Morbid Geek

Neurosis for the morning commute.

2011-03-02T12:00:00.000-08:00

My morning commute was transormed Today by the soundscapes of Neurosis. Since I took the bus it was easy for me to isolate myself with my headphones and let the music take me where it wanted to go. This is probably the first time I've been able to really focus and listen to Neurosis. It was an epic voyage "Through Silver In Blood
".

The search for my raven tattoo.

2009-08-24T16:35:00.001-07:00

Raven images that are close to what I want...

http://www.angryblue.com/expanse/uploads/1213660281_deadbird.jpg

http://www.mikegwynhill.co.uk/M6_pics_Illustration/Drawings_XL/XL_Raven_detail.jpg

MCP Merchandise Photo Gallery - Photo 2 of 22 by Gris Grimly - MySpace Photos

2009-08-24T16:25:00.001-07:00

MCP Merchandise Photo Gallery - Photo 2 of 22 by Gris Grimly - MySpace Photos

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2009-08-24T16:20:00.001-07:00

2009-06-02T22:48:00.000-07:00

Borris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Vincent Price. Dream cast for a film? Nope. Actual cast of Roger Corman's The Raven. Very loosely based on the Poe poem. This is a slightly comic take.

Edit: This movie was free on hulu.com, but has since been removed.

Grindertool.com

2009-05-21T00:36:00.000-07:00

C17H19NO3 is the name of a music project by John Bergin. I stumbled upon the album because I recognized it from a review in Industrial Nation magazine. Oddly enough the review was probably written by a roomate I lived with a couple years later. I would later spend a considerable amount of time trying to find albums by John, such as Trust Obey: Fear and Bullets which is a sort of musical companion to James Obarrs Crow comic. In turn John is sited in A. A. Anistatio's Crow novel Hellbound. What facinates me about John's music is it's blunt brutality. Terra Damnata is reminisent of a trainride to hell with ghoulish vocals and grinding rythms. Not for everyone. Another favorite track is the Ministry tribute of Revenge that John colaborated on. Just now I looked up John again and have found that he does 3d art and animation. I like the guy more and more. Multi-talented and inspiring, he is.

Skold Vs. KMFDM

2009-05-20T23:36:00.000-07:00

Finally, Skold is stepping back into his own. I've followed Tim Skold's career as he's worked with KMFDM and playing bass for Marilyn Manson. His best work is still his solo album. This new colaboration with Sasha of Kmfdm is the closest thing so far. Still listening to preview tracks and such, but will try to update on what songs are good. Listen to previews on myspace http://www.myspace.com/skoldvskmfdm

Support your local Vintage Theatre.

2009-03-26T08:58:00.000-07:00

Went to see Bride of Frankenstien at a local Palo Alto's Stanford movie theatre. Seriously I love old theatres like that, it's so fitting to be able to see such classics in a old ornate baroque theatre like that. If you're lucky enough to live near a theatre like this, I hope you don't take it for granted. It's sad to think that they could completely disapear because of widescreen TVs and Multiplexes.

Wayshak?

2009-02-11T21:48:00.000-08:00

Discovered a comic book artist that I really like Jonathan Wayshak.
Here's his website.

scrapbookmanifesto.com

Work in progress

2009-02-03T16:16:00.001-08:00

So here's a little preview of a new series of art I'm starting to work on.

Morbid Furniture

2008-12-30T11:20:00.000-08:00

I was starting to learn how to model 3d furniture, and decided to make a couch out of a coffin. Somewhere in my mind I knew I had seen this done. So I googled coffin couch, and found coffincouches.com of course. Now thes cofffin aren't what I had pictured in my head. They're the rectangular modern coffins. Not the old fashioned wide at the top small at the bottome like they used to make. Anyhow I do think these are pretty cool. Another cool thing I found was casket furniture.com. They have really cool coffin display cases. Check this out.

Someday I'd like to have a place with furniture like this. I know it's weird, but that's who I am. Anyhow enough of this nonsense. Furniture made like coffins? Bah...

Origins of the interst in the Macabre.

2008-11-26T00:13:00.000-08:00

First of all I have to give credit to some of my earliest influences as far as dark art, and morbid things. When I was just out of Highschool I found out about a gallery called Dark's Art Parlor in L.A. it was run by artists R.H.Phister, and Gomez . I found out about it because my friend had their amazing catalogues. When I finally got to see the art in person I was not disapointed. I went from wanting to just make surreal art to wanting to make dark surreal art. Seeing so much artwork in the vein of what I was interested in really made me aware that what I was interested in wasn't so weird, but it was certainly unique. The other shop I went to was Necromance, it's still there, and has an Annex. They've got all kinds of bones, and skulls, and taxidermied animals. I wanted to live there.

The Dark's Art Parlor website is still up, but it doesn't seem to be updated. Go to check out R.H. Phister's work. When I saw her work she was working in black and white (graphite, I think?) on canvas, and then adding some 3d to it by either sowing in padding, or poking nails or glass thru the canvas. I thought it was really cool.

Without these two shops in LA, I probably wouldn't be who I am. It's a shame that Dark's Art is no more.

Another huge influence has been Clive Barker, and his creation Hellraiser.