Showing posts with label supernatural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supernatural. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Trick Or Twice The Treat


A few pics from the Urban Archives of Temple University's Paley Library.


Children from the Cherry St. and Pine St. schools as they paraded in Langhorne, Pa. Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 26, 1956.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philadelphia-PA/Urban-Archives-Paley-Library-Temple-University/83447331003?ref=ts&v=wall

Monday, April 19, 2010

LOST: The Animated Series Project


With the consent of the creators of LOST, artist Michael Myers has sublimely created the character profiles for his imagined LOST animated series - check out the link below if you're a fan, as he's adding to it regularly.

















http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LOST-The-Animated-Series/448458

These are also available for purchase as individual posters:

http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=e228fb05-d54e-4e28-b20e-3b2bd5a4c068

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Beauty Is In The Unseeing Eye Of The Beholder


Two images from artist Lisa Murphy's book Tactile Minds, which she created when she realized that the "blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images.”

From the book:

Left image: SATANIC RAM. A tactile picture of a naked voluptuous woman dressed as a Satanic ram. She wears a long cardboard mask of spires, a beard and an inverted cross. Her pubic hair forms a triangle between her legs.

Right image: POSING IN SNAKESKIN SHOES. A tactile picture of a naked woman standing in snakeskin shoes. She wears a plastic bag over her head, with paper cones for eyes. This photograph was taken from a lower angle revealing a vagina shaved bare.


Note that she says sexual, not sexy; though if Charles Manson ever develops a set of cataracts, he'll be in hog heaven!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Calamarvelousity



-and to think, I'd never even heard of squid porn 24 hours ago...


http://www.daikichiamano.com/

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Paper, Scissors, Stoned


I went through a fun, albeit short-lived, papercraft spell a few months ago.
My favorite designs (and the simplest to assemble) were by Brian Gubicza.

http://goobeetsa.blogspot.com/







Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Splintered Priestess


Another gift from my friend Daniel Kay Wilbur, proprietor of Wilbur Vintage (Philly's finest vintage/designer clothing & jewelry shop); I popped in to visit one afternoon and saw this 2' high carved priestess in a batch of stuff he'd purchased that day.
It was love at first site, and she now stands guard next to my bed while I sleep at night.

http://wilburvintage.blogspot.com/



WILBUR Vintage
716 South 4th St. Phila, PA
19147

215-413-5809

wilburvintage@gmail.com

Thursday, July 16, 2009

A Clown Car, Conversely: Bumpsies


The first thing I bought at The Funhouse.


A softwood laminated copy of the cover of Valrie McMahan's extremely rare
1929 childrens book.

Currently on sale for $595.00 in mediocre condition
at Biblio.com.

The world's funnier than I thought.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Unauthorized Packing Break #1


My battered paperback wives were not at all pleased to finally get a little affection, only to be sealed in a cardboard box...







...which is not to say they don't like the dark.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

In An Age Of Monsters, HE Was The Mightiest Of All!


Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur only lasted nine issues, but not for want of Kirby-ness.

Starring the Lucille Ball of T-Rex's, Devil Dinosaur, it also featured his best friend/jockey Moon Boy, assorted robots, a revisionist alien intervention Adam & Eve story, time travel, The Hag Of The Bog, Manhattan, and...


...giant ants!

Satana, The Devil's Daughter 2


The other thing about Satana is that she has no talent for brief introductions.



These pages are from a two part Marvel Team-Up crossover featuring Spider-Man, Satana, Dr. Strange & Clea...




...the month after seeing that cliffhanger splash page of Satana may have been the longest one of my eleven year old life!

Satana, The Devil's Daughter 1


I've already pulled over a thousand comics for my sidewalk sale this Saturday, but the purge-athon is still running.
I was trying to figure out why I'd kept a crumbling issue of Marvel Premiere # 27 featuring Satana, The Devil's Daughter (whom I love, but the story and art is truly awful), when I ran across the answer in a four page back-up/solicitation for an ongoing series.





Which, though uncredited, I'm pretty sure is by John Romita Sr.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

X-Mas In July!


The word Krampus originates from the Old High German word for claw (Krampen). In the Alpine regions the Krampus is represented by an incubus demon in company of Saint Nicholas. Krampus acts as an anti-Saint Nicholas where instead of giving gifts to good children, he gives warnings and punishments to the bad children. Traditionally, young men dress up as the Krampus in the first two weeks of December, particularly on the evening of December 5, and roam the streets frightening children and women with rusty chains and bells. In some rural areas the tradition also includes birching by the Krampus, especially of young females.

- Wikipedia