{"id":2371,"date":"2017-10-08T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2017-10-08T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T23:53:16","slug":"gothtober-day-8-nora_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2017\/10\/08\/gothtober-day-8-nora_r\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothtober Day 8 Drawings from Nora Rachel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-4.26.02-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-4.26.02-AM.png 514w, http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-4.26.02-AM-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\">www.gothtober.com<\/a> and click on DAY 8 to see drawings of the Frankensteins by Nora Rachel!<\/div>\n<div>I bet you didn&#8217;t know that &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; means &#8220;Stone of the Franks&#8221; in German, eh? It was a castle that sat near the Rhine River, and a fellow named Konrad Dippel lived in there, trying to make a potion that would help people live past age 100. He was a pretty weird guy, the stuff he was working on was going to be called &#8220;Dippel&#8217;s Oil.&#8221; There was a rumor that Dippel would go out at night, dig up and then experiment on bodies, you know&#8230; for research.<\/div>\n<div>There are some who believe that Mary and Percy Shelley visited nearby this location and that it was the inspiration for Mary&#8217;s character, Dr. Frankenstein.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The story of Frankenstein, or <em>The Modern Prometheus,<\/em> was written when Mary was merely 18, and published two years later in 1818 to critics who gave it reviews that were <em>beyond<\/em> harsh. However, stories of a gothic nature were all the rage, so people kept buying and reading the book, and it&#8217;s now considered to be the very first science fiction novel.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Even though body modification and transformation has existed since humans have been around, something about science gave people the heebie jeebies and they just couldn&#8217;t view it as &#8220;natural.&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Bride of Frankenstein<\/em>\u00a0film gave consciousness and voice to society&#8217;s misgivings about technology.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Today we&#8217;ve got people walking around with artificial heart parts, robot knees, botoxed foreheads, liver transplants, all kinds of Franken-stuff&#8230; we&#8217;re getting closer to throwing out all that &#8220;Icarus&#8221; baggage and living longer\/happier lives through the applied sciences.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here then, are portraits of two icons, the&#8221;forbidden&#8221; creatures of the undead: One of Dr. Frankenstein&#8217;s creation (the monster itself) and another likeness, that of the monster&#8217;s bride.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0See more of Nora Rachel&#8217;s art for view and for sale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norarachelart.com\">right HERE!\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Read Nora&#8217;s bio and other Gothtober contributor&#8217;s bios <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/gothtober-bios-2017\/\">here!\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit www.gothtober.com and click on DAY 8 to see drawings of the Frankensteins by Nora Rachel! I bet you didn&#8217;t know that &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; means &#8220;Stone of the Franks&#8221; in German, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2017\/10\/08\/gothtober-day-8-nora_r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gothtober Day 8 Drawings from Nora Rachel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[163,986,990,205,8,626,989,334,987,988],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-art","tag-bride","tag-day-8-2017","tag-drawing","tag-frankenstein","tag-illustration","tag-modification","tag-monster","tag-nora-rachel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}