I'm enamored with the sterling silver lunar offerings from Ivy & Gold Handcraft. Inspired by antiquity and everyday life, jewellery maker Ashely Eaton handcrafts her creations in limited quantities, making use of a variety of materials including, sterling silver, brass, gold, enamel, and semi precious stones.
Yesterday I turned myself in an Arctic Mermaid. I will be taking a wyrd self-portrait every day for the coming week and sharing them here.
I've been left wonderfully haunted by this utterly macabre series of photographs. The story behind the images is the death of a convicted murderer who was executed in 1993 and then had his body handed over to science. The body was segmented, and photographed for medical research. Then, in 2011, photography was used to put… Continue reading We Put Him Back Together
I don't even know where to begin with the song I Väntan På Den Absoluta Nollpunkten from Swedish black metal project Istapp...the vocals make me weak at the knees. It's a fucking masterpiece.
If you can recall Nosferatu's reaction to sunlight...well, that's exactly how I react when I see clothing with skeleton designs slapped on them. However today I landed on a dress by a company called Draw In Light which actually does the whole skeleton design thing really effectively. The dress in question is called the Black… Continue reading Draw In Light
I've recently become somewhat obsessed with putting my hair up. I've worn the same style i.e. down for the past fifteen years or so, and wanted to try something different...and I'm loving the look putting it up gives me. I have a lot of hair though, and need something substantial to hold it up so… Continue reading Hair
I've lost count of how many times I've named Finnish black metal project Kalmankantaja as my sound of the day...but this band releases masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece. I simply cannot get enough. Currently enjoying Musta Lampi, one of the four full-length albums that they released in 2014.
Stunned into silence by the pow.er.ful work of French artist Carine Paynaud. In these series of photographs entitled Figure d’écorché she has used the human body as a canvas for her anatomical drawings.
Well and truly obsessed with the minimalistic jewellery offerings from Copenhagen based Etsy store Still With You. Based on the aesthetics of Scandinavian simplicity, each piece is made by hand by a passionate and determined Norwegian. Our focus is longevity, both in style and quality. We work unaffected by trends and seasons, and we only… Continue reading Still With You
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 