Stu - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I was born somewhere in the continental United States at approximately 1978. I don't recall the details. I go to the New York Daily News offices five times a week. I get to play with their photographs and write about geeky things for them. I am often mistaken for a priest. I have been chased by dogs on several occasions. My car has been stolen on several occasions. I spend a large amount of time doing artsy crap. I spend the rest of it playing video games, watching horror movies and reveling in childhood nostalgia. I used to not smoke, but now I do. Again. I have been accused of being a warlock and a vampire because I own a shiny red shirt. I have also been accused of hording Nazi gold, owning a two-man nuclear submarine, and having a burnt brownie for a heart. Those things are not true. Feel free to contact me via AIM on the screen name sanspitie. I love talking to strangers.

My Interests

Reading, writing, photography, design, art, art-faggotry, not being in debt, playing video games, comic books, dorkiness in general, mythology, accumulating useless knowledge, accumulating weird creepy stuff, Asian food, inappropriate humor, pirates, fame, fortune, tom-foolery, hoopla, hubbub, hijinks and ballyhoo.Take a moment and click the image below to see over eight hundred photos and artsy bits on my Flickr site:Or check out my online portfolio:

I'd like to meet:

Ghosts. Enlightened folks who are interesting in purchasing my artwork.

Music:

Killing Joke, Faith No More, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Danzig, the (real and defunct) Misfits, The The, Calabrese, Love Cinema Volume 6, Brine and Bastards, Iron Maiden, Saint Eve, Nine Inch Nails, Kaizer's Orchestra, Firewater, Placebo, Jim White, Stan Ridgway, Jill Tracy, Dead Can Dance, Assemblage 23, Covenant, Icon of Coil, This 'Morn Omina, Murder by Death, the Pogues, bands that make good use of strange instruments.

Movies:

The Thing, Amelie, Plunkett and Macleane, Terry Gilliam, Roshamon, Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, Lost Boys, Cemetery Man, Fight Club, Seventh Seal, Batman Begins, House II, Donnie Darko, Universal Monsters, Pi, Big Trouble in Little China, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Psycho, Ray Harryhausen, Ravenous, Marx Brothers, Zombie movies, Monster Squad, The Mist, The Hunger, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, David Mamet (particularly Spartan, which may be the greatest movie ever made)

Television:

Lost, Heroes, House, Dexter, Life on Mars, Wire in the Blood, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Buffy, Rome, Carnivale, Millennium, 24, The Real Ghostbusters, Early X-Files, The Venture Brothers, Justice League Unlimited, Eerie Indiana, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone.

Books:

Umberto Eco (particularly Foucault's Pendulum), Don Quixote, Faust, Time/Life's Enchanted World, Jorge Borges, Neal Stephenson, The Saragossa Manuscript, Italo Calvino, Le Chants de Maldoror, The Golden Bough, Hellboy, DC Comics (all of them, pretty much), Grant Morrison, Christopher Hitchens, HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, The Wasteland, Calvin and Hobbes, The Divine Comedy, Nick Bantock, Ovid, Dictionaries and encyclopedias of strange and utterly useless knowledge, Edward Gorey, The King in Yellow, A Night in the Lonesome October, House of Leaves, The Dark is Rising, historical grimoires.

Heroes:

The inventor of pancakes, Jack Parsons, Jacques De Molay, Frank Black (the fictional character), The Question (also the fictional character), Adam Weishaupt, Jan Potocki (he thought he was a werewolf, you know)

My Blog

Director’s Cut

As I have mentioned practically with every other breath, I contributed to two articles for the Daily News website last week. The first was a recap of the best geek moments of 2007, the second a look f...
Posted by Stu on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:04:00 PST

200 Days

The Very Long Year is more than halfway over. What have you missed since Day 100? The drinking bird of the Apocalypse, more teeth, a couple unconventional self-portraits, a map of hell, lots of old bo...
Posted by Stu on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:36:00 PST

I Am Within a Tornado of Pages (An Invitation of Sorts)

The older I get, the more obsessive compulsive I become. It generally manifests itself when I'm trying to order things: CD, DVDs, MP3s, etc. Worse, it isn't as if I follow an accepted approach to orga...
Posted by Stu on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:40:00 PST

100 Days

Tonight, the Very Long Year has reached a milestone. 100 days, 100 photographs. There are rusty things and dead things, plenty of teeth, a couple of real live people, toys, letters, clocks, a god, a m...
Posted by Stu on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:03:00 PST

Invisible Hands

In the X-Files, Agent Fox Mulder has the now famous poster in his office of the UFO emblazoned with the text "I Want To Believe." I may not be a flying saucer fanatic, but I do want to believe in some...
Posted by Stu on Sun, 06 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

A Photographic Experiment

I don't know how many of you regularly look through Flickr, but I've noticed a ghastly new trend on it in the last couple weeks. It is called 365 Days and is a photographic exercise in which the photo...
Posted by Stu on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:55:00 PST

Tyger! Tyger!, Burning Bright

Today, Jill and I went to the Philadelphia Zoo. I haven't been to a zoo since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, probably because I associate animals with children (and vice-versa) and generally think ...
Posted by Stu on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:11:00 PST

A Scarlet Woman, She Got Me in Fear

This one comes courtesy of Mr. Shawn Dillon, who shares my enthusiasm for the coming apocalypse.
Posted by Stu on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:59:00 PST

Texas and Feces

Hello dear readers. It has been a very long time since I've posted anything to my dusty and abandoned blog. I know, initially, you were heartbroken and distraught at this void in your lives. Like the ...
Posted by Stu on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:27:00 PST

Babalon, Destroyer of Worlds

Posted by Stu on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:59:00 PST