{"id":7297,"date":"2010-06-08T02:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2010-06-08T02:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:40:42","slug":"the-specimens-of-alex-cf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/08\/the-specimens-of-alex-cf\/","title":{"rendered":"The specimens of Alex CF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alexcf.com\/blog\/?page_id=14\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/alexcf1.jpg\" alt=\"alexcf1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/alexcf.com\/blog\/?page_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Alex CF<\/a> makes beautifully detailed\u2014and very authentic\u2014cases for cryptozoological specimens. I think I&#8217;d seen examples of these before but not the Lovecraft exhibits like this collection which presents samples and studies retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/alexcf.com\/blog\/?page_id=14\" target=\"_blank\">the Mountains of Madness<\/a>. Among other Lovecraftiana there&#8217;s also a case devoted to artefacts from R&#8217;lyeh. These would have been ideal additions to the <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/2010\/05\/26\/exhibition-opening-a-love-craft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lovecraft show at Observatory<\/a> which (as a reminder) opens this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/unnaturalist.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">~Wunderkammer~<\/a>. (I think. If it wasn&#8217;t, it should be&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alexcf.com\/blog\/?page_id=14\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/alexcf2.jpg\" alt=\"alexcf2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/18\/at-the-mountains-of-madness\/\">At the Mountains of Madness<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/20\/walmor-correas-memento-mori\/\">Walmor Corr\u00eaa\u2019s Memento Mori<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/11\/05\/the-art-of-ron-pippin\/\">The art of Ron Pippin<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/10\/08\/custom-creatures\/\">Custom creatures<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/29\/cryptozoology\/\">Cryptozoology<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/14\/the-museum-of-fantastic-specimens\/\">The Museum of Fantastic Specimens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Alex CF makes beautifully detailed\u2014and very authentic\u2014cases for cryptozoological specimens. I think I&#8217;d seen examples of these before but not the Lovecraft exhibits like this collection which presents samples and studies retrieved from the Mountains of Madness. Among other Lovecraftiana there&#8217;s also a case devoted to artefacts from R&#8217;lyeh. These would have been ideal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/08\/the-specimens-of-alex-cf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The specimens of Alex CF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,22,26,20,41],"tags":[1400,1698],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-science-fiction","category-sculpture","tag-alex-cf","tag-rlyeh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1TH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}