Everyone has something to say about someone else getting a tattoo. In a recent “Ask A Lady” on the Hairpin, the question was: “I’m about to turn 18 and want to get a tattoo of some writing on my shoulder. Should I?” Continue reading
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Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world. Continue reading
Today’s installment in our series on abandoned places takes us to macabre sites and the sociopaths who once inhabited them. Find a puppy to hug. Continue reading
On Thursday, August 30, Viking Press will publish Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
Based in Taipei, Taiwan, Illustrator Hsiao-Ron Cheng was born in 1986. Using pencils, oils, mixed media and digital, she manages to pack an entire fairy tale into a single picture with that perfect balance of creepy, cute and curious.
“My work allides to the deformation that physically separates human from plants and animals. The environment and situations that I paint are often of surrealist nature, remniscent of school, and partly based on phantasy. My aim is to create more complex worlds with more complicated stories with childlike and cruel creatures, showing different kinds of the fragile and oppressive anima in life.” Continue reading
Most people are probably familiar with Stephen King’s novel Carrie, or at least the movie based on the same story. But did you know that in the 1980s it was turned into a Broadway musical? Yeah, exactly. There’s a reason why you haven’t heard of it. Continue reading
Uda Dennie – Calm Nature – 2012
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Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world.
Jody MacDonald – Rajan – 2010
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“The Wild Party” has had a long history of being both controversial and being ignored. It was originally penned as an epic poem by Joseph Moncure March and was promptly banned for being too sexual. Continue reading