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Dreams of Cthulhu, a H.P. Lovecraft Circus Spectacular

15 Monday Sep 2014

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Dreams of Cthulhu, a H.P. Lovecraft Circus Spectacular, Seattle, USA…

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“Shortly after a series of earthquakes, Ann Wilcox starts having unprecedented dreams of great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. As the weeks continue, these dreams intensify causing her to wonder if these dreams are real or if she is going insane. With aerial, modern dance, and burlesque performances by Kelly Ward, Jennifer Lottes, Morgue Anne Morrighan, Anton Lukyanov, Carla Petrulli, and Warren Woo. Tickets only $10.”

September 17th at 9:00pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/1493031914269527/

September 19th at 7:30pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467226573558249

September 20th at 9:00pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/821277337917025

September 21st at 5:00pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/639084652866322

Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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“All About Alienation: Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence“, in The Quietus, the modern online equivalent of the 1980s NME…

As an extension of their recent interview, Nick Talbot speaks to Alan Moore about the language and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft and his upcoming ten-part Cthulhu Mythos [comic-book] work Providence

Here’s Moore on Lovecraft scholarship. I think he has in mind the clear straightforward approach of Joshi…

Providence is […] set in 1919, or at least the first ten issues are, and I have researched the hell out of it. But one of the things I’ve realised, I’ve got about two shelves of just Lovecraft criticism — Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy; H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West — and it’s changed my opinion of literary criticism […] reading these pieces [of Lovecraftian scholarship] has completely changed my [inverted snobbery regarding establishment academic litcrit language]. Not about all of them, some of them are basically saying very little in as many words as possible, but that is not a fair characterisation of a lot of them.

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Crafting Cthulhu

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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Echo Station muses on what he wants in a Cthulhu idol…

To sum up, my ideal Cthulhu idol would have the following characteristics:

* stylized
* looms outward, or otherwise aggressively posed
* big grabby unfinished-looking wings, possibly posed asymmetrically
* spider-like eyes, but probably not too regular in numbers or symmetry
* extremities not clearly arms or flippers or whatever, but some horrible combination, and skinny rather than [body-builder] buff
* inhuman (probably covered by all of the above)
* intelligent
* menacing

Lovecraft was right: part 534

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Visualise the 4th dimension, with this handy attic-sized LED-light hypercube, with programmed dimension-revealing patterns…

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We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation.” [said Tillinghast] … We entered the laboratory in the attic, and I observed that detestable electrical machine, glowing with a sickly, sinister violet luminosity.” (H.P. Lovecraft, “From Beyond”)

Definitely one for the Art Room at NecronomiCon 2015.