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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2m

I bought Justin's book last year and loved it, so I bought it for my brother for Christmas and he loved it too. If you grew up with / are interested in 80s pop music, the trivia and the stories around it, you'll love it. Or if that describes a friend or relative - Christmas sorted :)

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1h

Not a film, but David Tennant's version of The Doctor, saying "quite right too" seemed to permanently set up shop in my go-to phrases about 20 years ago.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 3h

Starting a new picture and I thought I'd make this one of the ones where I insist on showing you it stage by stage. So:

A3 paper, mainly blank, but in the middle stands a picture frame, or at least the pencil outlines of one. There is an outer frame and a couple of borders. Nothing of note within the frame yet. But still - a picture within a picture, what Inception-style layers have I got planned, eh? Well, nothing planned actually, I just had a vague idea of drawing a picture of people gathered round a framed picture. Let's see what happens. Oh, and next to the pencil lines lays my trusty 1980s Ghostbusters pencil. I've explained before, but just in case you don't know and you're interested - I had some Ghostbusters stationary when I was about nine or ten and after a while I lost the pencil. A couple of years ago, my parents were making big changes to their living room and the pencil was found behind a cabinet. So it's become my go-to pencil and I like that it connects my art to my childhood.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 19h

I think if you get to a billion dollars, the rule should be that you then go back to zero and start again. So - either steer clear of it, or make sure you're prepared for a challenge.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just added these to my website as I could do with some sales, it’s a nice toilet with a framed pic of a puffin, it’s Jude Bellingham being hunky in ink, it’s a pollarded willow tree, and it’s a house in Weymouth with an orangutan face. www.chloecumming.com

Toilet in lovely soft watercolour and pastel with rich green carpet

Jude holding a ball in very lively ink , quite gestural

An oil pastel stubby tree, observed from the real, blues and yellows and bold marks

Front of a house with bay windows and blue skies, near Weymouth harbour , with ape face

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New picture:

Ink drawing with pencil colours on yellow paper. No background. Everyone in this picture is looking at you. So: Furthest left, we have an old-ish woman. Her face sags a little, she has thick black-framed glasses and tall, pink hair, like a cloud on its side. Her arm is pink and gold striped and leads to her hand resting on her pet's neck. This arm and her head are the only bits of the woman drawn. The pet: a large, sort of feline creature. Head a bit like a cheetah, but stretched out at each side. Blue eyes. The head floats and there is a gap of about a foot before the cat's body starts. It has two front legs and then the body tapers away and curves down to a tiny point touching the ground. At this point, its tail curves into the air like a question mark. The cat is gold, yellow and blue striped - its tail is also these colours, but fading from one to the other. A hand rises up behind the cats head (it might be the woman's other hand actually) and hold aloft the rather stern looking head of a large, oldish man. Double chin. Dot eyes. Tuft of white hair. Pink paper crown from a cracker. What is presumably his body stands on the right of the picture. Smart pink suit, gold patterned waistcoat, pink and yellow tie. Out of the neck hole of the body / outfit rises a tree. Black, thin trunk, dividing into a few branches, holding up pink, candyfloss like clumps of leaves, which sort of mirrors the woman's tall hair. In the tree, two very small, silhouette owls with long legs stand. Glowing yellow eyes. A few birds can be seen in the sky too, in the time-honoured way of just drawing 'v' shapes.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Finished picture:

Everything as described in the previous post, but the women now have turquoise shaded skin and their similarly coloured shadows stretch across the floor (no floor or sky is visible as such, btw. Behind the women is simply white paper, with the ground implied by the shadows.)
Hanging around the women's heads are five planets, hanging on wires. There are also many stars dotted about. One of the women's hair buns has rings round it like two of the planets.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Drawing based on the 1966 Czech film Sedmikrasky (Daisies)

Ink drawing with pencil colours on pale yellow paper. Two women in their early twenties laughing and staggering about. One is Marie 1, as played by Jitka Cerhova; she is wearing a dark blue dress, has bunches in her dark brown hair and is stood on one leg. Both her arms are thrown in the air, one hand is holding a pair of scissors and the other a glass of wine which is spilling everywhere. The wine bottle is balanced on her head. Next to her is Marie 2, as played by Ivana Karbanova. She wears a light green dress and a wreath of flowers on her head. In one hand she holds a partly eaten chicken leg and in the other (at the end of an arm thrown around Marie 1's shoulders) is another spilling glass of wine. Spots of wine on the floor. Almost absurdly thick eyeliner on their closed, laughing eyes. This is not a scene from the film, just a made-up image which references a few scenes via the props.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just checked and it is ten months since I last painted a picture. That's the longest i've ever gone without painting since I started when I was 17. I don't think I will ever paint again! I just want to draw. Drawing's brilliant. I love it.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why not improve *your* frames by putting my pictures in the middle of them?

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A new picture!

Ink drawing with pencil colours on yellow paper. In the background, huge banks of yellow clouds with purple shadows drift across a dark blue sky. In the foreground, we have (improbably) two cliff edges facing each other, coming into the picture from left and right. The ledge on the right is a bit higher. On the left ledge sits an abstract, angular person in a stripey top with short blonde hair on top, hair shaved off round the back and sides, and beautiful eyes. Their head is resting in their folded arms which, in turn, are resting on the higher cliff edge on the right. Over on this side, we have what the person is idly watching: a small mansion. Well - either it is small or the person is a giant, either works. A strange creature, a bit lizardlike, a bit devil-like, with two spikes coming out of the flat top of his head, crawls down the front of the mansion and looks at the person. Most of the mansions windows are unlit, but a couple show yellow-lit rooms and we can see a couple of correctly-scaled people (for the mansion) at the windows. The sides of both cliffs are striped and match the person's top - dark green, light green, light yellow, dark yellow and grey

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Superhero films then And Superhero films now

Blue Tit - bright, vibrant blues, whites, yellows and greens.

Great tit - pretty much the same colours as the Blue Tit, but far more muted.
As a bird in its own right it's beautiful, but the contrasting shades of the birds suddenly reminded me of superhero films / costumes being quite darker, muted affairs these days.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the makers of "Insect Lives" and "Creatures with Jobs":

A rubbish movie poster for: TOY FILM. Along with this title and the words "only in a selected cinema" we see the two main characters. They are toys that have come to life, if you can imagine such a thing. One is The Long Cowboy, the other is Bob Spaceman. Both have a passing similarity to Woody and Buzz from some other film, but a bit more haunted and, well, rubbish. The Long Cowboy is saying "i am full of snakes" and Bob Spaceman is saying "let's gooooo ... to space!"

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Yes! We've solved music! One less job for those pesky emotions!" He sounds like a fucking Cyberman.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looks like one of them might be hiding behind that 'The Guardian' sign; I hope that helps with your quest.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you, like me, judge albums by their covers, then go and judge this one and come to the conclusion it is utterly, utterly joyous. Because it is. Definitely one of my favourite albums of this year.

kamikazepromnight.bandcamp.com

Holy Diamond Blue, by Kamikaze Prom Night

10 track album

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Subscribers get a settled-on first name.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I remember someone at school getting quite angry and not backing down over mishearing "a million love songs later..." "He's singing 'a million love songs, HELENA!' HE IS!! He's singing to this Helena! He's telling Helena, 'here I am'!! HE FUCKING IS!!"

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

DO IT ALL NOW @andyburnham.bsky.social or accept you'll do none of it. Because if it isn't done by '29 - EU, social care, undoing the normalisation of hate, donations, fixing the media, the NHS, getting vampiric private equity out of our infrastructure - you'll hand us to the far right in '29.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm going to dress as this screenshot for Halloween.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the makers of "Insect Lives" and "Creatures with Jobs":

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*Another* would-be-a-hundred year old! Her best album (for me) is her first, 'Julie Is Her Name'; it doesn't matter what time of day you put it on, it's immediately 11 o'clock at night and your cup of tea has turned into something rather stronger.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the first I have heard of 'Choosin Texas'. I have no idea what it sounds like. I have no idea who Langley is / are. I am not trying to project anything, I am simply 47 years old, do not listen to radio stations that are playing it and there is SO MUCH stuff. You can't know everything!

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We've arrived at the time of year where I suddenly want to read everything. So I will. Starting with this.

'Can't Get You Out Of My Head - in search of Kylie', by Michael Cragg.
It's a chunky (though surprisingly light) hardback book, with the title written one word below the other down the left of the cover, and a small black & white photo of Kylie at top right. The rest of the cover is silver and shines like a rainbow in the light, a bit like her songs.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bob Spaceman

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the long cowboy

A drawing of an awful looking toy that is like a rubbish version of Woody from Toy Story. Far more distant and haunted looking. His hat is tiny and balances on his hair. His body is far too short, his arms and legs are waaaay too long. He wears a star that says 'star' on it. His nose is very thin and weirdly long. He is saying his catchphrase, "I am full of snakes."

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the cinema, we saw an unusual trailer for a stop-motion film called Wildwood. Unusual, because a lot of it was actually showing you the intricate work that goes into the sets and the puppets. Don't know if it was the intention, but it felt like: there's nothing to be proud of with AI creativity.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

40 years ago, that corner of the bus would have had a small window where you could look down and check the top of the driver's head was okay. (I think the driver also used it as a kind of periscope to check on upstairs) I miss that.

Top deck of a bus, at the front. Windows looking out onto a sunny day, but sadly no little window that looks down onto the driver's place.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every time I see a clip of Buster Keaton it's like he's doing Wile E Coyote's plans, except they work for him.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I once wrote all the words to You Can Call Me Al on a beer mat for a bet. Life peaked there. #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Amazulu - one of two or three bands that, for me at least, only exist in The Young Ones. #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hope Russ Abbot's going to do the theme from Casualty. #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"And I understand that story will soon be available on audio book, Leo?" #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mike Read looks like my first primary school teacher, i'm sure she'd be delighted to know. #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Ladies & Gentlemen... Mr Derek Thompson!" #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh for God's sake. He filled us in last week. Twice. I'm up to date. #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They didn't have to fly them over. This could have been an email #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why are Harry Enfield & Kathy Burke there? Is there a song related to their Kevin & Perry film I've forgotten? #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They never do a special brass band version of a song do they #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Where do Sisqo's pals keep disappearing to? Are they helping build the set for the next artist? #TOTP

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here are the ten best TV shows of the 21st century, voted for by just me (not in any order) 10. Taskmaster 9. Primal 8. The Beatles: Get Back 7. Wandavision 6. Kath & Kim 5. Fifteen Storeys High 4. The Office (the US one) 3. Adventure Time 2. Twin Peaks: the Return 1. Doctor Who

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've seen 13, but of those 13, not necessarily every episode. It's also made me want to do my own top ten or twenty. Which might only feature two of these.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is it possible for someone to be a genius at *turning down* roles? It seems unthinkable that Richard Wilson and Leonard Rossiter wouldn't have been the characters they were just right for.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's pretty simple: Children DO need to understand basic maths. This guy DOES know his address.

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Morning all. The weekend is almost upon us. Although that doesn't stop the bills coming in. Speaking of which I'm sending you all a bill, with a lovely toucan at the end of it. Have fun. xx More bills with birds at the other side of them here: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h...

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Hey, i'm going to ring up and be rude to Peter Andre, I'll be like that kid who called Five Star!" "You absolute legend, mate." (Later) "How did it go, did he cry?" "He absolutely owned me with politeness and then loads of children cheered in celebration."

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Right, time to go right back to the start... I've only once before watched the entirety of Doctor Who in order and, this time, I think i'm going to draw a one-character picture for each story. So, i think that's 319 pictures to come! Anyway, shush, it's starting.

My TV set, showing the title screen for the first episode of Doctor Who, from 1963: An Unearthly Child. These three words are superimposed over a glimpse of a police box standing in a scrapyard - i'm sure it's of little importance.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On the subject of lucky days, I've just searched the online records and, apparently, my lucky day was ages ago: the 15th of June 1988. I hope I didn't waste it.

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