That’s a nice prop and the illusion of wetness works quite well and the closeups on his site are even better. For prop makers and people interested in the evolution of the Cthulhu Mythos might enjoy a quick photo search on Google images for Ernst Haeckel will yield a number of very bizarre Victorian engravings of sea life. H. P. Lovecraft probably was familiar with Haeckel’s works. Most strongly is Haeckel’s drawing of human fetus stages to illustrate the false belief that that humans grow through all the stages of evolution such as a lizard & etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_drawing
Could it be the return of the Old Ones? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Haeckel_Actiniae.jpg
Shades of a nightmare: http://www.subblue.com/assets/0000/3497/Haeckel-Astrophyton-darwini_full.jpg
A nice gallery of fun: http://ernst-haeckel.deviantart.com/gallery/
Fun with Haeckel and Photoshop http://regularpaper.blogspot.com/2011/11/daughters-of-ernst-haeckel.html
That’s a nice prop and the illusion of wetness works quite well and the closeups on his site are even better. For prop makers and people interested in the evolution of the Cthulhu Mythos might enjoy a quick photo search on Google images for Ernst Haeckel will yield a number of very bizarre Victorian engravings of sea life. H. P. Lovecraft probably was familiar with Haeckel’s works. Most strongly is Haeckel’s drawing of human fetus stages to illustrate the false belief that that humans grow through all the stages of evolution such as a lizard & etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_drawing
ReplyDeleteCould it be the return of the Old Ones? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Haeckel_Actiniae.jpg
Shades of a nightmare: http://www.subblue.com/assets/0000/3497/Haeckel-Astrophyton-darwini_full.jpg
A nice gallery of fun: http://ernst-haeckel.deviantart.com/gallery/
Fun with Haeckel and Photoshop http://regularpaper.blogspot.com/2011/11/daughters-of-ernst-haeckel.html