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I know it's just the way lady on the left's head is turned, but goddamn that's an unnerving illusion.
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Say Nothing posted:Hyperdontia. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Shamelessly stolen from the Fanart thread: http://sharpieboss.deviantart.com/ "bon bon"  "delete button"  "i have an even more essential task for you"  "She couldn't breathe. She didn't need to."  "Call me"  "She's got little rabbits in her closet"  "You don't have to let that man in your house"  "untitled" 
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http://bunnymeat.thecomicseries.com/comics/ Bunny Meat is a webcomic where people send in their childhood traumas and the cartoonist draws them like Cat Soup. There aren't many in the archive yet but it updates every couple days or so. Neat concept. Something about the scribbly drawings makes it more uncomfortable.   
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Junji Ito is the man and all - the brilliant brilliant man and one of my favorite human being on earth - but he ain't crazy. His characters have logic, his stories have a clear structure with buildup and payoff, and his climaxes are oh so satisfying. He's a sane man tappin' into some crazy poo poo, but he ain't crazy. Hino Hideshi is crazy.    This guy draws like Jim Davis with PTSD. He writes things that don't make any goddamn sense. But holy gently caress if I can't stop reading. There's not much in his background that suggests why he's so troubled. His wiki mentions a scene in his early childhood where he and his family escaped a Chinese army, but nothing after that. He doesn't talk about military affairs or running from scary institutions, he writes about children being shunned from society because they're ugly and artists who get aroused at the smell of their own blood. My only issue with his work is that it's not terribly satisfying. Sure, he took me on a fever dream that only he could provide, but when it ends, it just drops me on my rear end and pimps out. No resolution. Fun Fact: Mr. Hino directed Guinea Pig entires "A Flower of Flesh and Blood" and "Mermaid in a Manhole", aka the BEST IN THE SERIES. Shintaro Kago is crazy.     Holy poo poo this guy needs to be on a watch list or twenty. I would be genuinely uncomfortable being in the same room with this dude. His art ranges from amazingly detailed to borderline amateur at times, which then bounces back to amazing which makes me wonder if he has more control over his own pen hand than humanly possible. It's good in that we don't always get beautifully drawn depictions of spilled organs and internal parasites and taxidermied human corpses turned into espresso machines ALL of the time - only meh ones some of the time. It's bad in that you KNOW this guy is scribbling these images in someone's crawlspace. I have no loving idea what his stories are trying to communicate. He's speaking to us with the sincerity and urgency of a David Lynch film, but I can't quite grasp it. Maybe it's a cultural thing? Who knows. Hashigutchi Chiyomi was batshit crazy.    The big lady herself comin' in. She's better known at Nekojiru, aka that wacko behind Cat Soup. I'm just a tad obsessed with her. Mrs. Hashiguchi is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. It's clear that much of Cat Soup, particularly the early entires, are autobiographical. We know very little about her except: A. She was a severe alcoholic and used heavy drugs once in a while B. She was bisexual and most likely had gender identity issues (it comes up with the self-insert character Nyako a lot) C. She was heavily beaten by her parents as a child D. She might have died for a short time during an intense fever in childhood - it's a theme that keeps coming up in her stories and the "dying" part is always very detailed E. She might have been involved in the serious injury (death?) of her little brother (unbacked rumor) F. She was anorexic and would only eat liquid foods G. She was "married", aka she moved into a beta's house and tormented him into submission. On several occasions she attacked him with knives and box cutters, driving him from the house. H. She was TINY - under 5 feet tall and less than 90 lbs. I. She whipped her cat with an electrical cord regularly. J. She hung herself at the age of 31 with no suicide note. We never found out what was tormenting her. Mr.Chill has a new favorite as of 21:42 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Recommendations on what to read by each artist? I LOVED Cat Soup To my knowledge Hashiguchi only made Cat Soup. Hino's stories are... well, he writes like that 13-year-old you knew in school who was writing the grossest stories he thought were possible. You know, the kid whose stories went "And then there was a monster, and he was soooooooo ugly because he had maggots in his, um, mouth. And there was this town where they cut off lots of people's heads and there was a pile of heads and it was HUGE and it got too huge so they threw them in the river and now the river is full of heads and the monster was all 'this is cool imma live here' and he did the end." I guess Hell Baby is a good place to start. It's at least a complete narrative. http://www.guromanga.com/author/hino-hideshi#.VuzyqGQrLwt Pomp posted:Kago owns but some of his stuff is unnerving to the point that I find it unreadable, I.e. suck it I agree with you there - he's a really hosed up person who I hope is on some watch lists. He has a thing for dismemberment and necrophillia that goes beyond "I'm trying to freak my readers out" and into "This is my actual fetish". Read with a strong stomach (or not at all, it's completely understandable). Kago has a lot of shorties like Ito. I think the most interesting without being completely disgusting is Abstraction, because at least it seems like he's going for a "deconstruction of the medium" thing rather than his usual "I want to cut a woman's head off at the jawline and make out with her tongue" like he normally does. It also shows that he has one HELL of a powerful imagination that I wish he would expand upon rather than just being nasty. http://imgur.com/a/y0Npy I have a fascination with art made by legit insane people, but I have my limits. I'd say Kago is that limit. Mr.Chill has a new favorite as of 08:11 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Bismuth posted:If you want creepy, read Hino's Panorama of Hell and keep in mind how much of the main character's life is based on the author's. Wow, really? This stuff seems extreme. I found an article mentioning that he had a traumatic childhood as an immigrant to Manchuria, which adds to it.  The fact that this is how he draws himself is disturbing alone. Apparently there's a whole psychology around how artists make their self-portraits, and while I don't know the logistics around it I'm sure this one isn't healthy.
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Presenting "The Anguished Man" - a haunted painting of unknown origins.  I just found out about it today and it freaks me out something nasty. Backstory: "Over twenty five years ago a friend of my Grandmother gave her an old oil painting called ‘The Anguished Man’. She told my Grandmother that the artist used his own blood mixed in with the oils and committed suicide shortly after finishing the painting. I have no way of confirming if this story is true or not, but my Grandmother passed the story down to me when she gave me the painting. I really liked the painting, but because my wife didn’t like it I kept it in the cellar. After our cellar was flooded during a prolonged period of heavy rain I moved the contents of the cellar to my parent’s garage while the cellar dried out. When I got the painting back I decided to keep it in our spare bedroom on the third floor of our house. Shortly after we started to hear strange noises, loud unexplainable bangs and an odd scraping noise like someone scratching their nails on fabric. When the painting was in the cellar our dog would not go in the cellar, she would just stand outside growling; now when it was upstairs she refused to go to the top floor despite the fact that she usually used to follow me everywhere. At night we would often hear crying and sobbing noises. I suppose these noises could have come from outside the house, and it was suggested the crying could have been a cat outside, but they sounded like they came from within the house. I wasn’t duly alarmed at this point and put everything down to natural phenomenon, however I started to see the shadowy figure of a man in the house, it was always just in the corner of the eye or brief fleeting glimpses of a dark shape. Soon the rest of my family were seeing things too. It has also been suggested that because we all knew the history of the painting that we were all imagining these things, and I suppose that is a possibility, but at the time it felt very real. As the weeks went by the noises got progressively worse, I even heard crying that seemed to be coming from inside our own bedroom, again it has been suggested that this could have been from a cat outside the window but I’ve heard the noises cats make and this sounded distinctively human. A few nights I woke up suddenly and saw the dark figure of a man standing at the foot of the bed. Could I have been dreaming? Again, this is a possibility, but at the time it felt very real. The figure had the appearance of a tall middle aged man but his features were unclear. I never actually felt afraid at this point just extremely curious. I wanted to find out what was happening. Was it just my imagination or was there something paranormal happening? We started to notice numerous cold spots around the house and we often had a strange feeling of being watched. I often felt like someone was standing directly behind me and heard whispers that seemed to be extremely close by. One evening my wife had gone to bed early, she thought it was me getting into bed beside her but when she turned around she found herself staring into a strangers eyes. I heard her scream from downstairs and ran upstairs to find her extremely shaken up by the experience. She has since told me she may have had a very lucid dream but at the time she was convinced it had actually happened. After this experience my wife persuaded me to put the painting back in the cellar. Things settled down almost immediately but once again my dog refused to go anywhere near the cellar, when the painting was upstairs the dog would quite happily follow me into the cellar. After posting the videos on YouTube I attracted a lot of interest worldwide and several people asked me if I would consider setting a video camera up in an attempt to record some of the activity. I moved the painting back into the top bedroom and set up the video camera. I recorded for approx eight hours over three consecutive nights. After the first night I was convinced I had left the bedroom door open but in the morning it was closed so I changed the camera angle in order to record more of the bedroom because at first it had been focused solely on the painting. After spending several hours looking through all the footage I found I had recorded quite a lot of noises, most of them sounded like they came from outside the house and were easily explainable but a few were different. They sounded like they came from inside the bedroom. There was a strange scraping sound similar to the noises we had previously been hearing and the sound of a loud bang, like something falling but in the morning nothing was disturbed. When I checked the footage from the second night I found I had recorded the bedroom door suddenly swinging shut despite there being no drafts in the room. The third night I closed the door before recording in the hope it might swing open through the night but on this occasion it remained closed. I decided to leave the painting in the top bedroom for the time being and over the next few weeks my wife felt someone stroke her hair when she was in the bathroom and one night when I was going to bed I saw a strange fog like mist at the top of the stairs, I walked into the middle of it and it was extremely cold, it felt like I was standing in the middle of some dry ice, my vision was blurred and I became very light headed, then suddenly it vanished as quickly as it came. Now while some of the incidents could be explained by saying I was dreaming or it was a result of my over active imagination, this strange mist was real, it was something I could see and feel and something for which I can find no explanation. While the painting remained upstairs the whole family experienced feelings of being watched. We also started to hear the noises at night again, somehow the whole house felt different when the painting was upstairs. I also began to experience intense feelings of anxiety and dread and suffered from terrible nightmares, at one point it felt like I was being repeatedly and violently lifted up out of bed and slammed back down. I also started dreaming about the painting and kept dreaming about the same man, a tall middle aged man but I could never quite make out his face. After a few weeks I decided to set up the video camera again in the spare bedroom to try and catch some more of the activity on tape. This time I recorded over four consecutive nights for about seven hours each night. I spent hours looking through the footage again and I found I had recorded several strange light anomalies. At the time these were recorded everyone in the house was sleeping, there are thick curtains up in the bedroom so it can’t be light from outside. There was one small lamp on in the bedroom at all times. They were not like the usual ‘orbs’ you see on some videos and photographs, they seemed to be moving around and over the painting. I also recorded many noises, such as bangs and scraping sounds that were similar to the sounds in my previous video. A few days after this was recorded I heard my sons footsteps coming down the stairs then suddenly I heard him stumble and fall down the last four or five steps. I jumped up and rushed to help him, to my relief he was unhurt, just a little shaken up. Later on in the day I could tell that something was bothering him so I asked him what was wrong, he was a little reluctant to tell me at first for fear of sounding stupid but after some persuasion he told me that it felt like something had pushed him downstairs. He said that he was just walking down the stairs when he felt a pressure on his back that pushed him forward, he tried to stop falling but he said the force behind him was too strong. Well this really concerned me, was I putting my family at risk by keeping the painting in the house? I decided to put the painting away again in the cellar and once again the activity seemed to stop. I have tried to research the paintings background and have posted the story all over the internet in the vague hope that someone will recognise the artist but so far I have had no luck. I have had many offers from people wanting to buy the painting but I really have no desire to sell it. At first I thought the painting was very unsettling but I put down all the activity to the fact I had been told of its background and perhaps I was imagining things, but the longer I had the painting the more convinced I became that there is something paranormal about it. It has been suggested that because he used his own blood in the oils it could be the restless spirit of the artist but a few people have told me that it may be much more sinister than that, they told me that it could be some sort of demon. At first I was a little disturbed by the activity but I always felt there was nothing malicious or evil about it but since my son’s ‘fall’ down the stairs I’m not too sure. If the painting is indeed ‘haunted’ then is the ‘spirit’ trying to communicate with us, trying to tell us something? I have been advised at various times to burn the painting or even bury it, then I have been told not to burn it because if I burn it and it is some sort of gateway then I would be just sealing whatever has come through into our reality and that could make matters much worse. I have also been told to have it blessed or even exorcised. I do know now, however, that I don’t want to destroy it. I have asked my family if they know anything about the painting but nobody knows anything about it. All I have to go on is what was passed on to my Grandmother and in turn was passed on to me. Hopefully I will eventually find out the artist’s name and then I will be able to research the validity of its back story. I have tried to remain objective and look at the events rationally but I have no explanation for some of the things I have experienced." http://weekinweird.com/2012/11/27/mail-bag-torturous-cries-the-anguished-man/ More info on the painting: https://www.facebook.com/theanguishedman/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRQSWgYNqvI
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Gamma Nerd posted:I think Kazuo Umezu belongs on the top of the "crazy mangaka" list. Fourteen is seriously the most mesmerizingly, painfully weird thing I've read. It's like a fever dream that never ends, just gets worse and worse. Holy poo poo this guy goes from bad into so-bad-it's-good caagory. He's like a manga Fletcher Hanks in his amateurly bad honesty. I mean, look at this:  The overly intense eyes, the hysterical dialogue, the giant chunky bodies on the adults, the overuse of copying the same character from he same direction, the general level of screaming anxiety that wavers between funny and uncomfortable... Hanks has been reborn, guys.
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Mar 30, 2016 06:16
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This man loves his zoom:   sfx: blamTruth:  EDIT: Sweet Zombie Jesus every page is gold Mr.Chill has a new favorite as of 06:58 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Mar 30, 2016 06:55
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Cumslut1895 posted:that does not sound like a particularly nice fish environment. Performance artists have a notoriously poor track record when to comes to responsible animal care.
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Mar 30, 2016 13:08
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DandyLion posted:Guillermo Del Torro's "George Washington Carver" Biopic lookin good I refuse to pretend that this makes sense. I don't know the history behind this painting but it's haunting and I love it.
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Apr 14, 2016 09:37
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joat mon posted:He's grown a third arm. Does that count? Nah man he's just got a cuddle buddy 
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Apr 25, 2016 21:20
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Lime Tonics posted:This guy has 207 videos of just sitting and smiling for 4 hours. Here's an interview with the dude: http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-man-whos-filming-himself-sitting-and-smiling-for-four-hours-a-day-121 quote:I guess I just don't really understand. Is it performance art?
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May 17, 2016 22:13
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I'm struggling to remember the details since I haven't heard the story since I was like 6, but I'm pretty sure this is based on an old Russo-Slavic story about a talking cat. He was tethered to a tree by a golden chain, and when he was on one side of the chain he would sing, and on the other side he would tell stories. An exiled Russian princess gets washed up on his island, and he tells her a bunch of stories -- amongst them is the story of the Firebird, which iirc had something about a blonde brother and a dark-haired brother, and one killed the other in his greed to own the bird? Wow, thank you for this! I'll look into it!
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scumby posted:Spiders be nothing but the toys of ghosts I think I stared at this thing for a good five minutes. It's a perfect snapshot of the absolutely uncanny weirdness of the era. "Nid and Nod trifle with The Evil Eye". You can't make that poo poo up.
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Oof, i hate how you can see a guy outside the window at the 45 second mark.
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