My urbex/rurex friends and I have started a blog entitled Shooting With Abandon. I contributed an article to it recently and thought I would share it with you. Keep you eye on the blog – I have some vastly talented friends!
Charles Krafft is an amazing artist who uses traditional ceramic techniques to create plates and sculptures that are truly of our time. His work commemorates such grim things as Hitler, Sal Mineo’s death, mob killings, and disasters. Obviously, I dream of having one of his pieces in the Castle DeSpair one day!
This is my favorite:
Here’s a sample of his brilliant work:
Thanks to Layna for the recommendation!
Alex CF creates amazingly realistic taxidermy “specimens” of mythical creatures. I’m sure you’ll love his work as much as I do. Have a gander! (Thanks to William Thirteen for the link.)
Here’s his Facebook page, for those so inclined:
It was such a dilemma for a daguerrotype photographer. Long exposures meant that the subjects needed to stay still while the image was captured, but kids are so damned squirmy. Solution: have the mother hold the kid… but hide her! Yeah, that’s the ticket! The creepy ticket!
Hidden Mother: Tintypes and Cabinets
Thanks to Katchaya for the link.
Did some urbex over the weekend and thought I’d share. Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois was founded in 1917 and closed in 1993. Hope you find the pics delightfully decrepit!
Here’s a lovely Tumblr blog for fans of morbid art and lovely women. And who isn’t?
Thanks to Z Constantine for the link.
Last Friday I took the day off work and had a marvelous time exploring the ruins of the modern ghost town of Gary, Indiana. I took shots with a variety of cameras, but as usual, the ones taken with my cheap plastic Holga turned out the creepiest. Naturally, I thought I’d share. These were taken at an abandoned church in the city. It’s a mesmerizing place.
Stumbled upon an excellent site today, chock full of amazing morbid trinkets! Dr. Morose and Miss Macabre are splendid artists and archivists of ghastly things. Their website is well worth a gander, as is their Etsy shop. Dark original paintings, obituary shadow boxes, poison bottles, macabre dolls, etc. – it’s a morbid trinket haven!
Dr. Morose & Miss Macabre’s House Of Oddities
Morose & Macabre’s Wicked Little Shop
