Joshua Hoffine Horror Photography

If you're as big a fan of the weird and wonderful (and slightly disturbing) as I am, then you will go nuts for Joshua Hoffine.

His photography is definitely a departure from the usual artsy pictures you find people snapping these days. For a start, it challenges your nerves and messes with your mind, consisting mainly of scenarios that we we all hid under the duvet from when we were children.

This photography truly is horror, and whilst some of it is mildly amusing and mocking of our childhood fears, there are a few pictures in amongst them that will genuinely send a shiver down your spine (depending of course, on your personal phobias).

For me, the most unnerving shots are 'Gas Mask Child' and 'Lady Bathory'. Whilst they both seem to be at distant ends of the fear spectrum, they evoke memories that I'd much rather forget - Gas Mask Child draws back to a very vivid recurring dream I had as a child, and Lady Bathory (whilst I find the story of Countess Bathory an intruiging one) plays on my hemophobia, which of course is a fear of blood. A strange fear to have for someone who is as obsessed with gory movies as I am.

You yourself might find that none of the pictures stir feelings for you, but you have to agree nonetheless that these are definite works of art, not only in terms of content, but for the sheer magnitude of work that goes into them. Every little detail is checked and checked again, effects are created from the ground up and even Joshua's own friends and family (including his children) are drafted in as technical support or the subjects of the piece. It's a real family affair by all accounts.
I recommend that you read his blog to learn just how hard he works.

For your viewing pleasure.... Joshua Hoffine.

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I never use this thing. I'm too lazy for blogging...

I always have so much I want to say about so many things, but when it comes to posting it, I always find something quicker and easier to do. Like facebook. Or Twitter. Or staring at my Iron Man poster.


Hey ho... I'll try and pull my finger out I guess.

Twitwipe?

So today I decided I wanted to delete all my tweets. No particular reason for this, just a clean slate and a new start - which I guess, being as neurotic as I am, is probably going to be a regular occurance now I found 'Twitwipe'.

Clicky!

Basically, you confirm your twitter account details (which is done via Twitter, so your log in details stay secure), and once you're sure you want to permanently get rid of your musings, hit the 'start wiping' button.

Easy right? Not exactly. If you have humungous amounts of tweets, I'm afraid you're in for a long wait. At the moment, Twitwipe can only delete a set number of tweets per hour, due to parameters set by Twitter. So, it is in fact a slow process, and by no means an instant fix.
However, it's probably a LOT easier and less stressful that clicking 'delete' on each individual tweet 5487 times.

One major con - During the wiping process, Twitwipe is kind enough to keep you updated on progress. This unfortunately happens via a pop up window, which simply says 'still wiping'. I don't recommend trying to acheive any work or web surfing whilst you're wiping, because said pop up box appears about 3-4 per minute, making you jump from your current tab back to the Twitwipe page. That said, it's a relatively small price to pay for a service that will save me great time and effort.

Thumbs up for this one, I think. So far, at least... I'll let you know.


Update: Ok, so this facility seems a little hit and miss. When I first logged in to use it, it took around 10 minutes to delete around 300 tweets. Not so impressive.
I gave it another go a while later and it managed to get rid of 980 tweets in 2-3 minutes. A big difference! It's still going to take a long while to clear my account, but it's a good start.