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Lovecraft’s 122nd birthday

20 Monday Aug 2012

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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.

Living bridges

15 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Living bridges in India…

“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.

Build an Elder God

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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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!”

Wedgwood Steventon

30 Monday Jul 2012

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I’m pleased to say that one of the many little galleries in my city is having an exhibition of surrealist paintings likely to interest Lovecraft fans. Wedgwood Steventon’s solo show launches at Artwaves gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday 3rd of August 2012 (7pm-9pm). The exhibition will run from 4th-18th Aug, between 11am-4pm daily (closed Sundays).

Wedgwood Steventon is based locally, but until now has mostly shown internationally. “A collection of works on paper and canvas, personal experiences of an existence in 21st Century England (and Beyond) : a Gathering of Nightmares, Truths and Dares.”

Church of Starry Wisdom library catalog

28 Saturday Jul 2012

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An interesting new book project, coming in Fall 2013. A supposed sale-catalogue of books from the private occult library of the Church of Starry Wisdom of Providence, on their disbanding in 1877…

Including short bibliographic and historical essays on the books, by “noted scholars“. You’ll remember of course that Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark” (1935) had the hero discovering the remains of the library in 1938.