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👁️ Occasional Graphic Designer for telly & film 🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want 📍Black Country (middle of the UK) https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
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Sign me the heck up ✨...
Just realised I haven't seen any since the excellent Deerskin. Maybe the insufferable vibes from the trailer to his wacky superhero flick put me off for a spell...
Ah, the poster for the little-seen remake directed by Dario Argento...
It’s autumnal, it’s getting darker in the evenings, that scratching sound up in your attic is back. Don’t worry, cheer up by treating yourself with a Woman in Black signed giclee print or two. £75 (free UK P&P). Visit nicktankard.co.uk & email me at nicktankardart@gmail.com to place your order.
Ah cool! It was lovely overhearing the different generations chatting about taking part in it throughout the day...
Thanks both, I'll let him know..!
I only really know Teshigahara's work from the 'Three Films by...' boxset that Criterion put out back in the day. All bangers...
Cor, Woman in the Dunes is a fave 👌...
You're either Victoria or Holly 🤔..?
Oof, WiFi emergency, only just gone live 😩...
💀 Going live soooooon...
Oh yep oh yep my dad has another two wood carved stargazing Maris completed. I'm making them available in his shop tomorrow... 👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
Making my escape from London. Two exciting & productive meetings *and* I picked up a couple of Mexican vampire flicks. Good day..!
This Friday at 8pm, a livestreamed telling of M R James's story "The Uncommon Prayer-book". Register in advance and may what you can here uncommonprayer.eventbrite.co.uk
I accidentally recorded this on slow-mo, but I'm glad I did. Love how it makes the most innocuous soundscape instantly ominous. The death knell chime of that child's triangle...
Ah yes, I'd like to attend that at some point..!
Wish I'd shot the whole day like that...
It's nice when you're 'working from home' so you can bunk off to go visit a horn dance performed annually in Abbots Bromley since 1532...
Absolutely! Going forward I need to remember to make more slow-mo recordings..!
I accidentally recorded this on slow-mo, but I'm glad I did. Love how it makes the most innocuous soundscape instantly ominous. The death knell chime of that child's triangle...
Bah. Got you a badge though, heh...
Apparently, yeah..!
Walked about 9 miles and forgot my sun hat, ooft...
I am sunburn'd 😩...
It's nice when you're 'working from home' so you can bunk off to go visit a horn dance performed annually in Abbots Bromley since 1532...
Refusing to turn the volume up on this, scrolling on asap...
I’m going to make a concerted effort to sell some of my original illustrations (and prints) for The Woman in Black this autumn. Autumn seems like the right time. Watch this space…
I just spotted they've added that Tom Conti flick ECLIPSE recently released on the BFI Flipside label...
The best of the pinholes. Still over exposed, but I love how taking a photo with a mere thread of light turns what was a bright touristy ice cream of day (a very busy pub just down the trail) into the opening of Great Expectations or the finale of The Essex Serpent.
It's on the naff 'softcut' lino I used when I first started. I'll probably do something similar at some point on the good stuff...
Promero...
Most of all the atmosphere of ramped up dread, even Mark Jenkins chosen filming aesthetic & the setting of 1973, recalls the BBC's 'Dead of Night' series, with superior camera work and an incredibly chilly sound design. My ★★★★ review of Enys Men on Letterboxd boxd.it/aZ9tID
Jokes in the house that the intro sounds like an emergency alarm...
Found a pile of of my earliest lino blocks stashed away in the garage. Here's a Caligari one I have no memory of making. Maybe I should finish it..!
I spy my Kerblam logo on a travel mug, classy 🧐..!
Here’s a couple of images from behind the scenes on ENYS MEN taken by the incomparable Steven Tanner. Boswens Menhir and the Lifeboat Crew (35mm, spring 2021)
Back on the Enys Men Blu ray. The disc includes a very good director's audio diary you play over the film. Recorded during lockdown when the shoot was pushed by a year, including planning a first draft of Rose of Nevada, and then into socially distanced prep and shoot on Enys Men. Good stuff..!
I'll call the judge...
Squinting to spot Angel Blake...
That's the one yeah, I remember catching it at FrightFest back in the day...
I keep meaning to check this out. I quite liked the director's previous film, a 1960s found footage thing set in a Magdalene laundry...
The Barbican Centre has never to my knowledge hosted a screening of Penda's Fen, but that changes today. It's sold out, I'm happy to say, but I expect there will be a small number of tix at the box office if you want to queue early. And do say hello! (Find me in the Two Brewers after, probably.)
Har, the audience remains off camera throughout, and their questions at the end are presented as text. Don't wanna see em, don't wanna hear em..!
👀... bsky.app/profile/sara...
Watching the BFI film sound panel chat with Mark Jenkin & Peter Strickland included on the Enys Men disc. Didn't realise we nearly got a Peter Strickland Stone Tape TV film reimagining before the BBC turned it down and the project pivoted to radio...
After recently discovering my prototype for 'The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water' sign I made a few years back, I've decided to make a small batch available to pre-order, along with a selection of previously sold out signs. 👀 More exciting news on this sign coming soon. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
Well I know what I'll be watching asap...
Folk horror comes to Crown Court! This case from 1974 is inspired by the Lower Quinton ‘witchcraft murder’ of 1945 & written by David Pinner, whose novel Ritual inspired The Wicker Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3r...
I’m selling folkloric linocut prints at the Turner Contemporary in Margate tomorrow with Brighter Days. Come and marvel at my carving skills and inept sales patter!
We've found 6 copies of the 'Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means' tape, inspired by 'The Stone Tape' (1972). It's a 16 track collection & comes with sleeve notes by the writer/comedian Stewart Lee. These are the final copies, bundled together with an A3 risograph print. hiddenbritain.bandcamp.com
Yep, and it is..!
Public service re Enys Men ✨... bsky.app/profile/lyns...
Just followed him on Bandcamp 👍...
I'm with you on all of these points...
If any outlet needs/wants a review/piece on ROSE OF NEVADA from a a Cornish person lmk :)
I became a fan of George MacKay immediately following an early screening at the Barbican of Paul Wright's superb FOR THOSE IN PERIL (2014). With its haunted fishing community and flashes of coastal folklore, Jenkins's film sounds like something of a companion piece for sure, sign me up..!
On the BFI channel, I'd imagine...
Plot-schmot...
Grinning and nodding at all the glowing reviews coming out for Mark Jenkin's third flick. This sounds like a distillation of the elements I loved from Bait (huge fan) and Enys Men (less keen but adored the texture of it), mmm..!
I am able! And I'm prepping the next batch of defaced copies to sell from the 27th...
Yep, I'm afraid there's a paragraph in the listing text saying I'm unable to ship to the EU...
One gone already, har 💥..!
Just two shiny gold leaf'd Maris remaining and then that's the entire first batch of Tales Accursed book defacements sold. Pretty chuffed with that! Getting the pens out to get cracking on batch two...
Straw Bear defacement hast landed..!
Thanks Bob..!
Film Time! Watched Filipino supernatural revenge drama ITIM (1976). A real treat seeing the very classically Gothic setup transposed to rural Phillipines, replete with Holy Week rituals. Elegantly directed and wonderful use of shadow to generate a sombre and uncanny atmosphere. Top notch..!
Sad to hear of the passing last week of Mike de Leon. I came to his work earlier this year thanks to ITIM's inclusion in the second All The Haunts Be Ours boxset, and seperate release of KISAPMATA from Severin. Both excellent, supremely well-crafted flicks, I hope to track down more of his work...
Grateful to a book purchaser earlier for pointing out that items can now be posted to Northern Ireland again without any customs guff since the post-Brexit nonsense was ironed out back on the 1st May. So that's something, art folk..!
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Thanks Stephen. I'm gonna have to get the pens out again...
Ooh nicely captured shine there..!
Ah interesting, I've previously rejected tales featuring a scarecrow by Nigel Kneale and Patricia Highsmith. Maybe I should look at them again...
Cor, all sold out of the standard defacements. I'll set to work on a second batch, ready to go live on Friday 26th Sept ✨👍...
Cheerz Ray! The Folk Horror Parish Council deemed that if it's in this book (or the other one) then it's *definitely* Folk Horror...
Oh yep, even if this batch sells out, there will be more..!
I'll be prepping a new batch of everything to restock on the 27th 👍...
Thank-ee..!
Do yourself a favour. Buy one of these handsome volumes today.
Hurrah, thanks..!
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Aww, thanks so much, Roger..!
I only just spotted the text in the shop listing says the books will be available from the 27th Sept. Dunno how that happened. It's definitely tomorrow (3rd). TOMORROW..!
Punch defacement completed. Just getting a few more copies ready before the first sales push tomorrow... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Oh, someone love me enough to buy me a copy? Or find me annoying enough to buy me a copy to shut me up about it? Either will do.
Ooh, good thinking..!
Did a big book post on Insta and got reposted by the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic at Boscastle, love to see it 👁️🖤🔥...
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Punch defacement completed. Just getting a few more copies ready before the first sales push tomorrow... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Thanks Richard! £2,738.67 donated so far. Will remain up for sale until October.
Sing a song of autumn - in Aubrey Beardsley style
🌞 New fashion just dropped 🌞 I picked up the special edition Summerisle Arcana t-shirt from @sirpaintalot.bsky.social... 'Following the recent mass arrest of peaceful protesters - 100% of artist's share of profits will be donated to Defend Our Juries' jimll.co.uk/products/sum...
Thanks Ally..!
I've created a Coming Soon listing in my shop for the Professionally Defaced copies of my spooky book that I'm going to start selling from Wednesday. Check out the listing for full details of all the various options available, thank-ee..! 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
In shelf trinket news: I found a Green Man figurine from the 1998 Wade British Myths & Legends series to go with the Satyr I bought the other week. Just two ancient topless forest guys hanging out...
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Also available will be a few copies that I've defaced with a pen illustrations of a standing stone site. Included will be the original DEFACED POLAROID used as a basis for each illustration... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
