Brace yourselves, folks. I’m about to post something exceptionally rare for this blog: neon colors. Zim and Zou have won me over with their outrageously skillful paper sculptures.
This color scheme actually reminds me of my wardrobe as a child of the 80′s…before I wore more dark apparel than any human reasonably should.
And speaking of the 80′s, be sure to explore the closeups in Back to Basics to remember our prized devices of yesteryear.
Emily Bawn does a killer (pun intended) job on this zombie bridal shower invitation:
Look at the classy yet spunky macabre detail! Emily says: “I wanted to have the feeling of formal grace at a first glance, but then upon closer inspection a transformation from elegance to the grotesque with the details of body parts and the macabre.”
Even though this was done for a bridal shower, zombie invitations are surely great for all kinds of non-wedding related events.
Check out the happy couple:
There is not a single design by The 1900 Letter that I don’t want to order.
Dark, classy, Victorian style hand crafted stationary items…with just the right amount of osteological, entomological and zoological flair.
Items are custom monogrammed.
I bet The 1900 Letter could make some incredible invitations for autumn or winter weddings (I realize statements like this pretty much ensure that I will grow old alone in the company of cats, but still…).
See the collection here.
The wonderful Dudecraft brought my attention to these phenomenal book sculptures by Hokey Stokes.
Such intricate, beautiful work…
I would love to have one of these as an office decoration.
Crafty Pagan’s Etsy site is filled with vintage style tags, complete with faux aged appearance.
This is my favorite…the dare.
I love the “directions” on the bottom of this label.
See more here
Let’s start with a few old fashioned hairstyling devices…
You’re never too young to start paying a miserable price for beauty.
Lovely illusion…
This enticing image was a recent Suicide Food entry:
Precursor to the gold mine of sports drinks:
Although it was technically on Cake Wrecks, I think this cake is pretty great:
And for some reason this piece appeals to me.
So do these:
Party hat for the cephalopd inclined?
I would very much like to have this product by my bathtub:
Amazing.
Great new mandala designs by Shepard Fairey:
“Rats off to ya!”
Don’t you feel better, now that the anatomy has been explained? (I think I found this on Monster Brains…not sure)
Let’s put 20 seconds on the clock and see how many things we can find wrong with this picture. Okay…20 minutes…
Here’s something to get your mind off the Cabbage Patch dolls:
Halloween Countdown starts tomorrow so give me a hand with suggestions (*groooooan*)…
This image arrived in some spam email (yes, I actually got spam about paper sculptures from an unknown source with no image credits).
I don’t have an artist to credit, but I love it. Far superior to junk mail about my supposed inheritances from foreign princes and medications to magically grow sexual organs.
I love paper. I love things made of paper. Hard copy books, letters, postcards, origami…you name it.
Here’s a site for my fellow anachronistic lovers of pressed tree pulp: Telegram Stop.
Once upon a time, telegrams were the only means of transmitting written messages over distance without physically transporting letters. Most kids today will probably never even learn the history of telegraphy.
Send your own from here.
