Looking At Art, Seeing Disney: Skull Islands
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008The top image is a detail of a painting by for the Disneyland Paris Adventureland by Dan Goozee circa 1990. Below is “The Fountain of the Skull,” by Chiho Aoshima, 2007.

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The top image is a detail of a painting by for the Disneyland Paris Adventureland by Dan Goozee circa 1990. Below is “The Fountain of the Skull,” by Chiho Aoshima, 2007.

It’s possibly the best thing they’re ever stocked. They’re selling out everywhere. (They don’t seem to have them online.) They also have a nice skull/crescent-moon hanging decoration for $15 (available online). Store locations


I saw this today at Blackman Cruz, a favorite haunt here in LA. It’s a 1930’s dental model priced (and sold) at $2400. Although the dentist displaying it perhaps named it “Grinnin’ Jim” or an equally innocuous title, I imagine it still terrified depression-era children into never eating sweets, or sleeping, again.
Previously: Bones, Skulls, and Skeletons
I thought this sweatshirt was retarded until I saw the eyes wern’t solid but cut out areas of black mesh AND it glows in the dark - now I think it’s hawt. I would so wear this when I go biking at night. They’re $260 and I’d like a large. My birthday is the 16th.


Last night I was at the Hollywood Forever cemetery for the launch party of a ridiculously violent Xbox game, Gears of War. So I’m in the mausoleum sipping my “Green Emulsion,” a cocktail named after a substance found in the game, and people are lining the corridors on sheet-covered furniture frantically killing each other - “press the B button to use your chainsaw!” - and the whole time I’m thinking about the other dead people, the ones resting inches away from these gamers.
Louise Leith Wittier (1853-1917) has a great view of the action. She never lived to see a black and white TV, could she have comprehended her final resting place would host a party for a video game about killing heavily armed monsters named for a biblical plague? I take a picture, then notice it’s none other than Kevin Federline cozied up next to her. The DJ plays “Staying Alive” and the bass throbs and I’m thinking her dusty remains have got to be shifting around in there – almost like they were dancing I could say, or would “turning over in her graveâ€? be more accurate?

‘Claw’ porcelain candle holder, set of 4 ‘memento mori’ porcelain skull plates, and silver skull paperweight can be found at Unica Home. See all of Mr. Little’s world at D. L. & Co..
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It’s under his the table his model train runs on. See more here.

That I’m-all-skeletal-under-moonlight look popularized by the first Pirates of the Caribbean film can now be yours with UV reactive dye tattoos. Although the effect won’t occur under moonlight, you’ll appear simply dashing on any blacklit dance floor.

Thanks Dave.
‘Habibi’ is a polystyrene and resin skeleton created in 2003 by Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed. Measuring nearly 60 feet (17 meters) long, ‘Habibi,’ translates as ‘Darling,’ ‘Dear’ or ‘Beloved.’


Includes: Dragon Tree Dracaena, Black Dragon Coleus, Sensitive Plant, Moon Flower, Aloe. Plant them now and they’ll be here by Halloween.

Available at Moss for $325, from Studio Job’s new collection, “Biscuit.”

Or, from Dept. 56, four ceramic appetizer plates for $24.

Earlier: Haunt Decor