Miss Easterling visits Innsmouth in the online world Second Life, and brings back screenshots…

Alex Andreev’s Metronomicon re-imagines the Moscow Metro system in Lovecraftian terms…

Computera 12 provides some nice scans of the Special Lovecraft issue of Heavy Metal (a seminal adult comics magazine — not to be confused with the music style). This was Sept 1978 in France as Metal Hurlant, and October 1979 in the USA version of the magazine. He also posts the cover of the French edition, which I’ve never seen…

Gallery Nucleus in California has a Lovecraft exhibition scheduled to open in October 2010…

And they have one of the nicest-looking gallery websites I’ve seen for a long time, although the fonts used are far too fuzzy and also a little too small…

Looks like they’re at the pop surrealism / lowbrow / fantastique end of the market.

Selections from Lovecraft’s brief tenure as a copywriter for a candy maker…

Chocolate Cherry Cordial

You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon’s true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.

[ Hat-tip: Brian Keene ]

The Vancouver Film School has a new Flickr set for their green-screen production of five stories by Lovecraft.

My new finished portrait. Click on the image for the full-size 1090 x 1200px image. Many thanks to the Powerhouse Museum (man’s torso) and Tracey Olson (mist-tentacles) for the Creative Commons elements.

Now on at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in the USA, Creatures of the Abyss (to 6th September 2010). It sounds rather kiddy-oriented and thus likely to be over-run by little monsters and their mothers, but it’s said to have…

“Full-scale models, preserved specimens, exploration vehicles, and a bioluminescence theater”.

… and there are some (presumably) kid-free evening openings.

It’s accompanied at the same venue by the exhibition A Many-Colored Glass: Ethereal Images of Microscopic Marine Life — the catalogue for which is available via print-on-demand at Blurb.

An illustration for At the Mountains of Madness? No, it’s a scientific photomicrograph of some ascorbic acid and liquid crystalline xanthin gum. (Not part of the exhibition).

If you’re in London, England, then the Natural History Museum has the similar major summer exhibition The Deep (to 5th September 2010). Review with photos