spirits of the dead

I've done some restructuring of this website...

Things are changing. It is exciting. So for now, I've put everything old in the archives. These little previews of Stinko Blotto are also now silent. I'll be adding other mini movies to the archives as well--and--what else. Oh I dunno. I hate doing an "about" page so I've just left it blank for now-- I'll get around to it one of these days...

"Ectoplasm is cosmic goo"

I've been reading up on ectoplasm and found this great essay in the Cabinet Magazine archives. An excerpt:

Ectoplasm is shapeless, it is "informe," a kind of primordial paste—and to show itself as this, it annexes semiotic markers that designate intermediate spirit worlds. When looking at these fluid, inchoate forms, sometimes imprinted with a face, it is worth recalling that the word larva, used in English for the early stage of a caterpillar, meant "ghost" or "specter" in Latin, but is also used by Horace to designate a mask, such as might frighten an observer, while the verb larvo meant "to bewitch" or "enchant." Ectoplasmic masks are indeed larval: they promise the emergence of forms, but don't deliver them.

Yes yes, very interesting.