Beauty in Darkness

Sunday, July 15, 2012

This Blog is No Longer in Use

I am no longer updating this blog. But I have a website and Facebook page you can follow.
https://www.whatisgoth.com/

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Dress from: www.fanplusfriend.com/

Photo by Tim Wetherell

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Check out my Movies Lists on IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/list/TL2OlmOvZi8/

Deep South Movies a list of 8 titles - Movies with a Southern/Voodoo feel to them.
Movies that Goths would love - a list of 47 titles
Films that Portray the Real America - a list of 12 titles
Films about Iroquois People or Culture - a list of 10 titles
The Best Sci-Fi Movies for People Who aren't Partial to Sci-Fi - a list of 18 titles
Comedies That Are Actually Funny -a list of 30 titles
Good Scary/Thriller/Horror Films with Minimum Gore - a list of 16 titles
Good Period Films - a list of 58 titles
Good Dark Period Movies - a list of 49 titles - A list of dark period movies that Goths would love. Some of these movies are darker than others.

Friday, April 27, 2012

The Woman In Black - Official Trailer [HD]

I NEED to see this movie. There is an older (1989) movie that is supposed to be better.

The Awakening Trailer Official [HD]

I have to see this movie...

Friday, April 6, 2012

This is an amazing looking house in Victoria, Australia that I really want to visit.

The below words taken from:
http://www.nattrust.com.au/places_to_visit/around_melbourne/labassa__1

With its opulent architecture and largely intact decoration, Labassa is one of Australia’s most outstanding 19th century mansions.

The house as we see it today, reflects the work of architect John Augustus Bernard Koch who was employed by Cobb & Co. millionaire Alexander Robertson to create a lavish setting for grand social occasions.

In realising this ambition, Koch chose a design that brought together a French Renaissance (or Second Empire) style with Germanic and Hellenistic influences. For the interiors, the finest embossed wallpapers and mahogany timbers were used and a rare illusionist ceiling enhances the stairhall.
Externally the mansion features Corinthian columns, arcaded verandahs, classical decoration and inset Italian marble panels.

Labassa was recently featured in Coco Rosie’s new video clip for their single “Lemonade”.

Labassa house photos from: Dean-Melbourne on Flicker -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanmelbourne/

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Countess (2009) - Official Trailer

A surprisingly good and well written film. Created by and starring Julie Delpy. This movie doesn't show much violence or gore but is more a tragic love story.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Twisted Paintings of Gustave Adolf Mossa

Gustav-Adolf Mossa was born in Nice on 28th January 1883. His father Alexis Mossa (1844-1926), was himself a painter from Nice who produced many posters for the Carnival of Nice at the end of the 19th century and would strongly influence the career of his son. Up to 1900, Gustav-Adolf studied at l'École des Arts Décoratifs de Nice where he familiarised himself with Art Nouveau. At the same time, his father introduced him to landscape art, the use of watercolours, and the surroundings of Nice, thus enabling him to develop a pictorial technique. As early as 1900, however, after the visit of the universal exposition, he was taken by the Symbolist movement and Art Nouveau.

In 1901, Mossa created his first major Symbolist canvas: Salomé or the Beginning of Christianity. Also at this time he undertook a series of trips to Italy in company of his father, where he visited Genoa, Pisa, Siena and especially Florence. It is also at this time that, in the tradition of his father, he produced his first works for the carnival in Nice. At the end of 1902, Gustav-Adolf Mossa returned to Nice where he submitted his works to the Carnival competition. In 1903, he returned to Italy with his father, visiting Mantua, Padua and Venice. 1904 to 1911 was a particularly productive period; his output included Symbolist paintings, carnival scenes, watercolour landscapes, plus poems and plays. In 1908, he married Charlotte-Andrée Naudin. In 1911, he discovered Flemish primitive art and abandoned symbolism.

In 1914, during the First World War, Mossa was mobilised and gravely injured. Drawing from this experience of war, he went on to produce a canvas that he completed in 1916: The Sad Hours of the War. He divorced in 1918 and the following year his mother died. His work on landscapes, illustrations and manuscripts continued, but with a lot less than intensity. He remarries in 1925 with Lucrèce Roux, who remained his wife until her death in 1955. After the death of his father in 1926, Gustav-Adolf Mossa took his place as curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice. After the death of his second wife, he married for a third time in 1926, to Marie-Marcelle Butteli, who Mossa renamed Violette.

Only after Gustav-Adolf Mossa died in Nice on 25th May 1971, was his Symbolist work rediscovered. It had been kept concealed by Mossa from a public that had known him essentially by his work as a printmaker for the Carnival of Nice.