Mike Clelland at hidden experience writes about an interesting dream about an owl, and a hummingbird. Aside from the normal owl-as-symbol-of-esoterica, there seems to be a bit of synchronicity going on with birds in general and windshields. (Visit here to listen to the recent conversation Mike and I had about birds and general weirdness.)
I started up a new blog: Alien Art Genre. From the blog’s blurb:
Alien Art Genre: Drawings, paintings, and other artistic renderings of aliens, entities, UFOs, esoteric happenings and other strange things experienced — whether literally or by inspiration — by creative witnesses. If you have an image to submit, email Regan Lee at rlee@orangeorb.net with image, medium, title and brief description (direct sighting or encounter, inspired by _____, etc.)
I’ve been feeling the urge to paint Mothman images — do a whole series of small paintings with UFOs and entities as the theme — and this is my first Mothman attempt. Just scribbling, really. This is a pen and pencil sketch I did, then manipulated it with the Photobooth tools. The original drawing has more color (didn’t have the tools I wanted, and too lazy to walk out to the studio in the back to get them) and I’ve cropped the image a bit.
This is a great image of a crop circle “butterfly” on the Coast to Coast site. But as Lesley commented on The Debris Field (where I found the link) it looks more like Mothman, and I agree. Definitely Mothman!
After reading Andrew Covlin’s first Mothman book; Mothman’s Photographer II, I was inspired to actively seek out winged images as I went about the day. Here’s a photo I took while I was reading the book; it’s of a statue I drive by a couple of times a week, but, even though it’s right in front, near the sidewalk, I never noticed it before. Then one day, as I was driving by, while immersed in Colvin’s book, the statue just popped out at me, so I took a photo. (Sorry about the fuzzy image…)
I found this image in a couple of places on-line, including the Coast to Coast site, where a listener had sent in this info about the illustration:
Cleveland Press (a now defunct newspaper) printed back in late 1950’s. This was from the “True Life Adventures” (non-fictional) put out by Disney.
I like the fact that Disney put this in the non-fiction, “True Life Adventure” category…
This drawing of a shadow person on the Coast to Coast site has a Mothman type feel to it. Glowing red eyes, black/shadow, night time, bedroom visitation . . . I’m not suggesting shadow entities and Mothman are the same but there is a similarity there that reminded me of Mothman encounters.
Thanksgiving Prayer
Thanksgiving is over, but this is so good and so here it is, a poem by William Burroughs. I’m posting it here because turkey is a winged thing, after all, one we sacrifice, literally, in some sort of act of cultural transubstantian. . . . thanks to Andrew Colvin, for the link, and Adam Gorightly, who posted it on his blog where I found it. Speaking of Colvin, good news — his book Mothman Photographer’s III should be available on amazon.com Christmas Day.
