Check out these horrifying photographs from Joshua Hoffine. If they are your cup of tea, you can purchase them online. Be warned, the images below are rather tame – the others on his site are quite disturbing.
© Joshua Hoffine. All rights reserved. Used without permission.
© Joshua Hoffine. All rights reserved. Used without permission.
© Joshua Hoffine. All rights reserved. Used without permission.
This weekend hundreds of Brooklyn artists open their studios to general public. Be sure to visit our friend LJ’s studio this weekend at A.G.A.S.T. I love her work and wish I had lots of money and wall space because I would buy her entire Lock Series.
It will come as no surprise that I love Edward Gorey, you know, the guy that did the PBS Mystery! opening animation. One of his most famous works is The Gashlycrumb Tinies:
Two panels from the book:
One Halloween I dressed up as Zillah, maybe I should do another Tiny for this Halloween.
And for those in the Yarmouth Port, MA area, you can attend the 8th Annual Goreyfest this weekend. Sounds like fun!
That is how I’d describe some of the work of Mark Ryden.
© Mark Rydon. All rights reserved. Used without permission.
© Mark Rydon. All rights reserved. Used without permission.
October is a special time of the year for the folks at OrangeYouGlad. We decided years ago that instead of sending Christmas cards or gifts to our clients, we would focus on Halloween (it being the bestest day of the year of course). We’re furiously working on our 2009 promotion but thought you might like to revisit some of our past promos:
Read Scary Mary’s Little Bleak Book
Create your own Paper Plate Masks
Cook up something from our Eerie Eats Recipe Cards
Have a drink in our VooDoo Lounge
When living in a big city, one can find some amazing items tossed out on the curb the night before trash day. My best find happens to be this painting I call Buster.
Why would anyone throw this painting away, you ask. In fact, I asked myself the same thing as I clutched it in my hands. My dog Ren agreed so we carted the painting home.
Did the artist decide he just didn’t like it anymore and tossed it out? Or maybe someone’s significant other would only move in with them if they removed “that hideous little man” from their wall? The mystery still remains a mystery and Buster still hangs on my wall.
Okay, this isn’t really my nightmare but I’m sure it was for lots of folks in the 1400s.
Hieronymus Bosch
© 2009 Kristian Hammerstad. All rights reserved. Used without permission.
Check out the rest of the fun monsters from Kristian Hammerstad.
Everyone’s making something these days, well, everyone but me. I’ll leave these types of activities to the professionals or highly motivated.
Etsy has put up their Halloween Trends gift guide. Please feel free to buy me anything that:
1. Has a skull or skeleton
2. Has a bat
3. Has a gravestone
4. Is scary, not cutesy
More Etsy stuff to buy me (remember the guidelines above).
Now get shopping!
