Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? - Arlo G

The subject of this day is horrification.

I mentioned earlier in one of my posts that it is in human nature to love to corrupt things. The attraction of making something turn against its current values has been proven time and time again, and the free limit for artistic expression is increasing by each day. Still, there is no denying the beauty of the following example.



As most times, none of these concepts are mine, I just hunted them down over Google. Credit to the original designers of these. However as you can see the original version is kind, yet crazy. What I really like with it is that even the horrified versions of it look kind. Only difference is that crazy turned closer towards insanity and child appealing looks converted to something aimed at higher ages. That is real horrification in my opinion. For whatever reason I cannot say it became evil, or more malicious for that reason. It just looks darker in it's own way.

These are some of my all time favorite concept art though. Particularly the top one which is from Mcgee's Alice in wonderland. In order to create a dark concept a character does not necessarily have to be mean, bloodthirsty or in any way evil. Dark will suffice in most occasions. It seems to me that it has just matured in a way, and it even did add to the character, and who does not love the original Cheshire cat? Imagine the horrified Cheshire cat speaking somewhat metaphorically as it kind of did in the books or the early cartoon. What more could you ask for?

Art has its dark side, but some of that can be beautiful in my opinion. Take destruction for example. Has there ever been a more beautiful visual device than a nuclear blast? Have you ever seen the tzar bomb go off before? It looks stunningly beautiful in terms of the visual, however that's not it primary purpose. Its primary purpose at the time was to scare the states into thinking that they had more advanced technology, but that's beside the point. Arguably the most dangerous weapon of all time is also the most beautiful one in its sense. Sure, we have seen ornamental weapons in the past which has their own special sense of beauty, but the shock and awe of a nuclear blast never stops to amaze me.

I guess that danger and destruction has its own sense of