Rick Genest: Eye of the Beholder

Rick Genest aka Zombie Boy

Watch his interview on bullying. Don't let his appearance mislead you into thinking he's just another street punk. I have so much respect for this man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUSgUfNmKws

Butterfly Garden

Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly

 

I stumbled upon this little guy last summer while walking through a garden at a local nature sanctuary. I was sitting on an old Victorian bench, white paint chipping to reveal the rusted iron beneath, and surrounding it was flourishing bushes that were rich with roses, trumpet vine, and blue and pink morning glories. The vines had begun to tangle themselves in the holes of the metalwork in the bench's legs, and I had been sketching a rose bush in front of me when I caught a movement from the corner of my eye. When I looked, the butterfly was a mere foot away from me, and I could tell it had just recently emerged from it cocoon, because its wings were still a bit damp. It was a bit like a dream, really, with the endless colors and life surrounding the garden. It was a watercolor come to life. The vine bushes surrounding me were flourishing with Monarchs, yellow swallowtails, black swallowtails, and Painted Lady butterflies, and rabbits nibbled at the leaves of the plants. It saddens me that such pure life is becoming increasingly harder to come by.

Savannah

 

Savannah

 

A quick portrait I drew for my neighbor, Savannah.

 



©Tori P. Coelho

desireestorms@gmail.com

Time Flys

Time Flys

 



This is a tattoo design I drew for a good friend of mine. It will evenually become a back or chest piece, and I hope to add the actual skin tattoo on here eventually. As corny as it sounds, this tattoo is the reason we ever became friends, because this design started our first real conversation (laughs). I consider him one of the few people I can trust fully.

©Tori P. Coelho

 

If anyone wishes to contact me about designs, you can reach me at desireestorms@gmail.com

Evil Dead or Evil Dud?

Tori P. Coelho 4/12/2013

Evil Dead

Release Date: 2013

Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas

Color

Horror, Thriller, Slasher

Rating: ★★☆☆☆

 

Your typical bloody, gory slasher film. The recent remake of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead lacked originality and the key element to a horror movie--the horror. A quick synopsis of the film consists of a group of five people traveling to a rotted out cabin in the middle of nowhere in an attempt to rehabilitate the movie's main protagonist, Mia, from a drug addiction. However, a reeking stench lingering in the cabin leads the group's dog to find a hatch that leads to a basement, which so happens to be filled to the brim with dead, decomposing cat corpses. Nevertheless, unlike any sane mind, the group did not leave. Elicit--and at times explicit--roars of outrage and bitter disappointment of diehard fans filled the theatre.

 

Of course, the many obvious questions still lye to those who have seen the film. Why choose a desolate, rotting cabin in the middle of nowhere to treat a drug addict? Especially one as run-down, sketchy, and filthy as this? Also, why in the name of everything logical would Olivia, who verbally claims to be a registered nurse, have such a miniscule amount of medical supplies on her when she knew Mia failed to go cold turkey during her first attempt at quitting drugs?

 

Then there is the racher clichéd presentation of the fashion in which the film was shot. There was even a scene where the camera flipped to have the ground as the sky, and vice versa. If anyone has watched 2011's Cabin in the Woods, they would see the remarkable, and somewhat questionable, similarities between the two movies. Both films feature a group of five people traveling to a deserted, desolate cabin in some forest, where they discover a creepy, hidden basement. Both movies also feature the group finding a strange book with suspicious Latin phrases, and, like every cliché horror film, there's always that one group member that simply can't resist reading from the seemingly malevolent words. They always do this despite the warnings and protests given to them by the other group members, and the evil is released to rain mayhem upon the cast. Too bad the recent Evil Dead lacked the dry humor Cabin in the Woods managed to grasp. It may have had something going for it at that point other than gore. Honestly, how many times must we view people rip and saw their own extremities off before we willingly throw ourselves to the demon just to escape the repetitive and cliche plot?

 

 

Hump Day Hunks: Channing Tatum

Prince Channing please! You wish you were those sunglasses.



Zombie Boy and Coverup

For All You Tattoo Fanatics Out There

Just wait until he removes the makeup on his face!