Gespenster Geschichten Comic-Cover
Monsterbrains hat ‘ne schicke Sammlung mit alten Covern der Gespenster Geschichten, einen ganzen Haufen weiterer Cover findet man auf Comic Vine und yours truly hatte vor einer ganzen Weile auch ‘nen Schwung davon auf Flickr hochgeladen.
Japanese Bug Eyed Monster-Illustrations from 1970
Ich hab’ grade den nächsten Schwung alter Illus aus Japan bei Flickr hochgeladen und diesmal hat mir Robert, der derzeit in Shikoku lebt und arbeitet, mit Übersetzungen der Scans und Infos aus dem Blog geholfen. Die Illustrationen stammen aus einer 1970er Ausgabe des Shonen Sunday-Magazins: „Bei der Reihe handelt es sich um eine Sammlung von ‘Uchu Kaiju Bemu’, was quasi ‘BEM-Monster/-Ungeheuer aus dem All’ bedeutet, wobei BEM wohl für Bug-Eyed-Monster steht.
Zum Bild oben: „Erste Seite der Ausgabe dieses Heftes, aus dem alle Scan stammen. Redaktion von Mori (Nachname) Masaru (vermutlich). Illustration hier von dem gleichen Yamamoto Kaguya (unsicher) wie weiter oben. Im Scan steht nicht, um was für Monster es sich genau handelt, nur dass es ‘Bälle mit einem Augen, 6 Beinen und 2 Armen’ sind.“
Die restlichen Illus nach dem Klick.
Happy 100th, Charles Addams!
Charles Addams, Erfinder der Addams Family, wäre heute 100 Jahre alt geworden. Unten die Pilotfolge der Serie und Googles Doodle mit einem schönen, kleinen Text von Kevin Miserocchi, dem Direktor der Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. Charles Addams heiratete seine Tee auf ihrem Tierfriedhof und alle Gäste trugen schwarz. Aaaaaaaw!
I spent the summer of 1979 fundraising with Tee Matthews Miller for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. We spent most of our time in the home she shared with her cartoonist paramour—and too many dogs and cats to name—during his weekends away from Manhattan. I’d met her partner several times before I realized that behind all the stacks of paper and collectibles and layers of dust and pet fur in Tee’s office den, the walls were decorated with familiar art. Not just any art—the original artwork from the pages of The New Yorker magazines that my brother and I had cut up or crayoned across when we were boys. Tee’s boyfriend was the Charles Addams—the one with two d’s. I was home, and our friendship was forever cemented.
They were married in Tee’s pet cemetery in Water Mill, NY in 1980—a surprise for the 60 guests coming for cocktails during the Memorial Day weekend. The wedding party all wore black. It was the union of a wonderful woman of gentle spirit and great generosity and a beguiling man with a subtly wicked sense of humor. Bashful and soft-spoken as he was, he had a devil-child glint in his eyes and a Lugosi-like mouth when he laughed, showing none of his teeth.
Von Kevin Miserocchi habe ich übrigens das Buch „The Addams Family: An Evilution“ im Regal stehen, unbedingt empfehlenswert, wenn man auf die Addams steht:
The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace the Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (1912-1988) throughout his prolific career; many have never been published before. Text by KEVIN MISEROCCHI, director of the Addams Family Foundation.
Addams first created Morticia, Lurch and the Thing in a cartoon published in an issue of the New Yorker magazine in 1938, though he hadn’t named them yet. His characters inspired an ABC television situation-comedy series in the 1960′s, and two motion pictures in 1991 and 1993. A phenomenon of rare proportion, The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist’s dark but irresistible wit, expressed with an uncommonly deft hand. 224 pages with more than 200 cartoons (approximately 50 published here for the first time), many in color. Ten chapters explore each Addams Family character as well as the mansion itself.
Happy 100th birthday, Charles Samuel Addams, Amazon-Partnerlink: The Addams Family: An Evilution
Krampuslauf
Youtube Direktkrampus, via Cyn-C
Ich war mit meinen Eltern als Kind immer im Winterurlaub zum Skifahren. Letzteres konnte ich schon ziemlich früh, bin im zarten Alter von zwei Jahren im Rucksack meines Papas den Buckel runtergerutscht, meine ersten Ski hatte ich mit Vier. Der Vorteil davon ist: Ich war seit ungefähr 8 Jahren nicht mehr auf Brettern unterwegs, aber wenn ich mich heute draufstellen würde, könnte ich morgen wieder schwarze Pisten runterheizen. Wie Fahrradfahren.
Jedenfalls: Im Winterurlaub waren wir immer in Österreich, vor allem in Schladming und wir waren da drei oder viermal zu Weihnachten. Ich weiß nicht mehr, wie alt ich war, aber ich habe als Kind ein paar mal einen Krampuslauf selbst gesehen. Kein Wunder, dass ich so geworden bin, wie ich bin.
It’s alive! Frankenstein-Remix Sculptures
Anlässlich des 80jährigen Jubiläums von Karloffs Frankenstein hat die City Arts Factory in Orlando, Florida, 80 „Künstler“ damit beauftragt, Büsten eines meiner Lieblingsmonster zu remixen (via Brainbar), hier die Gallerie. Ich sags gleich vorneweg: Die meisten sind die Bolzen nicht wert, mit denen sie zusammengehalten werden – Joker- und Twoface-Frank sind völlig missraten und langweilig, Spock-Frank, Bowie-Frank, Kong-Frank, Ninja-Frank… yawn. (Außerdem ist das Ding ein ziemlich offensichtlicher und langweiliger Ripoff des Vader-Projects von vor ein paar Jahren).
Aber ein paar wenige nette Interpretationen waren dabei, oben mein Favorite von Robert Cametti, ein paar mehr nach dem Klick. Und da mir die Website nicht den Eindruck macht, als ob sie nach der Veranstaltung noch länger im Netz bleibt, habe ich alle Arbeiten auf Flickr hochgeladen.
The “Its Alive” Project celebrates eight decades of the Frankenstein Monster by presenting 80 re-imagined Life Size Boris Karloff Frankenstein Busts. Each of the 80 artists have been asked to recreate the monster in their own vision, style and hand. You will be amazed and frightened by what can happen when these talented artists unleash their creative monsters on this unique and terrifying project. See creations from some of the top local artists as well as a few Professional Monster Makers from across the country.
The busts will be on display and available for purchase at the City Arts Factory in Downtown Orlando Florida from October 20th through November 15th. Several special edition pieces will also be auctioned off during the exhibits run.
Movie Monster Diagram
PopChart Labs, die damals bereits dieses schicke Diagramm für Superheldenfähigkeiten auf die Beine gestellt hatten, haben jetzt das gleiche für Monster gemacht. Schick! Kann man hier als Print kaufen, hier das Poster in HighRes. (via Laughing Squid)
Jérémie Perins Fantasy
(Dailymotion Direktmonsters, via Nils)
Vor zwei Jahren wurde Jérémie Perins Video „Truckers Delight“ einmal durch’s komplette Internet gereicht, jetzt hier das neue, ein Clip zu DyEs „Fantasy“. Absolut NSFW und heftigst WTF.
Tigersushi and Excuse My French are pleased to present the new video for DyE’s new single, Fantasy. Directed by animation wunderkind Jérémie Périn, the video tells the story of a group of highschool kids ready for teenage mischief. They break into the local swimming pool intending a session of innocent nightswimming, in an awkward climate of romance and apprehension.
Where Monsters Come From
Das Life Mag hat eine schöne Galerie voller Monster, wo sie herkommen und wo ihre historischen Wurzeln liegen. Das da oben ist Rangda, die „child-eating, tusk-faced, long-taloned queen of demons on the Indonesian island of Bali, Rangda is symbolically defeated by the lionesque king of good spirits during the Barong dance.“ Etwas Internet-kompatibler ist aber wahrscheinlich die japanische Monster-Cat:
The bakaneko, or “monster-cat,” is a Japanese legend that arose centuries ago, in which a regular house cat turns into a monster once it lives for 100 years, exceeds 8 1/4 pounds in weight, or keeps a long tail. The monster-cat then terrorizes villagers by walking on two legs, devouring anything it feels like, changing shape to resemble human loved ones, and bringing the dead back to life by leaping over their corpses. Some believe that the superstition about long-tailed cats is what gave rise to the first Japanese bobtails (pictured).
John Landis’ Monsters in the Movies
John Landis hat ein Buch über Monster geschrieben und weil ich seit dem Start seiner tollen Website Trailers from Hell regelmäßig darüber schreibe, was da so passiert, stehe ich mit seinem Büro in losem Kontakt (und ich habe schonmal ‘ne persönliche Dankes-Mail vom Regisseur von American Werewolf bekommen, seitdem hab ich mein Mailfach nicht mehr gewaschen). Und heute lag’s im Briefkasten. Ich hab’s natürlich noch nicht gelesen, aber wenn Mr. Gremlins ein Buch über Monster schreibt, dann wäre das ohnehin ein Must Have für mich gewesen.
Oben der Buchtrailer, auf Wired erzählt er ein bisschen was: John Landis Explores Evolution of Monsters in the Movies.
John Landis has been a horror movie luminary ever since he directed An American Werewolf in London in 1981. In the decades since then, he’s seen monsters evolve from elaborate works of costume and make-up magic to elaborate works of CGI.
In his new book Monsters in the Movies, out Monday, Landis explores a century of cinematic creatures, from the currently hot vampires and zombies to apes, genetic mutants, mad scientists, psychos and scary children. Scanning through the book, it’s hard not to be taken by the evolution of how Hollywood monsters are created, from rudimentary make-up tricks to really slick technical feats.
“Technology in movies is always changing,” Landis told Wired.com. “In terms of CG, it’s an amazing technology and like all new technologies, completely overused immediately.”
Amazon-Partnerlink: Monsters in the Movies
Monsterologie Podcast
Schöner Podcast von SWR2:
Das Monster spiegelt kulturelle Gemütslagen und Weltdeutungen, im Bild vom bösen, unkontrollierbaren und tierhaften Wesen offenbart eine Gesellschaft ihre Abgründe und Ängste. Osama bin Laden ist so gesehen ein modernes Monster. In diesem Sinne lässt sich sagen: Monster wurden und werden von der Gesellschaft gemacht, durch Mediendiskurse, politische Interessen, durch moralische Dogmen. Matthias Burchardt ist Bildungsforscher an der Universität Köln und zugleich Deutschlands wohl einziger Monsterologe. In der SWR2 Aula erläutert er die Faszination seines Forschungsfeldes.
King Kong und seine Kollegen – Einführung in die Monsterologie (MP3, 13MB) (via Swen)
Alternate Histories prints vintage Maps with Monsters
Tolle Prints im Etsy Shop von Alternate Histories, leider alle eher klein (grob A3). Die ganzen Dinger jetzt bitte als A0-Poster und ich leere mein Konto und tapezier’ meine Wohnung mit dem Kram. Ein paar meiner Favorites nach dem Klick.
Bookmarks for July 18th: iPhone Fireflies, Dune without Dialoge, Free Running in Gaza
Fireflies HD | crowdflow blog: The following videos show the movement of 880 iPhones in Europe in April 2011.
The story of 15 Second Copy for the C-64 « pagetable.com
The story of FCopy for the C-64 « pagetable.com
The Complete History Of Video Games On "The Simpsons" | Complex
AnonPlus – The Anonymous Social Networking Site.
Dune with no dialog – Boing Boing
A complete guide to the planets’ birthdays
This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 4
Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight | Popular Science
Ken Reid – World Wide Weirdies (1970′s): Ken Reid's "World Wide Weirdies" series was originally published in the comic Whoopee!
Visual.ly | Infographics & Visualizations: Infographics and data visualizations are shifting the way people find and experience stories, creating a new way of seeing the world of data. They help communicate complex ideas in a clear, compact and beautiful way, taking deep data and presenting it in visual shorthand. We’ve collected the best examples on the web and gathered them for you to reference, share, and enjoy.
The Final Image: This film blog is a collection of screenshots of the final thought, le mise-en-scene finale, or the final shot of films I've seen.
Little Annie Fanny – Episodes 18-21 ~ Playboy January-July/1965: Artwork by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Russ Heath and Frank Frazetta
A Geek’s Journal-1976: What if there had been blogs in 1976? I would most definitely have had one and this might well have been it. This blog is based on my actual journal kept in 1976.
HARREY PODDER: Say the Magic Word – YouTube: What would happen in the Harry Potter world if their spells didn't quite go the way they meant them to? Take a look and see.
Study Shows Parrot Parents Name Their Children | Geekosystem: Each parrot has its own signature call that others use to address it, which is the parrot equivalent of having a name. But where do these “names” come from? New research has shown that just like with human babies, parrot parents name their offspring, even before the babies can communicate themselves.
Sex-Ed DVD Selling Fast in Iran – The Daily Beast: Iran’s first-ever sex-education DVD is wildly popular. Babak Dehghanpisheh writes that the film’s success reveals a thirst for information inside the Islamic republic.
Free Running Gaza – Artscape – Al Jazeera English: Two young Palestinians embrace an art form and athletic discipline that offers an escape from life under occupation.
See something or say something – a set on Flickr: Where people post geotagged photos to Flickr from and geotagged tweets to Twitter from.
Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google?: In the age of Google and Wikipedia, an almost unlimited amount of information is available at our fingertips, and with the rise of smartphones, many of us have nonstop access. The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by Science Express describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten.
H. P. Lovecrafts complete strange Fauna illustrated
Michael Bukowski illustriert seit einem Jahr jede Kreatur, die H. P. Lovecraft in seinen Stories jemals erwähnte. Hier das „White Polypous Thing“:
WHITE POLYPOUS THING
“There were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu
Yog-Blogsoth (via WBCenobyte)
Giant Bin Laden Destroys New York, Washington
The Onion rockt ganz gewaltig und lässt einen gigantischen Osama Bin Laden wie Godzilla aus dem Meer steigen, der New York und Washington plattmacht. Abartig großartig, vor allem auch wegen der kleinen Seitenhiebe wie „He seemed to feed off our weaponry“. Awesome!
NEW YORK—Just weeks after his body was buried at sea, Osama bin Laden burst forth from the ocean depths early this morning, rising to the monstrous height of 500 feet and rapidly making his way down the East Coast of the United States in a rampage expected to leave hundreds of thousands dead and easily eclipse 9/11 as the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Currently, much of New York City and Washington, D.C., including the Empire State Building, the White House, and the Capitol Building, lay in ruins, with overwhelmed rescue crews struggling to assist a country ravaged by the gigantic, irate al-Qaeda leader.
“Our nation faces its gravest challenge yet,” a visibly shaken President Obama said, interrupting his prepared remarks to both houses of British Parliament in London. “I cannot say that we will prevail, only that we will fight to the last.”
“May God help us all,” Obama added as the walls and ceiling shook around him.
The first stirrings of bin Laden were felt in the form of early morning tremors off the Atlantic Coast that reportedly rattled windows as far inland as Ohio. Shortly thereafter, stunned witnesses from a nearby fishing vessel reported that bin Laden, in full robes and with a beard described as “at least 100 feet long,” suddenly rose from beneath the water.
Within an hour, a formidable assembly of U.S. fighter jets and battleships began engaging bin Laden approximately 25 miles off the Atlantic Coast, an encounter officials conceded has so far done nothing to slow the progress of the colossal terrorist mastermind. On the contrary, sources are reporting that bin Laden seems to be absorbing the bombardment and growing both angrier and, shockingly, larger with each strike.
By the time the unscathed bin Laden entered New York Harbor and flung the Statue of Liberty into Lower Manhattan, some estimates put his height at 800 feet.
“He seemed to feed off our weaponry,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen said.
Giant Bin Laden Destroys New York, Washington – 500-Foot Terrorist Emerges From Sea To Wreak Havoc On U.S., hier die Karte von Giant Bin Ladens konotiertem „Path of Destruction“: „The nation’s financial markets are thrown into turmoil as bin Laden rips the New York Stock Exchange from its foundation and repeatedly smashes it against the ground“.
[update] Bin Laden Returns To Sea: „VIRGINIA BEACH, VA—The colossal Osama bin Laden, having carved a swath of unimaginable destruction from New York to Washington, has reentered the ocean, dazed and terrified sources are confirming.“
