During my normal internet wanderings I came across this amazing photo of glass eyeballs. (And let's give full credit where credit is due because I admit to having stolen this; the photographer is Gwendolyn True) Unfortunetly the only information she has about the image is the following,
Monsieur Faurie's glass eye collection: In an antique shop off the plaza in Taos. Monseiur Faurie has the most
fascinating - and disturbing - collection of antique medical
equipment. I'm so glad I live in an era of novocaine and pneumatic
drills and preventative care.
Does anyone know anything about Monsieur Faurie? I can't seem to find anything about this mysterious collection of amazing eyeballs and I'm a good googler if I do say so myself.
Sculptor Jean-Marc Laroche shares with New York's Museum of Sex his fantasy of eternal life with the installation, “Lovers from the Hereafter,” featuring intertwining skeletons embracing one another. The installation will be on view at the Museum of Sex beginning October 5th, 2011 and includes two human-sized sculptures made of varnished resin and jointed with an invisible steel framework – an effect which resembles real bones. With regards to the “Lovers from the Hereafter” sculptures, Jean-Marc said, “They are themselves quite joyful and they thumb their noses at death and present the afterlife as a roll in the hay.”
If you are in the area, get over to the Museum of Sex quick, the sculptures will only be on display until 11/4/11.
Fall is officially here and right around the corner comes the cold frozen winds and blustering snow storms of frigid winter. The time is coming to make some hot chocolate and curl up on a monster skin rug in front of a roaring fire. Yes, I said monster skin rug. Bear skin rugs are too 1900s. This is 2011, let's slay the beast and make a rug out of it.
Joshua Ben Longo has done just that. He can make your very own custom monster skin rug (for a price of course.) Order yours today in either grey or off white, I guess regular monster and arctic monster varieties.
With a good dose of creativity and whatever you had laying around the house you can make some very awesome Halloween decorations. This fun house was found on Reddit. After moving the homeowners used their empty moving boxes to create a fun monster filled house.
Need to protect your geeky iPad with a bit of spooky goodness? The iPad Leather Book Cover Case in Ouija Board style is just the thing you need to mix the two elements of your style. Pick yours up today from Joe V. Leather at Etsy.
Last Rites Gallery presents The Carnival Of Death, new works by Laurie Lipton, in what will be her first solo show at the gallery.
A master of graphite, Laurie Lipton’s detailed drawings explore the passages of life and the portal into death. With technical prowess, she approaches her subject matter with a unique blend of both elegance and dark humor. Influenced by Día de los Muertos iconography, this exhibit runs just prior to The Day Of The Dead, commemorating the holiday by which it was inspired.
Imagine a London that's every crevice and crack is penetrated with a thick smog; where zombies work the factories; where deformed freaks reign in London's criminal underworld and factions based on necromancy, opium trafficking and magic threaten the Empire; technological advances such as subways and zeppelins make their appearances decades earlier than in our recorded histories; British scientists conduct experiments on an alien race that landed near Stonehenge; Queen Victoria is protected in the court of the fairies from assassination attempts; palace guards are automatons; Charles Darwin writes "On the Origin of Fairies" and Jack the Ripper is a robot made from clock parts. That is Smog 1888.
The wargame is essentially a London where street warfare is as common as the technological and magical advances become too much for the British Empire to handle. Smog 1888's website is bloody difficult to navigate and doesn't really explain the game very well either. The pluses to this site, however, is the intricate backstory to the actual wargame. You can read about any of the factions, the numerous murders of Jack the Ripper and other 19th-century news stories, and a chronology of the alternative Victorian history created by SmartMax, the company that owns the game.
(Thank goodness I found unlacethevictorians.blogspot.com to explain to me what exactly Smog 1888 actually is because I've been trying to figure it out for a while now, sad as that might sound) I came across this miniature online a while ago and just fell in love with it, even though I had no idea what it actually was. It's a little hard to tell but Lady Usher is a Victorian Living Undead with a hairless cat and her skirts carried by black faeries.
This is a story of people whose names are lost to time, set in a location which is a sworn secret, for reasons that will become clear at the end of this tale.
Generations ago, a family in Western Canada had a proud but small farm. They raised crops and livestock so plentifully, they outproduced all the other farms in the colony. Soon, people began to realize that the spring that watered their land was the sweetest and purest in the area and was thought to be the source of their success.
A jealous neighbor schemed to divert their water to his own property. Stealing onto their land one bitterly cold winter night, he was confronted by the farm’s owner, known only as Tobias. The neighbor struck him with his shovel, knocking him unconscious into a pond near the mouth of the spring. The water thief completed his work, diverting some of the spring’s output to his property by means of the underground channel he dug.
Tobias’s body was later discovered in the ice that froze the pond deep on that frigid winter night.
No one knew how he died. The secret was safe until the neighbor began to report a strange presence of Tobias that haunted his every step. A presence that ultimately drove him mad. He confessed everything as he was driven in a prison cart to the colony’s sanitarium.
The farm has changed hands many times over the centuries, and now that same spring’s water is used to produce Frozen Ghost Vodka. That pure water gives Frozen Ghost its unparalleled smooth, crisp character, even before it is distilled six times for the ultimate purity.
We won’t reveal the spring’s location for your own protection. For on the rare occasions that a visitor has attempted to approach the site, an undeniable chill overtakes the stranger, along with a dark foreboding that a more dangerous fate quickly approaches. It is said that Tobias is still keeping watch over his spring.
So don’t let your curiosity overtake you and tempt you to search for the water’s source. Just be satisfied that you can raise a glass to the one who is watching over the pure taste of Frozen Ghost Vodka, the supernatural super-premium.
Coin collectors today consider the hobo nickel a numismatic treasure, a tribute to long- forgotten folk artists who often literally carved for their supper. The Buffalo nickel debuted in 1913, but it wasn’t until the Great Depression struck that hobo nickel carving reached its peak. During this period, buffalo nickels were the most common nickels in circulation.
The etching of coins goes back to the 18th century, but took on a new life during the Great Depressions. The Buffalo nickel was one of the most common pieces of currency at the time and unemployed, idle hands often shaped it into a new masterpiece. Many of these miniature pieces of art are done in the folk art style but there are still many that are good and gory!
Grunge Geek Design could almost be called a psychiatric study of Laura's mind. Watch her mind spin as she mixes momento mori, antique and medical history, zombies, forensic science, Victorianism, rockabilly and pin up style, romanticized pirates (but not real pirates because they are actually really not very nice) and anything morbid.
