Professional freelance artist.... Sculptor, Illustrator, Designer
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Dreams, Nightmares and Visceral Hallucinations, Anatomy (abnormal or otherwise), Organic Form, Paleontology , Pathology , Giant Centipedes, Butoh, Dicephalic Neonate Skeletons(deformed things in general), Skepticism- healthily fused with a violent sense of humor ,Vampire Squids(from Hell) ,VINYL KAIJU, Monsters in all their rich variety, Industrial music- before it's steep, long term degeneration into Disco, Cephalopods, ....That parasitic amphipod that swims into a fish's mouth, eats off it's tongue and then BECOMES it's tongue...Mechagodzilla...Mochi...
Scary Monsters...
Aphex Twin, Diamanda Galas, Einsturzende Neubauten, Coil( Jhon Balance R.I.P.),Aphex Twin, Big Black, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Suicide, The Residents, SWANS, Skinny Puppy, FOETUS, Ralph Records, Frank Zappa, Cocteau Twins, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bowie, Android Lust, Throbbing Gristle, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, TOOL, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fear, Sonic Youth, Lustmord, Sepultura, Wiseblood, Snakefinger, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sisters of Mercy, Kate Bush, Das Ich, Shreikback, Nina Hagen ,Gary Numan, Hendrix, The Cramps, I, Parasite, SPK, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus, Sephiroth, The Misfits, Boards of Canada, Godflesh, Oneiroid Psychosis, Laibach, Bjork, Venetian Snares, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Gabriel, Die Form, Olatunji's"Drums of Passion",The Birthday Party,
Eraserhead, Requiem for a Dream, Pan's Labyrinth, Ghost World, Delicatessen, Watership Down, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Old Boy, MirrorMask, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Uzumaki, Videodrome, Bladerunner, QUILLS, The Plague Dogs, Jacob's Ladder, Anything Ray Harryhausen put his indelible mark upon, the Alien movies, Watership Down, Reservoir Dogs, Ichi the Killer, Sally Cruikshank "Quasi and Anita" Cartoons, Vincent Price movies, Blade 2, The Wall, Brazil, Pi, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Throne of Blood, Taxi Driver, King Kong, Repo Man, City of Lost Children, Yellow Submarine, Spirited Away, Se7en, Hellboy, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, , Tetsuo, Bros. Quay Animation, KAIJU-EIGA, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory....I'm missing some obvious ones and this is by no means complete....for later!
Ren & Stimpy....
Crash- J.G. Ballard, Maldoror- Lautreamont, William S. Burroughs, William Gibson, Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Matheson, H.P. Lovecraft, Comics... just about anything Jack Kirby had a hand in... Jim Woodring, Mike Mignola, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Paul Pope, Tamburini & Liberatore's RANXEROX, Hideshi Hino, In Search of the Giant Squid and Deep Atlantic( ugly fish and more cephalopods!!)- Richard Ellis,.. The Demon Haunted World-Carl Sagan ( Required Reading ), Last Exit to Brooklyn- Hubert Selby Jr., The Dinosaur Heresies- Robert Bakker, The Story of the Eye- Georges Bataille, Moebius, The Elric Saga- Michael Moorcock, Flim-Flam!- James Randi, The Mission of Art- Alex Grey, Neil Gaiman
I'd have to start with Zdenek Burian... and in no particular order and off the top of my head... David Cronenberg...Diamanda Galas...Gerald Scarfe....Basil Gogos...Jim Henson....Siouxsie Sioux...Eiji Tsuburaya...Carl Sagan...H.R Giger...Go Nagai... Pascal Doury( amazing artist-look him up! The book he did with Bruno Richard,"Pornographie Catholique" is, bar none, one of the most obssessively psychotic things I've ever seen! )...William S. Burroughs...Ray Harryhausen....Moebius...Edward Gorey...David Lynch...Ernst Fuchs...Szukalski...Frank Zappa...Beksinski....John Waters