Villa Vals: House In A Hill
Sorry for the lack of posts but after waiting out Winterpocalypse 2012 in Belgrade, i have a lot of work to catch up on. Today is for those of you who like to wank on architecture, like myself. I present […]
Month: February 2012
The Neverwas Haul
A staple of Burning Man for several years now, the infamous and awesome Neverwas Haul is… well, what it looks like. A 2 floor victorian house on wheels. The Neverwas Haul was built in 2006 by Major Catastrophe (Shannon O’Hare) […]
Steampunk Alice In Wonderland
Ooooo. Pretty pictures…. And you know what? For no reason: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8&ob=av3e]
Working For A Nuclear Free City – B.A.R.R.Y.
What does this have to do with anything? How on earth do i rationalize this fitting in thematically with this blog? Shh. Hush. Let’s just relax, take a break from all the wordy words and bathe in the Awesome. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrb55XbwEcE]
Spring Heeled Jack The Ska Band
We’ve seen Spring Heeled Jack the pervy, victorian super villain. Now let’s see the 90s ska band that named themselves after him. Because honestly, who doesn’t like a little bit of ska in their day? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdaC6Rc64M] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76_EQWSRwI]
Spring Heeled Jack: The 1st Super Villain?
One character who was an early fixture of penny dreadfuls was Spring Heeled Jack. He would leap in out of nowhere, slap you, cop a feel, or rip your dress and then leap away. He could leap over tall shrubbery, […]
Penny Gaffs
From 1830 to 1870, the exact time the macabre and violent incarnations of the penny dreadful were being published, otherwise known as penny bloods, a complementary form of theater was also taking place, Penny Gaffs. The penny gaff alludes to […]
The Penny Dreadfuls: The Comedy Troupe
It’s penny dreadful week! Let’s see how much mileage we can squeeze out of this puppy continue our homage by today featuring a British sketch comedy troupe who go by the name The Penny Dreadfuls. Obviously, in writing the past […]
Penny Dreadfuls II: From Blood To Boys
For decades, since their conception in 1832, Penny Dreadfuls, 8 pages of lurid tales printed on cheap paper and sold for a penny, specialized in highly gruesome material. For the first 10 years or so there was a fair amount […]
Penny Dreadfuls. Before the comic book, before the pulp…
The comic book probably remains the dominant medium for fanciful, fantastic literature pumped out industriously for youth consumption. Actually if you ask me, the comic book has been replaced by the video game, but if we stick to just literature it’s the […]