27 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Those interested in digital sketching tools may be interested in following my brand new blog on the popular software Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
Here’s my very first try with this software, a Lovecraftian take on ‘verdant springtime emergence’…
27 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
HPL might have balked at the socialistic implications of using the word ‘collective’, especially if he had known of the horrors inflicted in the name of various collectives during the 20th century. I’m with those who call for a strong questioning of any expression of ‘socialist chic’ in the 21st century.
But the new Facebook art group Lovecraft Artisan Collective is well worth a look, and has been primed with examples of work of an obviously high quality.
26 Monday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovely two-page spread of the recreated “The Haunter of the Dark” art for well-known UK Panther paperback of Lovecraft from the 1970s, created by Ian Miller. Also an interview with Ian. To be found in ImagineFX magazine, March 2013.
24 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“The latest wave of games hinges on experiencing or even writing complex narratives. And fresh game-building tools mean even poetry is making a comeback”
23 Friday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
21 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
Handy Selected Letters Of H.P. Lovecraft wiki page, with a record for each letter. Partially complete.
21 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Just out: 88 pages of Swedish comics adaptations of Lovecraft, Skracken i Dunwich och andra berattelser…
21 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings, Scholarly works
Need a book cover for a scholarly book? The Metropolitan Museum of Art now has nearly 400,000 images online in medium-res (72dpi, but around 3000px on the longest side), and…
“that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions; these images are now available for scholarly use in any media.”
Above: “A Fury Riding on a Monster”, by Cornelis Saftleven, mid 17th century.
20 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
* Sam Gafford (2012), “The Man Who Saved Hodgson!”, williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com, 6th July 2012. (On Herman Charles Koenig, a late associate of Lovecraft. Scholarly blog post, with reference footnotes)
* Lin Wang (2012), Celebration of the Strange : YouYang Zazu and its horror stories (PhD thesis. Chapter five proposes Lovecraft’s concept of cosmic fear as a useful tool for analysis of the… “many zhiguai tales [from China, that] deal with supernatural forces without definite monsters or explicit etiologies”)
20 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Notes, spring 2014…
Hallman’s “Three Poems of Jessica Hornick” and “Lovecraftian Elsewheres” are featured on the Inscape Chamber Orchestra’s debut album Spring Rhythm […] Of the album, Washington Post writer Charles Downey had this to say: […] Showing off Hallman’s sure handling of instruments even more are the Imagined Landscapes, miniatures based on the nightmarish dreamscapes of H. P. Lovecraft that exploit all sorts of unexpected sounds.”
20 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
New edition of The Fossil, with a two-page survey of library archives of amateur journalism collections.
19 Monday May 2014
Posted in New books, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
Robert M. Price was interviewed this month by Erik Davis (Techgnosis) for his Expanding Minds (.mp3 link) podcast…
Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the labyrinth of Biblical interpretation: theologian and Lovecraft expert Robert M. Price discusses his new book … and the “peculiar spirituality of the Lovecraft universe.
