![Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination [ARTICLE/EVENT]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/gothics-poster-240x240.jpg)
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination [ARTICLE/EVENT]
The British Library’s exibition dedicated to the birth and evolution of the Gothic genre over the last 250 years. The curator of the event Tim Pye said: “The Gothic is one of the most popular and influential genres and we are happy that this exhibition has worthily celebrated its history spanning 250 years.”
![Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 3 [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CrimsonRoomInspiration-240x240.jpg)
Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 3 [ARTICLE]
Due to the power of these sort of “meta-art” concepts, the draw of incredible, tense movies like The Game, Inside Man, and Ocean’s Eleven, and the popularity of things like LARPing, some companies, like Lexington, Kentucky’s The Breakout Games, have decided to see about bringing the metagames found in complex board games and video games and the scenarios reserved to for edge of your seat thriller films to real life! (There are other companies with similar types of offerings out there, so, if you’re not in the Kentucky area, you can likely find places like this in your area. I’m going into…
![Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 2 [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Meta_CoverDGM-240x240.jpg)
Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 2 [ARTICLE]
When video games grew popular, it was assumed that people would play these animated games when they were children (when children already play a lot of games) and then grow out of them. But we began to learn that people didn’t grow out of them, but instead craved more complex mysteries and stories as they aged. This led to pivotal games like Myst and Rivven, which started the modern video game trend of well-created story and making your players use their brains, not just their reflexes. At the current rate of consumption of complex and morally challenging video games, in the near future…
![Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 1 [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DGM_MetaGames_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 1 [ARTICLE]
It’s hard to be a modern creative person without having been exposed to conversations about the “meta-game” or the “meta-content” that’s behind modern creative works. This is made all the more confusing due to the fact that the concept behind how it’s now use in New Media is a hybrid of the noun version of this word, the adjective version, and something else. The French have a phrase called “Je ne sais quoi” which literally translated means “I know not what”—as in, there’s something else about what I’m talking about, but I can’t put my finger on it. It would be appropriate…
![Treasured Memories: Italian Cemetery Art [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/10726391_10202903380842292_404395308_n-240x240.jpg)
Treasured Memories: Italian Cemetery Art [ARTICLE]
Most of the cemeteries in Italy are the mirror of the curious taste and customs of an era and they preserve the works of the greatest sculptors at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
The cimiterial statues, due to their beauty and the meaning who accompanies them, have the specific purpose of paying tribute to the memory of one who is no longer among us: the funeral art allows to create true masterpieces designed to commemorate the memory of our loved ones.
![Morganville Vampires brought to YouTube: Geek & Sundry Attempts Impossible [VIDEO]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/MorganVilleCover-240x240.jpg)
Morganville Vampires brought to YouTube: Geek & Sundry Attempts Impossible [VIDEO]
If you’ve read Rachel Caine’s interesting and slow-burn developing series, The Morganville Vampires, you probably never thought it could be brought to anything other than network TV. However, Geek & Sundry, after launching other original shows like Spellslingers, TableTop, and the Guild, decided to help bring the kickstarted campaign for film to their YouTube channel through the mini-medium of web-length episodes.
![“I Have to Be Medicated to Deal With My Kids”: One Mother’s Journey [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Medicated_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
“I Have to Be Medicated to Deal With My Kids”: One Mother’s Journey [ARTICLE]
I’ve always struggled with a strong temper, and it would almost always manifest itself via my mouth: yelling, cussing, and verbal attacks were my standard coping mechanisms when I’d get overwhelmed or frustrated by life. While that may not seem like a big deal, it becomes a MASSIVE problem when children are anywhere in the Anger Fallout Zone. As a kid, I was often on the receiving end of my mother’s Verbal Hiroshimas, because that’s simply what happens when you’re a stay-at-home mother of 7 kids and don’t have a support system to help you cope. Not wanting to repeat that experience with…
![Misty Lynn Lawless: On the Prowl [GALLERY]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/455-dg3-edited-2-240x240.jpg)
Misty Lynn Lawless: On the Prowl [GALLERY]
Model Misty Lynn Lawless is “On the Prowl” with this photoshoot by R.Jaye Photography.
![Deadly Relics: Ghost Towns in the South of Italy [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/GhostTown_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
Deadly Relics: Ghost Towns in the South of Italy [ARTICLE]
The south of Italy is rich of charming abandoned places, fascinating ghost towns which every year attract hundreds of tourists and curious people.
![DarkestGoth Girl Holiday Products: The 2015 Calendar [ANNOUNCEMENT]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DGGCal_Thumbnail-240x240.jpg)
DarkestGoth Girl Holiday Products: The 2015 Calendar [ANNOUNCEMENT]
We’re now into the last minute shopping before the holidays and what better way can you show someone you love them than with the calendars of one (or three) of our beautiful DarkestGoth Girls!
![Misty Lynn Lawless: Pretty in Pink [GALLERY]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/chuy-July-2014-462Edited-2-240x240.jpg)
Misty Lynn Lawless: Pretty in Pink [GALLERY]
Misty Lynn Lawless is “Pretty in Pink” in this photoshoot with Jesus Hernandez of Hernandez Photography
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