6/22/2012

Z for Zombie


Freaks A-Z. Letter "Z" 

Size: 210mm x 297mm 

Material:Charcoal pen

The figure of the zombie has appeared several times in fantasy themed fiction, as early as the 1929 novel The Magic Island by William Seabrook. Time claimed that the book introduced Zombie into U.S. speech. In 1932, Victor Halperin directed White Zombie, This film, capitalizing on the same voodoo zombie themes as Seabrook's book of three years prior, is often regarded as the first legitimate zombie film ever made, and introduced the word "zombie" to the wider world.

A new version of the zombie is distinct from that described in Haitian religion, has also emerged in popular culture in recent decades. It is taken largely from George A. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead, which was in turn partly inspired by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend. The word zombie is not used in Night of the Living Dead, but was applied later by fans. The monsters in the film and its sequels, such as Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, as well as its many inspired works, such as Return of the Living Dead and Zombie 2, are usually hungry for human flesh although Return of the Living Dead introduced the popular concept of zombies eating brains. Sometimes they are victims of a fictional pandemic illness causing the dead to reanimate or the living to behave this way, but often no cause is given in the story.

殭屍的形象出現在幻想小說為時已久,早在1929年,Seabrook的小說魔島中就出現了。時代雜誌聲稱這本書將殭屍一詞帶入美國會話中。1932年, Victor Halperin 執導的恐怖片白殭屍善用了Seabrook書中的巫毒殭屍主題,此片被認定為第一個合法的殭屍電影並將殭屍一詞傳遍世界。

近十年來,新版本的殭屍則不同於海地的宗教信仰,出現於流行文化當中。此版殭屍大量取材於George A. Romero的開創性電影活死人之夜(啟發於1954年Richard Matheson的小說我是傳奇)。殭屍這個詞並未出現在活死人之夜,卻被影迷廣泛的運用。此片中的怪物和它的續集激發了很多作品的靈感,如活死人的回歸與殭屍2中,殭屍渴求人肉(活死人的歸來中推出的概念為殭屍吃大腦)。設定裡殭屍是流行疾病的犧牲者,復活後的他們只能以此種方式繼續生存。

6/15/2012

Y for Yig



Freaks A-Z. Letter "Y" 

Size: 210mm x 297mm 

Material:Charcoal pen

Yig, the God of snakes, described as a snake-head man and scales over the body, as shown in the alias of "father" of all the snakes, he can freely summon and control snakes. Yig is also the prototype of Quetzalcoatl in the Aztecs' faith. He awarded the knowledge of venom to those respect the snake, and even the ability to dialogue with snakes. If someone ruthless persecution to snakes, he will cursed into a snake. 

People today might thought he is the false god in the Cthulhu Mythos, but in the ancient times, the snake regarded as a symbol of regeneration and vitality. solely normalized Yig as the false god is the arrogance of modern people!

司掌諸蛇的神,外型被描繪為蛇頭人身、遍體麟片的壯碩男子。正如"眾蛇之父"的別名所示,他能自由招喚控制蛇類;據說也是阿茲提克蛇神魁扎爾科亞特爾的原型。對於敬重蛇者溫和寬厚,甚至會授予蛇毒的知識、與蛇對話之能力;對迫害蛇的存在冷酷無情者,有時會將其變為蛇。在群蛇飢餓的秋季他會變為粗暴的災神. 

由現代人的觀念會由蛇神的外表認為他是邪神,但自古以來許多民族將蛇視作為再生與生命力的象徵,單單只將其歸作邪神可謂是現代人的傲慢!

6/08/2012

X for Mr.X


Freaks A-Z. Letter "X" 

Size: 210mm x 297mm 

Material:Charcoal pen

Mr. X (T-002) is the redesign of T-001 that can be controlled, a biological weapons belong to the "Umbrella". It looks like human but without humanity. it was air dropped by a helicopter in Raccoon City to obtain the G-virus sample on September 29th 1998. 

Mr. X wears a explosion-proof windbreaker, the windbreaker destroyed by a accident that he fall down into a furnace, then he mutated into the second type. A extremely dangerous bio weapon that out of control. 

風衣怪客(T-002), T-001型改良後可控制的新品種。是保護傘公司開發的化學生物兵器,具備人形但無人性。他在1998年9月29日經由直升機空投於浣熊市的上空,其目的是取回G病毒樣本。 

身穿暗綠色防爆風衣,因掉入高溶熱爐風衣毀壞導致無法壓制體內病毒極速突變,變第二型態後力量直飆上升,所見生物獵殺無赦,成高危險生物兵器。

6/01/2012

W for Werewolf


Freaks A-Z. Letter "W" 

Size: 210mm x 297mm 

Material:Charcoal pen

A werewolf is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon. In addition to the natural characteristics inherent to both wolves and humans, werewolves are often attributed strength and speed far beyond those of them. The werewolf is generally held as a European character, although its lore spread through the world in later times. Shape-shifters, similar to werewolves, are common in tales from all over the world, most notably amongst the Native Americans.

狼人是一種神話或傳說中由人類變身成狼或擬人化的狼的生物,這種轉變往往只出現於滿月之時。除了狼和人類固有的自然特性,狼人往往力量和速度遠遠超出了一般的狼及人類。狼人一般認為是出自歐洲的一種怪物,雖然它的絕殺的形象在稍後的時間傳遍全世界。類似狼人的變形者常見於世界各地的故事中,尤其流傳於印第安人之間。


5/25/2012

V for Vampire


Freaks A-Z. Letter "V" 

Size: 210mm x 297mm 

Material:Charcoal pen 

Vampires are mythological beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living being.The typical vampire have the long and sharp teeth, white skin, red eyes. Vampire's recover ability is too strong that weapons are difficult to make vampire fatal, only the sun can kill it. Some said that vampires fear the cross and garlic, because they have much higher than the normal sense of smell, another said that the vampire ancestor once trade their soul to Satan transactions to become a vampire, and therefore fear the cross.

吸血鬼是傳說中永生不死的生物。一般認為吸血鬼是由人類被吸血鬼咬了就會變成吸血鬼;另一說法是喝下吸血鬼的血才能變成吸血鬼,也有說法是靈魂受到詛咒的人類變成了吸血鬼。 吸血鬼的典型特徵為:牙齒尖長,皮膚白皙,眼睛發紅。由於吸血鬼的恢復能力極強,一般武器很難使吸血鬼致命,只有陽光能夠殺死吸血鬼。也有說法認爲吸血鬼懼怕十字架和大蒜。由於吸血鬼擁有遠高於常人的嗅覺,大蒜的刺激性氣味令吸血鬼感到強烈不適。另有一說認為吸血鬼始祖曾以靈魂與撒但交易成為吸血鬼,故此懼怕十字架。 



5/18/2012

U for Unicorn


Freaks A-Z. Letter "U" 

Size: 210mm x 297mm 

Material:Charcoal pen 

The earliest description of Unicorn is from Ctesias who described them as wild asses, fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red and black. Aristotle must be following Ctesias when he mentions two one-horned animals.

很久以前 的獨角獸出現在希伯來人的《聖經·舊約》中,這種額頭長有一隻角的馬叫做Re'em,最初被譯作Monokeros,後來才演變成英文中的Unicorn。 

公元前398年,古希臘歷史學家克特西亞斯在他的書中寫道:「獨角獸生活在印度、南亞次大陸,是一種野驢,身材與馬差不多大小,甚至更大。他們的身體雪白,頭部呈深紅色,有一雙深藍的眼睛,前額正中長出一隻角,約半米長。」這隻神秘的角從此流傳了幾個世紀。