This thing needs to be torched. Now.
EEEEEEE!
Mine eyes! Ze Goggles! Ze do nussing! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
SF, California? That San Francisco? St. Francis himself, maybe… but the city? The home of the leather clone look, the roller skating crossdressers giving out STD pamphlets, the Ripley’s “museum” at Fisherman’s Wharf, the Bush Man, Dead Kennedys and that row of porn shops across the street from City Lights…? 
My kitten looks like she just stepped out of one of those paintings. Her eyes are absolutely huge, and what’s worse is her pupils are almost always dialated. Eeek!
Good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.
Who painted all the big-eyed sad clowns & puppy dogs in the early 70s?
Village of the Damned, anyone?
Something’s missing. . .
I got it! That one with its mouth open on the right needs vampire fangs. That’d bring the whole piece together.
You mean these?
The name is Gig. I had several of them when I was younger.
Monty from Monty (formerly Robotman), after seeing the “sun” on the Teletubbies on TV
And you survived?
I had two Keane paintings in my bedroom (early 60’s) of big souless-eyed things (a clown and a ballerina, I think), and I always thought the painter was Walter. But after googling around, I find that Walter was the onetime husband of the aforementioned Margaret and claimed credit for those early creations. She took him to court and had a paint-off to prove she was the artist. He refused to paint (shoulder hurt, according to his 2001 obituary.)
Between the unblinking stares on my wall and the sound of ticking clocks (reminding me of my boogeyman, the ClockMan - a story told during Shirley Temple’s Children’s Hour, no less!), it’s remarkable that I ever got a decent night’s sleep as a kid.
Ooh, I like this. Reminds me of Bosch. I’ve never been much for Keane, but I guess she’s a kitsch classic.
[Obligatory Simpson’s Quote]“Can’t sleep, clown’ll eat me. Can’t sleep, clown’ll eat me.”[/OSQ]
[hijack]
Is that the one where the man comes out of the clock on the wall, locates children who aren’t asleep, and turns them into mice?
[end hijack]
I’ll bet there’s a print of that hanging somewhere at Neverland Ranch.
That Ryden guy reminded me of Bosch as well.
Jeep’s Phoenix, I don’t remember what he did with the kids. But he was a man with a grandfather’s clock for a head. His tick-tocking would betray his presence right before he grabbed a kid. Scared the everlovin’ piss out of me.
Of course, after the show, I’d have to go to bed. In my room. With a clock. And those wide dead clown eyes on the wall, watching . . . waiting.
This moment of insomnia was brought to you by Seth Thomas and Keane-Eye Galleries!
The second and third ones on the top row, hung on my bedroom wall, when I was too young to have a say in how my room was decorated.
Mark Ryden’s Angel of Meat ( from The Meat Show series) is making me hungry and strangely aroused… Should I be ashamed?
Album Cover Art for Eels debut CD (“Beautiful Freak” 1996)
Did some Googling but could not find an artwork credit for this album. Be the first to identify the artist* and you win a donkey!
*The artist as in who did the artwork for the album cover, not who is the artist who recorded the album- 'cause we already established that the recording artist is Eels.