The Temples of Damanhur
Sounds like a sequel to the Temples of Syrinx, but the temples of Damanhur are instead a very real, underground complex of… temples, built for about 16 years in utter secrecy by a small group of artsy, new agey folks […]
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The Winchester House Of Ghosts And Insanity
I know some of you will be familiar with this, but for those who are not here’s a great story for you: Once upon a time there was woman named Sarah Winchester. Winichester was her married name, for in 1862 she […]
Dark Cabaret: Harlequin Jones
Fiona Apple meets The Dresden Dolls. That is what this first track from the Dark Cabaret band Harlequin Jones sounds like. Which is a good thing. Check it out: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPi1490lvE] Pretty sweet, right? Harlequin Jones are the duo of singer/pianist Amanda […]
Princess Caraboo
Totally true story. 1817. Almondsbury in +. On the evening of Thursday, April 3rd a bizarre young woman with black hair, black eyes and a black turban showed up at the house of a cobbler. The woman spoke an indecipherable language, […]
Stop. Bowie Time.
We must stop all posts immediately and play 3 David Bowie videos. Why? Because he made ******** Life On Mars. Do you NOT like Life On Mars? Whatta you, some kind of douchebag? It’s ******* Life On Mars. We need […]
Symbolism
So we’re going have one more paintings/art movement day. From 1885 to 1910, while the Aesthetics and the Decadents were bursting with life, Symbolism was also in full swing. In fact, there isn’t much of a line between these genres. […]
The Decadent Movement: The Great Grandparent of Goth
Following what occured after the PreRaphaelites leads us to Aestheticism, which i have already covered. So let us delve into a subsection of the aesthetic movement, the Decadents. Like Aestheticism’s battle cry: ‘Art for art’s sake!’ the Decadents, as an […]
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first President of Britain’s Royal Arts Academy in the mid 1700s. He trumpeted a style known as Grand Style or History Painting, in which he contended that painters should perceive their subjects through generalization and idealization, […]
A Steampunk Murder Mystery Opera
Well this is quite interesting. So yet ANOTHER steampunk opera has arisen (there is already a second one in addition to mine, Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders. I’ve posted on it before but if you can also […]
The Question
So clearly we’re on a silhouette animation kick here. Let’s stay on this just a hair longer. After yesterday’s example of Lotte Reiniger pioneering the style in the west, let’s see how it looks today. I offer this up as […]