artwork by henry darger Originally uploaded by megan_n_smith_99 i recently watched a documentary i had had in my netflix queue for some time and i am quite pleased i did. i was already familiar with henry darger's work and knew he was a reclusive outsider ... a wonderful job, in the absence of much material to work with outside Darger's work itself -- he had no living relatives, no close ...

... 's work recently. i've even decided to write a research paper on him. in darger's Realms of the Unreal, a little french-canadian boy named Schoefield Penrod makes an ... quot;black haired little frenchie imp". sound familiar? i'm just going to keep on pretending that darger was thinking of me when he came up with this shit. here are some scans featuring yours truly. it's true.

... with the whole hassle of two bookmarks. I also hate footnotes that continue overleaf. Both could be so simply and sweetly replaced by a pop-up in an e-book.) Henry Darger wrote a book called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, ...

Originally published at xenoglyph: the alien writings of designer joshua a.c. newman. Please leave any comments there. I’m pretty sure the world is full of people like this guy, Mark Hogancamp, Henry Darger, and Matthew/C++. It’s only in this age of astounding communication that we can get these glimpses into their experience through their art. (Thanks, Jason Corley for the link)

... coming to clean everything up after the funeral. I like to look at it all through a stranger's eyes. Thousands and thousands of pages. A shitty job. Mind full of obsession, mad love and art. I am Henry Darger reincarnate, aspiring toward something a little more Dostoyevskian.

I am fighting an overwhelming urge to get a whole lot of crazy tats 1. polaroid*love, 2. This is f tattoing, 3. flint tattoo close, 4. Caslon suicide note tattoo, 5. coincidence marks, 6. Henry Darger Wrist Cuff, 7. Masterpiece, 8. SPT 7-16-09, 9. When the bows met!, 10. Untitled

... most justice. I’m so excited about it! You can see Nick’s work on his wonderful website. One thing that I was going to say (that got cut off in the video) is that I got the “Lost Princess of Oz” primarily because I saw it in the Henry Darger documentary and I loved his little frog feet.

... in MA but apparently this thing was welded together in Portland. Spooky included a full set of decals and some designer apparel. Dare I say, club wear?!?!? I shall! Not sure what to think about there website design though. If Henry Darger had done East German Propaganda posters, it would've looked like the Spooky site, which is ...