A big Happy Birthday to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Born August 20, 1890, H.P. Lovecraft wrote some of the most chilling fiction ever penned. Lovecraft is best known for being the creator of Cthulhu. He passed away on March 15, 1937. Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft!
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Check out picture L_28 at the link below for a peek at how I spent HPL’s 100th. birthday in 1990.
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Lovecraft’s Providence, From A Different Angle: Providence & Beyond at the Time of HPL’s Centennial, 1990
Greetings from Fullerton, California!
To Anyone with an Interest in H. P. Lovecraft and Providence:
A slight change of plans for the nearly 800 pictures I’ve created from my trip to the H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Celebration in Providence in August of 1990.
The original plan was to put them together on DVD-R’s and send them out to other Lovecraftians as an early gift for the 20th. anniversary of the Centennial Celebration.
But knowing how work-life and personal-life can change plans for us, I decided to put everything on Flickr.com; where the pictures can all be accessed now, even while the sets are still being annotated in preparation for creating street-by-street sets and map links too.
All eighteen rolls of film (A-R) have now been uploaded into a Flickr Pro account (currently paid for through August of 2011); and that means they can be downloaded in their highest resolution (2000 X 3000) for anyone to use anyway they like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/
I hope everyone finds something there they like; and perhaps have never seen before. Please forgive the inclusion of a few clunkers, and very grainy shots from two rolls of 1600 asa film, and from the scanner not liking Ektar 125!
And as I’ve stated on Flickr, please feel free to skip the first seventeen pictures and jump right to A_18 if you want to get right into the “good stuff”; you won’t hurt my feelings. I’m just including the non-Lovecraftian (and less than perfect) stuff for a more complete (pardon the expression) “picture” of one person’s visual record of those times and places.
Still a Friend of Lovecraft, After All These Years!
Will Hart
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Please share this information with anyone you know that is
a Lovecraft fan; but especially those who attended the
Centennial Celebration.
It’s Time for an Update!
The Street by Street Guide to Lovecraft’s Providence, From A Different Angle is Now on Flickr
To a Group of Lovecraftian Friends:
Greetings Again from Fullerton, California!
If you liked my original Flickr collection of over 800 photos I unveiled last year, “Lovecraft’s Providence, From A Different Angle: Providence & Beyond at the Time of HPL’s Centennial, 1990,” but were put off by the photos being in their original chronological shooting order, instead of by location order, then the new collection linked below may become the only way you ever look at the same photos again!
Providence, Rhode Island: The Streets – A street by street guide to the photos in “Lovecraft’s Providence, From A Different Angle,” is now viewable (along with the original collection) at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/
With 95 additional detail photos added to the original 803 for clarity; and possibly more to come when I begin working on the Boston and Cambridge photos after the Providence section is completed, this might be a great research tool for everyone looking for H.P. Lovecraft related photos or details.
Annotations, Descriptions, Details, and Tags are still being worked on; but it was necessary to get everything sorted properly to be able to apply all of the same information to the related photos.
This entire project is dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft’s upcoming 120th birthday on 20-August-2010; and as a celebration of it being twenty years since all of these photos were taken during the H.P. Lovecraft Centennial in 1990.
I’m working as many hours on this as I can, so it will be as complete as possible by 20-August-2010; but I suspect I’ll be tweaking everything here for several years to come.
As always, your comments, corrections, emails, encouragement, and jibes are more than welcome!
Yes, I know this collection pushes these photos to the overkill level!
And finally, a reminder: I always give everyone permission to use any of my photos, for any reason, commercial or private, with or without modifications, for free; with the only stipulation being that you give a Will Hart photo credit if you can.
Please collect them and share them too! Spread the word. Thank You for taking the time to look through my photos.
Will Hart
aka California Cthulhu
16-June-2010
willhart-at-roadrunner-dot-com