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August 05, 2007 |
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Skull with Parasol
FOUND by Kim
in Hollywood, Florida
This is a picture that appears to be a Victorian-style doll with an over-sized skeleton head fitted over the original head. I work for a design firm. I found it in the bottom drawer of my desk when I first started working here. I've heard rumors from my co-workers that this skull head was also placed on the body of a deformed frog in another picture somewhere in the building. My New Year's resolution is to find that photo and laugh at it.
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I sat here and just laughed for a good ten minutes at that. I think I'm tired...
How very dia de los muertos.
Please let me be the first: Ewwww, CREEPY!
I found a few razor blades in my desk drawer when I first started my job. You'd think one would be enough to do the trick. They are still there...just in case.
Very cool pic! I am going to print that out and put it up at my office for Day of the Dead.
wow, that sounds like fun.
bored day at work? happen to have a skull, victorian doll, deformed frog, and camara? then just take some crazy pictures, hide them around the office building and see how people react when they are found!
wow that is so awesome and surreal. im going to get high and look at it again
I think I've found my Halloween costume for this year...
Normally when I'm speechless I just don't comment.
Wow.
Wow.
I'm speechless-
At first I thought it was a kid dressed up for Holloween as PRINCESS SCARY HEAD. But then I read the caption.
Writer, Rejected, I thought the same thing. And then I was wondering why a little girl would want to look so scary! lol
Dia de los muertes is the first thing I thought of. Then I thought: Nice parasol. You don't see those much any more.
Wow! Great find!
It's the new "Barbie" - "Day-Of-The-Dead-Barbie!" In stores now - limited quantities.
That might be the first/only Barbie doll I buy! I love it!
Delani in mesa, your comment is better than the found. I'm still chuckling.
That's a bit of an ominous omen, to find that in your desk on the first day of a new job- great find though! Creepy as hell...
i have that same skull head!! it's hanging in my garage - but it was originally on top of a undersized skeleton (costumed) body. it danced to the song Super Freak. then it broke. but we kept the head. super cool pic. oh, and your new years resolution is a fine and noble one....
This is a very sofisticated skeleton.
At first I thought it was a person on stage. I was wondering what the crazy play was about.
I'm looking forward to seeing the frog skull, so keep searching.
Funny Matt! I was wondering what the neon green dot is for? So you can find her in a crowd?
I should have dressed like that for my date last night.
Dear SALT, this is in reference to your list a while back for the perfect woman. Maybe she'll look like this.
If we all had lists like that none of us would ever find a woman or get laid. If you ever do find someone who matches that list, you are either the luckiest man alive, or i would absolutely hate to be you.
"Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it."
When I first saw this picture it reminded me of that poem with the dancing, dressed up skeleton written by Baudelaire...
Fabulous Find! Just wonderful, in that surreal sort of way.
Anna in Denmark: yeah, this poem? Me, too.
THE DANCE OF DEATH
by: Charles Baudelaire
ARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves,
Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves
With all the careless and high-stepping grace,
And the extravagant courtesan's thin face.
Was slimmer waist e'er in a ball-room wooed?
Her floating robe, in royal amplitude,
Falls in deep folds around a dry foot, shod
With a bright flower-like shoe that gems the sod.
The swarms that hum about her collar-bones
As the lascivious streams caress the stones,
Conceal from every scornful jest that flies,
Her gloomy beauty; and her fathomless eyes
Are made of shade and void; with flowery sprays
Her skull is wreathed artistically, and sways,
Feeble and weak, on her frail vertebrae.
O charm of nothing decked in folly! they
Who laugh and name you a Caricature,
They see not, they whom flesh and blood allure,
The nameless grace of every bleached, bare bone,
That is most dear to me, tall skeleton!
Come you to trouble with your potent sneer
The feast of Life! or are you driven here,
To Pleasure's Sabbath, by dead lusts that stir
And goad your moving corpse on with a spur?
Or do you hope, when sing the violins,
And the pale candle-flame lights up our sins,
To drive some mocking nightmare far apart,
And cool the flame hell lighted in your heart?
Fathomless well of fault and foolishness!
Eternal alembic of antique distress!
Still o'er the curved, white trellis of your sides
The sateless, wandering serpent curls and glides.
And truth to tell, I fear lest you should find,
Among us here, no lover to your mind;
Which of these hearts beat for the smile you gave?
The charms of horror please none but the brave.
Your eyes' black gulf, where awful broodings stir,
Brings giddiness; the prudent reveller
Sees, while a horror grips him from beneath,
The eternal smile of thirty-two white teeth.
For he who has not folded in his arms
A skeleton, nor fed on graveyard charms,
Recks not of furbelow, or paint, or scent,
When Horror comes the way that Beauty went.
O irresistible, with fleshless face,
Say to these dancers in their dazzled race:
"Proud lovers with the paint above your bones,
Ye shall taste death, musk scented skeletons!
Withered Antinoüs, dandies with plump faces,
Ye varnished cadavers, and grey Lovelaces,
Ye go to lands unknown and void of breath,
Drawn by the rumour of the Dance of Death.
From Seine's cold quays to Ganges' burning stream,
The mortal troupes dance onward in a dream;
They do not see, within the opened sky,
The Angel's sinister trumpet raised on high.
In every clime and under every sun,
Death laughs at ye, mad mortals, as ye run;
And oft perfumes herself with myrrh, like ye
And mingles with your madness, irony!"
'The Dance of Death' is reprinted from The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire. Ed. James Huneker. New York: Brentano's, 1919.
I, too, thought of el Dia de los Muertos...
Sometimes a skull just wants to feel pretty.
Delani said:
>>bored day at work? happen to have a skull, victorian doll, deformed frog, and camara? then just take some crazy pictures, hide them around the office building and see how people react when they are found! <<
Hahahaha! I could see Jim from 'The Office' doing something like that to Dwight.
When I first looked at that, I thought it was a Katrina Doll. Though on further inspection, the head is just too big for it to be a Katrina.
oh noes, a repeat :o
What's going on? This is an old one.
I hope they're not recycling old finds b/c there are a few I've submitted and not seen yet!
This is an old find...August 05, 2007.
;[
Wow he is going to have so much fun with his umbrella and pretty little dress.
GO YOU Skeleton head guy! GO YOU!
to terrieissovery in totally-unique-ville:
I like how you worded that, day of the dead, I never would have thought of it.
It's La Katrina