Doc from Back to the Future, Watch Out!

The art of Chris Mars is very creepy, and very, very, very good. I'm at school, and I kept thinking I was going to freak people out by looking at stuff like this guy does. It's very twisted, macabre, horror comic stuff. Brilliant.

I didn't know which image to use to lure you into his site, so you'll just have to take the initiative to visit the site and see it all for yourself. I particularly enjoy the scratchboard section.

NOTE: Lovely, grotesque horror images; use common sense when viewing in public.


Exchanging recipes in Pipe Town, depicted at right.

Other favorites:
Aftermath Monument
Bottle Town of New Myths
Church of Bob
Clyde Below the Mumphrey
Dull and Groggy
Extractions in the Suicide Ward
Forgotten Town
Gear Graphic
Instruction from Engine Vowel Phonics
Receiving Indoctrination Immunity
Sleeper's Wake
Tempest
Transmigration

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If more beautiful (yet still, mind you, a bit creepy) things are your style, why not delve into the artwork of Jessica Joslin? She obtains any bones she uses through the same places museum exhibitions get theirs from. However, Ms. Joslin makes creations that are like large pieces from music boxes.


These are real bones, so steer clear if that'll creep you out or something. I find her art to be gorgeous. Maybe that's what I'll have my cat turned into when she dies in, like, ten years.

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Okay, whoa. Found this site completely by accident. I. Love. Clocks. Ever since my parents took me into a gift shop when I was about five, they've fascinated me (they were getting me a Fraggle Rock stuffed animal, but the place had a lot of clocks). Clocks are gorgeous and, in my opinion, the more mechanical and ancient-looking, the better.


Well, these are just about the coolest clocks I have ever seen. I mean, seriously. You know you want this Elton John meets Liberace meets Las Vegas Elvis work of tacky. :)

I kept expecting to see a clock put into an old telephone, you know...the kind the mom in Lassie had? Put a clock in one of those, jazz it up, make it look awesome, and I'll pay $2000.00 for it. GLADLY.

Anyway, the site is Klockwerks.com, and it makes me feel like I'm in Doc's workshop in Back to the Future.

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I'm not sure, but I think this Andrew Smith fellow may be the guy who created the rolling ball sculpture at OMSI. His site's in flash, so I can't direct-link to what I want to show you, but go to his "NEW WORKS," then click on "Bubbler #1". I. Want. That. And the thing that is similar to the OMSI piece is found at "ROLLING BALL", then "Grandfather Time," only without the clock.

I also want the tornado machine, found at "KINETIC," and then "Tornado II". That guy is amazing. All this stuff that's futuristic, yet looks like it's from old science fiction movies. AMAZING.

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I end with this lovely collection of wallpapers featuring old, antiquated machinery, gadgets, and gizmos.

Oooo, purdy.