Instructables has a step-by-step to crochet your very own Cthulhu! A few people tipped us on this one, but Bibi was first.

Bela sends us some fantastic artwork from the talented Sayaka; comprised of an Ectomo favorite, namely: lithe, Japanese nymphets. Also, tentacles.

Asa Gilmore calls out attention to a list of abandoned wonders in Russia, saying “Scroll to the end of the article. If that strange contraption doesn’t scream ‘Steampunk’ to you, I shall eat my hat and say ‘balderdash.’”

Benton Barnett submitted this badass gas mask t-shirt which will now have to be added to my wardrobe. They can be purchase here.

Dr. Hypercube warns us, via ectotweet, to beware the cephalopod loo.

Ninjas and moustaches are BFFs! Thanks, Felix.

Illustration: Uncle Dapper by missmonster : Thanks, Jason!

Four Red Bulls, twenty hours, and a bag of squid chips later, it is done. The very first Ectoplamosis print broadside is ready for distribution.

But soft, ye say, what in blazes am I talking about? I’ll let Warren Ellis, Big Daddy to Ectomo’s Little Sister, explain:

The broadside has a centuries-long history as a device for disseminating news and ideas. I mean, flyers go up on the web to be printed off, sure. But it’s not quite the same thing. Getting an idea, or a piece of writing, on a single sheet and saying, yes, print this off, copy it and distribute it wherever you like — that’d be interesting.

In short, a single-page guerilla publication, distributed by xerox and zealous reader in coffee shops, cubicle farms, club bathrooms, 24-hour greasy spoon diners, on telephone poles, shoved under windshield wipers, wiped under windshield shovers, safety-pinned on unsuspecting hobos, and fluttering in a comet tail behind us, wherever we may roam.

The first episode of ECTOPLASMOSIS! is offered in three editions:

• US Letter 8.5 x 11″ one-side printed sheet: broadside1_standard_final.pdf
• 8.5 x 11″ borderless, all the way to the EDGE, man! For people with printers who can handle “borderless” printing: broadside1_borderless_final.pdf
• Eurotrash A4 8.3 x 11.7″, for our international clientele: broadside1_a4_final.pdf

This broadside is formatted specifically for easy printing and xeroxing, and features original artwork, an updated version of my famous Toxoplasmosis article, vintage illustrations, and an octobee coloring contest! Those of you who wish to curry our excellent favor, print and distribute with zest and enthusiasm! You will be rewarded in this life, and the next.

Stay tuned for more information about the coloring contest, a distribution contest, and other blunt mutterings from Brownlee.

One of the favorite parts of my wanderings in the urban wilds of Seattle is the art hastily scrawled, sprayed, stenciled, and pasted on walls. Regardless of your take on graffiti, whether it is one of intolerance lending itself to tyrannical screeds on how all street artists are feckless vandals or one of acceptance and appreciation of the vivid colors and images that brighten an otherwise drab landscape we’ve all at some point appreciated a piece of street art or one of it’s gallery hung derivatives.

Granted, Seattle isn’t world renowned for it’s amazing street art, and to be quite honest a lot of what passes for good graffiti here is a hastily scrawled name, but we have a few good artists. In direct contrast to the level of artistic ability and proliferation of amazing murals on brick walls (or dearth there of) is the response time of those tasked with painting over the supposed vandalism. Not all our walls are speedily repainted, but some of the best are in a state of constant transition. While I’m depressed every time one of my favorite pieces is painted over, I can comfort myself with the knowledge that nothing in the world is as irresistible to a graffiti artist as a freshly cleaned canvas and a tenacious building owner bent on maintaining the pristine virgin white of a recently painted slum.

Imagine my excitement at discovering Graffiti Archeology, a site which chronicles, through the use of some extremely clever Flash, the history of walls in San Francisco, L.A., and New York from 1990 onward. If you’ll pardon me, I have some art to indulge in and my head to bash against a wall for not having thought of this first.

Graffiti Archeology via DRAWN!

More street art right down the street from my new apartment in Kreuzberg. Again by Blue, this time it’s a massive giant congealed from the flesh of a million naked pink humans. I move on Sunday. I can’t wait.

Incidentally, I know we have a few Berlin readers here. I’m moving there pretty much not knowing anyone. Any Germans (without mullets but with moustaches, please!) care to take pity on me and come out for drinks?

Blu Continues To Amaze [Wooster Collective]

A look at some of the graffiti just down the street from my new apartment in Berlin, a collaboration between famed street artists JR and Blu. Giant babies tattooed on the sides of urban decay and visible from my bedroom window? I’m in heaven.

JR and Blu Together in Berlin [Wooster Collective]