blarg

delta 1

2008-07-30T00:01:00.001-04:00

The New Television Workshop at WGBH supported the creation and broadcast of experimental works by artists. One of their projects was the Music Image Workshop, which was primarily a project of Ron Hays, who used the Paik-Abe videosynthesizer to create elaborate visual scores set to music.

this is H O T

critters buggin

2008-05-08T23:35:00.002-04:00

ew. this gives me "tingles", "douche chills", etc. etc. is it the music or the claymation? possibly a potent combination of the two. yecccccccch.

xylophone of bones

2008-03-30T14:06:00.004-04:00

Spook Sport by Norman McLaren.

Program Note: "The story suggested here is that at the bewitching hour of midnight, spooks and ghosts arise from their graves to cavort about and make merry."

I love that the Cast of Characters includes Sun, Place and Time. The colors are unexpectedly nice too.

free love, bathtub gin...

2008-01-10T12:28:00.000-05:00

How great are these titles? I'd forgotten how totally kaleidoscopicical they were! Also, here's the "stinko blotto" clip. I must be a gay man because I love Rosalind Russell.

the munchers

2008-01-10T11:16:00.000-05:00

Screenshots from The Munchers. Isn't the tooth decay guy cute? I'm a sucker for cute villains. The curvy slice of bacon is pretty cute too.

little ghost

2007-12-28T18:17:00.000-05:00

"Known as "Petit Fantome" (Little Ghost), this agate belonged to the philosopher, writer, and Surrealist Roger Caillois, who made a collection of such images, the spontaneous work of Natura Pictrix."

I'm slowly working my way through Phantasmagoria, by Marina Warner which is where this image of Petit Fantome is taken from.

snif swig puff

2007-12-18T11:53:00.000-05:00

holy cats this is weird. thank you dhoul for the link.

fire spirit

2007-12-14T14:00:00.000-05:00

this gun club album used to be the only thing that could get me out of bed in the morning. look how cute JLP is when he smiles. also: hot goth girls at 2:20.

i hate you alice b toklas

2007-12-12T14:04:00.000-05:00

Here's the recipe for hashish fudge direct from the Alice B Toklas cookbook.

Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties.... It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.

I watched I Love You Alice B. Toklas last summer and regretted it immediately. I hate Peter Sellers. I hate hippies. I hated this movie. This scene is all you really need to watch anyway.

Ewa Bibanska

2007-12-08T10:23:00.000-05:00

the soundtrack to this is insane but the visuals are great. i love the colors too.

spirits of the dead

2007-10-10T21:52:00.000-04:00

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"

2007-10-09T21:48:00.000-04:00

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.

oooga

2007-09-28T19:28:00.000-04:00

Lately everything I find appealing straddles that thin line between spooky and silly.

stanley mouse

2007-09-11T19:56:00.000-04:00

I've been meaning to post these Dead posters...all of the artwork is by Stanley Mouse.

This one's from the sketches section on his website.

martha glampire

2007-09-11T19:17:00.000-04:00

Siouxsie?

Martha.

ghosted

2007-09-10T20:29:00.000-04:00

a ghost that wears lipstick...is my kind of ghost

cute witches

2007-09-10T18:04:00.000-04:00

halloween is on the horizon and more witches are coming out to play. i've been searching out these cute-ugly witches on ebay.

more blotto

2007-08-27T09:55:00.000-04:00

fried eggs in bentos! cute.

Loco Moco

2007-08-24T12:59:00.000-04:00

Loco Moco: savory, L&L hawaiian barbecue hamburger patties placed over rice, covered with brown gravy and topped with 2 eggs. Served island style...a local favorite! I'm so chuffed...the only L+L on the East coast is a few blocks from my apartment.

harry smith

2007-08-20T10:10:00.000-04:00

i LOVE this. if you watch it, its best with the volume turned off.

skate witches

2007-08-15T12:43:00.000-04:00

A gang of skate witches and their pet rats circa the mid-80s. My friend Andrew sent this to me and I had to share.

drugsssss

2007-07-20T12:18:00.000-04:00

this is your brain, blotto

laughing sal

2007-07-18T13:19:00.000-04:00

This is my favorite Sally Cruikshank--be sure to look for the ghost pipes and the tap-dancing Tut. So awesome it makes my brain explode.

heaven and earth magic

2007-07-17T21:49:00.000-04:00

harry smith + sally cruikshank = <3 <3 <3

thank you m for inviting me to see heaven and earth magic at anthology. amaaaaazing.

existential excrement

2007-07-12T13:10:00.000-04:00

consumerism at its best/worst