Whitechapel - Purefinder - finding purity in filth 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346357#Comment_346357 2013-01-05T12:34:57-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Hello fellow denizens, I've been around these parts for a while now - you haven't killed me, I haven't killed you - so I'd like to welcome you to my world. After getting permission from the ...
I've been around these parts for a while now - you haven't killed me, I haven't killed you - so I'd like to welcome you to my world.

After getting permission from the landlord, I'm pinning my shitty A4, hand-drawn poster to the pub wall and asking you all to join me, every week, for an ongoing discussion.

The thing that will form the core of that discussion will be the research I didn't put into my debut novel. Yes, yes, this is a form of shilling - apologies for those of you that don't like honesty - but it is a particularly Whitechaplian form.

My debut novel, Purefinder, is set in 1858 in London and over the course of the ongoing discussion themes will rear their ugly heads.

Until such a time, I want you to come up with the grossest, darkest, and most delectable ideas of what we'd do with a novel set in 1858 and the snippets that pop up here every Wednesday and Sunday.
[Full disclosure, you can look at my blog to find out what I've hinted at but you won't find the whole truth - only here on Whitechapel will that eventually disgust you enough to look away from your screens. Of course, I can't give the whole book away so here too, there'll remain an element of the unseen.]

First of the lot is this beauty:

the ace of hearts

Have at it.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346373#Comment_346373 2013-01-05T19:22:45-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284 That guy seems to get around.
]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346382#Comment_346382 2013-01-06T00:54:37-08:00 2013-01-06T01:19:46-08:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Now I really wish I'd seen that in my research! Sexytimes with Skeleton Guy. ETA: Can we not let this descend into slashfic? [Unless...well, unless everyone on Whitechapel demands ...
Sexytimes with Skeleton Guy.

ETA: Can we not let this descend into slashfic? [Unless...well, unless everyone on Whitechapel demands it...including the landlord.]
- Thanks]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346386#Comment_346386 2013-01-06T03:45:28-08:00 2013-01-07T05:27:55-08:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 1858, Egypt. The Stele of Ankh-ef-en Khonsu (the Stele of Revealing) is discovered at the Temple of Hatsheput. From the wiki: On the front Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu is as a priest of Montu can be ...
From the wiki:

On the front Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu is as a priest of Montu can be seen; he is presenting offerings to the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty ("Re-Horus of the Two Horizons"), a synchronistic form of the gods Ra and Horus, who is seated on a throne. The symbol of the west, the place of the Dead, is seen behind Re-Harakhty. Above the figures is a depiction of Nut, the sky goddess who stretches from horizon to horizon. Directly beneath her is the Winged Solar Disk, Horus of Behdet.


The artefact goes on to become a central element in the Thelemic teachings of Aleister Crowley. In 1904, Crowley and his scarlet mistress, Rose, visit the Cairo Museum, and recognise the god depicted as Horus, who spoke to Rose through Aiwass. The catalogue number of the item, at the time, was 666.

Horus the Sky God, God of War and Hunting. Ra the Sun God, traveller in the Underworld, creator of the universe. Hatsheput, the empress, who helped build the wealth of Egypt by forging trade routes, sending out expeditionary forces.

I mention this merely in passing. In 1858 in London, Crowley was still unborn. Eliphas Levi, who Crowley claimed to be a reincarnation of, had visited London 5 years previously to perform a powerful magickal ritual. Occultism and spiritualism were gaining in popularity in London. People were listening to Mendelssohn. Darwin was about to unveil his theory of natural selection.

A fascinating time to set a story, Ben. I'll be reading the blog and these discussions with interest.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346394#Comment_346394 2013-01-06T07:22:09-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Another addition: cheers, Bram. I didn't put much Egyptology or big discoveries in my research as I was trying to focus on my Purefinder's life and what he and his lot would know but I read ...
I didn't put much Egyptology or big discoveries in my research as I was trying to focus on my Purefinder's life and what he and his lot would know but I read through a year's worth of newspapers stretching over that period.

There was much that happened in 1858 that seems to have happened 150 years before and again 150 years after - were I more inclined to write fantasy or even sci-fi, I could have focused on it as a nexus point in time.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346396#Comment_346396 2013-01-06T08:05:28-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 I've spent a bit of time researching 1850s London this year too, so this is going to be fascinating for me. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346399#Comment_346399 2013-01-06T08:23:51-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Oddcult http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=214 That image isn't of the Stele of Revealing. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346436#Comment_346436 2013-01-07T05:27:44-08:00 2013-01-07T05:28:22-08:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 Apologies, added that after a brief (and obviously misguided) image search. Now removed! If you have the correct image, post away, I've clearly been looking at the worng one! Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346438#Comment_346438 2013-01-07T07:03:47-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Oddcult http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=214 ]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346439#Comment_346439 2013-01-07T07:19:14-08:00 2013-01-07T07:20:37-08:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346441#Comment_346441 2013-01-07T07:37:43-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 Magic! Literally. Cheers Oddcult and Oldhat! Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346445#Comment_346445 2013-01-07T09:47:37-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75 Oh! Probably should have explained what mine is. First one is the Hymn to Ninkasi, is a 19th century BC Sumerian beer recipe. The other is a 17th century woodcut of an alehouse.
The other is a 17th century woodcut of an alehouse.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346457#Comment_346457 2013-01-07T13:52:26-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Those are gorgeous, Robin. I like the fact that a midget is bringing them beer: as I'm tired, I can't remember if I included a midget in Purefinder but now I really hope I did. You all have ...
I like the fact that a midget is bringing them beer: as I'm tired, I can't remember if I included a midget in Purefinder but now I really hope I did.

You all have until Tuesday to tell me what the skeleton poker boys are up to. All responses welcome: tomorrow night [if I've internet in my new place] I'll let you know what I was going to do with it but didn't.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346461#Comment_346461 2013-01-07T14:29:24-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75 It may be a dwarf, but most likely a kid. :P Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346462#Comment_346462 2013-01-07T14:47:15-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 James Cunningham http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2925 Getting their poker playin' asses reamed by a skeleton, is what's happening there. You try reading its expression or figuring out its tells. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346552#Comment_346552 2013-01-09T03:41:39-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 So I don't have internet in my new flat but that gave James time to vet surprisingly close to my original, nefarious plans. I'll update when I get to a wifi spot later and I'm not typing on my ...
I'll update when I get to a wifi spot later and I'm not typing on my phone.

Thanks for the contributions all, they've been fun]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346558#Comment_346558 2013-01-09T05:57:19-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Oddcult http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=214 Victorian Values.





Victorian Values.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346585#Comment_346585 2013-01-09T13:30:49-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Damn you Oddcult! That top image was one of my future posts. Ah well. So: the previous image was originally intended to begin as a poker game they saw in a window where the skeleton was veiled ...
That top image was one of my future posts. Ah well.

So: the previous image was originally intended to begin as a poker game they saw in a window where the skeleton was veiled but the veil slipped and the men soon began to covet the skeletons cards & bones, to rip off its arms, and to fuck its ribs. Covetous.

Seeing as how Oddcult got the jump on me: take that image, give me gore & plenty.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346761#Comment_346761 2013-01-13T06:50:26-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Well, lab rats, with no response I'll just have to shove it down your throats. She was to be a walking, shambling vision of just what had happened to my main character's wife after death. My ...
She was to be a walking, shambling vision of just what had happened to my main character's wife after death. My Purefinder would have seen her coming toward him in a moment of terror but I thought it too hammer horror to include in the end draft.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346762#Comment_346762 2013-01-13T06:51:34-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 New research for you: tell me what this is and what I should have done with it -
]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346801#Comment_346801 2013-01-14T06:07:08-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 Is this a plate from Darwin's Origin of Species? That's my best guess without recourse to Google. I reckon a good use of them all would be some kind of stew... Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346803#Comment_346803 2013-01-14T07:00:22-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253 I reckon you're right. A picture menu for illiterate members of the Gluttons Club Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346807#Comment_346807 2013-01-14T08:37:14-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Hah - brilliant! Wrong, but brilliant. =P /\__/\ Keep those guesses, messes, story-making-presses a-coming.
Wrong, but brilliant. =P /\__/\

Keep those guesses, messes, story-making-presses a-coming.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346908#Comment_346908 2013-01-16T10:43:46-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 You swabs give up? Good, I'll keep a-flogging the thing. That was originally: 1) An ape chokes her young embracing him. coecus amor sobolis. The love we have for our children is blind. 2) ...
Good, I'll keep a-flogging the thing.

That was originally:

1) An ape chokes her young embracing him. coecus amor sobolis. The love we have for our children is blind.

2) A tortoise. Domus optima. The best house is one’s own.

3) A squirrel crossing a river on a plank, with its tail up high. Vincit solertia vires. Cleverness surpasses strength, etc….


From Recueil d’emblêmes, devises, medailles… (Collection of emblems, devices, medals…), by Nicolas Verien, Paris, 1724.

And I'd intended it to be one of a collection of rare finds that my main character had even though you wouldn't expect someone of his class to have. Unfortunately, I realized that...yeah, he wouldn't have.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346910#Comment_346910 2013-01-16T11:14:11-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Next in line time: What up with that face?


What up with that face?]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346915#Comment_346915 2013-01-16T12:21:52-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284 That face is actually just a decoy, the actual head is the hat. is the hat.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346932#Comment_346932 2013-01-16T20:20:03-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Fishelle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8854 That photograph reminds me a lot of the work of Ed Bateman, who teaches photography and computer classes at my university. He photoshops in robots, machines, or devices meant to communicate with the ...
Anyway, that's clearly not damage to the photograph, but rather some sort of electric energy expelling from her face. Maybe there's an antenna under the hat.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346937#Comment_346937 2013-01-16T23:35:11-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253 She's 282 feet tall and those are clouds Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346945#Comment_346945 2013-01-17T04:20:54-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 Sorry, sorry, I was chopping out rails and I didn't realise this was your photo. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346947#Comment_346947 2013-01-17T04:25:06-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253 Is that why it says High Street, texture? Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346953#Comment_346953 2013-01-17T07:19:57-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 You got me... Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346960#Comment_346960 2013-01-17T08:40:11-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Jessops took this photo while music from HMV played in the background. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347114#Comment_347114 2013-01-20T09:56:28-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 "Right, my lovelies - an explanation, is it?" [In the best cod-Swanzeeeee you can do.] Initially I had plans for my protagonist's wife to feature more in the book and, in those sections, ...
Initially I had plans for my protagonist's wife to feature more in the book and, in those sections, for her to have a penchant for wearing traditional Welsh garb. The hat here has to be a pisstake [even though traditional garb is pretty close] so I'd intended for one of the scenes that bonded them together was a playful hat swapping and clothes trying in a clothes/tailoring shop that they knew they couldn't afford. They would have pretended to be well off on entering, only to try several things on and pose for each other then tell the clerk that it wasn't quite right and exuent.

Unfortunately, this bit proved superfluous to the action of the book and distracted too much from the emotional currents. Ah well - we cut our lovies.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347116#Comment_347116 2013-01-20T10:08:56-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 This girl, that look, your jaw. Let it drop onto the keyboard and give me your fantasies. [Flash-slashfic welcome for this one and the monkey one.]
This girl, that look, your jaw.

Let it drop onto the keyboard and give me your fantasies. [Flash-slashfic welcome for this one and the monkey one.]]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347140#Comment_347140 2013-01-21T05:45:34-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 It's the head of Anne Hathaway on the body of Macho Man Randy Savage! Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347141#Comment_347141 2013-01-21T06:00:57-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253 Early Ramones fan. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347145#Comment_347145 2013-01-21T08:32:47-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 I may love you both... but not as much as she loves opium. but not as much as she loves opium.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347287#Comment_347287 2013-01-24T10:27:20-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 It is so freakin easy to fall behind - 'Bi-weekly' I said, 'Every Wednesday and Sunday' I said. Pah - one night of preparation for one job and this one gets a shot to the gut. Pah. OK, well, our ...
OK, well, our Fashionable Beauty might well have been Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, an opera singer and I'd originally intended a large opera-flecked parallel strain of narrative that saw a fashionable beauty rise through the singer ranks to starlet status. This was to emphasize how certain class ideals put a decadent culture ahead of others for the sake of tradition but...it would have been too much for such a beautifully simple book. It would have made the whole narrative too Joycean and too distracting. Ho hum, we cut our loves.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347288#Comment_347288 2013-01-24T10:32:50-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Ballyhoo?
Ballyhoo?]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347413#Comment_347413 2013-01-27T08:56:14-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 That last pic is from Sketches in London, by James Grant, London, published in 1850. An excellent scene, I think: depicting a sometimes typical invasion of the stage but it's the details that ... Sketches in London, by James Grant, London, published in 1850.

An excellent scene, I think: depicting a sometimes typical invasion of the stage but it's the details that count - look at where the audience's hands are.

As I've said before, I'd considered a parallel storyline in an opera but I'd also considered having my two troupe to the theatre - unfortunately, I thought it'd make it too melodramatic.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347414#Comment_347414 2013-01-27T09:00:54-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 If you've not seen it over on my blog, here's some good stuff for ya: “For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818: There was a ... my blog, here's some good stuff for ya:


“For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818: There was a naughty boy; I do not know what his name was, but it was not Charles, nor George, nor Arthur, for those are all very pretty names: but there was a robin came in at his window one very cold morning — shiver — shiver; and its poor little heart was almost frozen to death. And he would not give it the least crumb of bread in the world, but pulled it about by the tail and hurt it sadly, and it died. Now a little while after, the naughty boy’s papa and mamma went away and left him, and then he could get no victuals at all, for you know he could not take care of himself. So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys. So he went about from one place to another, till at last he got into a thick wood of trees; for he did not know how to find his way any where; and then it grew dark night. So he sat down and cried sadly; and he could not get out of the wood; and I believe the bears came and ate him up in the wood, for I never heard any thing about him afterwards.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347715#Comment_347715 2013-02-01T09:50:05-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Wait, what? Where did the last 5 days go? Ok - well, that there AmeriCAN story was a possible a tale my antagonist would tell but, it not fitting with character, didn't.
Ok - well, that there AmeriCAN story was a possible a tale my antagonist would tell but, it not fitting with character, didn't.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347716#Comment_347716 2013-02-01T09:51:41-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 On Wednesday, I did actually post on time...but on my blog so here it is for y'all: Foreground the chaos. Let the shadow of peace glimmer in the end, at the back – in the hidden. Forwhy?
A torrent

Foreground the chaos.
Let the shadow of peace glimmer in the end, at the back – in the hidden.

Forwhy?]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347797#Comment_347797 2013-02-03T12:25:50-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Keep keep, keep thee on. That torrent was to be one moment of many in a look at the nature of photography and its counterpart, illustration.
That torrent was to be one moment of many in a look at the nature of photography and its counterpart, illustration.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347799#Comment_347799 2013-02-03T12:30:48-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Flogging horses, I strive on: Seen one o these before?


Seen one o these before?]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347944#Comment_347944 2013-02-06T14:51:03-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 WELL you shoulda cos now I'm all shouty and drunk: This is a lover's note, foo. there's stuff behind it but I'll save y except to say, go here for more. [Via Letters of Note.]
This is a lover's note, foo.

there's stuff behind it but I'll save y except to say, go here for more. [Via Letters of Note.]]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347945#Comment_347945 2013-02-06T14:52:10-08:00 2013-02-07T07:59:36-08:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Seeing as how I don't want to post several images this time, go here and let me know what you think here on Whitechapel. [No, that syntax is not confusing.] {ETA: I may have been drunk and lazy ... here and let me know what you think here on Whitechapel.

[No, that syntax is not confusing.]

{ETA: I may have been drunk and lazy last night - apologies for the lack of proper content. Next time, Gadget. Next time.}]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348164#Comment_348164 2013-02-10T08:41:32-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 So the detail from that last post was actually something that got included in the first draft - fortunately, life provided me with a much larger, much more real and contemporary figure for ... Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348165#Comment_348165 2013-02-10T08:56:46-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Dandy bestiality? YOU TELL ME]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348188#Comment_348188 2013-02-10T17:12:40-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Fishelle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8854 That cat is so obviously stuffed. It reminds me of a list I saw on one of those websites that do nothing but list things, with the most surreal photographs taken by google trucks for the street view ... It reminds me of a list I saw on one of those websites that do nothing but list things, with the most surreal photographs taken by google trucks for the street view on google maps. One of them had a lion outside a convenience store. I glanced at a couple of comments to find that people in the neighborhood could explain that one. The store just has a stuffed lion and likes to put it up from time to time to freak people out a bit.
So I'm thinking that's just a stuffed toy the girl likes to have with her all the time, like my 4 year old niece and her stuffed horse named Pink. It's just a bit bigger than the usual toy.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348220#Comment_348220 2013-02-11T09:23:06-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 What gave it away, THE CRAZY EYES? Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348221#Comment_348221 2013-02-11T09:33:55-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284 Not just the cat, the ladies too. That man is an artist. artist.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348223#Comment_348223 2013-02-11T09:46:52-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Lady stuffing? "Good morning, sir. I'd like a pound of your finest lady stuffing." "I'll give your lady a stuffing."
"Good morning, sir. I'd like a pound of your finest lady stuffing."
"I'll give your lady a stuffing."]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348584#Comment_348584 2013-02-17T09:47:16-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Well, lady stuffing aside - that was going to be the hallucination of a man walking his leopard with plenty of questions about whether or not it is actually a hallucination. Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348585#Comment_348585 2013-02-17T09:58:32-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Get some malibu, sit back, drink. drinkinAndSinkin]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348917#Comment_348917 2013-02-24T11:14:24-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 That one was intended to be a fever dream too. London drying to desert due to my protagonist's thirst - all a bit too much; there are fever dreams and there are over-used metaphors. So that one got ... Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348919#Comment_348919 2013-02-24T11:24:58-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Fancy a dance? With a robot? Yeah, the 19th Century French did too.
hup-hup

Yeah, the 19th Century French did too.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349069#Comment_349069 2013-02-26T04:13:43-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Scrymgeour http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4141 aren't those the sex dolls who accompany the Golly in LOEG? Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349133#Comment_349133 2013-02-27T01:28:25-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Interestingly, they're not [under my intention] where I found them but they're very close. This piece is from Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Grandville in ...
This piece is from Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1844 [and I found them at archive.org] whereas the figure of the Golliwog only really came around in the late 19th century - it's possible Moore cribbed these both and threw them together.

It's been roughly 3 years since I read The Black Dossier. Thanks for highlighting the connection, good Scrymgeour.]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349469#Comment_349469 2013-03-03T16:13:18-08:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Scrymgeour http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4141 I think he did. My main knowledge of the Golly comes from the massive one that used to adorn a factory in my home town My main knowledge of the Golly comes from the massive one that used to adorn a factory in my home town]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349803#Comment_349803 2013-03-10T14:29:42-07:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Busy Ben has meant a lull in posts here but a continuation over at the blog so I'll give what they were to be used for then throw a few more pics at you. Those dolls were to be part of a ...
Those dolls were to be part of a beauuuuutiful stage show that my protagonist was forced to go to that then followed him out onto the streets but it all got a bit ridiculous and an entourage woulda spoiled the Dantean two wanderers feel. So there. Nuh.

;)]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349804#Comment_349804 2013-03-10T14:31:14-07:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
LovelyBitOFishThis
NoColinNo]]> Purefinder - finding purity in filth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=350634#Comment_350634 2013-03-28T05:06:25-07:00 2013-05-24T10:06:06-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Jebus what a fortnight. Startups are time-heavy. Excuse the breaks, they may will happen. Those three were to be some of the books my main boy had read - I was hoping he'd be a little smarter ...
Startups are time-heavy. Excuse the breaks, they may will happen.

Those three were to be some of the books my main boy had read - I was hoping he'd be a little smarter than your average working-class immigrant but then I realized that no, there's no need to make him likable to intellectuals. It's their job to engage with the character.]]>