3D Madness: Execution in the Philippines circa 1900

I don’t know if this photo was staged for the 3D opportunity, or if we’re seeing the beginning of an unfortunate moment in human history. I found it on Flickr as a sterescopic image, meaning you have to either use a special double-lens or cross your eyes a special way in order to see it. For those of you with old-skool red/blue glasses (aka anaglyph), I’ve converted it below.

(Photo: pingnews.com)

Don’t have 3D glasses? WTF is wrong with you? Get a pair.
March 4, 2010 | Filed Under 3D, History, Photo Album | View Comments 

Cool 80s monster stickers

Flickr member Rafa Toro found an old set of monster stickers from his childhood, so he scanned them and posted the images to Flickr for a little group nostalgia. I grew up in the 80’s and don’t remember them, but then I was more into Garbage Pail Kids. Ah, innocence.

I love how every cheap toy line in that decade stole from Star Wars. I never thought to imagine Darth Vader as a vampire, or some sort of sparkle-eyed blood dispenser, until today. I guess I just can’t picture Darth Vader ever needing a napkin.

“Monstruous Diabolicos” (Set) [Rafa Toro's Flickr page]

March 1, 2010 | Filed Under Monsters, Photo Album | 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 

Drugstore window fights back against “Christmas Creep”

“Christmas Creep” describes how retailers push back the starting date for showcasing Christmas-themed merchandise, decorations, and music in their stores–there was a time (long, long ago) when this was around Thanksgiving, then it edged back to the first of November, and now stores start throwing their good cheer around in August or September. It’s hellish.

But not for my corner drugstore. This photo was taken on December 2, 2008. Yes, his window display is still Halloween-themed a full month after the official holiday! Cross your fingers he leaves it up through December, too.

(Photo: Scurzuzu)

December 3, 2008 | Filed Under Funny, Halloween, Photo Album | View Comments 

Photos of meat. Human meat.

The Sterile Eye is a Norwegian medical photographer’s personal blog, and as such the entries cover whatever is on the guy’s mind that day. But among the miscellania are entries where the man posts photos and stills from the videos he shoots, and they’re extremely up close and personal glimpses of the human body.

October 22, 2008 | Filed Under Medical, Photo Album, Strange But True | View Comments 

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