By Psyche | August 25, 2010
This unusual teapot depicts the bust of Aleister Crowley, inscribed with “To Mega Therion 666″ on its base. (Click on the image to enlarge.)
The Aleister Crowley Delft Tea Pot was created by Mike Leavitt and Charles Kraft, it retails on IntuitionKitchenProductions.com for 1,200$US, including shipping and taxes.
Of course, you must have something to drink it in, and for that purpose Leavitt and Kraft have crafted the Aleister Crowley Toby Mug. Inscribed with “93″ on the handle, it will only set you back 700$US.
The perfect set for the wickedest tea in the world. (Crumpets sold separately.)
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By Psyche | August 23, 2010
Cockney Visionary is new, lavishly illustrated monograph is set to accompany the Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visionary exhibition at the Cuming Museum in London, on from September 14th to November 13th, 2010.
The book will contain an introduction by Robert Ansell, a cartographic study by Gavin Semple, a biographical essay by Geraldine Beskin, essays by curators Christopher Jordan and Stephen Pochin, and detailed commentaries on the works in the collection by Dr William Wallace.
From the website:
Sales of this publication will help to fund the exhibition. The deluxe edition will feature a Patron list. A list of those who purchased this volume and who therefore have directly supported the exhibition. Of course, if you so wish, you can purchase the deluxe without appearing on the Patron List.
There is an extra benefit attached to the purchase of this edition. You will be eligible to attend a special patrons-only private view of the exhibition. The date of this exclusive event will be disclosed to purchasers once orders have been processed.
However copies are not cheap. The deluxe edition is limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the authors can be purchased at £160. The standard edition is limited to 900 numbered copies and goes for £60 – or £74 including shipping to Canada. (Yikes!) Both copies will contain the DVD documentary The Bones Go Last.
For more information and to pre-order either edition, see the listing on Jerusalem Press.
Pricey, but so are all things Sparian these days. Want.
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By Psyche | August 21, 2010
Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
i09 is a fun blog – their tagline is “We come from the future”, which seems to mean they’ll cover anything science, sci-fi, and other geek stuff of that ilk.
A recent post titled “Jupiter became king of the planets by devouring a ‘Super Earth’” caught my eye because, well, it’s a great title, and it seems the planets’ names were more appropriate than the ancients may have realized:
New discoveries suggest Jupiter and Saturn learned a lesson from their mythological namesakes, “eating” any planet that opposed them.
For more on this check their source, NewScientist.
More cool news? Check out “Neptune will soon complete its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846“. And by “soon” they mean yesterday. They come from the future, but Pluto’s far, it takes time for news to reach us. Forget it. Happy (Earth) birthday, Neptune!
With that, here’s your occultural linkage for this week.
- Jack Faust has a new blog, still called Dionysian Atavism but now located on its own shiny domain at eldritchinfluence.net. He writes well and with a depth and breadth that’s unusual in occultural blogging. See “The Tradition of Secrecy” for a recent gem.
- Christina‘s piece on Enfolding.org titled “Letter to a Young Gay Man on Celebrating Beltane” is excellent. She writes, “Maybe you, like me, have no call to create an internal heterosexual nuclear family with wedding bells, bride and groom” and then sets the record straight: “Beltane is and was the joy of desire of the body fulfilled in sex.” Hear, hear.
- Ryan Hurd writes about “Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Consciousness” for Reality Sandwich. Using films such as Avatar and Inception as a launching point, he discusses our desire to become “Conquistadors of Consciousness”, and what that looks like in different cultures, on drugs, and what it all means.
As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious tag it “plutonica” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!
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By Psyche | June 17, 2010
Khastoo, a gallery in Los Angeles, US, is showing works by various esoteric artists in their latest exhibition, The Alchemy of Things Unknown (and a Visual Meditation on Transformation).
Featured artists include Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger, JFC Fuller, William Blake, Paul Laffoley, Marilyn Manson (??) amongst others.
The exhibition’s been on for a week now (it opened on June 10th) and will continue until July 31st, 2010.
From the gallery’s description:
The artists in this exhibition, some more explicitly than others, sought after or seek spiritual truths through art making and employ an almost fervent and reverent experimentation to their practice, one that is both ritualistic and against the grain. This mystic behaviour is what defines the show; the persistence of new and unorthodox visual experimentation reaches beyond the worldly sphere to heightened states of consciousness.
For the full press release and directions click here.
Unfortunately the gallery’s website does not give an indication of what pieces will be there from each artist. If anyone in LA manages to make it down there, let me know. I’d be interested to hear what they’re showing.
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By Psyche | June 2, 2010
An exhibition titled “A Love Craft: Art inspired by Monsters, Madness and Mythos” will be opening on June 11th from “7:00 – Until we are beyond space and time” at Observatory in Brooklyn, New York.
The exhibition is curated Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura and the co-creator of Curious Expeditions.
From the gallery’s description:
The “cosmic horror” of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, all written between 1917 and 1935, has become more popular and seemingly more contemporary with each year. OBSERVATORY and Dylan Thuras are excited to announce “A LOVE CRAFT: ” a group show of art inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and the themes of monsters, madness and mythos. On view from June 11th through July 26th, prepare to look beyond space and time and into vistas of a new reality…
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal…
- H.P. Lovecraft
For a list of the artists participating and a sample of what will be included see the press release found on the gallery’s website.
Neat.
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This unusual teapot depicts the bust of Aleister Crowley, inscribed with “To Mega Therion 666″ on its base. (Click on the image to enlarge.)
