Flashback Weekend (Chicago) Art Show

Flashback Weekend is pleased to announce that the 2006 convention will play host to its first annual Horror and Dark Art Show, an art exhibit of work that celebrates all things horrific, dark and spooky!

Overseen by Chad Savage (hey, that's me!) and the jury that handles the World Horror Convention Art Show and spookyART.com's Gallery, the FBW Horror and Dark Art Show will showcase paintings, drawings, sculpture, jewelry, masks and other creations, by artists who specialize in the genres of horror, dark fantasy, gothic, supernatural and similarly dark topics.

The show will be open to convention attendees for the duration of the convention, open during Dealer's Room hours.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: The FBW Horror and Dark Art Show is currently seeking artists who would like to participate in this event. This is a juried show, which means you'll need to submit your work for review before you can exhibit. For details, paperwork, fees, rules and additional info, please visit www.flashbackweekend.com/artshow.html.

Flashback Weekend Horror Convention & Drive-In takes place in Chicago on July 28-30, 2006 - visit www.flashbackweekend.com for details.

2006 and the Birth of the Sinister Circuit

Roughly 10 years after my first forays on the web, the last week has seen the culmination of a LOT of ideas/concepts/endeavors that have been in my Mental Hopper for a year or so.

In the mid-90's I established my first outpost on the web - www.sinistervisions.com - the place where I shucked-and-jived my graphic/web design/illustration services to the potential hirin' public.

Just about 10 years hence, www.sinistervisions.com, while still one serious powerhouse of a website, don't quite cover it.

This last decade, I've jumped into this here internet with both feet and joyously splashed around, making connections in the horror, Halloween, haunted attraction, gothic, industrial and dark art genres with wild abandon.

Further, I've made giant leaps in getting the types of people interested in this stuff to talk to each other, work together, and embark on on- and off-line endeavors to make the world a slightly darker and more spookily artistic place for us all.

To that end, and in the interest of letting SinisterVisions.com un-clench and go back to being an art/design site, I've launched the Sinister Circuit - www.everythingsinister.com - which kind of soft-launched in 2005 as all those Sinister[name].com sites you might've seen.

The Sinister Circuit, which (lord knows) I'm still figuring out, is my attempt to bring some kind of order to the chaos of my affiliations, involvements, endeavors and sponsorship of all things dark'n'spooky. Conventions, art shows, artists, haunters, Halloweenies - you name it. There's a lot of'em. And we're growing.

So visit www.everythingsinister.com if you're currently thinking "Who the hell is this clown, anyway?" and hopefully, you'll get a sense of who I am, my passion for this Thing We Call Spooky, and what I'm trying to do.

If you'd like to become a part of the Sinister Circuit, email me at savage@sinistervisions.com and let's talk about it.

Thank you and good night.

ZombiePinups.com Has Risen from the Grave!

After far too long moldering in a dark, forgotten corner of the web, ZombiePinups.com has been re-vamped and kicked back into life!

With a broader design (no more little tiny content window), expanded gallery of Undead Beauty (featuring over 10 new photo sets from original ZPU models and new fan-submitted work), and the Deadspeak Message Board, there's plenty to sate your hunger for beauty and BRAAAAINS!

www.zombiepinups.com

Sinister / spookyART Updates

www.spookyart.com Version 2 is now live and awaiting your dark art pleasure. The site has been completely re-designed, overhauled, and re-structured to be more user-friendly and accessible. Any and all are welcome to use the Submission page to send us news, events, items of interest, links, etc. - as long as it is of interest to dark artists, or dark art enthusiasts, we'll seriously consider posting it.

www.darkartstore.com has several new products, including masks, prints, jewelry and other unique (and creepy) artistic creations.

SinisterVisions.com is now set up for banner advertising - visit www.sinistervisions.com/advertise.html for pricing and details...and if you haven't added your site's like to www.sinistersearch.com, what's the hold up?? :) Your site could be benefitting from the thousands of visitors the Sinister Sites get per day...