BARBELITH underground
 

Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.


haunted picture (yerright)

 
 
Mordant Carnival
20:33 / 08.08.01
Not sure if the Art and Design department is the right place to ask, but does anyone know where I can get a poster of the "EBay Haunted Picture?" (look here http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?once=true&site=http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/haunted_painting.html if you don't know what I'm on about)

I'm not after some ten grand limited edition thang, just a nice shiny poster I can hang on my wall.

Ta!
 
 
Ellis
20:38 / 08.08.01
It does look bloody spooky!





[ 08-08-2001: Message edited by: Ellis ]
 
 
Spatula Clarke
08:29 / 09.08.01
This thing actually invaded one of my dreams last night.

Doesn't necessarily mean anything, though. I also had a dream about dressing up in a white PVC cowboy costume and talking to Clint Eastwood and Ian McKellen while Scott Walker sang 'My Death' in the background.
 
 
Jamieon
08:41 / 09.08.01
How old is this thing?

I remember stories, from when I must of been about ten years old, about a haunted painting depicting a boy and a girl standing in a black doorway.....

Used to scare the shit out've me.
 
 
Dee Vapr
12:31 / 09.08.01
I hope you're all satisfied. I couldn't sleep, doped up to f**k because of back pain, unable to sleep last night, and the idea of this thing haunting my every move.

And then... at about 3am, A SIMULCRA OF THE DOLL'S FACE APPEARED ON MY BEDROOM WALL.

Obviously a hallucination brought on by sleep-deprivation, but still... shit.

 
 
Enamon
15:14 / 09.08.01
We should do something like this. Make a painting or a picture, inflict it with magick and Od residue (if Od really does exist. I'm up for experiments) and may be we can use it for something. Someone's proposed making a Barbelith temple. Well we can use postcards with the picture as a gate. I can probably draw a rough fucking rough sketch of it all but it's better to be painted still I'll try and try to get my hands on a working scanner...
 
 
Mordant Carnival
16:06 / 09.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Enamon:
We should do something like this. Make a painting or a picture, inflict it with magick and Od residue (if Od really does exist. I'm up for experiments) and may be we can use it for something. Someone's proposed making a Barbelith temple. Well we can use postcards with the picture as a gate. I can probably draw a rough fucking rough sketch of it all but it's better to be painted still I'll try and try to get my hands on a working scanner...



Yeah, I was thinking along the same sort of lines. I don't think the picture is in any way special exept that it seems to get a big fat -flavoured reaction from most ppl, but that in itself is a useful attribute. Maybe we should pop back over to the Magick and start a new thread. Anyone?
 
 
z3r0
16:22 / 09.08.01
You know you guys are really too sensitive don't you? I mean, just because it's bad art doesn't it mean you have to have nightmares about it...
 
 
Enamon
16:49 / 09.08.01
Well I had a cool dream this night. It had nothing to do with the painting. None the less it was a cool dream.

 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:39 / 09.08.01
Mine was pretty funky, too. Like a bad 60's action/spy flick.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
20:22 / 09.08.01
Hmm. Mine was more of a 1950's, science fiction-y thing.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
20:23 / 09.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Dee Vapr:
I hope you're all satisfied. I couldn't sleep, doped up to f**k because of back pain, unable to sleep last night, and the idea of this thing haunting my every move.

And then... at about 3am, A SIMULCRA OF THE DOLL'S FACE APPEARED ON MY BEDROOM WALL.

Obviously a hallucination brought on by sleep-deprivation, but still... shit.



Ooops. Sorry.
 
 
Dee Vapr
09:35 / 10.08.01
s'alright. Let's hope there's no ghostly wall faces tonight tho
 
 
Saveloy
09:35 / 10.08.01
Does anyone know the actual story behind this, then? How does this haunting of paintings business work?

I had a remarkably vivid, disturbing dream last night too. Involved someone who was meant to be my wife but who actually looked bugger all like her. There's a spooky idea - imagine a painting that causes all viewers to dream of the same person, a ghost that 'lives' through dreams. Did anyone else dream of a chubby woman with tons of black hair?
 
 
mondo a-go-go
11:10 / 10.08.01
since we're talking about dreams, last night i dreamed i was hanging out with betty woo.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
16:05 / 10.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Saveloy:
Does anyone know the actual story behind this, then?


Erm, I think we can guess:

"Darling! I'm home! Look what I found round the back of the brewery- a slightly creepy surrelist painting of uncertain provenance!"

"Fantastic, love, but I'm not really sure it goes with the curtains."

"Oh, no problem. I'm sure I can get a bob or two for it down the junk shop."

"No, wait. I've got a better idea. Let's punt it out on EBay with a disclaimer saying that it isn't haunted, none of the figures come to life, the room most certainly didn't smell like gunpowder, we only want our house blessed as a general precaution, and by-the-by, don't purchase this if you've got a dicky ticker."

"Super! Here, let me stand it in front of this lamp so it looks like the picture's glowing, and we'll take a snapshot."

"Sure... hey, now the windowframe by the doll's hand looks like a gun. Let's crop the picture so it looks like the boy is trying to get out of the frame."

"Cool! That ought to do it!"

High fives all round.
 
 
Logos
12:35 / 16.08.01
*Laughter*

"If you buy the painting now, you get a free Frogurt"
"That's good!"
"The Frogurt is also cursed."
"That's bad"
"However, it comes with free sprinkles."
"Ooh, that's good."
"The sprinkles contain sodium benzoate."
"..."
"That's bad."

</Simpson's reference>

Speaking of really creepy paintings, has anyone seen the one of the girl's face with the bulgy eyes against the black background? It looks a lot like one of the early Billy Joel album covers (Piano Man), but is creepy enough to give you the howling fantods.

(This post is trying to escape the frame. Under threat.)



[ 16-08-2001: Message edited by: Logos ]
 
 
higuita
13:36 / 16.08.01
Billy Joel?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Now I'm really going to have nightmares.
 
 
Logos
15:56 / 16.08.01
The picture that I'm talking about looks a lot like the album cover above, if you turned Billy into a teenage girl, drowned him, and removed his eyelids.

Some deeply disturbed person made about a zillion photocopies of this thing and stuck them all over campus my freshman year. For years afterwards, you'd find them staring up at you from the inside of file drawers, under church pews, behind register gratings, in mailboxes. The weird part was, it never lost its punch. People got the wiggins from the picture once, or a dozen times.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
17:09 / 16.08.01
Logos: Wiggins-inducing as said pic may be, nothing is scarier than Billy Joel.

And now I've got bastarding "Just the way you are" running thru my head.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
12:19 / 02.09.01
weirdest thing about this picture - which is titled 'the hands resist him', by the way - is that the little scowling boy looks uncannily like a young timothy mcveigh.
 
 
rizla mission
10:05 / 03.09.01
This reminds me slightly of my favourite painting ever, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning.

You can find it tucked away in the corner of the Surrealist's room in the Tate.

It's fucking freaky and never fails to fascinate.
 
 
Saveloy
10:50 / 03.09.01
Spot on, fella. Here it is.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:36 / 16.01.02
http://www.tvgohome.com/3011-2001.html

Heh.
 
 
Bear
20:26 / 16.01.02
You know the thing that freaks me out the most about that painting the boy looks very very like me at that age....
 
 
Not Here Still
17:24 / 17.01.02
Not yet, Timothy....
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
20:30 / 17.01.02
I've often thought about writing a novel like this (viz. hyping and promoting it to such a point where people can't but help to go for it. If you do it well enough, the work doesn't have to be particularly great, people will just fill in the blanks for you). Looks like the same thing here, to me. But....I don't know.....there *is* something about it........<end transmission in series of blood-curdling screams>
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:18 / 18.01.02
...and y'know what? I still can't get a poster of the spooky pic, dammit.

Looks like I've spotted a niche in the market...
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
18:31 / 18.01.02
Here's another spooky picture. if you look at it for long enough it will slowly begin to change.

Spooky Picture 2.1
 
 
Ierne
19:03 / 18.01.02
Aw, that cracked me up!!!! (slightly embarrassing at the office though...again)
 
 
Fra Dolcino
21:59 / 18.01.02
FUCK ME, WISDOM!

I'm at work on Sautrday on the 7th floor of a building that's empty, and that just scared me shitless!

I'm going home now, 'cos I can hear noises....
 
 
rizla mission
13:12 / 19.01.02
heavens, that scared the living daylights out of me..

..in a kind of annoying 'aw, I thought it was a real scary picture and was wondering what that octopus-like thing on the floor was until that happened' kind of way.
 
 
John Adlin
21:48 / 19.01.02
Jeezus Christ, I nearly jumped out of my skin.

BRILLAINT!!
 
 
The Natural Way
13:01 / 21.01.02
You! Evil! CAAAAHUNT!
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
13:18 / 21.01.02
I'll take all of these as compliments.

Not that I made the thing but it's nice to be able to catch people out nicely.
 
  
Add Your Reply