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Virgin Oceanic’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - IEEE Spectrum

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thanks to JDG, the true visage of Deep Explorer XV

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Pimoa Cthulhu

As you may know, I'm a big fan of spiders. I'm really interested in their biology, taxonomy and make a lot of trips to look for some interesting specimen. And I just discovered today that there is a californian species named Pimoa cthulhu, from the small Pimoidae family. Described by Gustavo Hormiga (certainely a HPL fan), it's a small, dark creature, found only in a small territory of West California.

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Shoggi Muffins

That's a very distubing image... Suspicious Cakes viewed in a local bakery by Sebastian (SaM) Meusel.

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The Presence (II)

Sent by Vojt - Cultist from Poland - Cthulhu is really everywhere

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Cacthulhu

Sent by D.Herrera... Cthulhu is everywhere.

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W.T.F. Epic Meal Time Cthulhu Video

One of weirdest - if not sickest - Cthulhu related post ever. Sanity loss possible. (sent by Victor Aguilar)

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Cthulhu Seal Metal Amulet

Based on one of my seal design, Kenneth "Kacey" Close made an amulet cast in Metal, for an Halloween Cultist costume. That's a nice piece of work!

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The Deep Blue

The image used in today's strip was taken during my last trip to Philippines, courtesy of Aurore. Yes, I'm a diver , though not obsessed, but involved enough to choose rich underwater places to visit when I'm travelling. I've dived in some of the best places, in the red sea, in the Carribeans, Africa or in the Indian Ocean, but I must say that the Philippine corrals offered me a gorgeous show, with an incredible number of species and a variety of shape and colors. Marine life was a bit disappointing - a huge variety of fishes but most of the spots were victims of obvious overfishing. I was also completely amazed by some of the forms of life found among the corrals - and I was often wondering the class or the order of some alien critters. Night snorkel, one of my favorite hobby was less thrilling than during my previous carribean trips (Belize, Martinique and Dominique). I could though find a few of the iconic species I was looking for, such as the Flamboyant Cuttlefish of the Mandarin Fish and many of the colorful nudibranchs.

Here are a few images depicting those fabulous landscapes, again thanks to Aurore

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Saucisse au Sucre goes Cthulhu

Geek & Girly... check this blog - only in french - here!

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La maison qui glissait

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(review in French).

J.P.Andrevon est un des veterants de la litterature SF/Fantastique française, et nous livre encore ici une histoire ciselée qui plaira aux amateurs d'ambiance toute lovecraftienne... La trame est simple: une tour de banlieu se retrouve un jour entouré d'une brouillard impenetrable, avant de commencer a "glisser" dans le temps et l'espace, donnant ses habitants en patures a une incroyable gallerie de dangers. A la fois peinture sociale a peine caricaturale, jeu de massacre et enigme metaphysique, la narration sait , malgres quelques defaut, accrocher le lecteur et lui donner envie de "tourner encore une derniere page". Deux reference me vienne a l'esprit: tout d'abord "Brume", la nouvelle de Stephen King (adapté recement au cinema), et bien sur "Dans l'abime du temps" - la premiere pour son ambiance de fin du monde, sa paranoia inter-survivants et ses vagues de creatures meutrieres ou etrangere a l'homme, et la nouvelle de HPL pour la description si approprié du "glissement" dans des temps/espaces si peu saisissable par l'esprit humain.
Malgres une fin abrupte et un peu expeditive, quoiqu'etonnament satisfaisante philosophiquement parlant, et de vague relents pornographiques pas vraiment necessaires, on a là une oeuvre compacte et passionante, qui se hisse a un rang de potentiel "best-seller", a la King ou Koons, mais sans les longueurs parfois assomantes de ces auteurs (le livre est plutot court, et aurais largement supporté un traitement plus etendu). Manque juste une fin plus travaillé (et peut etre plus originale) et un meilleur equilibrage des tensions en deuxieme moitié de livre pour viser la grande fresque incontournable. Et que tous les amateurs d'horreurs indiscibles, de portes dimensionnelles impie ou de tentacules abjectes se rassurent, on ne trouvera que rarement une telle peinture d'abominations mortelles (mais pourtant etonnament "credibles") en si peu de pages.

La Maison qui Glissait - Jean-Pierre Andrevon

Edition Le Belial
530 pages
Façonnage : cousu
ISBN : 978-2-84344-098-4
Parution : mai 2010

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New Stuff!

I've finally updated some galleries of  the Goominet, with a lot of new Goomicronicon Pages and some digital paintings - Check up the LOVECRAFT page!

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DyE - Fantasy

Disturbing video.

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Hagfishes: We are the Slimy Army

An other fascinating creature from the depth: the Hagfish (Myxini). Not really a vertebrate (it has only a skull and not a spine), looking like a cross-breeding between a worm and a eel, it lives on the ocean floor and is really known for its incredible Slime weapon.

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Les Nombreuses Vies de Cthulhu

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(Review in French)

Dans cet OVNI littéraire, Patrick Marcel reussit un etrange pari: celui de faire de Cthulhu le centre et le hero d'un cross-over entre fiction et essai litteraire, tout en restant passionant et maniaquement documenté. Cette Fiction, car c'en est une, va nous raconter a la fois l'histoire du Mythe de Cthulhu et celle de Lovecraft lui-même, en tant que Gardien de Veritables Secrets impies, S'y croiseront de multiples references a la litterature d'Aventure, de Victor Hugo a H.G.Wells, de Conan Doyle a R.E.Howard, dans une intelligente réecriture de l'histoire secrète du Monde, avec en toile de fond la présence du Dieux Aquatique, omnipresent dans les rêves des hommes.

Les Nombreuses Vies de Cthulhu, Patrick Marcel, 304 pages.

 

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Lovecraft, le Dernier Puritain

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Review in French.

Cedric Monget, auteur du prolifique blog Schizodoxe, signe chez la Clef d'Argent, un court essai sur la religion - ou plutot l'atheisme, chez Lovecraft, et sa profonde influence sur l'oeuvre du Maître de Providence. Malgres cet enoncé un peu rigide, l'ouvrage se lit très facilement: en depit d'apparences bien entretenues, je ne suis pas un spécialiste de Lovecraft, a peine un bon connaisseur de l'imbrication du mythe de Cthulhu dans la culture populaire, et j'ai pu facilement y trouver un grand interet, alors que certaines biographies ou etudes m'ont apparues particulièrement indigestes, pédante ou simplement soporifiques. Ici, on reconnaitra un style moderne et agréable, non dénué d'humour.

Après l'exposition du Materialisme chez Lovecraft, base de son atheisme profond et de sa paradoxale cosmogonie litteraire, l'auteur etudie aussi ses rapport trouble avec le racisme, avant de se pencher plus avant sur la religion selon HPL, très interessant sujet fondateur, tout en contradiction. On est loin d'un essai ennuyeux: de nombreuses references precise a l'oeuvre de HPL et une forme plutot amusante font de cet ouvrage une agréable source d'information, précisement documentée et pourtant fluide a lire . Bien sur, tout cela n'aura d'interet que pour ceux qui ont déja un minimum de connaissance et d'interet pour l'auteur de Providence. Et dois-je preciser que la couverture utilise une de mes peintures numerique...

Lovecraft, le dernier Puritain - par Cedric Monget, Edition La Clef d'Argent, 84 p.

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Here's an update, at last (partilally inspired by the french book: Les nombreuses vies de Cthulhu).  The Vault has been sleeping, because I've caught a bad flu and my job was quite exhausting those last weeks: I'm currently starting our new project, while The Lorax is not finish yet. The Lorax is the 3D adaptation of the famous eponymous book by Dr. Seuss. Here's the trailer of the movie:

Nothing Lovecraftian here - though, under the bright hollywoodian varnish, this film is still a powerfull pamphlet against pollution, economic greed and uncontrolled development.

I was not present at the Essen fair, again because of this flu; Too bad, there were 2 books from the new Pegasus CoC collection, with cover done by myself. Sorry to all the fans I usually meet there.

I will try to reboot this weblog, I've got a lot of new stuff to classify and expose here... Cheers!

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Webcomic: God Comics

The Great Old Ones are not jealous nor racist: They are happy to present you a less specialized webcomic, dealing with the White Guy In Charge in this Realm of Ashes.

In God Comics, old and new testament, along with current religious practices and zealots, are the used as inspiration for a wonderfully gross strip collection, illustraded by a perfect and ugly art. Very black humor, graphic death and goring, fornication, apocalypse, demons,sinners and God/Jesus' bad jokes will make you laugh, repent or start a crusade against its vile author. Recommended - and don't forget to start by the "Alpha"...

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DORK TOWER, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 | Dork Tower

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latest DorkTower is sooooooo true!

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Goominet Update

The Goominet - my Serious Website, was updated with new "Goomicronicon" design - check the full page here

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I've also worked for the Third German Edition of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, creating two different covers for the Player Handbook. The Limited Edition, with its sober and nicely embossed cover, is a very nice item. All images here.

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Into This Swamp

A Blog focused on Mythos Inspired Music. Featured mostly Metal bands - but not only. Very big archive here, with some very obscure reference.

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