Ludovico D’Amore
Hollow Earth Society member and frequent Observatory alumnus Ted Enik reviews strange, new books for us: Cultural critic Mark Dery’s new collection of essays, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts The Ludovico Technique is a form of compulsory deprogramming featured in both the book and film A Clockwork Orange. It consists of forcing a patient [...]
The Pathological Sublime & Anatomical Unconscious With Mark Dery
Part 3 of Cornelia Street Observatory: BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR Celebrating the publication of his essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams cultural critic and cult author Mark Dery will lecture—with unforgettable slides—on the hallucinatory Crypt of the Capuchin monks in Rome, the uncanny wax mannequins at La Specola in [...]
Imaginary Reading List: Archimboldi
Kindlifresser, an unfinished novella by Benno Von Archimboldi about the legendary “Child-Eater of Bern.” Given up by the great author after page fifty due to a “geometrical uncertainty,” according to Archimboldi’s own faint marginalia. What the “uncertainty” was and why it prevented the completion of this compellingly horrifying fairy tale remain mysteries. [The plot seems to [...]
The Anatomy Of Mortal Kombat
Saw it on YouTube thanks to my younger brother, who was once a professional video game player (yes, for real!). But the YouTube video is down, so I found this again on Street Anatomy, one of the Society’s favorite sources of fact, disinformation, and strange aesthetics. For more wonderful X-ray art, check out the Street [...]
Doggles
Constant threat of portmanteau: Standing aside an object long enough may result in its inclusion in the fabric of your being. A dog aside goggles becomes doggles, goggles shaped for a dog. A cat aside turkey becomes a tark, a turkey with a cat’s confused head, slavering over a turkey’s frightening thighs and flapping wings… [...]
Songs From Another Dimension: Rotate Your Owl + Erich Zann
1. “Rotate Your Owl” 2. “The Music Of Erich Zann”
