Paging Dr. Cthulhu: CODE BLUE IN R’LYEH!
Posted by Derek C.F. Pegritz
I, Derek Cthulhu Fh’tagn Pegritz, have a confession to make: I have a raging medical fetish, especially when it comes to mortuary equipment and insane asylums. I collect antique medical equipment, and my house looks like a combination of a 1920s doctors office and a shrine to Skinny Puppy and broken computer equipment. If I ever find an Innsmouth babe of my own, we shall certainly honeymoon at Danvers Asylum in Danvers, Mass.
So when I came upon Cyril Van Der Haegen’s online portfolio, I was interested in just flipping through the illustrations, chasing down a few rumored R’lyehan prints until…I came upon the one above.
It’s like everything that gives me a tickle combined into one massive cerebral overload. My limbic system nearly exploded and I got a “special feeling” in my lower tentacles, if you know what I’m sayin’….
Best of all, Herr Van Der Haegen provides a wonderful semi-tutorial on how he crafted the above painting!
The painting has a sequel, too, which just makes my pulpy, fungous heart squelch with art-lust:
May the Other Gods eternally bless MetaFilter for leading sickos like me/us to the light of glorious insanity!
Categories: Cthulhu, Medical, Mad Scientists, Insanity, Photoshop, Fetish, Cthulhu Cthursday, Horror, Lovecraft, Cephalophilia
Posted at 11:38 am on September 20, 2007
9 Comments -
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Fuck you Pegritz! It’s not fair, dammit. How am I supposed to compete on Cthulhu Cthursday with a man who has direct contact with the Old Ones?
Seriously though, that’s some cool shit there I need a print of the second one.
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — September 20, 2007 @ 11:52 am
Indeed, check out his website. There are many Lovecraftian works. My favourite is the piece titled “Birth of Cthulhu,” featuring our favourite old bean, Howard himself.
Comment by Evil Jim — September 20, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
Is the asylum in Danvers still operational? I have an abandoned asylum fetish thing going on too, and I live in Boston… I need to check this out.
Comment by Ian Muller — September 20, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
Oh, to have a disposable income and spend it all on antique medical equipment and fuck-me shoes. I seethe with envy.
Comment by Louise — September 20, 2007 @ 9:00 pm
old abandoned danvers has been demolished, but they’re rebuilding…mass is rife with asylums yo
Comment by annie — September 20, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
Wow. Amazing work.
Comment by FiXXXer667 — September 23, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
Excellent and good to know…
Comment by Ian Muller — September 25, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
HahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Sanity is for the weak!!!
Oh…and job well done too :D
Comment by Seratuhlis Hayenkthemet — January 23, 2008 @ 3:43 am
what a fabulous site you have.
Comment by nursemyra — October 5, 2008 @ 10:59 pm