Coffins aplenty, coffins abound, your world could be full of tiny arty coffins… if you just let the spirits wander where they may. Participate in creating the creepiest coffin you can for Creepy LA’s Coffin Hunt! Check out this gallery of coffins to see the amazing coffins from 2011, and register to decorate a coffin that some poor (lucky) soul will find in a significantly historically creepy or crazy or morbid or weird location of Los Angeles!
Here’s the skinny from Creepy LA:
- Participating artists will each be sent TWO coffins by the end of August. They will need to decorate, design, and return their finished work to CreepyLA by October 1st.
- Artist will be responsible for all costs of designing and decorating the coffins.
- One of the coffins will be used in the Coffin Hunt, given away, free, at CreepyLA’s discretion.
- The coffin not used in the hunt will be used in a Kickstarter campaign or a related promotion to help raise money to cover the costs of the Coffin Hunt. Artist will receive 50% of any sales, Kickstarter or otherwise, this coffin is sold through.
- Each participating artist will have their Facebook fan page, if available, and/or link to their personal site tagged or mentioned on Hidden Los Angeles and CreepyLA’s Facebook pages, exposing them to hundreds of thousands of online impressions.
Sound good? Then please fill out their form by August 16th. Selected artists will be notified by August 23rd!
Get scared all queer style with Ian MacKinnon for Halloween!
The pumpkins are BACK and ready for a dance, but we seem to be following a few themes of this year’s Gothtober, one of them involves the perilous plight of fruits and vegetables! Another theme people are following this year is metal music! But not this piece, this is a crazy little tale of pumpkins on the run, during their night time escapade. See what we mean by clicking on Gothtober Day 30 by the illustrious 
You know how it is, you go to the drive-through, get your Happy Box with the toy surprise inside, and maybe it’s something you want… and maybe it isn’t. Presenting from Little Green Dog an exquisite piece of candy for your eyeballs, starring the characters from the comic called 
Shot in and around Echo Park, Los Angeles, this is the first Gothtober film to involve demon possession via fast food hamburger. Look closely at the branding in this film, and be careful if you ever see a Chamuco Restaurant when you’re driving around town… maybe keep driving. That’s it, just roll on by, and if you see beautiful women eating Chamuco burgers that tell you you’re “totally nice” and follow you in their truck: RUN.
If you see any tear-jerking heartstring tugging fruit-oriented anthropomorphic film this year, make it this one! The bad luck of citrus love probably doesn’t hit all oranges, but one fine day in this orange grove, orange A meets orange B, and it’s a match made in heaven… but not for long! We’re not really sure what the fascination has been with Jamba Juice for Mr. Kheel… (last year’s piece, someone was drinking juice while hanging in the tanning bed) perhaps we’ll never know.
Accompanied by music composed by Michael Mahalchick, the world of breathing stop-motion ceramics by Professor Rattlesnake (aka Trixy Sweetvittles, aka Shelly Wattenbarger) introduces an otherworldly hallucinatory metamorphosis to your monitor.
There’s nothing like a red-robed goddess riding on the back of a lion to brighten your day! Told in a mode reminiscent of the Cherial Scrolls used in storytelling traditions of India, Stephanie Abler returns to Gothtober with a beautifully illustrated tale from one of the world’s oldest religions. This six-minute sequence that combines 29 gouache paintings with sound and music tells an ancient story in which a goddess battles a demon in the form of a buffalo.
You’re sitting on the couch, eating some crumbs, and then, out of nowhere, a facsimile of yourself approaches you, picks a fight with you and all heck breaks loose! Observe the meta experience of one Sharky the Cat, here for his second Gothtober experience, a feline fray not for the weak at heart. You may be superstitious and believe that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck. Don’t worry, the rule doesn’t extend to computer monitors, black cats on computer monitors are okay, which is good, because there are TWO of them.