Sinisterly Sexy Kawaii : Juan Castaño "My Lil Drawings"

Juan Castaño {my Lil Drawings}  creates a Kawaii world of cheeky bondage and murderous girls in pinafores and frills.....Bears chase bears...boys with big eyes beg for spankings...little girls wield bloody axes and smile coyly...Bondage never looked so..CUTE!!!!

..it has  simplicity of line, and innocence and a sexy wink that appeals to me on so many levels....its sexy and fun and very time i see one i think..."hmmm....THAT would make an AMAZING tattoo!!!'.....

Check out his naughty work here...

http://www.mylildrawings.net/search?updated-max=2012-12-31T00:43:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false

the Fantastic Mr Fox

Krys Fox is an animated ball of colorful energies...talking a mile a minute and smiling as much as he can....hanging out with him is like being embraced by the warmest hug.... He is both inspired and  an inspiration...I am truly honored to have met him and even more so to have become his friend...

As a photographer Krys takes you by the hand and leads you into his world....the photos before you are rife with emotions...they are not simply photos of beautiful men...{although they sometimes are}...they are tableaus they evoke emotion they express animalistic sexuality...and yes...sometimes they are even tender and funny...all of these descriptions much like the man himself!!!! Krys is not always serious but is ALWAYS serious about what he does....

I have had the recent pleasure lately to not only get to know this man but to work with him...to be able to lend my work so that he can use it as he sees fit in his photography....Im sure there will be MANY more pieces we work on together but i just wanted to post this series of photos he did with model Chad Ferro.... No just sexual and sexy...but haunting and captivating....the hunted becomes the hunter....and where you feel sexual urges stirring you also feel fear..remorse...solitude and strength...just one look into Chads eyes and you know what i mean....and his PUREVILE! adornments become tribalistic talismans.... evoking images of fallen angels or earth bound gods...

This isn't the last you'll see of Krys Fox and I.....this...this is only the beginning!!!

XOXO

http://krysfox.tumblr.com/

Somewhere in the Night....

Just a few inspirational looks......with a fitting soundtrack below!!!

XOXO

Running up that Hill to Record Store Day {London}

SEE...this is why London will will out over the USA in music EVERY TIME!!! the record store editions of Kate Bush's "Runnin cup that Hill" and "Lake Tahoe"{from LAST YEAR} include not only picture disks but ZOETROPE ones with animation created as they spin!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?!? 

http://peacockdesign.com/ did the design work!!!! and its just STUNNING!!!! THIS would have been worth waiting on line for!!!

XOXO

Articulated Bat Skeleton Class at the Morbid Anatomy Library

So I have taken a few classes at the Morbid Anantomy Library at the Gowanus Reading Room {Mouse taxidermy, Victorian Hair art}...so i was so excited for this....a bat articulation class complete with environment and Glass Dome!!!!! 

Curated by Laetitia Barbier and  Wilder Duncan It was a chance to create a one of a kind curio to display in ones home much like the Victorians before us....to insight curiosity and wonder...even within ones home....

We were provided with one bat skelton and a glass dome and various times to create an "environment" with...

First we dis-articulated the bat as to pose it more naturally and to our own whims....

Then we created the environment...i used branches and leaves to create a canopy...I also brought some cicada skins and a snail shell and petrified hornets nest to add to the natural authenticity of it all

I then added my re-articulated bat and posed it to fit within the dome...much gluing together of fingers and dropping and almost losing of TINY TINY bones ensued...as well as much hilarity....

Et VIOLÁ!!! One twice articulated bat in a "natural" environment under a glass dome!!!! Now i have a self created beauty to add to my Wunderkammer !!!! I had a great time and am pretty proud of my work considering this is my first {yet surely not LAST} time  doing this!!!!!

Thanks Morbid Anatomy Library for this opportunity...and for simply exhausting!!

XOXO

http://observatoryroom.org/

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/p/morbid-anatomy-library.html

Conjurer's Kitchen: Decadently Macabre Delights

 In a world filled with forgettable cakes and boring artisanal chocolates someone is finally injecting some life {so to speak} into the genre... Annabel de Vetten-Peterson also known as Annabel Lecter {LOVE!!!} runs a bakery called "Conjurer's Kitchen" where she creates magical chocolate oddities and cakes fit for a turn of the century Cabinet of Curiosities..... or a serial killers refridgerator perhaps.... 

Someone had sent me a link to this cake below and i was quite impressed with the use off skulls on a wedding cake...imagine my delight when i realized the skulls were edible AND chocolate!!!! Not just creepy for the sake of being creepy......but truly magical and stunningly realistic.....from for to color to scale...these morbid morsels are as scientifically accurate as they are sublimely delicious!!!!!

Then on a recent trip to Obscura a realized that they were selling her wares there including this custom made AND hand painted chocolate skull pictured below!!!! Almost a shame to eat such a beautiful and detailed work of art.... The painting and font recall Memento Mori skulls and once again the detail was just stunning...THIS is the work of a true and dedicated artisan!!!!

Macabre and Chiling...Morbid and delicious.....Annabel's deft hands create babies heads...sinewy muscle.... severed limbs...conjoined skulls... and many other dark delights from delicious cakes and  Chocolates!!!! Not everything she does is so Macabre...but everything is pretty ingenious...from a full Christmas dinner made from cake to a cake that looks made from cold cuts!!!!

So please check out her work....She's in the UK but I'm SURE shed be willing to ship to the US...or else go to Obscura and get yourself a fiendish little treat!!!!

XOXO

http://www.conjurerskitchen.com/

https://miss-cakehead.myshopify.com/collections/conjurers-kitchen