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Nimit Malavia

L. — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:01:47 +0000

Mia Calderone

L. — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:24:45 +0000

Ghostly, sinuous, beautifully illustrated apparitions with elongated, eerie, torturously expressive wraith-like hands figure prominently in Mia Calderone‘s exquisite and highly personal ink drawings. Her influences and inspirations include Catholicism, medieval illuminated Bibles, Art Nouveau (particularly Alphonse Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley), and contemporary artists Takato Yama moto and Laura Laine.

A is for Arsenic: Taxidermia

L. — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:03:45 +0000

Taxidermia is the new jewelry + apparel collection from Amelia Arsenic/Destroyx‘s brand A is for Arsenic. The black+white-color-themed collection features laser-cut perspex jewelry designs and T-shirts & tanks inspired by taxidermy motifs, Victorian memento mori imagery, and vanitas artwork. The photography below was shot by Melissa Jenkins, with art direction & styling by Amelia Arsenic. See the complete collection here.

{Taxidermia: a graphic world of dark Victoriana, memento mori and macabre taxidermy. Featuring vicious yet elegant designs with a nod to the past, Taxidermia is a thoroughly contemporary art jewellery and apparel collection created and constructed in London.}

My favorite items are the Black Chained Antler Necklace, Black Bleeding Antlers Necklace, Horses Cameo Black Crystal Necklace, Fly Crest Black Chain Necklace, Macabre Menagerie White Tank, and the Vanitas White Shirt.

Read Amelia’s blog post about this collection here.

Akino Kondoh

L. — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:06:59 +0000

{Akino Kondoh‘s sketches and drawings for her short animations}

Beautiful.

“Inner Demons”

L. — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:30:06 +0000

+ Photographer {Jerry Bennet}
+ Model/MUA {Manchester}
+ Wardrobe/styling {Alex London}

Via Haute Macabre

Diego Indraccolo + Pok U Chan

L. — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:59:26 +0000

These images are from Schön! Magazine, photographed by Diego Indraccolo and illustrated by Pok U Chan.

Una Burke’s META.MORPH

L. — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:18:09 +0000

Úna Burke’s beautiful A/W 2011 collection of armor/medical-inspired sculptural fashion, META.MORPH, is complemented by stunning wet-plate collodion photography from Andreas Waldschütz and Stefan Sappert. Witness below:

Further delight yourself by viewing this video, inspired by “the cinepoems of Man Ray and jarring aspects of psychological horror”:

via Haute Macabre

Andrea Galluzzo

L. — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:01:36 +0000

{from Andrea Galluzzo’s Know Myself in All My Parts series}

Angelspit’s “Carbon Beauty”: Album Art

L. — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:47:46 +0000

I love the artwork on Angelspit’s new remix CD, Carbon Beauty (released March 8), which is awesome as always. It features a black-and-white animal anatomy and taxidermy theme, and Destroyx and ZooG in some heavy-duty avant-garde all-black fetish texturific garb.

Destroyx’s outfit for Carbon Beauty album photography

Check out all the CD booklet images below. All images are clickable for a larger view.

TRON: Legacy {Fashion}

L. — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:07:44 +0000

You know what I’m looking forward to in the future? Aside from a cure for cancer, and personal jet-packs, and all that? Slick, form-fitting fashion like that in TRON: Legacy.

I liked the movie, personally. For those who thought it was shallow or lacking in substance, I don’t really know what they were looking for. Though I don’t think the 3D did anything for it after the awesome and innovative Disney logo appeared, it was visually a treat and overall sufficiently engaging and enjoyable. I also loved the modern, sleek, sterile-white/black, zen-like interior architecture of Kevin Flynn’s home in the Grid, infused with a touch of baroque, 18th-century-inspired flourish. The soundtrack by Daft Punk is amazing, forming a lush and cinematic, angular, edgy, and electronic soundscape for the story to unfold in.