Creating from Nightmare: H.R. Giger’s Biomechanics and Alien
The arts attempt to convey visions and concepts from one mind to another. Is there value in translating nightmare? A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, and …
Rooted in Loneliness: Thoughts on Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn
Art, like life, relies on communication. What happens when empathy fails and we are struck by how unintelligible we are? Sometimes it seems that the only thing we can share …
Dracula’s Nemesis?: Night of the Vampire by Alê Camargo
This is an amusing short by filmmaker and animator Alê Camargo. It features a vampire in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, who is having an exceptionally bad night. A predator more …
Quote for Today: Charles Kingsley
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds …
Quote for Today: Werner Herzog
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. ― Werner Herzog