Do not bid on this painting

October 17, 2001 7:01 PM

Do not bid on this painting if you are succeptible [sic] to stress related disease, faint of heart or are unfamiliar with supernatural events.
posted by obiwanwasabi (28 comments total)

It sort of reminds me of the Diane Arbus photos my grandparents used to hang around my crib as an infant.
Boy am I glad they're dead.
posted by Hima Otsubusu at 7:07 PM on October 17, 2001

I never thought an object could scare me as much as my clown nightlight from when I was 6 did. Now I know better.

(shudder)
posted by girlscantell at 7:15 PM on October 17, 2001

Hima Ossobuco: The photo you linked to is by one David Heath. Sorry to break it to you, but obviously your grandparents *lied* to you too!
posted by realjanetkagan at 7:17 PM on October 17, 2001

ummm...okay. I don't get it. What am I supposed to be seeing here? Not being sarcastic...just don't see what they supposedly see.

The last two pictures seem badly lit, but I don't see no kid ghost coming out of them.

Someone please tell me what kind of evil I am supposed to be seeing.
posted by ColdChef at 7:18 PM on October 17, 2001

Scary pictures make me sad.

You know, sad.
posted by ColdChef at 7:20 PM on October 17, 2001

Drat.
Obviously, they damaged my brain.
This is what I meant to link to
posted by Hima Otsubusu at 7:24 PM on October 17, 2001

The buyer, at least, seems quite sensible.

I like the painting. Perhaps enough to buy a "high quality reproduction."
posted by rushmc at 7:25 PM on October 17, 2001

Hima Otsubusu: Thanx for the new desktop photo. That'll keep the girlfriend off my computer!
posted by ColdChef at 7:32 PM on October 17, 2001

I'm nothing if not all about the repelling of the chicks.
posted by Hima Otsubusu at 7:34 PM on October 17, 2001

Brother Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!
posted by Kikkoman at 7:42 PM on October 17, 2001

HOLY HAND GRENADE!!!!!!! You ever play Worms, Kikkoman???
posted by jmd82 at 7:58 PM on October 17, 2001

oh my god... that painting really IS evil. the close-ups were particularly scary. i should've known better than to click that link.
posted by lotsofno at 8:06 PM on October 17, 2001

yay for worms!!

i remember seeing this painting on ebay a few years ago. i didn't really think it was too scary, but it did make a nice desktop
posted by mabelcolby at 8:19 PM on October 17, 2001

That was yummy. In a soul-destroying kind of way.
posted by moss at 8:24 PM on October 17, 2001

someone say worms?
posted by lotsofno at 8:26 PM on October 17, 2001

oh my god, that worm game is addictive... could worm be the new bejeweled?
posted by heather at 8:34 PM on October 17, 2001

Worms? But of course!

I'm rather attracted to the haunted painting (but then, I enjoy mysterious, faintly disturbing art (like Goya). A reproduction of this painting would make a nice addition to the wall of my studio...and it would probably lead to some interesting nightmares. Bonus!
posted by Kikkoman at 8:37 PM on October 17, 2001

Gee. That link (about something that was news more than a year and a half ago) was updated just a few months ago. . . congratulations on being on top of things.
posted by UrbanFigaro at 8:44 PM on October 17, 2001

Is it me or does that look remarkably like a young G.W. Bush?
posted by m@ at 8:45 PM on October 17, 2001

Now look, I'm serious. (sorry for not looking this up first).
posted by m@ at 8:51 PM on October 17, 2001

I wonder who the girl is, then...Wait! Is this some sort of foreshadowing of things to come...?
posted by Kikkoman at 8:51 PM on October 17, 2001

Gee. That link...was news more than a year and a half ago

Pull your head in, UrbanFigaro. Might be hard for you 12K members to comprehend, but MeFi actually has nothing to do with news or 'being on top of things' (although lately you'd have to try pretty hard to convince me otherwise).
posted by obiwanwasabi at 10:42 PM on October 17, 2001

m@ - you're absolutely right.

Freaky.
posted by precocious at 10:55 PM on October 17, 2001

> Is it me or does that look remarkably like
> a young G.W. Bush?

I thought that, too.
posted by pracowity at 11:06 PM on October 17, 2001

Gotta love Photoshop.
posted by metaxa at 5:22 AM on October 18, 2001

I like how you can now buy prints of it.
posted by Charmian at 6:07 AM on October 18, 2001

So if you buy the print, you just get possessed by a cheap imitation of the Prince of Darkness.
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:15 AM on October 18, 2001

Look -- it's the haunted painting that takes away your ability to use caps lock and shift keys!
posted by dagnyscott at 9:52 AM on October 18, 2001