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Little shop of horrors

A favorite of mine is a movie called Little Shop of horrors there are about 3 different renditions of the movie but

I chose the 1980s version while it seems light-hearted because its a musical it is very disturbing. The story starts off with a man named Seymour who works in a plant shop one day he receives an odd-looking flytrap over time it speaks to him asking for nourishment which starts off with his own blood but convinces him to murder civilians in the neighborhood for more. I think this encases the spirit of perverseness as he willingly does so for his own benefit as the plant becomes a major attraction to the shop and impresses his love interest.

Yarlin’s Weekly Goth

From the title to the video and song I find this particular piece Gothic. For example, the title of the song is “bury a friend”, like if that doesn’t scream Gothic, I don’t know what will. Then the video itself it’s really dark and creepy but somehow very cool at the same time. The fact that it starts with a guy talking to someone in his sleep and that there’s actually someone under his bed with pitch black eyes and talking back to him with a monstrous kind of voice, makes this video/song scary and somewhat mysterious. Also, the distorted voices singing throughout the song and the dance movements make it kind of creepy because the artist looks like she is possessed by something evil.

The Weekly Goth

The Weekly Goth is here!

 

The Weekly Goth is a space for students to post their ideas on the gothic. More specifically, each student will be asked to present a Weekly Goth at least once this semester. The presentation should explain to the class what the example is and why it is gothic. It may help to use the example to explain one of our technical gothic terms. Students should post a brief explanation(100-150 words) of the object under review. Check out a good  example:  Katsuyo Aoki’s skull sculpture below. This assignment will be part of the participation grade.

 

Terror vs Horror (using Stranger Things)

 

 

 

 


Below are a few Weekly Goth examples from last year…

————-Gothic Music by Blutengel (thanks Rogue)

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Gothic Dance by Bio Red Master (also thanks Rogue)

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Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982):

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Oct 7, 2015

Is this uncanny?

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George Tooker’s “The Subway” from 1950. CreditWhitney Museum of American Art

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Speaking of interpretations, here is a short interpretation of Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio”:

[Sept 25, 2015] Sculpture from Katsuyo Aoki (Hi-Fructose vol 21 2011)

From the article in Hi-Fructose (2011): The artist Katsuyo Aoki says that she is “most inspired by periods in art history that represent times of existential transition and upheaval in the art world (not to mention ones of significant flourish): the baroque and rococo, the gothic, and the expressionist niche of the postmodern” (47). We can see the pointy ridges and extra curves remind us of the baroque (overly ornate to the point of being ridiculous), and taken together with the hollowness of the bones and the strange jewelry at the point of this porcelain skull and in the mouth, this is most certainly meant to heighten our emotions, hence it is a gothic representation of death. This is not an everyday skull.

 


Peanuts comic:

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