Hieronymus Bosch Papercraft

The website Glue² chronicle has some lovely creepy/beautiful papercrafts for all you crafters out there. (Also good for scene designers needing a break from yet another white model.)

http://guru2.karakasa.com/Hieronymus%20Bosch_menu_e.html

If you're interested in creepy/beautiful and don't know Hieronymus Bosch I strongly urge you to head to your local library and check out a book of his works. If your library doesn't have any Bosch available, shame on them. But you, beloved reader, can start at this Wikipedia article and work out from there. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" is required viewing and also the inspiration for some of the papercraft works.

The fish-bug-tower thing from "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (above) is probably my favorite of the bunch, though.

Creepy, Yet Beautiful

This is the post in which I'm going to try to explain what I think I'm doing here. Over the past few weeks I've been thinking about and exploring an aesthetic I've taken to calling creepy/beautiful. The problem is, I'm having a really hard time expressing to others what, exactly, the creepy/beautiful aesthetic is.

So, the purpose of this blog is to serve as a repository of things I find online and elsewhere that seem to fit my idea of creepy/beautiful.

Hopefully, others will join in with comments, links, and suggestions of things that fit their own idea of what creepy/beautiful is. If not, well at least I'll have a site where I can dump all of my ideas.

Some possible definitions I've gathered so far. Creepy/beautiful:

• is the soundtrack to that dream that sticks with you all the way through your morning shower.
• captures the emotions felt when sitting alone at a window in your house in dim lighting, watching a thunderstorm and drinking a glass of wine.
• is what you listen to on your way home from the party...at dawn.
  

These are all attempts to describe creepy/beautiful music, but they at least start to get at the emotional content of the aesthetic. I'll post more as I get them or, more likely, come up with them on my own.

(photo: cover art from the Dead Can Dance album, "In the Realm of the Dying Sun.")