Vampire killing kits

Here's a gallery of vintage vampire killing kits... scaring!

Démoniak Serie X

Démoniak Serie X is a pubblication featuring french celebrities and politics involved into "insane cameos". There's also a blog about it called Les Actes de *Démoniak.

I Am Maru: The Book

...the famous internet cat has a new book out!
[Previously on... Maru at Unscathed Corpse]

The Empire of Death

The Empire of Death is a new disturbing but fascinating book about ossuaries and charnel houses; bone chapels and bone-encrusted sanctuaries; bone fetishism; veneration of the dead through direct contact with human remains. A must have!

Guy Bourdin's experimental films

quote [Guy Bourdin (1928-1991) was a French avant-garde fashion photographer. Mentored by surrealist Man Ray and inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel, Bourdin's fashion shoots were often very strange, sexual, phantasmagoric and occasionally quite creepy. His photography frequently appeared in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and he shot ad campaigns for Charles Jourdan, Issey Miyake, Chanel, and others. Bourdin was also quietly a filmmaker, working with 8mm, super 8, and 16mm. Above is footage of Dayle Haydon and Sayuko during a 1974 Vogue shoot in Normandy, France. More footage here on YouTube and here on UBUWEB Film. There's also a recent documentary, titled When the Sky Fell Down: The Myth of Guy Bourdin. And in July, Phaidon will publish a small inexpensive hardcover book of his work].
(via Boing Boing)

Maurycy Gomulicki: Bibliophilia

Bibliophilia at Flickr, Bibliophilia at Mocak Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków till 08.09.2011, Maurycy Gomulicki blog Pink not dead!.
quote [The entire project revolves around my grandfather, Juliusz Wiktor Gomulicki, and his book collection – the library of a humanist and a wayward spirit, an aficionado of curiosities and a ladies man. Books were truly the backdrop of my childhood – for the first six years of my life, I lived in a place floor-to-ceiling piled chockablock with books, often in double rows. For the next thirty-something, I was an almost daily visitor there,. I treat a library as a source and as a backdrop to let my imagination roam; as a place of manifold initiations. The smell of dust and the daydreaming about girls coexist perfectly in my consciousness. To this day, whenever I look at pornographic photographs with books in the background, I find myself deciphering the titles visible along the shelves, instead of concentrating on the ecstatically writhing bodies. Books are not only the knowledge contained therein – for me, they are above all a source of pleasure. The books and women in my life have become as much the triggers for my fantasies as the conduits of their fulfillment. My life story is full of women writers and women readers].

Wants to Use Magazine Imagery in Book

Dear Rich: I am writing a book about an art technique using a national magazine. I can illustrate the process using the magazine without actually showing any of it's actual images, (see picture) but I must use the name as it is the only magazine that will work with this process. I have contacted the company and so far no one has been able to help me. The other product that I use has given me permission and is going so far as to help me promote the book because it will help them. This would also be the case with the magazine. I will be adding value rather than compromising it. I will list them in my sources. Would this be considered fair use? Do I need to have their permission to use their name? This reminds us of when our cousin Andrew used to paste rubber cement on a piece of wood and then apply rubber cement to a magazine picture and press them together after they dried (and I think he ran water over it until the paper washed off). He ended up with a piece of wood with an image on it, except you could see the wood grain, too. Kind of an old-timey look. He priced them at $50 or $100. We were about 13 at the time and that seemed a lot to charge for something you made with rubber cement. He told me, "If you don't charge a lot, people won't take it seriously." He was so young to know that.
Right, you had a question. We think you will be fine using the name of your magazine within your book. That's a trademark issue not a copyright issue and editorial uses of trademarks -- for example, talking about a magazine in a how-to book -- does not require permission. A conservative approach would also be to add a disclaimer at the front of the book to the effect that you and your publisher have no association with the magazine and that all rights in the magazine vest in the magazine owner. If you use imagery from the magazine, you'll trigger copyright issues and probably need permission either from the magazine or, if the magazine doesn't own the rights, from the photographer or designer who created the materials you're using. We think selective uses of the magazine in the context of a crafts project would likely be excused as a fair use since it is clearly a transformative use, but as Dear Rich readers know, fair use is just another word for a lawsuit, because that's often the only way you can prove fair use rights. As for the fact that your book adds value to the magazine, that may or may not be true, but it probably won't have much effect on your claim of fair use.

Love like you hate me + book

Love me like you hate me, a short film directed by Erika Lust. Cast: Venus O’Hara. Production: Lust Films of Barcelona.
quote [This book provides a modern perspective on a variety of practices that may be considered taboo for many women: to be tied up oneself or to tie someone else up, role-play and dressing up, giving pain or receiving it, being a strict dominatrix or being a submissive slave, punishing our partner or being punished by them... explore with Venus O’Hara and Erika Lust the seductive thrills of domination or the fear and excitement of submission].
[Previously on... Erika Lust at Unscathed Corpse]

Ria van Dijk: in almost every picture

quote [In almost every picture #7 tells the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery. The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize].

3D Breasts in 3DD The Book

quote [It’s simply a great idea: a book of lovely, lovely breasts of all sizes, all beautifully photographed in 3D. The blog 3DD Breasts in 3D offers book purchase and ongoing samples, and does not disappoint, even if you don’t have the glasses].
(via tiny nibbles)

I'm Too Sad To Tell You

quote ["I'm Too Sad To Tell You (after Bas Jan Ader)" (by Jessica Williams) was originally conceived as a project to create an archive of self-portraits taken while crying. The images were to be displayed online on a website and then later made into a book. An open call was posted on the photo sharing community Flickr.com asking people to submit their crying self-portraits over the period of one month].

Hair'em Scare'em: book review

quote [Hair'em Scare'em presents an extraordinary exploration through the fascinating beauty and inventive possibilities of hair as a medium for artistic expression in contemporary art and design. The book documents this palpable trend into a visual sourcebook that presents a captivating collection of hairy works in graphic design, photography, illustration and art as well as interior design, fashion and jewelry design. The extraordinary works featured in this book are the best indication of trends in hair outside the mainstream].

Allen Ginsberg's photographs of the Beats

quote [From 1953 to 1963, poet Allen Ginsberg snapped thousands of candid photos of his friends, documenting the personal, intimate, and spirited lives of the writers and artists who created the major works of Beat culture. His images of Jack Kerouac (above), William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Peter Orlovsky, and others are now on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The exhibition, titled "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg", runs until September 16].
(via Boing Boing)
[Thumbnail: Jack Kerouac]

The Big Butt Book

LINK quote [The Big Butt Book explores this perennial fascination with female booty—from small and taut to large and sumptuous—in the fourth installment of Dian Hanson's critically acclaimed body parts series. Over 400 photos from 1900 to the present day, including works by Elmer Batters, Ellen von Unwerth, Jean-Paul Goude, Ralph Gibson, Richard Kern, Jan Saudek, Ed Fox, Terry Richardson and Sante D'Orazio, of butts ranging from petite Pam Anderson's to sumptuous Serena Williams', are contextualized by interviews with porn icon John (Buttman) Stagliano, filmmaker Tinto Brass, artist Robert Crumb, bootylicious butt queens Buffie The Body, Coco and Brazil's Watermelon Woman, plus Eve Howard and her life-long spanking obsession].

Carmenica Diaz: Elegant Adult Fiction

LINK quote [Carmenica Diaz is the Mistress of Fetish Fiction with over sixty novels published! Carmenica Diaz specialises in stories of female domination with a special emphasis on enforced male chastity, humiliation, cuckolding and other forms of FemDom literature. Carmenica Diaz has also written many classic transgender novels, mainly transgender romance, although Carmenica Diaz has published several forced femme novels in the Forced Into Stockings series].
[More about Femdom at Unscathed Corpse]