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Toys in the Attic
Toys coming alive when we aren’t looking can be a great starting point for a story. Here is a wonderful stop motion movie from Poland in the 1930’s. I would place this somewhere between Henry Selick and the seriously weird … Continue reading
Portraits: A Short Study
2Blowhards has an interesting post on Portrait Artists over the last 200 years. Go check it out. This is not one of them. Francis Bacon’s “Study For A Self-Portrait (Triptych).”
Three Meditations on Melancholy
The section “Qui sedes ad dexteram patris” from Bach’s Mass in B minor has always seemed like the sonic version of melancholy to me. Here is a clip from YouTube I have to confess that I did not realize the … Continue reading
Good News on the Remake Front
I read that Universal is making a prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing, one of my favorite horror movies. As a juicy reminder of the fun, here’s one of my favorite scenes (not for the squeamish). “Runaway Alien Head”
An untold story. Something Sweet.
From the artist Ria Brodell. Visit her website and check out more of these images. For a short interview with Ria, visit Deep Glamour.
Not a man of parts, but layers…
From Waldo Lee, via Street Anatomy. Check out more of Waldo’s stuff here.
Creepy-Girl Art
If you’ve been missing images of creepy girls, check out David Ho’s website here. A couple of samples: And Or
If Only Jim Had Spoken to Hayao
I don’t want to write down any spoilers for Avatar, but I left wishing that James Cameron had spoken to Hayao Miyazaki about creating conflict without making someone an out-and-out bad guy. I thought of Princess Mononoke, with a theme … Continue reading
What if…
… the kodama from Princess Mononoke went to work for the tobacco industry after the forrest spirit was slain? From Who Killed Bambi?
Just Wow
Check out these glass microbiology sculptures by Luke Jerram. Scary beautiful. (ht: Street Anatomy). The object on the left is the smallpox virus, HIV is on the right, and something of Luke’s devising is in the middle. In fact, check … Continue reading
