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Episode 1 features James and Kimberly, the owners of Morbid Curiosity - a lighthearted party game about death.
James, Kimberly and I chat about how they got started, their inspirations and passions and much more.
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Episode 2 features Dark Artist Jeff Bertrand.
Jeff and I chat about current events, how and when he got started and his love for creating horror and true crime related art on real medical bone saws and more.
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Episode 3 features artist and creator, Monsterz of Mayhem.
Sterling Jacobs Art represents a color coated montage of clay work ranging from the weird and wacky to the absurd and bizarre. Sterling and I chat about current events, how he got started and how creating art helps him.
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Episode 4 features artist, Nicole Pangas Ceramics. Nicole Pangas specializes in “dark” and beautiful ceramics encompassing her unique style of skulls. Nicole and I chat about how she got started, her inspirations and much more.
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Episode 5 features Jason, the owner of Bonez by Dezign.
Jason and I chat about how he got started, how his business has grown into what it is today... and I even get to meet a baby alligator!
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Episode 6 features Molly, the owner of Witchwood Bags.
Witchwood Bags specializes in vegan leather handbags and accessories that are Horror/Witch/Oddities/True crime inspired!
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Episode 7 features Sara, the owner of Point Blank Art & Design.
Point Blank Art & Design specializes in colorful acrylic paintings of various subject matter. Sara loves taking old familiar images and breathing new life into them.
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Episode 8 features Kria, the artist behind Sorrowful Bodies.
Kria is a visual artist who specializes in figure painting as a critical and celebratory exploration of the human condition. Kria's work is a macabre and thought-provoking attempt to highlight awareness of sexual violence, feminism, gender identity, queerness, and BDSM/Fetish culture.
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Episode 9 features Alisha, the owner of The Bad Button Bespoke Corsets.
Alisha does a lot of costuming work, both historical and fantasy, but focuses mainly on corsets. The Bad Button Bespoke Corsets opened a little over ten years ago, making true custom corsets for clients. Everything you'll see at their booth is entirely hand made by Alisha, using modern updates on historic techniques, and proper corsetry materials.
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Episode 10 features Jonathon, the owner of The Learned Lemur.
The Learned Lemur specializes in antique medical devices and tools, human remains, religious relics, skeletal articulations, animal skulls, and much more. All of their skulls are cleaned in house by their colonies of flesh eating beetles, and all articulations are done by Jonathon.
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Episode 11 features Rhiannon, the owner of Twisted Kaleidoscope.
Rhiannon is a mixed media artist who is well versed in a few different styles, but focused on dark fantasy, gothic, and psychedelic.
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Episode 12 features Kayla, the owner of Dead Darling Boutique.
Dead Darling Boutique makes a variety of Horror themed Sauces, Seasonings, Sweet flavor add-ins and other packaged goods. They now also offer digital recipes and various other kitchen related horror goodies.
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Episode 13 features Misty, the owner of Blood Moon Oddities.
Blood Moon Oddities specializes in a process called Diaphonization, as well as focusing on other forms of preservation and specimen conservation.
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Episode 14 features Sara, the owner of Crimson and Conjure.
Sara grew up in the rural south, with a Native American healer grandmother on her father's side and an immigrant Italian "Strega" grandmother on her mother's side.
She was homeschooled into her teen years about the earth and healing - So all of Crimson and Conjures saves, oils, and balms are tried and true.
Sara and I chat about how she got started, the different products Crimson and Conjure offers and much more.
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Episode 15 features Amy, the artist behind DinkyInked Arts.
Amy is a colored pencil artist who creates nature inspired dark/macabre/occult original art.
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Episode 16 features Angela, the owner of Queen Mab's Store & Fogg Couture.
Angels runs a one-woman shop specializing in handmade wearable art and accessories, especially witch and wizard hats. She also make magickal products like poppets, oils, and teas.
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Episode 17 features Amanda, the face behind Dark Arts & Roses.
Amanda is a self-taught artist with a degree in art history, as well as tattoo and cosmetology licenses. She likes to work small, with a ton of detail and loves to juxtapose bright, bold color schemes with dark and macabre subject matter. Amanda is fascinated by the beauty that can be found in darkness.
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Episode 18 features Eric, the face behind the camera and the owner of Eric Richardson Photography.
Eric specializes in dark, horror and unusual photography. His main series is the “sexy horror series, which tributes to the great horror characters done with a little sizzle. 🔥 Eric sells prints and framed work - with all customized frames!
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Episode 19 features Joe & Emily, the owners of Rocky Mountain Punk.
Joe and Emily are a husband and wife team from Colorado. They specialize in steampunk/nature/punk inspired art and jewelry and funky coffee pour over stands!
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Episode 20 features Jess, the owner of Curioscape Designs.
Jess is a Denver-based artist who creates small sculptures and jewelry using elements of nature. She finds inspiration in science, magic, and the natural world while exploring themes of death, conservation, learning from the natural world around us, and the beauty of decay. The materials used in her artwork include insects, bones, moss, flowers, and crystals. Jess assembles these items into tiny environments called “Curioscapes”. They are inspired by the assemblages of natural curiosities found in the Wunderkammer, or Curiosity Cabinets of sixteenth century Europe. She also creates work in the style of witch bottles and spirit houses found in traditional witchcraft practices. Jess uses art as a ritual practice, creating her work with intention and love, and honoring the creatures that are preserved within each piece.
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Episode 21 features Megg, the owner of Death Couture.
Megg is a Philadelphia based artist. Death Couture specializes in Victorian inspired framed insects & wearable oddities such as skull and butterfly jewelry.
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Episode 23 features Mallory, the artist behind Mallory Hart Art.
Mallory Hart is a professional artist and illustrator based out of Denver, Colorado. Inspired by the rustic, gritty, industrial side of the natural world, she renders a style that is both realistic and playful. Mallory specializes in watercolor but regularly works with acrylic and oil, as well as other mediums. Her vast portfolio runs the gamut from disquietly dark skull images to joyously heartwarming pet portraits. In addition to fine art, Mallory creates enamel pins, patches, and stickers.
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Episode 24 features Cheyenne, the artist behind Atomic Folk Art.
Atomic Folk Art specializes in the preservation of animal remains, with an emphasis in ornate displays that exhibit a victorian or baroque aesthetic. They work with all sorts of insects and other preserved animals to create elegant natural history influenced pieces. These pieces are meant to express a love and appreciation for nature; even after death.
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Episode 25 features Kelly, the owner of MsFormaldehyde.
Kelly is a lover of all things spooky. She specializes in making creepy headgear... from horns to vintage hats!
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Episode 26 features Dougie, the artist behind ShadowMyths.
Dougie is a dark fantasy illustrator, but started out as a gallery landscape painter. Eventually his wife said that he should paint what he loves.... monsters! The ShadowMyths decks came out from Dougies idea to write books that weren't the usual art book. So, now he has his own world and his own stories... with paintings and mythologies to show others what it looks like.
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Episode 27 features Ellie and Brandan, the artists behind Mad Tatters.
Mad Tatters are a dynamic duo from Denver, CO. They are known for their theatrical circus of myth magic, mystery and intrigue! From whimsical to spiritual, philosophical to the absurd, the art they make is Mad in all the right ways!
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Episode 28 features Steve, the artist behind Mad Hatter Creations.
Steve loves sculpting creepy, gory, odd and twisted pieces. He mainly focuses on "functional " art in that the majority of what he creates can be useful! For example, Mad Hatter Creations makes functional pieces of art such as: Mugs, lighter sleeves, journals, pendants and more.
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Episode 29 features Noah and Ali, the owners of Eccentric Supply.
Eccentric Supply specializes in ethically sourced animal products. They mostly sell the pieces not used by the industry that the animal was unfortunately killed for. They make sure that pieces like the feet, tails, bones, etc are preserved and do not go to waste. Noah and Ali like to provide raw materials for artists and craftspeople so that every part of the animal is going somewhere useful.
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Episode 30 features Nicholas, the owner of Nighttime Nicholas.
Nighttime Nicholas creates some wild things. Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Nicholas currently focuses on diaphonization - a process that uses animals and makes muscles and tissues see-through while staining the bones. Imagine a gummy-bear with a skeleton, THAT's diaphonization. This process takes many months to perform, and Nicholas' personal process has allowed him to work all over North America, working with leading scientists from museums, donating to natural history collections, and co-writing papers with professors from Cornell.
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Episode 31 features Chelsea, the owner of @chelseascreenname
Chelsea specializes in kitsch prints. Her newest series is a jungle room of gothic camp, psychedelic fear, paranoia, cults, quarantine and Covid19.
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Episode 32 features David, the artist behind Lab Creature.
Lab Creature loves cats, monsters and spooky stuff! Lately they have been transforming their passions for all things weird into art prints, cat toys, stickers, button badges, pins and apparel.
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Episode 33 features Jeremy, the artist behind PRL Creative.
Jeremy creates Monster's, Mashups and Musically Inspired Art! He specializes in watercolors and other paint mediums to try and find a balance between those dark and light moments in our lives.
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Episode 34 features Alexandra, the artist behind Elegant Gore.
Alexandras work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. Elegant Gore specializes in alcohol ink paintings and hand painted boxes.
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Episode 35 features Karin, the artist behind Ampersand Curiosities.
Karin specializes in the alchemy of crystallizing insects and other specimens; discovering the intricacies of nature with an artistic touch.
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