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essential monsters

essentialmonsters.com

About Me

THE STORE IS NOW OPEN!!!

international customers will find it easiest to purchase through our etsy shop:

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
essentialmonsters.etsy.com

an oakland, california based company, a forerunner of the steampunk fashion revolution. we make t-shirts, hoodies, bags, pin sets, wallets and other one-of-a-kind goodies. some items are currently for sale at the website. You can also visit our Etsy shop. we have worked with the melvins on limited edition tour tees, codesigned tour tees and tote bags! essential monsters have also made tees for aerosmith to wear on tour in japan! visit:

WWW.ESSENTIALMONSTERS.COM

*pastries as a side project*

***swann danger is a pretty big deal...

My Interests

***please note: there are many photo albums to look at that are set to "friends only"...feel free to add us and enjoy the entire page.
curiosities, natural history, anatomy, deformities, conjoined twins, amputation, the donner party, medical antiques, freaks, taxidermy, cannibals, ferns, insects, meat, carnie folk, animals in victorian dress, skin diseases, old prints of rainforests and dinosaurs in swamps, goliath beetles, skulls, red coral, stereoviews, locks, deep sea divers, tide pools, darwin, giants, midgets, lotus slippers, cabinets of curiosities, extra digits and limbs, glaciers, birds, dust, skeleton keys, scissors, chernobyl children, poison labels and bottles, seahorses, cactus, geishas, composition dolls, dried goods, old frames, hooves, carnivorous plants, urchins, wheelchairs, the potter museum, prosthetic limbs, old farm animal masks, stalactites, turtle shells, canvas, silk screens, tintypes, the titanic, cabinet cards, zeppelins, sea creatures, hospitals, antlers, riker mounts, shark jaws, tribal jewelry, old jars, seba prints, contortionists, natural disasters, the burns archive, bones, sideshows, specimens: in resin, bottled, pinned, dried, stuffed, etc., meat hooks, museums, dentures, rust, medical cabinets, corsets, leg braces, entomology, natives, rhinos, anatomical charts, coffins, post mortem photography, dissection, insane fetishes(i'm not talking latex here kids, more like amputation, equine and other animal fetishes, siamese twin lust...) to be continued.....

I'd like to meet:

you. beautiful freaks.

this page is a work in progress (as is the website) so check back with us often. thanks!

Music:

oh, i suppose i should get around to this. i don't work in silence that's for sure. until then, essential monsters does have a couple of patron saints:
buzz osborne
adam jones
thanks guys!

Movies:

the cameraman's revenge, the brothers quay, twin falls idaho, chang, dead ringers, jeunet et caro, freaks, the elephant man, winged migration, jaws, georges melies, 20,000 leagues under the sea, peter greenaway, amadeus... ..

Books:


jules verne, albertus seba, darwin, antique anatomy & surgery books, joel-peter witkin, sleeping beauty, morning's work, very special people, geek love, meat & prosthetic limb catalogs, ernst haekel, the last sideshow, monsters, special cases, dover, the artificial kingdom, crispin hellion glover, three little bunnies.....

My Blog

we like publicity.....

thank you very very much those who are moved enough by the idea of essential monsters to review us.... :discomedusa: review badge review t shirt island review allmightys review hubpages.com new button...
Posted by essential monsters on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:00 PST

essentialmonsters.etsy.com

hello everyone! essential monsters is settling into east bay life. a most welcome community of supporters! the move definitely set things back a bit, but we a starting to find our place here. a few t...
Posted by essential monsters on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:15:00 PST

new items added to essentialmonsters.com

hello everyone!thank you so much for the orders and support since the new site launched! it means a lot to us! new tees have been added for both men and women.some sizes have also been restocked.so pl...
Posted by essential monsters on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

essentialmonsters.com now open!!!

hello everyone!!! it's true! finally! please go there! buy stuff so we can make more stuff!!! ESSENTIAL MONSTERS ...
Posted by essential monsters on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST

shops and places of interest

many of you ask where to buy or see the types of things on this page. luckily it's not as obscure of a market as it once was. it's refreshing to see so many people creating a renaissance of sor...
Posted by essential monsters on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:47:00 PST

photobucket, etc.

first off, the move went fantastic, thanks for asking. we think the east bay is much more our taste than los angeles was.   photobucket decided to delete one of my images for inappropriate conte...
Posted by essential monsters on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:46:00 PST

the melvins vs. essential monsters!!!

okay okay! i know i said i was posting "buy it now" auctions for y'all. we got sidetracked making some goods for the melvins to take on the road.   they will have at the merch counter limited ed...
Posted by essential monsters on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:35:00 PST

new items here very soon...

hello children!!! in the next few weeks there will be "buy it now" auctions linked to this here page. there will be t-shirts, pin packs, and the revival of tote bags! some of you have been bugging me...
Posted by essential monsters on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:38:00 PST