Sinched Corsets

looking for some beautiful handmade corsets....check out the article in Gothic Beauty magazine issue 30th, written by Jessica Seitz.

Muse

One man gets his muse from wine. Artist Ian Boyden featured in an article in Walla Walla Lifestyles magazine Nov. 10th 2010, uses his past as a portal to find insperation for his work.

Walla Walla Lifestyles Magazine

Ian Boyden

Cigar Aficionado

Great article "Back on Track" written by Gordon Mott in 2004, covering Alec Baldwin's early career. Its a must read....Cigar Aficionado-back issue

Also I always like to promote other worthy organizations. Mr. Baldwin's mother who had gone through Breast Cancer had started a foundation. Though from the looks of it the website might currently be down....Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund or FB


Grand Havana Room

Sound of Operatic

If you have not gotten a chance to listen to the music created by Emilie Autumn. Do. Very operatic/industrial. Also Great interview conducted by Jessika Hulse in Gothic Beauty Issue 30. Not sure who to credit for her photography, but its really stunning.


Emilie Autumn

Tim Burton

Kambriel from Dark Realms magazine issue 30, writes and covers Tim Burton Retrospective Exhibit in 2009. The exhibit held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which reveals a vast majority of Mr. Burtons creature and prop creations from all his feature films and other works.

A new movie by Mr. Burton Dark Shadows comes out this year and I am looking forward. Can't Waite!

Haunted Havens and more...

Dark Realms Magazine Issue 31 has a great article about haunted places around the world that now can be toured. But only if you dear. A few of the places mentioned by Russell Williams that peeked my interest and wold most defiantly give me the chills are the Bone Church, Highgate Cemetery, and the Winchester House.

Though I have not been able to travel to these haunted destinations mentioned in the article, indeed I have found a local haven for spirits right here in Portland Oregon. Christ Church in Lake Oswego by my accounts first hand and numerous other accounts is in my regards a hot spot. Though because of the nature of being a holy place most dear not talk about the comings and goings of strange phantoms stalking the corridors late at night and the hushed whispers trialing through the cold air. Footsteps pounding on the ground, and other things that have haunted my inner dreams still lurking years later. I say this because I was the caretaker at this church for about three maybe four years. Living right on the premises. I watched over this haunted church. For a while I kept what I had seen and heard by myself until one day I mentioned what I was experiencing to a friend who happened to be the night janitor. He scoffed at me and at that moments I thought I had lost him as a friend. But weeks later while he was at the church by his accounts he  began to hear faint whispers coming from the Nave. He tried to shrug them off but he could not. Now here is a man that sweats football and basketball all year round and never believed in ghosts or anything in that nature until that faithful night. The next day he had told me the story and at one point the night before he had actually ran through the church and left as quickly as he could becuase the voices had gotten to him.

Emma Watson

When I picked up the first Harry Potter book, which must have been in high school, I didn't know what to think. I think I had only gotten to the part where young Harry was living under the stairs and finally I decided to take the book back. I think I was a bit confused about what was really going on and no offense to J.K. Rolling. Years latter I am now a Harry Potter fan. Though I have not read any of the books I have seen all the movies. Countless times I might add.

In the July issue of Vogue 2011 Emma Watson tells Amanda Foreman about life after Harry Potter. The trials of escaping the world that she grew up in and how she has gotten through them.