The Kreep kreeps-out Cupid with “My Bloody Valentine – 3D”

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , , , on February 5, 2010 by inshadows

“All around him couples were clinging to one another, shrieking n’ shivering from the horrors director Patrick Lussier (Scream I, II & III) persistently threw in all their faces. And they loved it. Every last adolescent one of them was in cheesy splatter heaven. Holding onto one another as if they were dropping off the face of a way too complicated world, My Bloody Valentine –3D delivered such gratuitous ultra-violence to make their little hearts explode.”

Cupid is right outside a suburban window. An old angel with dirty wings, he stands there peek-a-booing through the frosty glass of someone’s living room. He takes a withered hand and wipes away the chill, wonders why the roses and the paper hearts aren’t hung around the living room akin to the holly and blinking lights that the Christmas angels all adore. He thinks his lovely celebration is dwindling. Cupid deems our hearts are growing bitter. So our wee-sized cherub with a duffle bag filled with dusty arrows and a bow shakes his head, walks away bewildered.

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Chet Zar, In Darkness There I see

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , , , on February 3, 2010 by inshadows

As a child, Chet Zar would doodle the fantastic and macabre.  In fact, he drew the weird and wonderful very well indeed. And when he could finally hide in the shadows of the local movie house, his visions matured. For Chet Zar realized he had a deep connection to the more pungent horror films he witnessed. He could relate to the anxiety and isolation the dark imagery flickered from the screen.

It touched the wounded child, caressed the artist fair, and launched another icon into the maddening spinning sphere.

I am in awe of his oil-based world. Like a kid with my nose pushed up against the window of an exotic toy store or sneaking into the tent of the Freak Show that just rolled into town, Chet’s art attracts my notice complete. Something dreadful is happening but I cannot look elsewhere.  I cannot turn around, walk away from it.  I cannot forget the mysterious metaphors resting on the canvas there.

Chet Zar is an artist of unique vision.  He has an extraordinary talent. Fall into his world of sinister beauty that in many ways mirrors all of us.  For these are not creatures looking back at us.  They are merely all of us upside down and inside out.

“The characters i paint may seem like creatures from another dimension, but I think they are simply us, here and now. Modern humanity without it’s masks, without the adornments that make us acceptable to whatever group we are a part of. From the straight laced conservative to the tattooed, anti-social rebel, we all cover up to fit in someplace . Yet the only place where we are truly the same is on the inside. We all share feelings of fear and loneliness. We feel ugly and insecure. We feel separate from our environment and each other. These are the feelings that i try to convey in my paintings. These are the feelings that connect us.”

Chet Zar

Artist Whobyfire Worshipped & Adored

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , , , on February 2, 2010 by inshadows

Fine artist, sculpture, and doll maker extraordinaire, Whobyfire is from Sweden. She spends a lot of her time making fantastically macabre art such as strange dolls from clay, super-sculpey and steel-wire.

We think she’s über imaginative. A real “find”. In fact, our editor has many of her works, including the original Kreep doll. Imagine that?

Visit her. Fall in love with her treasures. Buy them. Show them off to art critics and friends. Giggle at how affordable they are, now, before she’s whisked away by an even greater success.

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“i’ve decided to burst my bubble again and let new creations climb out of my dark cave and see the world with half blind eyes. i just have to let them go so there’ll be room for new thougts, new energy, new dolls and sculptures in my mind. the ones who managed to climb out of my cave are now in my etsy shop.”

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ODE T’WHOBYFIRE

O t’mold a tiny dream
a vision shared
a kreepy theme
at once prepared
by nights’ moonbeam
now declared
to which redeem
none compared
‘tis art supreme

In E†ernity,
Brazillia R. Kreep

The Tiger Lillies Freakshow Album Way Freaky

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , on January 31, 2010 by inshadows

The Tiger Lillies have won an Olivier Award in theatre, been nominated for a Grammy and play from one end of the globe to the other. They have 26 albums-that we know of-and are Monty Python meets Radio Head  And so it is, without any due hesitation, our duty to advocate with great fan fare and farts their new-fangled freaky double album Freakshow. 

We like it.  You’ll like it.  Your neighbors might go mad.

“Welcome to the Carnival of Circus Freaks
The Bleeding Lady the blood from her leaks
Here is a place where you can buy crack
Lobotomised whores who you can slap.

The Tiger Lillies FREAKSHOW

The Tiger Lillies Perform GIN on BBC2

Viktoria’s Dark Secrets

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , on January 30, 2010 by inshadows

Viktoria Modesta is a site to behold

Gorgeous, talented plus highly innovative, model/musician Viktoria Modesta is a site to behold. Really. She’s renaissance, deliciously eccentric, and sculpted from the school of hard knocks. Too cool.

We love that she’s launched her solo music project with musician/producer Nik Hodges w/tracks written and produced by Viktoria and Nik. They’ve established a sound that reflects a mix of Electro, Dirty Pop, and a wee pinch of Indie/Rockabilly twang.

From the mouth:

“The project is already gathering an exciting amount of attention from the music industry with great reviews from MUSIC WEEK (Jane Bond has been featured on MUSIC WEEK playlist) , BRAND AMP, KISMET and BIZARRE. Her appearance @ London Fashion Week generated an amazing response after she performed an adapted version of SATELLITE, live as a finale of ZIAD GHANEM & FIRETRAP’s fashion show at The Freemasons Hall – Vauxhall Fahion Scout, stealing the show wearing a white couture gown.”

Oh, and Viktoria is an amputee. Something that she’s thrilled about. We can see why.

> Torture Garden

“Since the operation, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve thought I shouldn’t have gone through with it. I do sometimes still wish I had a normal leg – but not my old leg.” -Viktoria, Bizarre

> Viktoria Modesta, Bizarre Cover Story

Viktoria @ selected London venues, playing as a 3 piece live band . Watch. Listen. Bye Bye. Gone.

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Like Nothing You’ve Ever Dreamed: Dreamhours

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , , on January 29, 2010 by inshadows

Dreamhours is a site dedicated to a world of images.

 

And we believe them.  It’s one of the coolest rides we’ve been on lately. It’s like being trapped inside HBO’s Carnivale and Edgar Allen Poe’s head. Dreamhours is a Gothic Alchemy for the soul.

The creator speaks:

“If I was to add a final word, it would be a wish that you will be inspired to portray your own reality, wheter this is by words, images or the medium you feel the most comfortable with.”

–Viktor Kvant, early spring 2005.

Dreamhours

O’ poverty thy wicked Cthulhu

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , on January 28, 2010 by inshadows

O’ Poverty thy wicked Cthulhu

O’ poverty thy wicked Cthulhu
Enchained a mind in coiled darkness
T’refute remarks n’ ruminations
In poetry n’ verse thus pending
As well quick a scribe’s bereavement
Malevolent feat indeed undone our author

O’ scarcity thy heinous Cthulhu
Threadbare wellbeing, better despair
Crush thy creator well your weight
Rip innards whilst no riches dwell
Curse the life obscurity n’ unaided
Lovecraft’s passing reaps return

O’ paucity thy odious Cthulhu
Neither headstone nor words printed
Nix bed t’sleep in restful slumber
Destitute the fate of Poe
Gone the extraterrestrial mythos
Vanished here forever more

In E†ernity,

Brazillia R. Kreep

Cthulhu (kə-THOO-loo) is a fictional cosmic entity created by horror author H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, first appearing in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” when it was published in Weird Tales in 1928.

-Wikipedia

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HP “Lovecraft Circle” Postcard Auction

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , on January 27, 2010 by inshadows

One of the fathers of modern horror, HP Lovecraft (Howard Phillips) wrote horror, fantasy, and science fiction, coined in the early 1900’s as weird fiction.  Own a piece of the historic “Lovecraft Circle” with this near mint postcard penned to horror writer/illustrator Howard Wandrei in HP’s own hand.

Inscription:

“Hail Spawner of Daemons! Am harboring a guest of honor whom I believe you are not unacquainted. Have just produced an ice-cream famine at Maxfields & a general famine at Jakes (has Donald told you about these centers of…) & now absorbing scenic impressions. Now by the shore at Buttonwoods. Hope you’ll get over to these parts before you flash away towards the sunset!” Also signed at the conclusion, “Greetings out of the dark from the unknown, but not malefic. James Morton.”

ALS signed “H. P.,” on the correspondence side of a 3.5 x 5.5 picture postcard of the Providence County Court House, no date, but postmarked August 4, 1934. Postcard to Howard Wandris in New York.  

Lovecraft died unknown and penniless in 1937 of cancer, aged 46.

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Heads-up  courtesy of  H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy – Hosted by Chris Perridas

Gothic Renaissance Man, Eirick Aswang

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , on January 26, 2010 by inshadows

Mr. Aswang in Death Mask and his designer tie to die for!

Los Angeles based artist, painter, and fasion/costume designer extraordinaire, Eirick Aswang is our January 2010 Gothic Renaissance Man.

Check him out. Fall in love with him. Buy his gear. Wear it religiously.

His deliciously dark corset in a wonderful Ward photo!

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Youtube Goth

Posted in FEEDING with tags , , on January 26, 2010 by inshadows

Gothic fun from youtube. Enjoy. See yourself in the reflection of the pool of shadowed darkness. What shimmers back at you? What image wavers in the water? Is it… YOU?