Saturday, October 30, 2021

Carnival of Souls on Halloween 2021


Spirits are wandering.

My first ever Halloween costume comes from Herk Harvey's 1962 film Carnival of Souls. The Finnish title was Helvetilliset (The Hellish Ones).

The abandoned amusement park in the background is in Vaasa, Finland.

"It was more than just not being able to hear anything or make contact with anyone. It was as though for a time I didn't exist. As though I had no place in the world. No part of the life around me."

Friday, October 8, 2021

Underwing - October 29, 2021

Underwing is my second animated short film.

Release date is October 29, 2021.

Saturday, October 2, 2021

Nothing Is Breaking Through - from Word Against Word

Nothing Is Breaking Through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMuWm27Z-Iw

Industrial punk album release date is January 27, 2022.

Friday, October 1, 2021

Art questions October 2021

Q: How can you find your artistic voice?

A: I had written some interesting music as a teenager, but my voice developed fully when I was 28. I'm now the person I wanted to be. There's only one you.

I don't want to produce anything that is typical. No one needs to be told how to be mediocre. Mediocre is in the middle. We are surrounded by it. It often looks and sounds good, but it's not the most interesting or the deepest.

We have these people who are dipping their toes in different things. Some of them are just doing it for the spectacle. The whole thing is backwards. It's not about dipping your toes. Spend your life doing these things. Internalise and learn.

Q: Has the pandemic affected your creative work?

A: In 2020 and 2021 I have made 78 drawings, recorded 10 albums (five of them will be out in 2022) and made my first animation (it includes about 30 drawings). There has been a boost, even though I have studied and done physical work at the same time. Early 2020 was forever ago.

Dregs of the Teeth - from Deathless Demon Delta

Dregs of the Teeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysanwMM00PA

Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, May 2021.
Grey Trilogy release date is January 1, 2022.