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September BasilCockWatch
a year ago
Writing
The collection of short stories by Doug Skinner, The Potato Farm, has been out for almost a year. But he recently posted something about one of the stories in a blog:
...The creature stared out at me, its baleful eye, meticulously rendered in Cadmium yellow, contrasting boldly with the scarlet comb and wattles. Its neck led down to a squat body and thrashing tail, their scales a mottled green. Its plumed legs ended in muscular feet, the left one raised, its sharp talons menacing the viewer. The anatomy was persuasive, the modeling effective, the brushwork, frankly, rather deft. But when I looked the animal in the eye, I didn’t die. I had failed.
I turned away from the easel and sank my head into my hands.
A couple of years ago I bought an anthology just for one story and was a little disappointed; I have a story of my own in an anthology. I get that it's a grab bag. But I may look into putting this on a wish list or something, just in case it's good.
Videos and Music
For some reason quite a few songs came out around this time. A few were really late in August and probably belong in that report, but I'll include them here as that is when I found them.
A Cockatrice Hast thou Hatch'd to the World, Whose Unavoided Eye is Murderous by ixzo. Not sure if that's a channel, a band, or both. They seem to like mythological themes though!
And I can usually count on Poland for good basilisk stuff. Likho released their single, "Basilisk", and it's in English. Very heavy speed metal sound to it.
I child of cock overseen by the toad is something I might have to steal for a signature.
Statues! Well...miniatures.
A minature I haven't seen before: Enraged Cockatrice from Tim Prow, at Diehard Miniatures. Looks like he's falling out of that tree...I could see being a bit put off, but enraged? Get a grip, kiddo. Heh, literally!
Adorable little cockatrice (and "Quail-trice") chicks for sale at Moss and Moonshine. They seem to make them and turn around and find homes for them fast, so you may have to browse the site (scroll down and look for "Creature Guide" and you'll probably spot a few).
Spotted by clairvoyantchocobo: while I was happy Dungeon Meshi raised basilisk and cockatrice awareness, I have mixed feelings about these action figures. Why do they have to make us look delicious!? I know it's in the title of the show but...bawk it.
Extras?
I've run across basilisk firearms, ships, gamer mice, and sports teams. Now, there's Wirehead Instruments Basilisk, a hybrid generative bassline synthesizer. Available for $310; what will you see? On the hardware side, it has a mono input and output, sync in/out (0-5V rising-edge and compatible with Korg Volca, Eurorack…), ten potentiometers, and six buttons. Six buttons?
(Counts limbs in his feral form) One, two, three...six! It's like it's meant to be.
The collection of short stories by Doug Skinner, The Potato Farm, has been out for almost a year. But he recently posted something about one of the stories in a blog:
...The creature stared out at me, its baleful eye, meticulously rendered in Cadmium yellow, contrasting boldly with the scarlet comb and wattles. Its neck led down to a squat body and thrashing tail, their scales a mottled green. Its plumed legs ended in muscular feet, the left one raised, its sharp talons menacing the viewer. The anatomy was persuasive, the modeling effective, the brushwork, frankly, rather deft. But when I looked the animal in the eye, I didn’t die. I had failed.
I turned away from the easel and sank my head into my hands.
A couple of years ago I bought an anthology just for one story and was a little disappointed; I have a story of my own in an anthology. I get that it's a grab bag. But I may look into putting this on a wish list or something, just in case it's good.
Videos and Music
For some reason quite a few songs came out around this time. A few were really late in August and probably belong in that report, but I'll include them here as that is when I found them.
A Cockatrice Hast thou Hatch'd to the World, Whose Unavoided Eye is Murderous by ixzo. Not sure if that's a channel, a band, or both. They seem to like mythological themes though!
And I can usually count on Poland for good basilisk stuff. Likho released their single, "Basilisk", and it's in English. Very heavy speed metal sound to it.
I child of cock overseen by the toad is something I might have to steal for a signature.
Statues! Well...miniatures.
A minature I haven't seen before: Enraged Cockatrice from Tim Prow, at Diehard Miniatures. Looks like he's falling out of that tree...I could see being a bit put off, but enraged? Get a grip, kiddo. Heh, literally!
Adorable little cockatrice (and "Quail-trice") chicks for sale at Moss and Moonshine. They seem to make them and turn around and find homes for them fast, so you may have to browse the site (scroll down and look for "Creature Guide" and you'll probably spot a few).
Spotted by clairvoyantchocobo: while I was happy Dungeon Meshi raised basilisk and cockatrice awareness, I have mixed feelings about these action figures. Why do they have to make us look delicious!? I know it's in the title of the show but...bawk it.
Extras?
I've run across basilisk firearms, ships, gamer mice, and sports teams. Now, there's Wirehead Instruments Basilisk, a hybrid generative bassline synthesizer. Available for $310; what will you see? On the hardware side, it has a mono input and output, sync in/out (0-5V rising-edge and compatible with Korg Volca, Eurorack…), ten potentiometers, and six buttons. Six buttons?
(Counts limbs in his feral form) One, two, three...six! It's like it's meant to be.
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