We saw this advertised when we went to Evil Dead, and it looks incredible. When’s the last time you heard of a movie with a completely original plot? I can’t wait til May 31st! (Maybe we’ll see it for our anniversary. That would be weird, wouldn’t it.)
Category: Creepy
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Happy Easter.
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Music Video: “Yes I Know” by Memory Tapes
Memory Tapes “Yes I Know” from Najork on Vimeo.
This is stunning. The song is good, but the video makes it.
Up the Mountain, Dead: Bodies on Everest
If you ever attempt to climb Mount Everest, you’re in for a treacherous trek: 29,029 feet of extreme temperatures, a lack of oxygen, and ascents that challenge the world’s greatest climbers.
Oh, and dead people. About 120 of them.
The problem with dying on Everest is that it’s too dangerous to recover the dead. Because of the mountain’s height, oxygen is scarce, and climbers are already exhausting their body’s energy reserves just to keep going. The injured have been left to die when rescue attempts fail; someone who’s already dead just isn’t worth the risk.
Instead, the bodies become a kind of landmark, macabre signposts for climbers making their way up the mountain. For example, this is “Green Boots”:
He was separated from his climbing group, and died under an overhang. He’s recognized by his distinctive boots, and climbers expect to find him lying there.
Unfortunately, another man, David Sharp, fell near where Green Boots still rests. Believing him to be the famous corpse, “Over 30 climbers passed by him as he sat freezing to death.” He, too, has joined the mountain dead.
At best, the bodies may be buried with nearby rocks. But if you die up there, you’ll be there forever.
Suddenly shoveling my driveway doesn’t seem so bad.
(Find more photos of Everest’s corpses at Altered Dimensions.)
Dark Masks and More: Evan Campbell’s Creepy Carvings
I was perusing the forums at ConceptArt again; a favourite trick when I’m lacking motivation. Something about seeing people accomplishing amazing art drives me to make more of my own.
I hit the mother lode today.
His name is Evan Campbell, and his work will blow your mind.
“Gelatin head I sculpted and painted.”
“Celebration”
“Night Crawlers”
“Bound Into”
“God of Witches”
Here’s his Gallery of Work, which includes many more morbidly fantastic pieces, as well as an intricate step-by-step guide to casting your own macabre latex masks. More of his work can be found on Deviant Art.
I’m wowed. I’m amazed. I’m gonna go write something awesome now.
(photos all copyright Evan Campbell, sourced from ConceptArt)
…And Then I Bought Something.
A friend of mine linked me to this article on Cracked:5 People on Etsy Who Are Clearly Serial Killers. It features some…questionable objects: dead animal faces. Teeth from an asylum. A jar covered in what the seller insists is human flesh.
I read the article. I cringed. I laughed. And then I bought something.
She’s photographed, according to Pamela Klaffke, the photographer, “with a holga cfn 120mm toy camera, using expired film”.
She’s a little eerie, but I love her. (Or maybe that’s WHY I love her?) There’s a certain dreamy quality to the print, an almost-Instagram-except-way-better distortion. She struck me when I saw her, and I had to have her.
I have a feeling, though, that she might be coming to live in my office with me. The office is where C makes me house all the weird shit he doesn’t like looking at (though why he doesn’t want anatomical drawings and stuffed elk heads* wearing tiaras in the rest of the house is beyond me).
Go check out the other critters in Klaffke’s collection (because, seriously, who doesn’t need a scary Hanukkah fox child in their lives? Or click here for the rest of the Cracked article.
(screen grab via Cracked, photo featured copyright Pamela Klaffke)
*(Relax, vegans: this is the head in question.)
This Takes “Who Are You Wearing?” to a Whole New Level.
“Australian Israeli-born and currently Iceland-based conceptual jeweler Sruli Recht…recently had a roughly 1/2″ by 4″ strip of skin cut off his belly which was then tanned and wrapped around a 24k gold ring, now being offered for a half million dollars. The somewhat grotesque design doesn’t just look like random leather — it’s even got wiry belly hair. He calls it the ‘Forget Me Knot’.” – news.bme.com
Just when I think I can’t be shocked anymore, Modblog ups the ante. Click here to continue reading about the artist’s skin-removal procedure, which, refreshingly, was performed by a doctor instead of staff at a tattoo shop. There are photos and a video, too, if you’re finished breakfast.
It wouldn’t be so bad without the hairs. The hairs make me throw up in my mouth a little.
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