More Slightly Creepy Art

Brrr…

(from www.jim-skullgallery.com : via )

String Skulls… combinations of phobias you didn’t even know you had… a bit like potato faces, also from Notcot.

(via).

I’ve also noticed that various bits of “explorative” architecture are getting to be a bit spooky as well… I don’t know what it is? They look too much like lungs? Like dead bits of indescribable sea monsters? Like live bits of indescribable sea monsters?

This is from translu-cent.blogspot.com – which is a blog about the design for a Swiss Bank. Holy Crap, really? This isn’t what I imagined at all.

Hypernornal Stimuli etc.

Back to faces… something that I find interesting is what I call Androidal Xenophobia… the way we can anthropomorphise just about anything, but if something gets too close to being human, it creeps us out.

These for example are actual photographs of actual humans… but they’ve been photoshopped to look like dolls… and the effect kicks in. The site that it came from didn’t display the bottom half in the preview, so the effect doesn’t happen until you open the actual page. I used to think it was something in the eyes, but now I’m not so sure.