Amen.
Scientific American has this great post called “Bones Out of Joint” about two artists, Holly Gilmour and Sean Craven, both of whom create art that depicts bones and skeletons.
by Holly Gilmour
"Skullblossom" by Sean Craven
Work by Holly Gilmour can be found at this link.
Work by Sean Craven can be found at this link.
Apparently Mickey Mouse loves Joy Division. I kid you not.
The goth world is divided on whether this shirt is genius or blasphemy.
Liz Ohanesian, writer for LA Weekly, tweets that she thinks “they are kind of cute.” While Liisa Ladouceur, author of “Encyclopedia Gothica” tweets it is “[w]rong.”
In any event, it doesn’t matter anymore. As of a few hours ago, according to Pitchfork reports, Disney has removed all shirts from its shelves because Disney “became aware there could be an issue” and they needed “to review the situation further.”
What does this mean? These shirts are now selling on eBay for more than $100.
Bonus video:
Tiny top hat tip: Spence
Maybe I’ve been watching too much of The Walking Dead, but this house speaks to me. The first-ever zombie-proof house.
Here is what the house looks like in a zombie-free world.
And here is what it transforms into when the zombies come.
In the meantime, I wonder about potential liability and code issues.
Source: All That Is Interesting
Tiny top hat tip — Francie
I live in a brick house.
But in my dreams, I live in a spooky Victorian house that doesn’t need fixed up.
Artist Mike Doyle has created three spooky abandoned Victorian houses out of LEGO bricks. The houses are part of a series called Abandoned. All three homes are gorgeous.
Doyle’s vision gives me hope that I can somehow transform the little bricks on my house into the Victorian home of my dreams. Even if that isn’t possible, these LEGO Victorian houses are amazing.
Check out Mike Doyle’s blog to see the other two houses and/or order prints of the houses.
Source LaughingSquid.com.
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‘It’s not death we should fear, but not having lived.’ Anonymous [source]
This weekend I attended the most lovely Day of the Dead celebration. It was filled with good people, food and drink. We decorated sugar skulls and drank too much absinthe.
Paper art by my friend
An altar for my friend's grandparents.
Sugar skulls
I made a fascinator for my skull. Maybe there is a market on etsy for my sugar skull hats.
This skull drank too much "Death in the Afternoon." Aww, poor skull.
I stayed up way too late last night baking Pan de Muertos.
I hope this choreography isn’t copyrighted. If it isn’t, I’m totally stealing these moves for the next goth night (oh, and the belts too).
For more on whether dance moves can be subject to copyright, check out the recent bruhaha surrounding Beyonce’s latest dance video.
Tiny top hat tip — La
A few weeks ago, the internet was all abuzz about the so-called “Greatest Marriage Proposal EVER!!” — some guy made a movie trailer and used it to propose to his girlfriend. You can watch it here.
It is a fine video and the couple looks very happy, but as one of my wise friends once said, “if some guy did this for me, I would have vomited all over his lap.”
And yet, compare that with the wedding proposal where a comic artist created a graphic novel that “popped the question.” The artist then planted the book in a book store specializing in alternative books and comics for his girlfriend to find. Squee!!! Now this is a great marriage proposal (not that I am in the market; I am not).
All this went down a couple of years ago at John Waters’ favorite book store, Atomic Books (Mr. Waters gets his fan mail at the store).
Baltimore comic artist, Michael Bracco created the book to propose to his then girlfriend. The photographs below were taken by “Sugarfreak“:
To find out whether Mr. Bracco’s then girlfriend said yes, click through the photographs at this link.
Tiny top hat tip to Sugarfreak for giving me permission to use her photographs on my blog.
Judith G. Klausner is a Massachusetts artist who transforms things in the world that are often rejected and overlooked into art. Her work previously focused on insects — she made art out of bugs.
Ms. Klausner’s latest endeavor has generated a lot of buzz — she is transforming well-known packaged foods into pieces of art. Boing Boing featured her Oreo cameos. Previously billed as milk’s favorite cookie, oreos are now goths’ favorite cookie.
Oreo Cameo by Judith G. Klausner
Her most recent collection — entitled From Scratch — also includes an embroidered fried egg onto toast, and a cross-stitched cereal sampler made from Chex.
It appears that Ms. Klausner finds beauty in nontraditional places, enjoys Victorian crafts, and has a good sense of humor. Oh, and she used to have blue hair.
I’m a fan.
Cat ears are not only cute, they are big business.
For nearly a decade, cosplay model and designer Yaya Han has designed and sold cat ear products. Ms. Han’s kawaii designs are known for their particular size and shape of the cat ears, and also for the feathers and embellishments she adds to them. Ms. Han’s designs are registered with the United States Copyright Office.
Last year, Ms. Han discovered that a company, Happy Sun Enterprises, was selling cat ears substantially identical to hers.
See for yourself:
In a lawsuit filed last year, Ms. Han sued Happy Sun Enterprises for copyright infringement. During discovery, Happy Sun revealed that it had used Ms. Han’s cat ears to develop a competing line in Korea. Happy Sun then imported approximately 51,225 cat ears into the United States, and undercut Ms. Han’s price. Ms. Han believes that since 2008 Sun Enterprises has sold over $230,000 worth of cat ears.
Last week, Ms. Han and Sun Enterprises settled their dispute.
Ms. Han modeling a cat woman costume that she designed.
If Ms. Han looks like the cat that ate the canary, she should. Although the details have not be released, Happy Sun Enterprises agreed to stop manufacturing its line of cat ears and will refrain from selling any remaining in stock.
Source — Convention Fans Blog
Bonus video:
For more kawaii goodness, check out Neurowear’s set of cat ears that move with your emotions (personally, I prefer Ms. Han’s designs):
BEFORE
Amy Wilson is making figurines based on the girls in her drawings.
The first look can be found here. Ms. Wilson explains that it will be in relief and that there will be a box in the girl’s chest. A little door will cover the box and when you open it there will be a tiny ghost inside, which will be her soul.
AFTER
Can’t wait to see the final product!
