We will soon have DF T-Shirts and other stuff available, look for the links soon!!
We are looking for a cool design to use as well as we will be using designs submitted by the Moderation Staff. You can submit up to 3 different designs. Please submit them within this thread.
The submission phase will last one month, starting now and running until the end of April.
Sanjay will judge all of the submissions and will decide which one design he wants to use. If he chooses your design he will send you 2 T-Shirts!! One will feature your design and the other the regular DF design. I will also grant the winner an Overlord Account on DF for 1 year.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to post them. Any comments or posts which are not on topic will be deleted without warning. Feel free to provide artists with feedback and comment on their work.
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<img src="http://www.darkforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=42182&stc=1&d=1197311722" align="left" hspace="10" />The story of the Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe starts in 1685 when Azariah Pinney joined the Monmouth Rebellion in an attempt to overthrow the Catholic King of England, James II. The forces of the Duke of Monmouth were quickly crushed and were set to be either executed or exiled for treason. Azariah was spared from a death by hanging because his sister bribed the Chief Judge to have him exiled instead. Azariah was sent to West Indies as a slave at the age of 24.
Azariah's grandson, John Frederick Pinney, was able to return to his ancestral house in Bettiscombe, a hamlet in Dorset, England. He brought along with him a slave, "Old Bettiscombe", from the West Indies. Not much was known about Old Bettiscombe's life in West Indies. He died shortly after arriving in England and pleaded to his owner to bury him... [Read More]
<img src="http://www.darkforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=42179&stc=1&d=1197141722" hspace="10" align="left" />Cases
A 19 year old girl dancing with her boy friend suddenly burst into flames. Her back and head was enveloped in fire. Her fellow-party goers tried to pat out the flames but with in minutes all that was left of her were ashes. "I saw no one smoking on the dance floor. There were no candles on the tables and I did not see her dress catch fire from anything. I know it sounds incredible, but it appeared to me that the flames burst outwards, as if they originated within her body", her boyfriend later testified at the inquest. The coroner labeled her case as, "Death by misadventure, caused by a fire of unknown origin."
In the 17th Century, in North Essex, England, an elderly woman was found burnt to death in her cottage. Nothing else in the cottage was burned.
Tim Burton, creator of Nightmare Before Christmas, has agreed to direct the remake of Alice in Wonderland for Disney. The filming is set to start in 2008 and the movie will be released in 2010.
The Alice adaptation will be a combination of live-action and performance-capture animation and will be based on a script by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King). It will be produced by longtime Burton collaborator Richard Zanuck and former Disney chairman Joe Roth, with Jennifer and Suzanne Todd.
IMDB gives the plot outline as, "The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and... [Read More]
Santa has gone stark raving mad loony! Delivering presents to billions of ungrateful kids for hundreds of years has finally gotten to St.Nick.
If you didn't believe in Santa before, then you're sure to believe in him now when he bursts through your front door (no chimneys anymore, sonny!) and uses his army of mystical midgets to get his revenge.
This is a contest with prizes to win! Paint, Draw or Model a Macabre, Dark, or Insane Santa Clause.
Dates and Deadlines
This contests formally opens on the 3rd of December 2007.
All art work must be submitted by midnight of 24th of December
Welcome to the Darkforum Best Movies of the year awards thread. Just a month left till we reach the even number goodness of 2008. We need to choose the best movies of the year according to members of Darkforum.com
Think back to the beginning of 2007 and decide what your favorite movies were. Create a top 10 list and then post it in this thread. Make sure you follow the following rules:
The movie MUST have been released to the majority of audiences in 2007. If there was a limited released in 2006 and then a public release in 2007 then it may be included in the list. Check The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) to confirm.
Depp is "Sweeny Todd", a man deprived of his family and unjustly sent to prison, who emerges to seek revenge on those responsible for his fate. He is the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who 'shaved heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again.'
Mr.Lovett, played by Helena Bonham Carter of Fight Club fame, is Sweeny's amorous accomplice who creates diabolical meat pies (you have to get rid of the bodies somehow...).
<img src="http://www.darkforum.com/attachments/religion-occult/42153d1196397940-goddesses-brigit2.gif" align="left" hspace="10" /> The female role in philosophy/mythology/religion has always fastinated me. I would like to hear about the ones you like the most and perhaps a bit of information about them as well.
Pictures would be interesting too.
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<p>The dog-star, Sirius, is the brightest star visible from the northern hemisphere of Earth. This star has been known to humans since thousands of years as it is quite easy to spot in the sky. What to the eye appears as a single star is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main sequence star of spectral type A1V, named Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, named Sirius B. The reason for its brightness is not its intrinsic luminosity but its closeness to earth; at a distance of 2.6 pc or 8.6 light years, Sirius is one of our near neighbors. Sirius A is only about twice as massive as the Sun and, with an absolute magnitude of 1.42, has far less intrinsic luminosity than Canopus or Rigel.</p>
