'Poltergeist' soundtrack coming from Mondo ... on vinyl!

If you’re a fan of Poltergeist or a collector of vinyl records (or both), then you may want to grab this while it’s available soon. How soon? Well, the creative folks at Mondo will be releasing the Poltergeist score soundtrack on Feb. 22! So, pretty soon.
According to the press release, Mondo -- the collectible art division of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema -- commissioned original cover art from Australian Illustrators We Buy Your Kids for a two-disc vinyl of Jerry Goldsmith's score. Available for $25, a small portion of clear vinyl copies will be randomly included. Also, there will be five tracks never before released on vinyl.

Toxictoons Tuesday: A Haunting We Will Go

We're very pleased to announce a new collaboration with artist Eric "Unkle" Pigors, creator of Toxictoons. An animator for more than 18 years, Pigors has worked with Walt Disney Feature animation on hand-drawn animated films such as The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan and more. His work has also been seen on the Tim Burton-produced show, The Family Dog and he has designed T-shirts for Metallica and other bands. Unkle Pigors' Toxictoons are horror-themed gory fun creations that stand alongside Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, "Big Daddy" Ed Roth, Creepy Comics, Universal Monsters and General Mills' monster cereal.

On his site, he offers everything from tees, stickers and books to masks, Trick-or-Treat bags and more. Each week, Unkle Pigors will be be providing us with new artwork for you to check out. This week's work art is titled:

A Haunting We Will Go

Cardiff Giant to be resurrected, buried again

Some stories never die. Some need to be buried again and dug up to be appreciated. That's exactly what is happening on Oct. 16 when Central New York artist Ty Marshal recreates the Cardiff Giant sensation from 1869.

1869 exhumation. Photo by Calvin O. Gott

The Cardiff Giant hoax - often referred to as the greatest in American history - was the brainchild of New York businessman and atheist George Hull, who hired workers to carve a 10-foot-tall "petrified man" out of a block of gypsum after he had an argument with a Methodist reverend about the chapter in Genesis 6:4 that states "giants once roamed the earth." He then arranged for it to be buried in Cardiff, just south of Syracuse, dug up a year later and “found,” leading thousands of people to believe it was the petrified remains of an ancient giant man.

It so captured the nation's attention that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum and Mark Twain wrote about it. Later, a syndicate of Syracuse businessmen purchased the Giant for $23,000 and moved it to Syracuse for display, upping the price to $1.00 per view.

Fast forward 142 years to Central New York artist Ty Marshal. Marhsal is creating a replica of the famous Cardiff Giant with plans to bury it in Syracuse’s Lipe Art Park on West Fayette Street - only to dig it up again on Oct. 16, the anniversary of the original Giant discovery.

Paranormal Pop Art: 'The Walking Dead' promo revisited

Paranormal Pop Art is a feature showcasing the gorgeous, wondrous, creepy or cool artwork involving the paranormal (which you probably ascertained by the name, eh?). If you're a sculptor, painter, photographer, designer, videographer or musician and would like to share your work - or even if you just capture an awesome image connected to the paranormal - submit it to ParanormalPopArt AT gmail DOT com.

'The Walking Dead'-inspired art 
By Andrew Kolb, kolbisneat.com
(via ew.com)

In the artist's words: "If you haven’t heard of The Walking Dead, it’s a TV show from the fine folks at AMC adapted from the comic written by Robert Kirkman. I have two fears: zombies and drawing horses, but the show’s promo poster was such a striking image that I had to brave them both."

Paranormal Pop Art: Yum, yum zombies

Paranormal Pop Art is a feature showcasing the gorgeous, wondrous, creepy or cool artwork involving the paranormal (which you probably ascertained by the name, eh?). If you're a sculptor, painter, photographer, designer, videographer or musician and would like to share your work - or even if you just capture an awesome image connected to the paranormal - submit it to ParanormalPopArt AT gmail DOT com.

Cupcake Zombie
by Coco Fortunato
(Copyright Fortunato Ink)

Artist and friend of PPC, Coco Fortunato, provided this image a cute little cupcake encouraging the walking dead to eat another, more delectable pink treat - brains. We dig it, and it also reminds us here of a favorite new book, Yum-Yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches.

Paranormal Pop Art: Easter Island Eclipse

Paranormal Pop Art is a new feature showcasing the gorgeous, wondrous, creepy or cool artwork involving the paranormal (which you probably ascertained by the name, eh?). If you're a sculptor, painter, photographer, designer, videographer or musician and would like to share your work - or even if you just capture an awesome image connected to the paranormal - submit it to ParanormalPopArt AT gmail DOT com.

Easter Island Eclipse
by Stéphane Guisard
(Copyright Stéphane Guisard, TWAN)

This photo of the Moai statues on Easter Island was taken on July 11, 2010, during the total solar eclipse. (via BoingBoing, NASA)

New photos surface of Amazon pink dolphins

While they don't technically fit into the cryptid category - because there is proof of their existence and science can explain them - the Amazon pink dolphin, or boto as they're also known, are so rarely sighted that they may as well be creatures of mystery.

But not to photographer Kevin Schafer, who says he is the first to photograph them in 2008, and who will be showing off his work in June's National Geographic. In an interview with AOLNews, Schafer calls the photos a "project of a lifetime."

The male Amazon pink dolphin gets its bubblegum pink color because of scar tissue from fighting with other males, but interestingly the color has nothing to do with the shapeshifter legend of the dolphins. Within South American Amazon River folklore, the boto transforms into a handsome man at night to impregnate human women - or to sometimes lure men and women to underwater cities, wearing a hat to cover its blowhole while in human form - only to return to the river as a dolphin in the morning.

Schafer apparently didn't photograph any transforming dolphins, but to read more about how these creatures affect the Amazon culture, visit eco-adventurer writer Bill Belleville's site to read an excerpt about the boto from his book, Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks: Travels of a Water-Bound Adventurer.