Creepy Peeps

etc.

"The Hounds"

Hello, my name is Justin.

EBD logos, banners -- Opinions?

Hi All. I sent these EBD banners/logos to Luke and he suggested I post them here... any advice, suggestions, etc. about them - as well as how to integrate them into the site redesign - would be appreciated. Also, feel free to grab these and manipulate them in any way you please, distorting, recoloring, adding backgrounds, whatever. The finsished dimension of the banner are 300x600 pixels.This was a Paleo piece I snagged from the site here, just to see what the logo would look like with a contributor's art:

This is just some still from the amazing Jessica Alba film Into the Blue, with the logo on top. I like the idea of using a transparent logo over random imagery (or our own imagery -- below you'll see I used some members' stuff for backgrounds) but I'm not sure how I feel about the results now that look at it... at any rate these aren't meant to be finished, finely tuned pieces, but suggestions. Any of you guys who are more adept at Photoshop, etc. I'm sure could utilize this idea a bit more successfully -- please do!

I actually like this one quite a bit:








I like this, too:

This is another piece I grabbed from the site here, and threw the logo on top of --as you can see, "readability" is an issue with the "transparency" idea, at least as I've attempted it here.

I think this logo (below) isn't quite right... the little "hook" at the bottom left of each letter makes it a bit difficult to read -- the "E" looks like an "S" at first glance and the "D" kinda looks like a "Q".

This one is just silly. And the colored version is by no means presentable -- I'm sort of teaching myself to color with photoshop as I go along...

Early Builds Of Demons

Here's a few early digital build ups of some demon portraits. The lower one will have 6 or 8 eyes peering out of holes spread around the upper half of the head. The second down is going to have some juicy maggots pouring out of the eye sockets.You can see the way I lay out textures in that second pic using various filters to blend into other layers under and over the texture pics.

edit - the top pic is being built over a sculpture based on the devil in an engraving by Albrecht Durer's "The Knight, Devil and Death" seen here.
I wanted one of these demons to have a dog/pig like appearance and that interpretation of the devil was a great place to start from.

Be Bad, Be Glad.

Funny, even though the spread of the internet was the death nell for zines as the awesome micro/macro media they were/are, i've found all sorts of great archives of old zines online which i am now looting & pillaging to create some new zines in the physical world. One day, when we are living on space stations in some alternate dimension, i'm sure it'll be just as weird. Anyhow, check out this great blog "PUNKS IS HIPPIES" full of lots of archived Punk zines.

& Lenny Bruce on sniffing glue.



Just watched the Bela Lugosi Dracula for the first time in quite a while. Fantastic. Just fantastic. Get in the Halloween mood & watch it yourself!

Snowbeard, the Old Storyteller

77 PEURS

http://george-leblogdegeorge.blogspot.com/

Hell Head

Here's an early build of one portrait out of 4 I'm doing for a book of demons being published in the UK.

Ben Wilson

Above: Sleeping Giant 1987
made with branches and nails in Hadley Common, North London
9 meters long and since vanished

A while ago, Mr. Sean's Witch's Head post remind me of this amazing outdoor sculpture i scanned from "Raw Creation" an art brut & outsider art book written by John Maizels, edited by Phaidon.

I searched the web for more images of this artist to link to, but i only found

this

"Raw Creation" mention that Wilson's big outdoor sculptures were routinely vandalized, so i wonder if he decided to make this new stuff a joke on these vandals? he went from the majestic work on the countryside to the three-hair-brush-monk-like work in the City sidewalks, embeleshing the detritus of...sure, vandals!

He even does a portrait of Maradona!

Tempest Sketch

Just had a great idea for a painting and jotted it down, wish I wasn't working on a million other projects or I'd start painting this now. It's some sort of beaked aquatic abomination picking a boat out of the water for a snack. There's going to be clouds with demonic faces blowing wind and lightning out of their mouthes while a swirling ocean surface below spins other boats around the giant monster.

Un-Mounded

I LOVE SUPERJAIL!

This show is RUDE CRUDE AND FULL OF ATTITUDE!!!
Watch the most recent episode here.

Pilot episode on Guba.

Adult Swim page for Superjail..

There's an official site for Augenblick Studios Inc, the folks behind the madness, here.

And a couple more short cartoons by one of the show creators, Christy Karacas...

March of Alka Malka

Here's two tunes by the band I'm in 'March of Alka Malka' called 'Concrete Sleep' and 'Chimpera' if your ears can stand it there's more here: http://www.myspace.com/marchofthealkamalka

Seeing With the Mind's Eye

Hi All.

Not much work of my own to present lately, so I'll continue with some regular-style "blogging" of found junk -- hopefully of interest.

Here are a bunch of images from a book I came across in the free pile at the library, called Seeing With the Mind's Eye: The History, Techniques and Uses of Visualization by Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels. I think it's a fascinating, evocative set of pictures. Most are labelled, but for a few I unfortunately lost any identifying artist info -- if you can name the artists for those few works, it would be appreciated. The book is probably about 30 years old, and was printed in B&W -- even though most of these images are probably available somewhere online in full color (and higher resolutions) I think they're all pretty effective, even creepy, in monochrome.

I believe this (above) is actually by Yves Tanguay.

St. George and the Dragon has long been one of my favorite subjects in art, and I save as many versions of the legend that I can find.

I love these three images by Redon (above, and the two below). I don't know much about them, but they appear to be part of a series?



Finally, this is just a random image from another book I found at the same time, but I thought it was almost "of a piece" with those from the other book.