There is still time to sign up for the Lovecraft Summer School 2011 — Wednesday the 20th is the sign-up deadline. Today’s assignment comes in the form of advance notice of the Final Project, which involves participants reading Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book of story ideas…

“Your final project can be any form of creative output: a story, a painting, a poem, a song, a work of collage, or a very short video — whatever appeals to you. Simply choose a concept from Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book and find a way to make it your own.”

Here’s my choice, if I were possibly to make some CG/Photoshop illustrations…

21. A very ancient colossus in a very ancient desert. Face gone — no man hath seen it.

61. A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth.

110. Antediluvian—Cyclopean ruins on lonely Pacific island.

114. Death lights dancing over a salt marsh.

129. Marble Faun — strange and prehistorick Italian city of stone.

172. Pre-human idol found in desert.

178. A very ancient tomb in the deep woods …

189. Ancient necropolis — bronze door in hillside which opens as the moonlight strikes it — focussed by ancient lens in pylon opposite?

213. Ancient winter woods — moss — great boles — twisted branches —dark—ribbed roots — always dripping….

214. Talking rock of Africa — immemorially ancient oracle in desolate jungle ruins that speaks with a voice out of the aeons.

… although I think I’m inclining toward a story or poetry.