Scratch Art: A Collection of Scratchboard Art By Tattoo Artists, is finally available for purchase. This gorgeous hardcover book, brought to you by Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman’s Proton Press, collects scratch board art by tattoo artists from around the world. I’m thrilled to have a piece published in it, right next to Bob Tyrrell, who was teaching me to tattoo when I sumbitted the piece.

From Tattoonow.com:
Hyperspace Studios presents Scratch Art - A collection of scratchboard art by tattoo artists This impressive collection of scratchboart art comes from well over 150 talented tattoo artists including Filip Leu, Shige, Carson Hill, Dee Dee Sergua, Gabriel Cece, Jon Clue, Guy Aitchison, Jack Rudy, Dan Hazelton, Zsolt Sarkozi, Nick Baxter, Kim Reed, Kore Flatmo, Nikko Hurtado, Michele Wortman, Markus Lenhard, Don McDonald, Timothy Hoyer, Aaron Cain, Bugs, Cory Kruger, Larry Brogan, Anil Gupta, Marcus Pacheco, Durb Morrison, Tim Kern, Steve Morris, Nate Beavers, Bob Tyrrell, Joe Capobianco, James Kern, Miek Devries, Needles, and many many more! From Needled.com: One would never dream of calling the renowned Guy Aitchison a scratcher, a kitchen table tattoo hack. But he’s playing on the slur with a new project called Scratch Art, in collaboration with his wife Michele Wortman, explaining “We chose this medium as it parallels so much with aspects of tattooing. Like tattooing, it is an unforgiving medium that does not allow for erasing; we also chose this theme because of the irony of reference to ’scratch’ artists in tattooing. Amusingly, so many of us are far from scratch artists; this industry has grown artistically and the awareness of true artists in the tattoo field is undeniable.

Buy a copy today!

The New York Post has a story about Lloyd Kaufman picketing the Tribeca Film Festival, in full chicken costume, of course.

I guess the Fest really ruffled his feathers. Ahahahahahahahaha…

Full story here.

(Thanks, Alex)

Tonight is the night, my fiends! When the clock strikes 8, and the moon is out, the PIN-UP GHOULS will crawl up from their tombs and haunt The Gladstone Hotel for the evening!

A collection of 20 brand new horror pin-up girl illustrations by Rue Morgue graphic designer, Justin Erickson. Limited edition prints will be available for purchase. Also, only available at the show will be super limited edition hand-bound books collecting all 20 Pin-Up Ghouls, plus the extra concept drawings, and more!

The eerie event is presented by Rue Morgue Magazine and Daniloff Productions.

SEE!
20 new horror pin-up girl illustrations & The Real Undead Pin-Up Ghouls.

HEAR!
Terror Tunes by Rue Morgue Radio’s TOMB DRAGOMIR.

WIN!
A PIN-UP GHOUL based on your own likeness! (for the ladies)

And much more!

Vampires! Zombies! Ghosts, oh my! One night only! Don’t miss out, because once these Ghouls are buried, they won’t rise from the grave!

Friday, May 2nd at The Gladstone Hotel. Doors open at 8pm.

Official Sponsors:
Rue Morgue Magazine, The Gladstone Hotel, Daniloff Productions, Darkside, Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Jagermeister, Amsterdam Brewery, West End Offset, Praxis Gallery.”

“A Cell gets out, and it will IMITATE EVERYTHING on the face of the EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT!”

If you’re a fan of The Thing, you’ll appreciate 5 Cats That Look Like Wilford Brimley.

Too funny.

Arist Jason D’Aquino has informed me that one of his art pieces was stolen from the Carnivora show in Detroit. Let’s try to help him catch the degenerate who stole it. It’s disgusting anyone would even think of doing such a thing. Please repost this elsewhere.

Good on flickr user Poletti for taking the time to post screen grabs of every Hammer House of Horror hottie. There are dozens and dozens of classic Hammer beauties posted here, so you can plan your retro-gothic dream date today.

Boingboing posted the link, but I also noticed some of Poletti’s other sets tailor-made for horror geeks. For instance, one of fave bad movies (penned by Edward D. Wood Jr. and featuring Criswell), Orgy of the Dead (NSFW), gets some love.

Rue Morgue’s favourite outlaw artist Joe Coleman has an upcoming art exhibit titled “Devotio Moderno” at the Simon Dickinson Gallery in New York. The paintings will be shown alongside other Northern Primitive artists who have long inspired his art. The show runs May 2 - June 15, 2008.

Story via: boingboing.net

The Book of Revelations, 1999
Acrylic, fabric, paper, blood on panel
62.2 x 77.5 cm

I just discovered (via Cracked.com) a fun website called The Editing Room, where the painfully concise and witty Rod Hilton writes condensed and wonderfully acerbic versions of Hollywood screenplays. For example, he efficiently cuts to the heart of Rob Zombie’s Halloween.

A choice excerpt:

DAEG is taken to an INSANE ASYLUM where MALCOLM MCDOWELL interviews him.

DAEG FAERCH

Why do I have to stay here all the time?

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Because Rob Zombie seems to think that devoting half the movie to justifying your behavior will actually convince the audience that you’re a misunderstood hero rather than an evil villain.

DAEG FAERCH

I need to get out of this place, doctor.

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Why, because you’re only becoming more insane and detached from reality?

DAEG FAERCH

What? No, have you seen my masks? I’m auditioning to be in Slipknot and I don’t want to be late.

[I think you could also go with: What? No, I’m just running out of wall space for all these obvious papier mâchè metaphors.]

Read Rod’s whole rewrite here.

(I swiped the still from Bloody Disgusting, by the way)

The lovable sickos at Vagrancy Films, who provide the mad movie trailers of our CineMacabre nights, are screening a 35mm print of Fulci’s Zombie, this Saturday, 11pm at the Rainbow Galleria, in London Ontario. If you haven’t seen Zombie on 35mm with a theatre full of horror fans, you haven’t really lived… or un-lived.

And, if you’re in Toronto, you can catch their other Zombie screening on May 8th, 9:30pm at the Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Ave).

Keep on spreading the gospel, Vagrancy. Your place in zombie heaven is assured.

Don’t forget, it’s movie night tonight, and it’s a big one. For this month only we’re presenting CineMacabre on Wednesday so we can bring back (in 35mm) the slasher sensation from last year’s Midnight Madness program at TIFF, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s Inside. This may be the last time you’ll get to see it on the big screen, as it’s a direct-to-DVD title due to its excessive violent, gory content.

I knew this film was special went I sat at the back of the theatre during a press screening at last year’s TIFF. Most of the audience walked out as various tolerance levels for nastiness were exceeded. This really is one to see with a crowd of horror fans, and we’ve got a special surprise for you preceding the film, so hope to see you there.

And we mean it when we say those with weak stomachs or in the midst of a pregnancy may want to sit this one out. You’ve been warned.

Bloor at 9:30pm. More info here.

Instead of posting a trailer for Inside, here’s a segment from a French TV piece on it. It contains a minor spoiler, so be warned.