From 26th March – 1st April 2012, Sweden is to hold a Lovecraft convention.
Lovecraft event in Sweden
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A survey of Lovecraft 3D models
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in 3D, Lovecraftian arts
A useful round-up of H.P. Lovecraft 3D resources for DAZ/Poser users.
Maps in Science Fiction and Fantasy
04 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Maps, Scholarly works
Aajor new research effort into the history and uses of Maps in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Lovecraftian typewriter as a 3D model
02 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Need a typewriter to go with your animated Lovecraft character? Here’s a nice 3D model of an antique typewriter in the standard 3D format of OBJ. Very similar to Lovecraft’s own, just swop out the Imperial logo for that of a 1906 Remington. Only $7, royalty-free, and it comes with a nice selection of hi-res textures including an “aged” look…
Deep Ones multiply
29 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A couple of new works coming out of the recent free Z-Brush tutorial on sculpting a Deep One in virtual 3D…
And D.M. Armour, which captures more of the hybridity…
Lovecraft’s giant prehistoric penguin
29 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Scientists have reconstructed Lovecraft’s giant “Mountains of Madness” prehistoric penguin.
Conference on the green man motif in literature
28 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Not really very relevant to Lovecraft (perhaps the nearest Lovecraft gets to this ancient theme is “The Strange High House in the Mist”?), but interesting enough to mention here…
“A two-day multidisciplinary conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin, 20th-21st July 2012, to explore the role of green man and wild man motifs in twentieth and twenty-first century children’s culture.”
Two new “hard” SF publications
27 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
The veteran publishers of the New Scientist magazine have started a speculative science fiction / near-future magazine, possibly aiming to get a first-mover advantage ahead of the economic upturn (apparently touted in big publisher circles as likely to drive a new generation of young people away from fantasy, and toward “hard” SF). The new title is Arc…
“A new digital magazine about the future […] forthcoming new fact and fiction”
MIT Technology Review magazine has also announced a hard SF venture, TRSF…
“the first installment of a to-be-annual hard SF collection.”
Cthulhentai
27 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Sakke’s “Cthulhentai Type 2010“…
See also the typographic book ornament of the Infinity Tentacle by Andrew Strauss.
“A Lot Like Me”
26 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
This is my upscaling to print-res of a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike picture from Rouge Spark and Frozen Moon. I hope it’ll be useful to someone. Could make a nice retro postcard, to act as a flyer for a film show or similar.
Science and Literature, 1800 to Present
26 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Keele University (North Staffordshire, England) is to host a conference of historians and literary specialists that may appeal to Lovecraftian scholars in the UK. “Science and Literature, 1800 to Present: Two Cultures or Co-evolution?” is a postgraduate conference set for 12th May 2012. The event will examine the long history of interplays between the sciences and the arts, seen most especially in science fiction.
Preternature issue on monsters
25 Saturday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A paywalled Penn State University Press academic journal, Preternature, is seeing papers for a special issue on: “Monstrophy: The Academic Study of Monsters”…
“Preternature is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the preternatural as seen in magics, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, prophecy, monstrophy, demonology, and folklore. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural. […] Contributions are welcome from any discipline, time period, or geographic provenance, so long as the discussion highlights the cultural, literary, religious, or historical significance of the topic. Final Papers are due 15th April 2012.”