Hello Mindsay, long time no see.

I'm not going to bother catching up with all the crud that’s happened since the last time I updated. I really cant be bothered with all that.

the only reason I'm doing this again is that school requires me up put up a "production research blog" (thanks Mark!) and I'm to lazy to deal with all the hassle of starting up a new account.

Ok. for this assignment (or homework or whatever) we had to read a short story by H.P Lovecraft called The Unnamable and after reading it we had to draw 4 concepts based off the monster in it.

Mark (my teacher. Awesome man, but I suspect he is quite evil) said we're doing this 'cause sometimes scripts and such we get from our employers will end up being that vague at some stage of our careers. and boy is it vague, there’s a mention of a skull with “four-inch horns, but a face and jaw something like yours and mine." wounds that seemed to some from an ape, the impression of a goats hoof and then there was the last line: “a gelatin - a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes - and a blemish. It was the pit - the maelstrom - the ultimate abomination.”

I gave the last sentence to my housemate and being a scientist she said it reminded her of a Macrophage I got to admit that at human size one of those would be pretty freaky. And I like how it has those string things. Now I just have to try adding horns, ape-arms and hooves to the thing.

Gotta say, finding research images for horns is proving to be a bit of a challenge. There are heaps of pictures of horns, just none that show how the damn things look from the inside out, or how they are formed, or anything like that. Still… Heres some horn pictures I found interesting.

A feral goat

The biggest bull horns ever

One, two, and the first link to some curly rams horns

And one page that has a whole bunch of images but hooked me with their picture of the bottom of some goats feet.

Some monkey skeletons to try and figure out the “APE arms” bit. There doesn’t seem to be that much on that subject on google though.

Some more picture of Macrophages

On the subject of macrophages the housemate that suggested them has access to her schools online medical texts (and unlike me knows what to look for) and she suggested some goodies like “Kala Azar” or  “Leishmaniasis” and something called “Chegas disease”

She now thinks I’m evil ‘cause I said that the image of the woman with Chegas was “both horrible and awesome” and accused me of perverting the suffering of innocent people into “some sideshow freak monster” and that I was a horrible person for using these people to get good grades.

I found that funny ‘cause she gave me the pictures from her course notes.