Witch House Graphics
ウィッチ・ハウス・グラフィックス / 2009–2012 / Style / Internet Aesthetics
A 2009–2012 visual system that joined crushed night photography, treated found video, VHS decay and deliberately obstructed type into one Tumblr- and blog-circulated identity. Its form comes from digital obscurity and repetition, not from occult props alone.
Crushed night photography in black, gray, blue and bone / Treated-video frames with scanlines, color bleed or vertical drag / Short names slowed by substituted glyphs and geometric characters / A repeated low-resolution image held at a distance by large black fields
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Extending music, short video and event imagery into one dark online identity · Using night photographs and low-resolution video to design distance and obscurity rather than a literal horror story
- Type
- Obstruct only the short name with substituted glyphs; preserve searchable plain text for body copy, date and access information.
- Composition
- Enlarge one night image or treated-video frame, leave a wide black field and offset the short name from center.
- Material
- Choose one or two of VHS scanlines, compression, copier loss or color bleed and apply the same degradation rule to still and motion.
- Caution
- Do not label every dark, occult, Gothic or horror image Witch House. Network circulation, treated media and typographic obstruction must coincide; do not remove religious symbols from context or reuse found footage without rights.
- Further study
- The Guardian — witch house as a total aesthetic and curatorial genre / The Washington Post — Travis Egedy on witch house as a visual aesthetic / Tumblr-era circulation, treated found video and ritualised typography
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- Analog Horror (アナログホラー)Same Internet Aesthetics lineage.Compare Witch House Graphics and Analog Horror
- Cybersigilism (サイバーシジリズム)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Witch House Graphics and Cybersigilism
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