Get original monster artwork on the cheap from Monster By Mail

Here’s a cheap way to get some original art: for $25, cartoonist Len Peralta will draw you a monster based on your suggestion, then mail it to your home address. Add ten bucks more and he’ll film it and send you a link where you can watch the magic happen on YouTube. You’ll probably want to spend that extra ten bucks–just look at these examples below:

Read more

March 7, 2010 | Filed Under Arts & Entertainment, Comics & Graphic Novels, Decor, Fine Art, Monsters, Multimedia, Shopping | View Comments 

You don’t have to be lonely, but you don’t have to kill

Nobody likes to spend Friday night alone, but occasionally it happens. It happens even more frequently when your interests lie in para-medical research or DIY surgery, because frankly nobody wants to risk falling asleep next to you. Well it’s the modern era, fool! Stop looking for fresh bodies and just buy a high-quality medical mannequin!

I’m not talking about those cut-off-at-the-thighs torso models with puzzle piece organs, although they’re undeniably entertaining. No, nowadays you can find incredibly detailed, interactive, and medically specific models to squeal over study thoughtfully.

Want to practice delivering a baby? There’s a model for that. Want to have three buddies over for a CPR singalong? Try the four-headed dummy. Do you enjoy inserting catheters? First of all, you’re a perv, and second of all, here’s the model you want.

My favorites, though, are the veterinary models: dogs and cats that you can practice trauma emergencies on. For less than $100 you can get a giant patch of dog skin with a giant flea on it.

Sure, they’re expensive. But sometimes that’s the price you pay for being a creepy weirdo nobody wants to be friends with.

Aspen Multi-System Corp
Rescue Critters

March 5, 2010 | Filed Under Decor, Medical, Shopping | View Comments 

Make your own zombie Barbie

Barbie of the Undead

Bratz may have the child-hooker market cornered, but when it comes to disturbingly beautiful corpses, you pretty much have to look to Barbie. It’s what I used back in high school to make my own Laura Palmer gift for a friend (“She’s dead, wrapped in plastic!”),  and it’s what Paranaiv is using for his own custom zombie doll look. His secret weapon: an exposed skull showing through the broken face. Nice!

Check out his site for step-by-step photos on how to make your own.

Behind Barbie of the Dead [via BoingBoing]

December 16, 2008 | Filed Under Decor, Online, Zombies, dolls | View Comments 

Disturbing photographs recreate your earliest nightmares

Monsters under the bed. Monsters disguised as adults. Ghouls reaching out for you through the cellar stairs. The remains of victims waiting to shock you in the fridge. These are the sorts of things Joshua Hoffine’s photographs explore, with his own daughters posing, frozen in mid-scream, in many of them.

Joshua Hoffine

Fangoria writes:

The photos contain some familiar iconography (scary clown, candy-bearing witch, cartoonish red devil, a half-buried hag that will look familiar to any Evil Dead fan), but the minutiae and compositions have a sneaky way of guiding the eye and surprising you. Spend several minutes staring at “Wolf,” a distressing action shot of a screaming half-naked child crouched on a staircase as a snarling wolf bears down upon her, and you finally notice the male human hand in place of a front paw.

You can pick up most of the photos in the series in 13 x 13″ sizes for $50 apiece, which is a great price for some original artwork.

www.joshuahoffine.com

December 15, 2008 | Filed Under Arts & Entertainment, Decor, Fine Art, Monsters, Photo Album | View Comments 

Cool Halloween decorations from an unlikely source

Look, you don’t have to like her or what she (usually) stands for. The fact is, this woman apparently loves Halloween, and you can find some awesome free clip art and templates on her official website–things like skeleton party invitations and bat silhouettes. My favorite is the exaggerated staircase shadow cutout.

You’ll have to hold your nose and wade past the filthy slaughterhouse floor of “tasteful” ideas to get to the good stuff, but if you’ve got a strong stomach and are willing to dig around a while, you can turn up some pretty awesome ideas and artwork freebies.

Halloween section at MarthaStewart.com

October 22, 2008 | Filed Under Decor, Halloween, Online | View Comments 

Next Page →