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'The Shining Before Christmas'

All shot practically using real figures, lighting and miniature sets.

#photography #miniatures #theshining #thenightmarebeforechristmas #actionfigurephotography #toyphotography #productphotography #visualart #movies

Sally hides in a bathroom with a knife in her hand as Jack hacks the door down with an axe 🪓

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In conversation with Sara Sheridan, Damian Barr discusses his novel THE TWO ROBERTS, which reimagines the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde & Robert Colquhoun. Recorded at the National Galleries on 7 October 2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/T44S_tndnfM

#Scottish #literature #art #artists #visualart #20thcentury

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Poet, writer, artist, & avant-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was born 100 years ago #OTD, 28 Oct, in Nassau, Bahamas – a fact which he would later describe as “ridiculous, not in character at all”. His father was a bootlegger, smuggling rum to the USA, & Finlay was sent, aged 6, to Larchfield, a boarding school in Helensburgh, Scotland, where WH Auden had recently joined the staff

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#Scottish #literature #poetry #visualart #gardening #sculpture #IanHamiltonFinlay

“Et In Arcadia Ego”, a stone sculpture by ian Hamilton Finlay (1976)

A slab of pale stone, showing a stylised scene in a woodland. In the foreground is what looks like a tank (i.e. a military vehicle), except it has incised lines across it suggesting that it is in fact made out of stone blocks. The scene is framed and under the frame the words

ET IN ARCADIA EGO
After Nicholas Poussin

are carved into the slab.

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The postman just delivered my contributor's copy of The Storms Issue 5 & it is GORGEOUS! @StormShelter & @rhonagreene, you've outdone yourselves!

And, additional thanks to Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Fingal Arts for their support of this issue

https://eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/

#poetry #prose #VisualArt #art #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

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The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …

#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #AlasdairGray #Murals #VisualArt

A green wall. On it is a piece of another wall, cut out to encompass a mural by Alasdair Gray. On the left, a red semi-heraldic Scottish lion rampant is sitting at a table, using a laptop computer. One foot is under the table grasping a computer mouse (which resembles a real mouse, apart from the cable coming out of its nose and linking it to the laptop). A scroll of paper emerges from the laptop's screen, and the lion is using a quill pen to write on it. The scroll has handwriting on it, saying

words
wards
wurds
Scots
Scottish
Scotch
Scoatch
Caledonian

The scroll rolls out of the top of the laptop screen and across the rest of the wall, becoming a banner reading

SCOTTISH Books

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Am 21.06. ist #Vernissage im #Holodeck.

@dasORM musste leider kurzfristig absagen, aber keine Sorge. Wir haben das Impro-Projekt #AHorseOfAnotherColour wiederbelebt!

Außerdem dabei:

http://www.axelpulgar.com/

Mehr Infos folgen.
#Köln #Improvisation #VisualArt #Cologne #Kunst #Upcycling #WerkstattHolodeck @koelngruppe

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From the Scottish Poetry Library archives: poet & novelist John Burnside discusses fellow Scottish poet W.S. Graham. During the talk, recorded at the National Library of Scotland, Burnside talks about poetry & visual art, the poet as nomad, & “feeding the dead”

https://splpodcast.podbean.com/e/john-burnside-on-ws-graham

#Scottish #literature #poetry #visualart #poets #JohnBurnside #WSGraham