#laura clemente

[garadinervi]

Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands, Edited by Marenka Thompson-Odlum, Common Threads Press, [Norwich], 2024 [Idea Books, Amsterdam]

Senior Editor: Laura Moseley Editorial Assistants: Marisa Clements and Eleanor Gaffney

Design: Chris Shortt

[eli-james99]

I’ve been semi rewatching lbd and rewatched pot party at work yesterday ✌🏻😍

[overwhelmingly-hufflepuff]

she was my twee queen

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Superbad 2007

[celticculture]

📷laura clements

[wonderofasunrise]

ER Text Posts, Part IV

I | II | III

[ryukisgod]

Ugh, my favourite true crime podcast just compared Luigi Mangione to Richard Rameriz

[movie-titlecards]

Devil's Partner (1961)

My rating: 5/10

Watchable, but forgettable 60s horror schlock. And of course, utterly devoid of centaurs.

[mitsuhotecoolwithit]

“This is a conversation about time.” “A delusion starts like any other idea.” A human or a butterfly?! In all probability, she's flirting with me. 🤔🤨💯

“What about the culture, the heritage?!”

Refusal across the board. That's three times you refused.

... song because to be really honest, we were sick of it.

“Prove it.” 😅🤣😂😉🥰😍😘😎💯

What’s the last thing you remember? I remember trees, and … dancing?

[adamwatchesmovies]

Lovers and Liars (1979)

It’s been a while since I’ve hated a movie as much as Lovers and Liars. Poorly edited, never funny, badly written and dated, I'm almost sure the movie itself was an afterthought and the real objective was to give Goldie Hawn an Italian vacation.

When Guido Massacesi (Giancarlo Giannini) learns his father has become gravely ill, he decides to go visit… but the womanizer refuses to travel alone. After her friend rejects his advance, American actress Anita (Hawn) decides to join him.

Two corpses stuffed into a barrel would have more chemistry than Hawn and Giannini do, which on its own is enough to doom this screwball comedy. Maybe it’s an Italian thing but there’s nothing to like about the male lead. He's married with a son but inviting them to join him as he goes to visit his father - perhaps for the last time - never crosses his mind. The trip is first and foremost an opportunity for Guido to see his mistress again. Is that supposed to be funny? At her apartment, we see first-hand how creepy this man gets. He spots his mistress naked in bed, undresses, slides under the sheets and starts pawing her like he's Brock Turner. She screams and kicks him out, which Anita finds irresistible. They go on the road together through some would-be hysterical adventures. After a while, she falls asleep. That’s Guido’s cue to start putting the moves on her. When Anita eventually agrees to his advances, you’ll want to barf.

You’d have to be a comedy scientist to recognize the pathetic, misshapen gags as they limply hobble by. In a small scenic town, everything is closed because it isn’t tourist season. Guido and Anita can’t get a cab! That’s it. That’s the joke. It’ll have you begging for a fart or crotch shot.

Scenes often end in a way that makes you wonder if you missed something, or if there isn’t a reel missing. I’ve read the picture originally ran around the two-hour mark. My version on VHS lasted 96 minutes. The missing scenes would explain why so much of the film was choppy and abrupt but this was torture at an hour and a half. Any more and my mind would’ve snapped.

Lovers and Liars is particularly frustrating because it gives you absolutely nothing. Some bad movies give you hours' worth of material to talk about. Others make you angry in a myriad of ways or provide entertainment in ways that weren’t intended. This? It’s a struggle to sit through and the effort needed to explain why you shouldn’t watch it was a chore. The sooner I forget about Lovers and Liars - and I will forget all about it - the better. (Full-screen version on VHS, June 9, 2021)

[ffcrazy15]

Somewhere down south of here, There's a woman with an armload of grass

Weaving a basket That'll float the Rio Grande

She'll send her baby on it The river running wild and fast

To curry the favor Of whatever Pharoah owns the land

A seed of an idea Like mustard greens

Like newborn fingers Curled and half asleep,

Awake.

The Oh Hellos, "Rio Grande" / Philip Richard Morris, "The Infant Moses and His Mother" (detail) / Laura Robbins, Cirrelda Snider-Bryan and the community of Placitas, NM: Ceramic Wildlife Mural of the Upper Rio Grande Watershed (detail) / George Loftus Noyes, "Rio Grande" / Art West, "Ballooning on the Rio Grande" / Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano, apse mosaic (detail) / Saint Joseph Edition of the New American Bible Large Type, "Moses Found in a Basket" (detail)

[garadinervi]

Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Zine, Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt, Edited by Laura Moseley and Marisa Clements, Design and photography by Poppy Marriott, Common Threads Press, [Norwich], 2023 [SpazioB**K, Milano. Idea Books, Amsterdam]

This zine tells the story of the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt. Created in collaboration with the team behind the quilt, this zine features essays, interviews and photographs from Daniel Fountain, Rowan Frewin, Alice Bigsby-Bye and Beau Brannick that document the inspiration, processes and stories that went into the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt. A portion of all sales are donated to Norwich Trans Pride.  About the Quilt The Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt consists of individual squares crafted by trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming people and trusted allies, expressing personal forms of joy relating to the trans experience. Initiated, organised and crafted by Norwich-based artists and activists Beau Brannick and Alice Bigsby-Bye, this community quilt responds to the onslaught of biased media, dangerous politics, and the rise in hate crimes against transgender people close to home and further afield.

[armandyke]

Would love to hear about the books u read in 2024, surprise bests, biggest disappointments?

I think I will do a multi part post over the coming weeks with reviews of all the books I read since I have about half of them written up already. For now I'll just say my two absolute favourite reads of the year were Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock and Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. Two very different books but both of them permanently altered my brain chemistry.

Below are my ratings for all the books I read and as I say, I'll try to post more in depth reviews over the next few weeks. My aim this year is to try and do proper reviews of the books I read as I'm reading them instead of having to go back several months later lmao.

Oh, and because it's something I'm always looking for specific recs for, I've highlighted the books with queer rep (that I remember) in pink, and the extreme horrors/books I advise checking trigger warnings for are marked with a lil skull.

1) Gone to see the River Man by Kristopher Triana (4⭐) 💀

2) Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (4⭐)

3) The Butcher by Laura Kat Young (5⭐)

4) The Hollow Places by T.Kingfisher (5⭐)

5) Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (4.5⭐)

6) The Shuddering by Ania Ahiborn (3.5⭐)

7) Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (5⭐)

8) Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandraw Khaw (3.5⭐)

9) Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite (4⭐) 💀

10) Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry (1⭐)

11) The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino (3.5⭐)

12) Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley (4⭐)

13) The Dead of Winter curated by Cecily Grayford (3⭐)

14) Off Season by Jack Ketchum (3⭐) 💀

15) Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt (3.5⭐) 💀

16) Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison (4⭐) 💀

17) The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (5⭐) 💀

18) Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (4⭐)

19) Caraval by Stephanie Garber (2⭐)

20) The Grip of It by Jac Jemc (4⭐)

21) Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims (5⭐)

22) Nod by Adrian Barnes (4⭐)

23) How to sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (5⭐)

24) Among the Living by Tim Lebbon (2⭐)

25) 19 Claws and a Black Bird by Augustina Bazterrica (3⭐)

26) House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson (4.5⭐)

27) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (DNF)

28) The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Perry (DNF)

29) A House with Good Bones by T.Kingfisher (5⭐)

30) A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock (5⭐)

31) Cujo by Stephen King (5⭐)

32) The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy (3.5⭐)

33) The Dinner Guest by B P Walter (4.5⭐)

34) The Cloisters by Katy Hays (1⭐)

35) Diavola by Jennifer Thorne (5⭐)

36) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (4.5⭐)

37) Nettle and Bone by T.Kingfisher (3.5⭐)

38) The Hatching (3.5⭐) Skitter (1⭐) and Zero Day (1⭐) by Ezekiel Boone

39) Come Closer by Sara Gran (4⭐)

40) Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison (5⭐)

41) The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (DNF)

42) Wranglestone by Darren Charlton (3.5⭐)

43) Piñata by Leopoldo Gout (4⭐)

44) Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca (1⭐) 💀

45) Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (5⭐)

46) The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice (I didn't rate this because this was less like reading a book and more like studying for an exam)

47) The Ghost Woods by C.J Cooke (4.5⭐)

48) Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (3.5⭐)

49) Too Late by Colleen Hoover (DNF)

50) Alice by Christina Henry (1⭐)

51) The House of a Hundred Whispers by Graham Masterton (3.5⭐)

52) All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes (4.5⭐)

53) Violent Faculties by Charlene Elsby (4⭐) 💀

54) Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin (3.5⭐) 💀

55) Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison (4.5⭐)

56) My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino (3.5⭐)

57) Bloom by Delilah S Dawson (4⭐)

58) Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella (DNF)

59) Out There Screaming curated by Jordan Peele (3.5⭐)

60) The Watchers by A.M Shine (4⭐)

61) Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (4.5⭐)

62) My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham (3.5⭐)

63) Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (4.5⭐)

64) Incarcerat by Garth Marenghi (4⭐)

65) Feast While You Can by Onjuly Datta and Mikaella Clements (5⭐)

66) The Whistling by Rebecca Netley (4⭐)

67) Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (4⭐)

68) Scuttle by Barnaby Walter (DNF)

69) Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (5⭐)

70) Revival by Stephen King (4⭐)

71) Blight by Tom Carlisle (3.5⭐)

72) The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (5⭐)

[germanpostwarmodern]

For decades the women of abstract art were pushed aside: critics and propagandists like Clement Greenberg focused on the male “geniuses”, e.g. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, and ignored the women artists contributing to abstraction. This marginalization continued in the historicization of abstract art and abstract expressionism in particular: in important exhibitions, e.g. at the MoMA’s 1970 show „New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970“, few or no women were included and also art history treated them stepmotherly. The latter actually went well beyond the American and European realms and concerned Asia or Latin America as well.

But thanks to feminist art historians women artists of abstraction have been wrested from oblivion and, although often after their passing, finally their due attention and praise. This concern also drove the Whitechapel Gallery, the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld to collaborate on the survey exhibition „Action, Gesture, Paint - Women artists and abstraction worldwide 1940-70“: besides well-known artists like Helen Frankenthaler or Lee Krasner the exhibition also features lesser-known protagonists like Aiko Miyawaki, Tomie Ohtake or Franciszka Themerson. The final stage of the traveling exhibition at Kunsthalle Bielefeld until March 3 again demonstrates the general diversity of abstraction as an artistic idiom but also the quality of the gathered artists which in no way correlates to their relative obscurity. Instead, the exhibition leaves the impression that the male-dominated art world deliberately excluded the contribution of women to abstract art.

In order to enter deeper into the history of women and abstraction the present catalogue accompanying the exhibition is highly recommended: it collects 7 essays shedding light on a variety of topics, e.g. the rise of gestural abstraction as a global development with men and women acting as innovators side by side, as Laura Smith concludes, or the particular situation women artists faced in postwar Germany as elaborated by Laura Rehme. Thus, both catalogue and exhibition are an inspiring point of departure for exploring the female side of postwar abstract art.

[dickfuckk]

A list of season 2 cast and crew members, confirmed and speculated

I will try and keep this updated

Not counting the obvious ones

Please note that this is a list of both cast and crew members, so PAs and such are also included and not just actors

Also if you're interested: on my bts instagram I only follow people who have worked on season 1, and people I suspect worked on season 2. So feel free to go through the list of people I follow if you're into that

A

Aaron Morton (Camera) - he’s listed on the very last picture as the camera-man

Adam Stein(Writer)

Alan F. (English solider)

Alexandria S.

Alison Telford (Casting)

Alistair Gregory - from this tweet so uncertain, but followed me back on my bts instagram account so seems to have some interest in ofmd

Amy Barber (Sound department)

Amy Tunnicliffe

Amanda Grace Leo

Amanda M. (Wedding guest)

Andrea Basile (Costume)

Andres Gomez Zamora (Visual effects)

Andrew DeYoung (Director) - I don’t remember if there was any other reason than the fact that he was in Aotearoa during filming

Andy McLaren (senior art director)

Andy Rydzewksi (Cinematographer)

Angelina Faulkner (Sound department)

B

Blair Nicholson (Camera)

Blair Teesdale (Camera)

Brad Coleman (Visual effects)

Brad McLeod (Special effects)

Brian Badie (Hairstylist)

Bronson Pinchot (“Torturer”)

Bryn Seager - I don’t remember why but I follow him

Bryony Matthew (Food stylist)

C

Caleb Staines (Camera)

Chantel Partamian (Visual effects)

Colin Elms (Art department)

Colin Rogers (Sound department)

Cora Montalban (Makeup and/or hairstylist) - I believe she was tagged in an instagram story once, and she’s followed by a ton of cast and crew members

Corrin Ellingford (Sound department)

Corey Moana (Camera)

Corry Greig (Art department)

Coti Herrera (Prosthetics/Makeup)

D

Damian Del Borrello (Sound department)

Daniel Fernandez (Spanish priest)

Danica Duan (Assistan accountant)

David Boden (production manager)

David G. (Stand in)

David Rowell (Financial controller)

David Van Dyke (Visual effects)

Dennis Bailey (Hairstylist)- Leslie revealed that he’s there.

Dion Anderson (Rescue diver)

Don A. (Swampy Town folk)

Donna Pearman (Assistant accountant)

Donna Marinkovich (set decorator)

Doug McFarlene (Pirate)

Duncan Nairn (Visual effects)

E

Eliza Cossio (Writer)

Erroll Shand (Prince Ricky)

Esther Mitchell (Camera)

F

Fernando Frias (Director)

G

Gareth Van Niekerk (Sound department)

Gary Archer (dental prosthetics)

Gemma Campbell (Visual effects)

Grant Lobban

Greg Sager (Safety manager)

Gregor Harris (Camera)

Gregory J. Pawlik Jr. (AD)

Gypsy Taylor (Costume designer)

H

Haroun Barazanchi (Set designer)

Harry Ashby (AD)

Helene Wong (Voice work)

I-J

Jacob Tomuri (Stunts)

Jaden McLeod

James Crosthwaite (Set decorator)

Jamie Couper (Camera)

Jason Samoa, possibly spotted on location

Jemaine Clement, pretty sure this is only based on his friendship with Rhys and Taika tbh

Jes Tom (Writer)

Jessica Lee Hunt (Makeup artist) - followed by a ton of crew and cast members and I believe she’s been tagged in instagram stories and such

John Mahone (Writer)

Jonathan Bruce (Sound department)

Jono Capel-Baker (Groom)

Jonno Roberts didn’t get the role from his audition, but could still have gotten a different role - hung out with Ruibo

Judah Getz (Sound department)

Julia Huberman (Sound department)

Julia Thompson (Costume)

Justin Benn (Republic of Pirates Town)

K

Karl L. (Action extra)

Kate Fu

Kate Leonard (Casting)

Kathleen Zyka Smith (“Red Flag”)

Kosuke Iijima (Fabricator/Sculptor?) - due to interaction on this post

Kris Gillan (Fabricator/Sculptor)

Kura Forrester - followed by quite a few cast and crew members, but I don’t remember if there was anything else to it

L

Laura Stables (SFX makeup artist)

Leanne Evans (Art department)

Lee Tuson

Leslie Jones (Spanish Jackie) - she’s spoiled this so many times, but gjfhdks

Leyla - followed by a lot of cast and crew members, don’t remember if there was more to it than that

Lindsey Cantrell (Set decorator)

Louis Flavell Birch (Blue coat)

Luke V. (Stand in)

[docrotten]

BLUE MONKEY (1987) – Episode 277 – Decades of Horror 1980s

“I wonder if we’ll find anything down here? I bet we’re going to find a big blue monkey.” Or maybe you won’t. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr, and guest Ralph Miller III – as they do their best to find the blue monkey in Blue Monkey (1987). It’s Canadian horror, ay.

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 277 – Blue Monkey (1987)

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Synopsis: Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it’s carrying. Meanwhile, it’s eating people in Dr. Carson’s quarantined hospital.

Directed by: William Fruet

Writing Credits: George Goldsmith (written by); Chris Koseluk (story editor)

Executive Producers: Sandy Howard, Tom Fox, Michael Masciarelli

Special Effects by: Steve Neill (creature maker: Sirius Effects (uncredited) / creature supervisor: Sirius Effects (uncredited))

Selected Cast:

Ivan E. Roth as The Creature

Steve Railsback as Detective Jim Bishop

Gwynyth Walsh as Dr. Rachel Carson

Don Lake as Elliot Jacobs

Helen Hughes as Marwella Harbison

Sandy Webster as Fred Adams

Susan Anspach as Dr. Judith Glass

Bill Lake as Paramedic

Peter Van Wart as Oscar Willets

Don Ritchie as Orderly #1

Stuart Stone as Joey

Marsha Moreau as Marcy

Nathan Adamson as Tyrone

Sarah Polley as Ellen

Joy Coghill as Dede Wilkens

Cynthia Belliveau as Alice Bradley

John Vernon as Roger Levering

Philip Akin as Anthony Rivers (as Phillip Akin)

Laura Dickson as Desk Nurse #1

Robin Duke as Sandra Baker

Joe Flaherty as George Baker

Jane Dingle as Desk Nurse #2

Dan Lett as Ted Andrews

Michael J. Reynolds as Albert Hooper

Michael Caruana as Technician

Gina Wilkinson as Nurse Michelle

David Clement as Surgeon

Ursula Balzer as O.R. Nurse

Les Rubie as Rollo Jordan

Reg Dreger as Policeman

Karen Scanlan as ISO. Nurse

Ralph Small as Security Guard

Harry Booker as Bill Clemmins

Jo Bates as Lobby Nurse (as Jo Anne Bates)

Walker Boone as Johnson

Rob Wilton as Orderly #2 (as Robert Wilton)

Alan Rosenthal as Dr. Steinberg (as Allan Rosenthal)

Ken Quinn as Patient

The 80s Grue-Crew and guest Ralph Miller III take a trip to a hospital in Canada to diagnose Blue Monkey (1987). This one features the beginnings of an epidemic, some ludicrous laser shenanigans, an extraordinary amount of green goo, and a freaky larva that magically metamorphoses (we think) into a giant insect that begins killing patients in the now quarantined hospital. All of this is accomplished with some generally good effects work and an abundance of pseudo-sciencing. Steven Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake, Susan Anspach, and John Vernon jump into the fray, accompanied by Marwella and Dede, a pair of golden girls getting drunk in the background, and Robin Dukes and Joe Flaherty having their first baby. Ah, yes. Canadian horror has such a unique flavor. As you can tell, there’s plenty of material for our talkabout… even though there’s no actual blue monkey.

At the time of this writing, Blue Monkey (1987) is available to stream from Tubi and multiple PPV sources. 

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Jeff, will be Angel (1984), starring… wait for it… Rory Calhoun! Joining him are Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Dick Shawn, Susan Tyrrell, and John Diehl, all cavorting on the strip. Unfortunately, there’s a serial killer on the prowl.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans – so leave them a message or comment on the Gruesome Magazine Youtube channel, on the Gruesome Magazine website, or email the Decades of Horror 1980s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.

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