Post #638775 by Tiki-Atari on Thu, May 31, 2012 8:32 PM

The Horror In Clay is a drinking vessel from the mythic nautical/tiki bar Pickman's Cove. Sculpted by the incomparable Kristina Lucas Francis, with supporting ephemera (matchbooks, coasters, and an entire back story) designed by Jonathan "Tiki Atari" Chaffin.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jchaffin/the-horror-in-clay-cthulhu-tiki-mug-production-run

Pickman's Cove is a fictional bar was located in Boston, Mass in the early 1950's, and run by amateur pin up photographer Ben Upton.

I'm assuming this is ok to post in the marketplace, but the link to the "Please read the rules before posting here" is broken, so I'm not 100% certain. If it needs to move to bilge or be deleted, so be it, but I assure you, I love tiki culture enough to take on this type of project, and have a fairly massive collection of mugs, carvings, and ephemera myself, and thought other tikiphiles might like to see this project.

The hypothetical backstory for the idol the mug is based on incorporates artisans and dreamers exiled from other oceanic cultures; hence the blending of hawaiian, maori, and other styles of adornment. The general form references my favorite of the cannibal trio, the eater (appropriate for dread Cthulhu, I think).

The nice thing about kickstarter is that if you pledge money but the funding drive isn't successful, you've lost nothing. I hope you all love this thing as much as I do, or at least enjoy looking at the images and ephemera we worked hard to design.

Questions, comments, thoughts, opinions?

Thanks! Jonathan
Thanks for looking!