Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Crypto Taxidermy

Blood Rat

Iris Tongued Snapper

From Mascara.

Via Dirty Russia.

Bottled Curios

Unknown Specimen

RECOVERED FROM CHEST CAVITY OF DECAYED ANIMATED CORPSE. ANIMATION OF CORPSE CEASED UPON REMOVAL. SPECIMEN BEGAN TO DISSOLVE WITHIN MOMENTS OF REMOVAL FROM HOST. DISSOLUTION CEASED WITH FORMALDEHYDE AND ACETONE. HAITI, 1894
A handy how-to guide on preparing your own spell components, containing unruly familiars, and formalin-preserving other oddities.


Link.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Gristle for the Mill


Mark Powell sculpts morbid and realistic tableaux. His dioramas depict the aftermath of terrible events, the sort of things investigators pray never to come across.

Link.
Warning: this stuff is not for the squeamish.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

In Crystal Abiding

Blue crystal everywhere. The apartment's interior was completely covered with the stuff.

What ritual needed this as a focus?
What arcane process gone awry left this in it's wake?
What bizarre thing, new to sentience, dwelt here in dark mineral-saturated waters for a time? Or left this residue behind, a spent chrysalis?

Article and video here.


Via Boingboing.