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Hi Toren,

I finally got a copy of your latest CD and think it is the best that I have heard yet. I liked all the other ones, but The Shadow Out of Tim is a real achievement. I know of only 2 other LPs that tell a story over their play time. I know of Pink Floyd’s The Wall and a band called Queensryche’s Operation: Mind Crime. Thank you and the band for producing such a piece of entertainment. It inspired me to re-read The Shadow Out of Time by HPL. If you know of any other CDs that tell stories in this fashion and would recommend I would love to read about them.

Thank you for you attention. Please keep up the good work.

Rob

Anyone know of such albums?

I got a call from my agent about a student film that was doing auditions. These are non-paying gigs but the last one (Hello Goodbye) was quite rewarding so I take them when I can. She had submitted two other people from her roster and I don’t know if they asked any other agencies to send them some actors. My agent described it as “a professor reads a book and is greedy and then scared,” which didn’t phase me as job descriptions are usually vague. The last commercial audition I did, for which I got a call back, I had no idea what it was about and still don’t (Sam got the job – yay Sam!).

Anyway I rode my bike down to the VFS campus on Burrard and Pacific and called one of the guys. They brought me up and described that this is going to be a 50 second short film about a guy who finds an evil book and starts reading from it. He summons a (CG) monster which attacks him and drains his life. End of film. The name Lovecraft came up. They had no idea who I was.

They showed me the animatic they did with one of the other students as the professor. Then they took me into another room and took photos of my head and my left hand from 45 degree angles (straight on, 3/4 view, profile, etc). Then they had me act like I was being attacked by a Cthulhu monster.

A few days later I got an email saying I got the job.

Inking more or less finished. The hard part now will be colouring it.

Last week I received in the mail the most massive tome I ever hope to own. It’s about 12″ by 16″ and 2″ thick. It retails for $395 US. It’s called “Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft” and as such I happened to get it as a contributor copy since it included a copy of my “Where the Great Old Ones Are.” I have a couple other books dedicated to the art of the Cthulhu Mythos, but this one is clearly the most comprehensive and spectacular. And the good news that Jerad from Centipede Press says “if people order the book and mention your blog, they can take $120 off — $275 postage paid instead of $395!” That’s a hell of a discount! Cyclopean, even.

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My next step in creating the back cover for Outnumbered #6 was to take some various poses in sketch form and cobble them together in slightly different combos. I submitted these to Kevin and Todd and they came back with their favourite.

Here are 2 of the samples:

Here I am starting my line of un-Thickets related shirts. Oh what a clothing designer I am. The isopod shirt will go up whenever I have some more free time. These two were relatively easy to do. The rain UPC is Duncan’s design.

Dead Space God eBay store (link)

Want one? Don’t even go through eBay, just ask me.

Not just one of my favourite scifi movies, but one of my favourite movies.

To be determined (not hopeful).