For today only; Grand Theft Tardis at RIPT Apparel. If you had to pick a t-shirt to sell for one day only and that day was Christmas Day – which subject would you pick?
Mi-Go and Yog-Sothoth Christmas carols
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have a knack of putting together earworms of clips. They tunnel into your brain and plant songs. The track above is “I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth” which isn’t your usual Christmas carol and yet feels oddly familiar. What about “Freddy the red brained Mi-Go”? could that be a Christmas carol […]
Alien Salad creature
Are you a fan of Brussels sprouts? Will you be eating all your veggies and salad this festive season? Yes? Consider this xenomorph salad construct?
Armed Middle School Student Basket Army 5th short
Armed Middle School Student Basket Army is a 5 minute short animation based on a story written by Kazushige Nojima. Kazushige Nojima is best known for writing the scenarios of computer RPGs like Kingdom Hearts, Black Rock Shooter and some of the Final Fantasy series. This clip puts the spotlight on Toko Natori who becomes […]
The awesome Otto and Victoria
Otto and Victoria are a popular series of sketches by Brian Kesinger. I’d seen the famous illustration of Victoria walking Otto as a Tea Girl calendar and knew I had to come back to it. As Kesinger explains the drawing is a study of the juxtaposition between the squiggly Otto and rigid Victoria. I’m not […]
Lovecraft’s Cthuloops
On sale at Gimmick Tees until Sunday, 30th December 2012, is Lovecraft’s Cthuloops. Is this what the great intelligences ate for breakfast or was it sanity flakes?
How to Describe Doctor Who to different people
Tomorrow is the Christmas Special for Doctor Who. In The Snowmen we’ll see Jenna-Louise Coleman play a character called Clara. We’re just not sure whether, or if, there’s a connection to Oswin from Asylum of the Daleks. The battle to control the TV is intense at Christmas. You might have family over, you might have […]
HR Giger’s Tarot of the Underworld
This deck of Tarot cards was selected by HR Giger himself. The great artist selected previously published work to act as each of the Major Arcana. The deck was published by Taschen Books in 2000 and is not hard to get hold of. You can pick up a copy from Amazon at a reasonable price. […]
First sighting of Tom Hardy as Mad Max
Tom Hardy is probably best known for playing Bane – at least for now. In 2014 he’ll be back as another iconic character: Mad Max. Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth film in the series, Tom Hardy replaces Mel Gibson as Mad Max. It’s directed by George Miller (Happy Feet, Babe… but also Mad […]
Mayfair announce “Catan: Explorers and Pirates”
Mayfair games have a new $50 Settlers of Catan expansion. The Catan: Explorers and Pirates add-on supports three or four players and will last around 90 minutes. The new expansion includes three missions and five scenarios designed to be mixed and matched to extend the number of unique uses you’ll get from the game. The […]
