Author: Head Candy Corn

Visit Gothtober.com and click on DAY 4!

In this day and age, surrounded by Halloween costume and party stores vying for our attention at every turn, attempting to pick out some original autumnal couture can be trying. Whatever’s old is new again and vice versa, it’s a very ho hum situation that can’t be helped in any way shape or form, especially not with a glue gun…

WAIT.

It CAN BE FIXED!!! Mellocreme Fairchild III to the rescue! This illustrious Crafte Gothe hath ventured out into the bright and unforgiving sun to get just the right supplies to make things right! With glue gun in hand, patterns, felt, and sparkles, she’ll show you the way.

Enjoy THREE original and fabulous fascinator presentations, giving you all the inspiration you need for making a gorgeous centerpiece for your head! It’s so easy, just watch and follow along with the Mellocreme Fairchild Method™, and you’ll be SET!

Thanks for showing us how to style it up this Halloween, Ms. Mellocreme!

Visit Gothtober.com and click on DAY 3!

Look closely, and you’ll observe that what appears to be everyday upholstered turn-of –the-century furniture is actually quite haunted! These chairs are in the midst of a detailed deterioration!

Sam G is a texture artist: proficient in adding texture to virtual AND real items via computer magic in the entertainment industry known as Special Effects. It’s one thing to notice the amazing realism of what texture artists can do, but it’s MORE common that you never notice a thing because it has the appearance of being so real. It’s an unsung hero kind of job, where some of the best renders you’ve ever done are what sneaks right by a viewer’s nose! Audiences have barely an inkling of just how much effort goes into building the worlds we see on film and television.

This piece in particular shows the careful consideration and thought goes into the required level of quality verisimilitude at work!

Also, this visual meditation on furniture, mortality, and the passing of time is a great reminder that inescapable impermanence for all of us is fact. Make hay while the sun shines, time’s a wastin!

Thanks for sharing your skills with us, Sam! Say hi to the ghost chairs for us!

She’s the radio call-in queen of South Texas, battling bullies and social injustice with Texas charm, and bona fide heartfelt love. Her official saying is “go out and be a miracle to someone!”

Texas’s own Aunt Lyla KaRug is here in her breakout Gothtober role, wandering around a very unsanitary and eerie locale, shining her lantern, and somehow having the bravery to recite verse… in heels!

Gothtober’s got a very long LGBTQ history, and Halloween itself is kinda like gay xmas. Your Gothtober creators are quite queer, and we LOVE us some drag.

Drag embodies the bravery of bursting through the boundaries of uptight, repressed societal mundane heteronormative codes by using style, hyperbole, and camp; quite the antidote for quotidian malaise!

Jeffrey Wylie, Lyla’s nephew, would probably agree and I keep trying to ask him more about his auntie’s next big gig, Aunt Lyla is so busy! Actually, come to think of it, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen those two in the same place at the same time, they’re never in the same room together!

Huh. Weird.

Head Candy Corn here,

WE DID IT!!! Our yearly collection of things that go bump in the night is underway, it’s quite the exciting lineup! Everyday a new artist is revealed, this week we’ve got Alis Jua Nonpareil, Dragon Lady, Sam G, Mellocreme Fairchild III, and Auntie Lyla!

Expect to receive some fall season advice/commands/weirdness, a bit of ghostly animation, a study in decay, and some thrilling, chilling drag!

Big thanks to our Web High Priestess, Cristin Pescosolido, who transferred all the data from our staging bay to our main directory, making it very easy for me to easily launch Gothtober 2019 at the stroke of midnight!

Thank you for viewing and experiencing this Public Internet Art Installation, it is our SEVENTEENTH! That’s a lotta pumpkins! There’s nothing quite like unveiling a brand new Gothtober.

Showing off this annual collection of new works from Gothtober Artists, it makes me misty. It never gets old, I’m a big fan of “together art” and this project brings a new reason to be sincerely grateful everyday. I am proud, and heartened by everyone who’s in this year’s mix, and all the previous mixes! Thank you thank you!

Slimy toads and haunted roads,

Head Candy Corn JP

Oooh, okay, sorry, hold on a minute, I’ve switched the blog to a NEW template, one that you can read on yer phone. Of course, doing such a thing turned everything upside down, and I’m still getting my bearings, dealing with the CSS and images, etc.

So… bear with me, we’re getting our spells in order, grinding up some newt eyeball powder to make this CSS really shine!

Check out the Gothtober 2019 FAQ and APPLY why doncha? October needs yer art!

Pumpkin Guts,

JP Head Candy Corn