, long since discontinued, so thought maybe the experience could be valid for the survey, however it's really for people creating comics right now isn't it!
12.09.2025 08:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Well Done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - great to hear him defending the corner on BBCRadio4 The Moral Maze this evening. #bbc #radio4
03.09.2025 19:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You'll probably have to blow it up or look at this on a big screen, but here is how anyone can make a little 8 page zine that they can use to write a story, write about their favorite things, a personal experience or make a mini comic. Fold some paper and get your thoughts out there!!
28.08.2025 22:36 โ ๐ 296 ๐ 137 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4ๆฌๅฝใซใใใใจใใใใใพใใ็ด ๆตใช็ฉ่ชใๆใใใฆใใใ ใใพใใใๆฌ็ฉใฎ่ๅฐใจ่กฃ่ฃ ใๆใใใใฃใใฎใงใใใๅฝๆใฏใคใณใฟใผใใใใๆฎๅใใๅใ ใฃใใฎใงใๆฑไบฌใงในใญใใญใขใฎๆญดๅฒ็ใช่ณๆใ่ฆใคใใใฎใฏๅคงๅคใงใใใในใญใใญใขๅคงไฝฟ้คจใใใใใฎๅฐๅใฎไผ็ตฑ็ใชๅปบ็ฏใๆฑใฃใ็ด ๆดใใใๆฌใใใใคใๅใใใใจใใงใใฆใๆฌๅฝใซๅฉใใใพใใใ
17.08.2025 20:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Les langues รฉtrangรจres sont toujours interprรฉtรฉes de maniรจre flexible au Japon :) La rรฉponse est quelque chose que seul l'hรดtel connaรฎtra ! nirasaki.chateraisehotel.jp :)
13.08.2025 19:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Japanese ukiyo-e print depicting a ghostly figure holding a sword.
'Female Ghost with Sword' from 'The Complete Works of Chikamatsu' - Uemura Shoen, 1923.
#GhostMonth #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
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