Not much from the world of 3d art this month, but there were a few sightings and mentions.

A little bit of footage from ARK; a player (who speaks Hindi) takes a tamed cockatrice for a test drive. I love the chicken head. Seriously.


Digital artwork by Ryan Barger: The Cockatrice. Looks like the beak was slicing up leftovers there. And what a contour on the tail! Goes from super thick to slender...work it, burd.


Short piece of fiction from Paul Kingsnorth entitled The Basilisk though it's more about how the world is ending, and which gang might be behind it after all. Trying to identify a culprit through their tried and true methods can be an art as well as a science. I liked it for a quote, which Mr. Kingsnorth attributes to C.S. Lewis: He compared our narrow, blinded “analytical understanding” of the world to the gaze of the Basilisk, the mythical creature which kills a person just by gazing upon it. Everything a Basilisk looks at dies. It walks through a dead world thinking it is seeing reality.

I've seen previews for a Morbius movie, which reminds me that I have a particular comic book somewhere featuring Basilisk vs. Morbius. That particular picture was on the cover, I believe. It's also featured at this top ten enemies the character has, though I remember him being somewhat...toned down from what I normally think of when I imagine basilisks I know.


Thomas Pesendorfer is being awarded for his work designing coins. I'm only familiar with one of the coins he designed (and for good reason): I own this one thanks to a very significant badger in my life.

Talked about my mouse before. I use it at work; people have asked me about games I'm into because apparently the mouse is pretty well-known in gamer circles? But no...it just does math for me. Lots of math. And manipulating grade spreadsheets.

From an album entitled With A Golden Sickle: The Cockatrice and the Storm-Cock by Temple Music/Rendeece:

The Cockatrice: Ominous sounding, scratching sounds with thumping percussion and something that might be strings twanging or a distorted voice calling to you from the distance...

The Storm-Cock: Beginning with something reminiscent of a church organ, then overtaken with other sounds that might be inspired by radio interference or other such sounds; it isn't quite as eerie or threatening as the other track. It has a flavor of being awed or amazed into silence, instead of being frightened.

Rendeece is a musician from Greece with a blog: https://rendeece-faust.blogspot.com/

I like the album art as well!



And last but not least: a rooster lays an egg while crowing at sunrise. The rooster is on the roof of a barn; Susie is on the East side and Rick is on the West side. Who will catch the egg? A classic riddle, to be sure.
See the answer here!