September, 2010
Katja Faith
Katja Faith is one of my absolute favorite artists. Her works are surreal, with an otherworldly haze, beautiful color, and amazing atmosphere.
Tags: colorful, hazy, katja faith, photomanipulation, surreal
Beautiful Image of the Day
About Frailty and Love by Sara LazzeroniTags: art nudes, flowers, truncated forms, white
Snow White Princess
These are images I like from a fashion editorial in Vogue Italia (originally posted on Haute Macabre).Tags: corset lacing, fashion editorial, white
Eugenio Recuenco
Check out Eugenio Recuenco’s photographic scenery. Inspired by medieval torture chambers, WWI hospitals, Greek art, the Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Hitchcock movies, The Shining, futuristic androids, and basically all shapes and manners of stories, his scenes are endlessly creative and varied.
Tags: eugenio recuenco, high fashion, historically inspired, photoessay, polyptych
Otherworldly Color: Neil Snape
I love the lighting, colors, and general flawless beauty of Neil Snape‘s fashion photography. The undersea, mermaid-like effect is very lovely.
Tags: colorful, otherworldly photography
Rat Love
My Victoriandustrial rock idol Emilie Autumn recently did an interview with Planet Green. I thought her answer to the last question, advice on “how to make more green, compassionate, and creative choices,” was most pertinent, as it’s totally the way I see it, too:
I would suggest that the element that would help the most in keeping our planet green is to learn to appreciate the beauty and importance of what it is that we have, similar to my view of vegetarianism and converting people to that way of eating. It is much more effective, and far less annoying, to increase people’s appreciation for animals of all species than it is to tell people not to eat them. A dietary alteration will soon follow once the animals in question are seen as something more important than food. We need to teach people to fall in love with the natural world again before we can expect them to care about saving it.
Also, here’s a behind-the-scenes video from Emilie’s photoshoot for Bizarre Magazine – with rats! (Don’t mind the God-awful porn lounge-type music they always accompany their music with, it’s so ridiculous):
Follow ze linkTags: animal love, emilie autumn, environmentalism, rats, vegetarianism
A Geometrical Sort of Beauty: Tamara de Lempicka
Chances are, you’ve probably seen the Art Deco paintings of Tamara de Lempicka around somewhere before. With a sort of Cubist and Futurist influence, they depict, in a precise, boldly defined, and tightly controlled style, the “New Woman” that had emerged by the ’20s.
Tags: 1920s, art deco, cubist, flappers, tamara de lempicka
Poetry: “Instructions” by Neil Gaiman
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before,
Say ‘please’ before you open the latch,
go through,
walk down the path.
A red metal imp hangs from the green-painted front door,
as a knocker,
do not touch it; it will bite your fingers.
Walk through the house. Take nothing. Eat nothing.
However,
if any creature tells you that it hungers,
feed it.
If it tells you that it is dirty,
clean it.
If it cries to you that it hurts,
if you can,
ease its pain.From the back garden you will be able to see the wild wood.
The deep well you walk past leads down to Winter’s realm;
There is another land at the bottom of it.
If you turn around here,
you can walk back, safely;
you will lose no face. I will think no less of you.Once through the garden you will be in the wood.
The trees are old. Eyes peer from the undergrowth.
Beneath a twisted oak sits an old woman. She may ask for something;
give it to her. She
will point the way to the castle. Inside it
are three princesses.
Do not trust the youngest. Walk on.
In the clearing beyond the castle the twelve months sit about a fire,
warming their feet, exchanging tales.
They may do favours for you, if you are polite.
You may pick strawberries in December’s frost.Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where you are going.
See more after the cutTags: animals, children's poems, diamonds and toads, fantasy, illustrations, keith eric williams, little red riding hood, modern fairy tales, neil gaiman, poetry, wolf
