Thursday, February 12, 2009
Fire When Ready
Pretty neat to see the full process of how pottery is made.
I always seem to be on the look out for a good coffee mug and a happy little ceramic pumpkin.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Familiar Art
Hell Of The Upside Down Sinners
Found an email in my inbox pointing me towards something I've been searching for forever. The complete score to John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. I managed to get my hands on a semi-complete soundtrack a few years ago, but it was missing the track I craved - the airport abduction scene. Happy to report that the search has ended.
Thanks, Gregory. Thanks a ton.
Guerilla Art
Was looking at my Wind Ghost in the basement yesterday and I think I'm close to taking him out and finding a suitable tree on which to hang and leave him. Probably by a highway. An ideal location would be in the window of an abandoned house by the side of a traveled road, but that's probably not going to happen. A big ol' ugly tree will do.
[Halloween] guerilla art was brought up by Jon once in a comment in an earlier blog post. I've often thought of leaving a corpse hanging out of the mud near a drainage ditch, or stuffed into the stump of a tree along a path in the woods, but I always ended up feeling like a criminal scheming the death of someone - death by heart attack. I know that I'd LOVE to have that happen to me. To have that brief moment of horror and shock and panic as I scrambled to get a closer look. Then I'd realize it was fake and fully grasp the event, and be thankful that it happened to me. But that's me. Maybe I wouldn't be too thankful if I truly believed it was real and called 911 or ran through the woods to get help (probably tripping over a log and falling face-down into some old wet fungus). Not sure if there are laws specifically written for such things. I'm assuming there are.
So I'll keep it simple. A ghost, blowing in the wind and caught by a passing car's headlights. As Jon wrote in that comment "This is the kind of thing that inspires local legends. Please do this and please photograph it."
Will do.
Image source.
Info on Street Art
Old Photo Of Hollow
None of the other photos of Hollow show the chest area very well. I decided to make mine a mess of vines and twisted things rather than the cool horizontal sticks and twine from the film.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Wet Spider Fur
I love this photo. It came from an ehow.com article called How to Choose Halloween Decorations. The Tips & Warnings section offered this advice: "If you have a small yard, you may want to limit your Halloween decorations to one inflatable figure."
or none. : )
Image source.
Driveway Follies
At FreeSoftYardHaunt.com.
Click image to watch:
Featured this site a long time ago.
FreeSoftYardHaunt.com
Monday, February 9, 2009
Some Things Are Better Left Fuzzy
Been talking for years about a horror movie I saw when I was very young. A classic battle between two horror icons - Dracula and Frankenstein. The Count had the upper hand and owned a super cool ring that shot out laser beams. I remembered the final battle being breathtaking and exciting. The two horror giants clash. Frankenstein gets his arm blasted off by a bolt from the ring. Then the rising sun fries Dracula and his body turns into a pile of bones and ash.
I watched the movie this weekend - DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN. A dreadful film. Dracula had an echoed voice and wore eye makeup.
Frankenstein looked to be carved from spam.
And the ring never got a shot off at Frankenstein....though Dracula did pull the arms, and head, off of the monster.
It was way cooler in my head.
Now Playing: Satan
Just kidding.
Found a ton of great album covers at BizarreRecords.com.
BizarreRecords.com
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