Psychopomp 

5 creative works found

• Pry into and psych out
  by Initially NO

  Dr Frankenstien says, “I specialise in psychosis.” It is the equivalent of an undertaker saying, “I specialise in psychopomp.”

  A journey through the dic, looking at the undercurrent writing that defines the prying, psych outs and pseudocopulating.

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  The Psychopomp
  by Karen Miranda Augustine

  Mixed media

• The First Stepback of 2009
  by Lloyd Harvey

  Aren’t computers just big shits? Well yes and no but I write this journal as a testament to a wasted evening trying to sort a blunder …

  Aren’t computers just big shits? Well yes and no but I write this journal as a testament to a wasted evening trying to sort a blunder I made on my PC just a few days ago.Basically, I had accidentally deleted a very important driver that was for the sound card in a “2009 start of year clean up frenzy” (that is its official name) where I was removing lots of junk from the PC I didn’t need. The original plan for the evening was to spend it researching The Angel of Death, Psychopomps, The Necronomicon and The Collect for a piece in a series of paintings based on the Tool album 10,000 Days, whilst listening to some music, as well as gathering up lots of images of octopuses for another project. But No! Because of my blunder I spent the evening trawling through forums looking for the link to a driver that would fix the problem. Several hours later…tears were beginning to form in my weary eyes as luck wasn’t on my side. It would seem that my computer wasn’t giving me the information I needed to find the appropriate driver and I had no idea how to get it. It looked hopeless…until I remembered my GoBack option (this was at about 2 in the morning! Luckily when a friend built the computer for me nearly 4 years ago, he added the GoBack function as a last resort, in case I did something stupid like this. And thank Brian It worked! The sound is back and working fine (phew) but there is a stern couple of lessons to learn here. Firstly, don’t deleted things you obviously need. Obviously… Secondly, always make sure you have a backup plan like a restore point program to take your computer back a couple of days to undo any stupid errors. And finally, always be sure that the thing your deleting is what you want to delete. Simple I know but if you want a stress free, waste free evening that was set aside for artistic research or endeavor, don’t mess with your computer. It cost me an evening I really needed to use wisely.

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  The Psychopomp
  by Athena Leonti

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp :)

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  10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2)
  by Lloyd Harvey

  Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the fourth song on the Tool album of the same name, 10,000 Days is the second part of the Wings For Marie set. It was completed in early 2009. Because the song itself is surrounded in so much personal meaning to the singer, the piece was trick to approach. I wanted to try to convey something that was respectful and tasteful. The song is about the singer’s dead mother who, suffering from a long standing illness that left her wheel chair bound for 26 years (10,000 Days), was a devout Christian. The singer himself is an atheist and expresses his hope that he is wrong and that there is an after life, there is a heaven and that his mother deserved wings for what she went through. In my piece, I depict the Christian view of Death but instead, he is a psychopomp, a run of the mill ferry man of souls. I wanted to show a visual representation of what the singer was hoping for. A being, waiting for his mother in the after life, to take her up to heaven. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk