28 Tuesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
The latest SFFaudio podcast has a free full reading of “The Outsider”. Read by the outstanding reader of Lovecraft, Wayne June.
Illustration: cropped and coloured from Dore’s “Idylls of the King”.
25 Saturday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Lovecraftian places
Further Lovecraftian places that really exist:
Eye of Africa (the Richat Structure), Mauritania.
‘Sentinels of the Arctic’ (wind/snow formations, Finnish Lapland) — picture by Niccola Bonfadini.
Entrance to the Borgund Stave Church, Norway — picture by Lightbender.
Catholic convent catacombs, Lima in Peru.
Basalt cave entrance, Akun Island — picture by Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Stephen Whitney crypt entrance, Greenwood Cemetery (Lovecraft visited this cemetery while in New York).
22 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
China Mieville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books…
“Speaking in Edinburgh [at the Book Festival] at a debate on the future of the novel, Mieville said that just as music fans remix albums and post them online, so readers will recut the novel.”
21 Tuesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
I’ve discovered a magazine that’s not unlike the Popular Science magazine of Lovecraft’s day. Discover is full of interesting factoid-pumped ideas that are oven-cooked — ready for writers to take, blend, and adapt for use in fiction. I’m not sure we get the magazine over here in the UK (I’ve not noticed it, before now), but plenty of the content gets placed online for free at their website. Lots of articles that make you think “Lovecraft was right!” 🙂 Maybe they should have a whole themed issue on that topic.
Incidentally, the magazine is making an interesting move in response to the generally falling sales of magazines (digital editions are nowhere near making up the severe revenue shortfalls caused by: recession-hit consumers stopping spending on print mags; display-ad budget shrinkage; and competition from free online sources of news) — they’re quitting New York and moving to Waukesha, Wisconsin. Lucky Waukesha.
21 Tuesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Neat new Lovecraft-inspired comic strip, featured on the Weird Tales website…
Unlike most comic-strips featured as “an extra” to print magazines, this one looks quite fun.
21 Tuesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
H.P. Lovecat from the Literary Pets 2 cigarette cards collection…
20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Kara Whittman has released a cool hollow safe book, laser-cut out of a Lovecraft hardback collection The Black Seas of Infinity… although you can currently pick up the hardback for $2 on Amazon USA, and with a steel ruler and a scalpel carve your own.
20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
It’s Mr. H.P. Lovecraft’s 122nd birthday! So far, sugarcrafted cakes seem to be the art medium of choice. Chud has an excellent round-up of Lovecraft-themed cakes.
Above: sugarcraft by Cake Amsterdam.
Jason McKittrick has a limited edition statuette, available only today — a sea-worn Cthulhu, as if just dredged from the ocean.
A morning literary walk in Providence.
Facebook suggests there’ll be an informal gathering at the grave marker in Providence today.
I’ve made a free annotated version of Lovecraft’s “The History of the Necronomicon”.
There’s a birthday art show at a gallery in Seattle.
Also various film sceenings and parties in America and the UK.
Possibly more to come, once the Americans get their first coffee of the day in about six hours from now.
15 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
“The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong […] some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over 500 years old.”
Health-and-safety commissars in the West would no doubt have a fit over the idea of these in the USA or UK. But one wonders if the same techniques could be used by artists to create giant Cthulhu-esque living structures? It’d certainly go way beyond a timid weaving of willow-wands.
10 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Instructions for tormenting H.P. Lovecraft’s dreams with night gaunts… 😉
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
‘Pulp art’ special issue, for the latest Imagine FX (Sept 2012), the main magazine for digital painters…
02 Thursday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Unnamable
How to occupy the kidlings in the dog-days of August? Why, “Build an Elder God”, of course! 🙂 Releasing from Signal Fire Studios on 15th August for $20…
“Building An Elder God is a casual card game of Lovecraftian construction for 2-5 players ages 10 and up. The rules are easy to learn and a typical game takes from 15-30 minutes, depending on the number of players. Build a Cthulhu-esque tentacled monstrosity to completion before the other players, using damage cards to blast your opponents’ creatures to slow down their progress so that you can win!”
