*hugs* My phd is on the aesthetic of the uncanny and I truely believe that the reason it's so interesting is that there is no scientific explanation for it. Some questions just aren't supposed to be answered.

I've seen a few ghosts and I have to say that looks very like the little old man I saw who was just tonally white and surrounded in white mist. I'm still very dubious of photos but that really reminds me of my sighting.

My dad always encourages me to talk to them... as soon as I focus they go away though. He's really big on all this stuff and has been trying to get me to develop my inner eye since I was about 7. My dad royally fucked with my head when I was younger - you shouldn't push your beliefs on someone so young and impressoinable. When everyone elses parents were saying "don't be frightened there's no such things as ghosts" my dad was saying "ask him where he's from, is he happy or sad, try to hold himn in your gaze without actually focusing on him..." urgh 3 years of therapy later...

So hows the progress of your inner eye development going?

lol. shit. I really don't want to persue it, I want to close it off. But part of me is morbidly intrigued. My work's a bit slow atm too. Trying to find a form for anxiety isn't easy, but playing with dolls and making distorted figures and forms is getting be down. My art work is supposed to be ugly - and because of that it really isn't something you finish and go "oh lovely aww". You look at it and think "Fuck. I'm not sleeping with that shit in my room". I'm basically making humanistic figues that are supposed to make the viewer feel uneasy. I went to a Louise Boureois exhibition at Tate Modern and that helped hugely - her work is awesome. She's this grumpy little old woman who never stops making things.

How you go about getting a Fine Art phd based on the aesthetic of the uncanny? - sorry I can't remember who asked this in my user cp - by finding out all research previously written/documented on the field of the uncanny within art, literature, film etc and collating it, then doing your own research into it and comparing your findings to the previous research and coming up with something new. Something I've had to proove (sp?) early on is that both fiction and non-fiction are important resources for me because a lot of ideas and beliefs are documented in gothic novels and folktale which haven't yet been adressed in an academic setting, at least not from this view-point. Alongside the written work I'm creating physical works which challenge the concept of 'the uncanny' through aesthetic experience.

It's very easy to find myself sat amongst a pile of books and thread and cloth thinking "What the fuck am I doing?!" followed by manic laughter and lots of crying. I just need to keep at it and fullfil (sp?) the criteria, but it is getting my down at the moment. I keep wondering what the point is and I hate the fact that I could be earning double the money by working at tesco.

Sorry for my surprise uber rant

i need to try and take some photos of our ghost barnabus.

my goff friend's daughter is going to be on most haunted or something like that, aparently they have rules about being over 18 but she has such talent for whatever it is she does that they made an exception for her.

That's really cool about your friend's daughter - and I'd love to see a pic of barnabus and his biro's. Doesn't he scare you?

this is an article about the ghosts from before the building was renovated into shops
Ghosts

i've seen ghosts before too so i definitely believe in them.

we used to have this photo that we took in the backyard of our old house (which was haunted but that's a much longer story ) and there was a blurry man wearing a pink tie in the photo. who of course, had not been there! and it wasn't a double exposure because all the other photos on the roll were of the same garden. no people!
my mum burnt the photo though. lol

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Agreed, and I'm the biggest ghost-a-phobic in the world

eee i love this thread & i love that link ghost pictures are awesome. i remember looking through a big book of 'strange but true' phenomenon type shit in our elementary school library which had a big section of ghost pics.

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I've seen some of these photographs before. One or two of them are clearly faked, but I do love to look at them.

I'm a huge fan of the paranormal and love reading about it. For those with any sort of interest in the paranormal, I recommend you read Will Storr vs The Paranormal. Will Storr is a travel journalist and writer who sent out to the States to cover a paranormal story for Loaded magazine. He's a total sceptic. But he experiences something and decides to base a book upon it! It's terrifying and brilliantly funny in places.

that sounds like 1408? haha

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