Domestic bliss

Évrart de Conty, Les Echecs amoureux, 1496-1498.

A comfy chair, children playing in the next room, some background music, a nice chat with the missus while the family dog keeps your feet warm. What more could a man wish for?
But seriously. I just stumbled upon this strikingly original picture of an OWL as the mouth of hell by a French contemporary of Hieronymous Bosch... Good stuff.

Total Luxuria - Party in my Mouth III

More mouth-partying from me. This one looks a bit more Romanesque than the usual. In fact I owe the inspiration to Alkbazz, who had told me about finding information somewhere about a Romanesque timpane that was deemed so pornographic*) by a later generation, that it was removed and buried, like it were the work of the Devil himself. Unfortunately, he did not have a photo of the thing for me. So that is where you have to imagine it yourself. Which is actually great.

In the early Middle Ages, most people were illiterate, so the church had to picture the sins it was warning against. Prudery happened much, much later.

*) Alkbazz: I've got bestiality, necrophila, buggery, cannibalism and coprophilia. Did I leave anything out?

Party in my Mouth CMYK

The same as a few days ago, but with colours.

Party in my mouth

This will be a banner of 5 meters wide and about 7 high, for the BUT film festival which will take place in September in the centre of Breda, Holland. (Hello Fufu!) The theme of the festival is "the apocalyps". Of course, I will add colour, as I was told it won't make a difference, financially. 

The title of this piece is "There is a party in my mouth and everybody is throwing up",  a line that I swiped from Futurama. Does anyone know proper Latin? My guess is that it would translate as : Epularum in boccam meam est et omni vomitent. But I am not sure, I never had Latin at school. I just dabble with it.

Hellmouth

I've been wanting to start a store for a while now... but the whole cyber world & the terrible economy make it almost stupid to start a real world, physical store. Which totally sucks, because a real store is where it's at. Anyhow, i'm gonna start this thing up online first, as a distro for Metal, Punk, Trash Culture & Occult crap. If that works out & i'm pulling money in, i'll open up a storefront & make that shit look wild.






Aeron featured a whole mess of Hellmouths on Monster Brains. CHECK IT OUT!
Here's the argument against online businesses just like that. Presentation. Real world presentation. You can't beat it. You can control the lighting, the smell, the sounds, how stuff is displayed, what people see upon entering, all that stuff. Fire up my smoke machine for special events... weird smelling incense burning all the time. Maybe some retarded black cat lurking around... etc.

Yo, does anyone know what that green monstrous door, i think it's French, from the Art Nouveau period is called? I'm trying to get a good picture of it.