Corpse Paint

By Francesca “Bunny” Williams.
Buy a print over at ETSY.

(Thanks Yon)

Ghana Movie Posters

I know that Ghana movie poster paintings have made their way around the net, but the collection at ephemera assemblyman is awesome.

Check them out here.

Large Denominations

(via Wikipedia)

I had no idea that these American bill denominations ever existed:

* $500: William McKinley, equal to $6,220 today
* $1,000: Grover Cleveland, equal to $12,440.55 today
* $5,000: James Madison, equal to $62,202.73 today
* $10,000: Salmon P. Chase, equal to $124,405.46 today
* $100,000: Woodrow Wilson, equal to $1,591,521.2 today

Check out the full entry here.

Anthony Yankovic III

Catch up with artist Anthony Yankovic III over at his site.
He just posted some new board designs for Embassy Board Shop.

Danzo

Dan Olsen, showing you how it’s done. Check out his awesomeness here.

The Nightmare Continues

Live footage of and interviews with Discharge from 1983.

Beautiful Decay

The new issue of Beautiful Decay arrived in my mail box today. The magazine has been revamped into more of a triannual book format and this is the first issue. This issue’s cover features a one-of-a-kind hand drawn piece by Kyle Thomas.

The new format features:

-No traditional advertising
-164 pages of pure, unfiltered content
-In depth, full color features, articles and interviews
-Limited edition format of only 1,500 copies—each one hand numbered
-Each issue includes a limited edition sticker designed by one of the issue’s featured artists
-French flaps, multiple printing processes within
-Releases 3 times a year (once every four months)

Support a great publication by signing up for a subscription here.

Who said print was dead?

YHWH

Mark Ryden’s first vinyl figure, YHWH, is officially for sale.
Pick it up through Porterhouse.

From Porterhouse:

YHWH is a vinyl figure created in conjunction with Necessaries Toy Foundation after the central figure in Mark’s painting of the same name. In production for more than a year, the figure is cast in pink vinyl with inset, high-quality eyes and comes in an elaborately designed, gold embossed box.

As a bonus, when YHWH is purchased through Porterhouse, a special limited edition, numbered mini-print will be included with your order.

Although I’m a big fan of Mark Ryden, I’m pretty disappointed with the aesthetic and subject matter of this figure. Hopefully he’ll come through with something stronger next time.

Dissection

My copy of Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 came in the mail today and it is fantastic. It spans personal interests from the macabre to scientific/medical research to post-mortem photography.

Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930

From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, Dissection reveals a startling piece of American history.

Published by Blast Books and available at Amazon now.

Waxworks

Pathological wax models on display at the Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina in Mexico City.

(Via BoingBoing)