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A Pop-Up Studio in Las Vegas Lights Self-Made Style Like Couture, 150 Portraits of The Alt Side
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Gothic Beauty 25 Year Reunion of Original Artists Calendar
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Gothic Beauty Magazine #53: A Velvety Blend Of Gothic Flavors
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Gothic Beauty Magazine Issue #52: A Feast Of Gothic Artistry
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Panel of Experts: How do you feel fiction-writing and screen-writing compare?
Walking Dead: After
A new season of Walking Dead begins with a perfect blend of emotion and action. It’s Carl’s Big Adventure, and Michonne does some soul searching. Two separate storylines this week showed us some of the aftermath of the battle at the prison. Luckily they didn’t try to show us every single character, giving us a nice tight focus on Carl and his dad, and Michonne. Carl has sort of grown up in front of all of us (as has actor Chandler Riggs). In light of… Read More »
Face Off: Guitar Gods
A desultory Face Off challenge results in a few interesting designs and one hilarious failure. First up is an immunity challenge, creating characters based on motorcycles. Decent idea, some nice bikes, and original Face Off judge Patrick Tatopoulos returns briefly. I thought that ghostly green and black rider was the most interesting character, but Daran won immunity with a very cool skull face and elaborate hair piece. The main challenge is to create a rock star based on a distinctive guitar. I’m with you so… Read More »
Face Off: Dragon’s Breath
Finally, a Face Off episode to renew my faith in Face Off. It was everything a classic Face Off should be, leaving me loving the artists and staring agape at the judges’ stunningly stupid decision. The parameters of the individual challenge are announced out on the beach at Malibu, right where Charlton Heston screamed, “YOU BLEW IT UP!” McKenzie Westmore doesn’t just show them a dragon or something. Nope. She says it like she’s in the wizard mafia or something: “I’m talkin’ about dragons here!”… Read More »
Face Off: Cosmic Conspiracy
A challenge about imperiled aliens brings back some of that old Face Off magic. The artists meet McKenzie out in a field, where they learn they’re standing in a crop circle. McKenzie says that the CIA and other government agencies “officially” consider crop circles hoaxes, but that some conspiracy theorists think they’re actually distress calls from aliens. Let’s unpack that for a second here. First of all, it isn’t just government agencies who think crop circles are hoaxes. Scientists think so too, since people have… Read More »
Face Off: Sexy Beasts
The sixth season of Face Off gets off to a mediocre start with a new crop of artists and a castle full of not so beautiful beasts. The new contestants seem more or less evenly split between “really talented hobbyist” and “owner of a small FX studio.” I’m not entirely sure the semi-pros have a big advantage – not the way the east coast haunted house people usually have an advantage over the west coast film people. Experience is never a bad thing, but we’ve… Read More »
Exclusive Interview: Goth Fashion Icon and Horror Fan RazorCandi
RazorCandi has carved out her own territory in the world of goth and fetish fashion with electrifying pictorials showcasing her intense and unique look. Body modification, corsetry, pin-up style glam and bondage-inspired looks are all fodder for Razor’s restless mind. And if you’re the type to check a model’s cred, she actually lives in Transylvania. Ed Grabianowski: I want to start off by talking about Ghost. I saw them here in Buffalo a few months ago and it was the best rock show I’ve been… Read More »
Demon: the Descent brings fallen angels to the World of Darkness RPG
The World of Darkness has had a bumpy ride on the business side of the gaming industry, but Kickstarter might be the savior of the classic contemporary horror role-playing game. White Wolf’s World of Darkness introduced gamers to Vampire: the Masquerade and other supernatural RPGs. The game world was rebooted in 2004, but White Wolf’s release schedule slowed to a crawl in 2010. I talked to some sources in the gaming industry, and apparently layoffs at parent company CCP effectively rendered White Wolf extinct as… Read More »
Walking Dead: Too Far Gone
Walking Dead came this close to losing me as a viewer this week, and not the for the reasons you might think. Last week I complained that the Governor’s two-episode arc was a huge waste of time that drove the story around in a big pointless circle. This week’s episode was even worse because it drove the entire season in that same stupid circle. See, at the end of last season we dealt with the Governor’s massive assault on the prison. Exactly where we ended… Read More »
Walking Dead: Dead Weight
Walking Dead leads us around in a big circle with a two-episode shaggy dog story that tells us what we already knew about the Governor: he’s a dick. Before I get into this episode, let’s address the comic book underpinnings. Or rather, let’s not and point you to someone who will. I’ve been discussing this show completely independent of the comic books ever since Shane’s story diverged so massively. However, these episodes involving the Governor were in part picking up threads of his story as… Read More »
Walking Dead: Live Bait
In this week’s grimly grim Walking Dead episode, we enjoy a variety of grim grimness grimly enacted by grim actors in a grim world where the future holds only grimness. The lone bright spot? The return of the Lovernor. Last week’s episode ended with a shot of the Governor lurking in the shrubberies near the prison. This week we start off some distance back in time, with a flashback to the Gov massacring his own people after the failed assault on the prison. Things go… Read More »
