Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen

Vertebrata

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I have a quiet infatuation for the sobering Vertebrata photographic series by French artist Marc Da Cunha Lopes.

Raise The Horns For Halloween / White Painted Bat Napkin Setting

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Planning a dinner party for Halloween? Buy some plastic bats, paint them white and use them for freakishly fantastic napkin settings. Source.

American Horror Story / Freak Show Premieres

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It was, just as I had expected, absolute perfection. Ever since the first series of American Horror Story I've been hooked. Everything about the show is of the highest quality. The acting is flawless, the costumes to die for, the story lines are some of the best that have graced television and the effects...oh my,… Continue reading American Horror Story / Freak Show Premieres

Fashion Witch Finds/30

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1/She Vamp 2/Carrie Bilbo 3/Love Yaa Yaa 4/Titania Inglis

Raise The Horns For Halloween / Black Pumpkin Decoration

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Halloween decorations are always a bit too bright for my liking. I'm all black everything all the time. If you're the same, and find that even pumpkins are a bit too jolly, paint one of the colourful vegetables with flat black paint to create a unique and suitably bleak Halloween decoration. Source.

Kate MacDowell Once More

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I've featured conceptual porcelain sculptor Kate MacDowell before, but the other day I fell upon some work of hers which I hadn't seen before, and which needed to be featured. "I see each piece as a captured and preserved specimen, a painstaking record of endangered natural forms and a commentary on our own culpability." -… Continue reading Kate MacDowell Once More

Can Pekdemir

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The art of Can Pekdemir is deeply unsettling yet, unsurprisingly, fascinating. "Mainly working on deformation of human and animal body using various methodologies, experimenting by putting forms into altered physical conditions, placing and effecting them in/with mathematical equations." - Can Pekdemir.