kthulu
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Post by kthulu on Jul 15, 2013 22:19:34 GMT -5
I haven't sealed this yet, for it is drying. I got this table from trash. Melted/Stabbed/Carved up by patients at a local mental hospital... I needed a table for simple story sessions, and I thought why not print out some stuff on the company laser printer, and used old coffee as a stain to make it look old... Here it is:
Does anyone like it? I never actually tried this before. Coffee + Glue.
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Post by dm1scotty on Jul 15, 2013 22:39:42 GMT -5
Looks great!..I love your work. Do you sell Necro pages on Ebay?
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kthulu
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Post by kthulu on Jul 15, 2013 22:46:00 GMT -5
I have never sold anything I have done... I am only an amateur artist. I am glad you like it. This was my first attempt at something like this. Old Coffee + Glue sounds so silly, but this is high praise from you.
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luciano
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Post by luciano on Jul 16, 2013 9:52:31 GMT -5
The appearance is really fantastic, and clippings overlapping with drawings so disturbing really refer to themes of insanity and madness! Kthulu fantastic job! I use one for old objects bituminous diluted in water! These are some pieces that I aged with bitumen. Are parts for a Live Call of Cthulhu where my wife and I played. I carved the plaster board and I applied a layer of bitumen and then used the green light to make the Right Light. This is an experience in building a cardboard ancient tome. My wife and I playing live. I played a magician from the beginning of the century, she an actress of the 30s (as Luise Brooks). The costumes have work. I have other photos in my Face book! Who want to see just to order Add. These pieces of the Live made by players. This was done in an auction at Miskatonic University. So much fun. I learned to do various magic tricks for this event. I did the Elder Sign too. This hand of glory, was made as a simple candle of religious offering (very common here in Brazil) I put the strings on your fingertips, did the magical symbols with soldering iron and bitumen to aging. The Bitumen leaves that look of old natural patina! Disgusting! :-) Used bandages painted for the base and a candle holder to give this look disgusting!
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Post by caveman on Jul 16, 2013 11:03:24 GMT -5
Kthulu, that table looks really cool, but I'm having trouble deciphering my feelings about its origin (carved up by local mental patients). On the one hand, taking an "artifact" like that -- one which already had some unstable mental energy soaked into it -- and then adding more symbols of lunacy... Man, that is a bold move on your part and I'm totally clapping my hands. Even if your players never knew where the table had come from, and who had used it, there is now this hidden "creepy" vibe in the table which just spooks me the heck out. And on the other hand, being a superstitious dude, I'm not sure I would be all "tra la la la la" about it -- like "oh, yee haw, I just can't wait to sit down and soak up some of that nutso vibe."
I think the table both looks cool, and has an awesome "taking it pretty far" feel to it. Great job!
(There's a similar "hidden creepy" scene in Robert Graves' novel I, Cladius. I remember the story imperfectly, but it goes something like this. Germanicus is the Emperor Tiberius's son, and he is in Syria (I think) as a military governor. He's been sent there to straighten things out and the local authorities hate his guts. He has with him the very young boy who will grow up to be Caligula. Caligula is like 8 I think, but even at that young, he is not right in the head. Anyway, Caligula is used as a pawn by somebody who doesn't like the extremely competent and effective Germanicus, and winds up installing hidden curses all over Geramanicus's house. When they finally find one hex -- maybe it's nine or ten cats drowned in an amphora of oil and the amphora is stuffed way back in the storeroom where nobody would ever get it -- they call in a white witch and she tells them where else they ought to look in the house to find the rest of the hexes that are almost certainly there. They wind up finding a dozen really gruesome things that this boy Caligula had either done himself, or put there, but the capper is pretty unforgettable. Basically, they find like 12 hexes and the white witch has told them there will be 13, and by then they know Caligula is complicit, so they ask him where the 13th is. The game is up and his fun is over, so the boy shrugs his shoulders, takes Germanicus and wife to their bedroom, has a slave move the super heavy bed, and lifts up a flagstone from the floor. Beneath the flagstone -- which had to have been in place since they moved there a year ago because the bed is so heavy (in other words, the hex had been there the entire time they'd been in residence) -- they find a human baby that had been strangled, eviscerated, salted, cured, and painted red... Right beneath their bed. And their eight-year-old adopted son had known about it the entire time, and had almost certainly helped put it there. And what makes it WORSE, if you can imagine, is that this kid -- the kid who did it -- the kid who WE know as the nutso Caligula but who they only knew as their adopted son -- was in line to become emperor of Rome. So there they are, Germanicus and wife, standing in their bedroom looking at this incredibly gruesome find beneath their bed (which is the capper of 12 other gruesome finds), and the boy who did it (and who might one day become emperor of Rome) is pretty much just shrugging his shoulders and saying "meh" while he looks at them in boredom.)
So yeah, Kthulu, your table is definitely awesome, but it creeps me out a bit. :-)
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luciano
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Post by luciano on Jul 16, 2013 11:18:05 GMT -5
Okay Caveman,
I'll look under my bed now! Even scary!
But the story about Caligula is real? Finished to see the Roman period in faculty of history and have not seen much about Caligula.
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Post by dm1scotty on Jul 16, 2013 13:03:10 GMT -5
luciano, thanks for the pic and great artifacts. Looks really fun.
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kthulu
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Post by kthulu on Jul 16, 2013 14:12:08 GMT -5
Luciano, the artifacts are over-the-top awesome.
Caveman,I never really gave much thought to the origin, but I like it... I just saw a free table. I love the idea of "hidden creepy."
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Post by caveman on Jul 16, 2013 19:11:58 GMT -5
Luciano, I read the Caligula story in a novel, so I doubt it's real. However, he certainly was completely crazy, so who knows how much of it is true. His own guards assassinated him, if that tells you anything.
Also, I really liked your Cthulu props. They looked like they were fun to make, and they turned out looking really cool. It looked like you and your wife were having a bunch of fun!
Kthulu: Yeah, the "hidden creepy" definitely puts an internal twist on things, especially when other people don't know...
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Post by kthulu on Jul 16, 2013 23:07:43 GMT -5
I actually had to look up what bitumen is. I had no clue. And I agree w/ Caveman, the couple that crafts together - stays together. I know from experience how hard relationships w/ women are.
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Post by luciano on Jul 17, 2013 15:24:03 GMT -5
Thanks Scotty,
It really was great fun!
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