Most of the collection from the exhibit once belonged to William H. Koester (1888-1964), who lived in Baltimore and began collecting Poe items in the 1930s.

I just uploaded some shots from this past weekend’s OBSCURA event. Just click the image above to see more.

Tonight at The Trocadero Theatre is OBSCURA, which is the pre-party/meet and greet for tomorrow’s big alternative fashion show contest Catwalk Tragedy. I’ll be displaying some of my work along with other artists and photographers like Lithium Picnic, Kyle Cassidy and S. Jenx. There’s also various performances including Philly’s own Live Not On Evil and Mighty Mike Saga.

The art show will be up for both events but I will only be there for tonight’s portion of the two day event.

Behold! The Vaderatrix! Alluring yet frightening! Disturbing yet awesome! I mean come on, she (or he ’cause one never knows) even has the life-support doohickey and the utility belt. All that’s missing is the whip and a bottle of Astroglide. Once again this proves that geeks are some of the kinkiest freaks on this green rock.

I’m sure this picture has already made the rounds but hell, how can I not share something like this? I have no idea where the original photo comes from, so if you know let me know, but from the looks of it the shot was probably taken at a convention. Shocker I know.

Certainly puts a new twist to the famous Star Wars quote “And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base… “

And ’cause I’m a glutton for punishment, Sunday was the 4th annual Philly Zombie Crawl on South Street. My guess, and it’s just that, is that we had some 400 zombies wandering around South Street from bar to bar. All in all it was pretty successful. Being that I’m one of the organizer monkeys there was a lot going on for me. A fun time was had by all.

Sooo… Instead of going through all of the details of both events you can peruse all of the photographs I took this past weekend. Think of it as a gruesome picture book instead of me being a lazy bum.

Click the above shot to see the whole set of photos from the National Haunters Con.

Click the above shot to see the whole set of photos from the Philly Zombie Crawl.

Fellow blogger, geek and really good friend of mine Hugh Casey has a fantastic site for those who have a fine appreciation of sexy geeks. PrettyGeek.net features various photographs of geeks in nerdtastic outfits ranging from the infamous Princes Leia slave girl bikini to pirates. If it’s a part of geek culture it’s probably going to make its way onto this blog. There’s nothing naughty about this site and is all around work safe, which for some I guess is a bit of a let-down. But hey, naked geeks isn’t what PrettyGeek.net is about. It is in fact all about showing the masses that geeks aren’t all a bunch of unwashed, unkempt, uncouth, socially inept freaks that live in their parent’s basement. Many can be pretty damned swank -and- frigging hot.

I have no idea what the context of this photo is, but I just can’t stop laughing at it non the less. It looks like the monkey on the left is yelling “I said sit the hell down or I’m gonna beat the honky out of you!”

Source – Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Photographer bre pettis took a trip to the Technisches museum in Vienna. There he took a series of photographs of the “30 Ways to Die of Electrocution” exhibition. Now you’ll know at least 30 means of shocking yourself to death. And knowing is half the battle…

Source – Boing Boing

Keith Loutit is a wizard in tilt-shift and time-laps photography. Above is his newest video “Meal Heart” which documents a monster truck event in Australia.

And no, you’re not looking at miniatures. It’s an actual event with real people, cars, trucks and one flaming truckosaurus.

Source – Laughing Squid