Dreams and Nightmares
The Seagram’s Nightmare
Does this bout of insane tedious bickering make you want to purchase Seagram's liquor?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 23, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Dreams and Nightmares, 1970s, Alcohol
Abe Lincoln’s Ghost
Don't go mistaking any old tall ghost for Lincoln.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 16, 2014 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Politics, Superstition, 1980s, Nineteenth Century
Little Nemo in Slumberland
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Surely one of the most enjoyably odd of the classic newspaper comic strips was Winsor McCay's famous LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND.
Many of the strips are finally available online at this site.
Of course, if you desire glorious hardcopy, there are plenty of books too.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 02, 2013 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Surrealism, Children, Books, 1900s, 1910s
Pussy Katnip
Gaze upon the horrific, accursed thing that is Pussy Katnip, and tremble in fear.
And what the hell is going on with these "doggy style" pals of hers?
I am unable to learn anything about the genius of "Len Short," her creator. If any WU-vie can help, please do not hesitate.
Original comic here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 26, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Dreams and Nightmares, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Horror, Comics, 1940s
Charley in New Town
Once upon a time, the suburbs were going to be utopia.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 21, 2013 -
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Category: Domestic, Dreams and Nightmares, Government, Urban Life, Utopias and Dystopias, 1940s, Europe
Stratos Fear
A cartoon that surely must have produced many nightmares in its day. I'm certain there was much psychosexual damage done when the sexy woman revealed her true identity.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 10, 2013 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Surrealism, Science Fiction, Cartoons, 1930s
REMEE: Lucid Dreaming Device
Remee: The REM Enhancing Eyemask from Bitbanger Labs on Vimeo.
A mere $95.00 here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 26, 2013 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Technology
Tales of Dark: Of Grandiose Fevers and Passion Arcane
If H. P. Lovecraft were alive today, sixteen years old and a Goth, this is the song he would have written. The only things missing are the word "eldritch" and some tentacles.
More on the band here.
Reach the ancient heart of the stygian obscurity
Wherein all the names of mine are written
In pits profound,where festered dreams sigh
And longings scorched seek reason to return.
Admire the flame flowered mansions arcane
The sulfurous secrets gowned in rapture profane
Fear not the fire of all-knowing wisdom
Furiously burning with such ravishing splendour.
On the wings of my most fervent passion
Which the fools dare name blasfemia
To thee I have returned from the heart-dead sunworms domain
A coffin-shaped lair they have woven around me
For I've pledged no allegiance
To their fabulous sacred theories
Those spurious servants of a crownless king
Who holds their cross in vain.
No Phoenix phenomenon shall their fall contain!
Leave their carcasses scattered and slain!
And now I'm visualised
To blind-faithed eyes
Lofty and proud, to be recognized.
As the mourning-scented bloodstorm winds
Of their final downfall blow
Like a nightclad werewolf upon the moonlit glade
I shall hunt them down in the snow.
...and the frostbitten ground
now consumes their wretched gore
My victorious hiss fulfills the oceans ethereal
And the stars gleam nameless above
As shadows call forth the seas of Cthulhu
Be wide awake my dearest
Of my fiery necromantic kiss!
Thine arms soothing around me enfold
To cease my yearning cursed
The sweetest witchcraft thy lips do hold
Can only quench my thirst.
'Neath the enchantingly blazing corona of night
drown thy desire into mine!
With all the senses cast to a feverous grandeur
In the sins of the flesh we entwine.
Eternally...We entwine...
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 23, 2012 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Dreams and Nightmares, Evil, Goths, Music, Noises and Other Public Disturbances of the Peace, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Your Brain on Mescaline
In the early 1950s, German photographer Leif Geiges created a series of abstract images in order to try to portray "exactly what the mescaline subject sees and hears during the course of his artificial psychosis" — as Newsweek put it, which ran his images in its Feb 23, 1953 issue. This was before mescaline was made illegal, back when psychiatrists still believed that the experience of taking mescaline approximated the mental state of a schizophrenic and therefore could be of great experimental value.As for the mescaline imagery itself, Newsweek explained:
"Wallpaper patterns come to life, change to demoniac caricatures, threaten immediate destruction"
More in extended >>
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 18, 2012 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Drugs, Psychedelic, Photography and Photographers, Science, 1950s, Brain, Mental Health and Insanity
Jack’s Dream
Until recently, I was not aware that the famous surrealist collage artist Joseph Cornell also made films. Here's one delightfully weird sample. Many more on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 08, 2012 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Movies, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Myths and Fairytales, Fictional Monsters
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