Dolls galore!
I've always liked browsing doll sites. Not manufactured dolls though. These dolls are handmade and one-of-a-kind.
Strange Dolls has got to be one of my favourites doll sites EVER. Come to think of it, it's probably the first ever site I've visited that features somber dolls. Really now, the first people to ever make dolls of such melancholy are INGENIOUS. Having played with Barbies since young, naturally I wasn't too used to Beth Robinson's dolls back then. But then again, in the words of Francis Bacon, "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportions." And Robinson's dolls are exquisite. I especially liked the Shadow Boxes and StitchBitch series. And when it came to individual dolls, The Yawn, The Carrot and the Prophet gave me goosebumps, they were that good. Oh, and methinks the Wisp here looks a little like Marilyn Manson, no? Well, it does.
(Obviously, the links aren't for display only. They're clickable, and thus they're for clicking, too!)
Another series of dolls I wish I had are the Ghost Dolls from October Effigies. They don't really look like ghosts, do they. Just really gloomy looking nymphs or something. And they're beautiful.
And for those of you who are sick and morbid who enjoy all things macabre, you would probably love Autopsy Babies. A note of forewarning though - if you're squeamish and get queasy easily, then you probably shoudn't enter. Imagine stapled mouths, stitched skin, removable face and chest (and when you do remove them it sure isn't a pretty sight), random protruding nails and of course, rotten skin and blood. But if you're curious enough, go ahead then! The earlier babies weren't that bad, but pretty soon they got more and more grotesque. Definitely, I was pretty much in shock when I first saw them. Because they looked so life-like. Wouldn't it be interesting to wait until the parents aren't looking, then carry their babies away and leave an Autopsy Baby in its place? Those babies have got to be the freakiest dolls ever.
Bastet Dollworks were creepy, too. They still had blood and stitched mouths and nails for teeth and all, but at least they had a decent face, albeit pale with dark spooky eyes. Click on the thumbnails and these relatively large photos of the dolls come up, and it was extremely unsettling to have large images of the dolls staring back at you like that. Really now, I wonder who would collect them. I wonder who'd be able to sleep at night with them in the room.
Haha, I'd better stop. Ling has been going on about how weird I am, and how the stuff I like are generally offbeat and, well, weird. And to continue with all these spooky dolls would only confirm all that I've been trying to deny all along!
But I love weird dolls! (Deliberate color!)
Strange Dolls has got to be one of my favourites doll sites EVER. Come to think of it, it's probably the first ever site I've visited that features somber dolls. Really now, the first people to ever make dolls of such melancholy are INGENIOUS. Having played with Barbies since young, naturally I wasn't too used to Beth Robinson's dolls back then. But then again, in the words of Francis Bacon, "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportions." And Robinson's dolls are exquisite. I especially liked the Shadow Boxes and StitchBitch series. And when it came to individual dolls, The Yawn, The Carrot and the Prophet gave me goosebumps, they were that good. Oh, and methinks the Wisp here looks a little like Marilyn Manson, no? Well, it does.
(Obviously, the links aren't for display only. They're clickable, and thus they're for clicking, too!)
Another series of dolls I wish I had are the Ghost Dolls from October Effigies. They don't really look like ghosts, do they. Just really gloomy looking nymphs or something. And they're beautiful.
And for those of you who are sick and morbid who enjoy all things macabre, you would probably love Autopsy Babies. A note of forewarning though - if you're squeamish and get queasy easily, then you probably shoudn't enter. Imagine stapled mouths, stitched skin, removable face and chest (and when you do remove them it sure isn't a pretty sight), random protruding nails and of course, rotten skin and blood. But if you're curious enough, go ahead then! The earlier babies weren't that bad, but pretty soon they got more and more grotesque. Definitely, I was pretty much in shock when I first saw them. Because they looked so life-like. Wouldn't it be interesting to wait until the parents aren't looking, then carry their babies away and leave an Autopsy Baby in its place? Those babies have got to be the freakiest dolls ever.
Bastet Dollworks were creepy, too. They still had blood and stitched mouths and nails for teeth and all, but at least they had a decent face, albeit pale with dark spooky eyes. Click on the thumbnails and these relatively large photos of the dolls come up, and it was extremely unsettling to have large images of the dolls staring back at you like that. Really now, I wonder who would collect them. I wonder who'd be able to sleep at night with them in the room.
Haha, I'd better stop. Ling has been going on about how weird I am, and how the stuff I like are generally offbeat and, well, weird. And to continue with all these spooky dolls would only confirm all that I've been trying to deny all along!
But I love weird dolls! (Deliberate color!)
Labels: Ramblings
isthisme exuded garlic breath at 9:48 AM
