YouTube Famous

Hey everybody. I'm YouTube Famous now! Lol.
All joking aside, I am very grateful to beloved YouTube woodworking content creator, Matt Cremona, for featuring one of my projects on his channel. About six months or so ago, I sent him some pictures of my Tarot Box project. At the end of his weekly shop update videos, he features several viewer projects. As he has over 250 thousand subscribers, you can guess that the queue for the viewer projects is pretty long.

The segment with my photos starts around 10:50 into the video, but I recommend you watch the whole thing, especially if you are into woodworking. Matt is a very popular YouTube woodworker, and his videos are very entertaining. I have been following his channel for over a year now, and I am never disappointed.

In Ink

I was scrolling through my FaceBook feed the other day and I just happened to stumble onto this image of Charlie Platteborze's new tattoo. I'm not even sure why it showed up on my news feed. I don't know Charlie, and it was posted to a FaceBook group of which I was not a member. 

I'm not even sure how my eye caught it, but a small detail in the above bounty of imagery grabbed my attention. Look closely at the book The Old Gent is holding.

It was the central sigil that first caught my attention. I had to pull up the full sized image to see if my eye really saw what my brain said that it saw. They did! That's a glyph I created for my Book of IOZ manuscript, which has subsequently been used on my Necronomicon fragment pages, as well as on the interior pages of my De Vermis Mysteriis, and on the cover of my Necronomicon that I created for the indie film, Doctor Glamour.

 Yep, the corner bosses and the lock escutcheon cinches it! That's a representation of my Doctor Glamour Necronomicon. Boy, this thing seems to be getting around, doesn't it?

Anyway, it made my day seeing a piece of my work out in the wild like that, so I thought I would share it with all of you.

Imitation

is the sincerest form of flattery. The other day I was doing a Google image search, looking for Mythos prop ideas, when I stumbled on this picture on Crudelia's Deviant Art page.

Look familiar at all? I was immediately struck by the similarity of the bosses and hinges to those from my Doctor Glamour Necronomicon, shown below.

Of course, once I got a closer look at the picture, I could finally make out the text that specifically mentions that the design was inspired by my Necronomicon (squee!). I love seeing and hearing about how my work has inspired someone else's! It gives me fuel to trudge on.

I quite like Crudelia's book. In many ways, I like it better than my own (though not in all ways). The sculpts of the hardware are very stylish and have a lot of character to them, though they are a little over the top and cartoonish for a "serious" Necronomicon (imho). He is clearly a better sculptor than me. I wish I could sculpt with that much flair. The painted leather on the boards and the finish on the hardware is also quite nice, and the multiple bookmarks are a nice touch.

I had never seen any of this artist's work before, but having a quick glance at his resume on his Deviant Art page, he has quite the list of accomplishments. It's very impressive.  I am flattered that anything I have done should have made such an impression that he would choose to simulate it in a work of his own.

Seeing as Crudelia's book was finished in 2012 (the year after mine), I'm surprised it took me this long to notice it. If anyone who follows this blog happens to spot something of mine, or clearly inspired by my work, out in the wild, please let me know. I would love to see it.