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A Baby Costume for Halloween

This is probably the most literal Baby Costume I've ever seen. via benjikane.livejournal.com Imagine if you answer the door on Halloween night, and all of these little wrigglers whisper "Trick or Treat" in infantile glee as they reach out at you for some candy. And in the center of the undulating gyre, "Daddy" would just stare at you. This image is shared from the "Halloween Countdown" over on horror author Benjamin Kane Ethridge's weblog, Cloth's Chapel, in the entry for Halloween baby costumes.
October 22, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange3 Comments
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Site Shift: New Page for MichaelArnzen.com!

I've changed hosts for my social networking hub -- from posterous.com to flavors.me -- because the latter has the minimalism and simplicity I have been aiming for. The domain remains http://michaelarnzen.com But some older links that invoked my old hub may no longer work, navigating you down into a level of Dante's hell that Dante never mentioned before -- called "Expurgatory" (never to be uttered aloud) -- for fear of driving the average man mad.  Other former links might be absorbed by spambots spawned from the android womb of Robot Justin Bieber, who lives in an underground bunker rumored to…
October 20, 2011Posted inData+Errata
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Scalin’s SKULL A DAY

Here's a fantastic image from Noah Scalin's five-year running SKULL-A-DAY blog, book, and other diverse creative projects. Lots of great art and ideas on his site, which has just been a great, sustained mill of morbid creativity with such a sustained commitment to the project. My favorite, I think, is the image (pictured above) of a "Skull of Brains" that Scalin made by arranging actual brain slices encased in acrylic at the wonderful Mutter Museum. See his blog entry on the project for a behind-the-scenes video of its construction and more shots of this big, brainy skull. I think a…
October 18, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange