Tim Lewis’ “Pony”
Tim Lewis‘ Pony is a bizarre and uncanny kinetic sculpture that was exhibited at 2009′s Kinetica Art Fair. Unsettling and uber-realistic, Pony looks somewhat like a surreal ostrich-esque creature composed of human arms, pulling a small one-seater carriage behind itself; motion-sensitive, and appearing to “walk” in a very eerie and delicately articulated fashion, it is another creepy and brilliant intersection of art and science, and a provoking piece of interactive sculpture. Its title also suggests a veiled commentary on the relationship between humans and animals.
Kinetica Art Fair is produced by Kinetica Museum and is the first of its kind in the UK. It brings together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups from around the world who focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology.
Tags: articulate hands, biological/organic/alien, bizarre, conceptual, creature, eerie, human/machine hybrids, installation art, kinetic sculptures, life-sized, realism, robots, sculptures, surreal, weird sculptures
Miyu Decay’s Bat Skeleton Necklace
From {Miyu Decay}
Tags: animals, black and white, creature, jewelry, sinister arts and crafts, skeleton, spooky animal-themed jewelry, sterling-silver jewelry, wearable art, witchy
Best Movies of 2011
We’re two months into the new year and this post is long overdue, but better late than never, right? These are my favorite movies from 2011…
Tags: film reviews, trailers
Nimit Malavia
Tags: biological/organic/alien, black and white, butterflies, emotive, expressive, hair, hauntingly beautiful, illustrations, inky, intricate line drawings, monsteresque, visceral
Hell House: The Art of Esao Andrews
Esao Andrews combines a colorful palette with a Gothic sensibility. Some of his paintings are twists on traditional portraits from earlier epochs akin to the work of Nicola Samorì. Wildly dilapidated and foreboding houses are a recurring motif, and, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson‘s psychological horror stories, depict the inner, psychical falling apart, decay, distortion, and warping. Fairy tales and folklore, including Pinocchio and Thumbelina, loom in the forefront with menacing or perverted appeal. In some works, his vibrant style illustrates the bizarre, the obscene, and aberrations, contrasting atrocious or monstrous things such as a giant, bloated black spider with a symbol of sweetness, purity, and elevation such as a child or an angel. Some of his illustrations are cartoonish, charmingly retro, with a dark, whimsical sense of humor, while others are realistically rendered and Dali-esque, while yet others are macabre and lovelorn, bloody tale-telling depictions.
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, dark, illustrations, innocence/menace, macabre, modern fairy tales, monsteresque, neo-victorian, pop surrealism, portraits, realism, religious imagery, spiders, surreal, symbolism, victorian
Kashima Echo
Tags: animals, distorted bodies, doll-like, dollflesh, exposed anatomy, femininity, flora, flowers, illustrations, pastel, visceral
Horror Artist Karl Persson
Karl Persson uses a glossy realism to depict horrific themes and evoke the un-plumbable depths of pain, madness, and misery.
Tags: babies, biological/organic/alien, biomechanical, blood, colorful, dark, expressive, implied horror, madness, medical-themed, realism, surreal horror, visceral
Shoko Fujimori
Tags: cephalopods, flora, flowers, grotesque, metamorphosis, monsteresque, nature, photorealism, swan, tentacles
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Opening Titles
The opening titles of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This awesome sequence was created by motion designer/director Onur Senturk. The song is a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” with vocals by Karen O and music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.
Passage from “Outer Dark”
“Black mandrake sprang beneath the tree as it will where the seed of the hanged falls and in spring a new branch pierced his breast and flowered in a green boutonniere perennial beneath his yellow grin. He took the spare winter snows upon what thatch of hair still clung to his dried skull and hunters that passed that way never chanced to see him brooding among his barren limbs. Until wind had tolled the tinker’s bones and seasons loosed them one by one to the ground below and alone his bleached and weathered brisket hung in that lonesome wood like a bone birdcage.”
—Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark
