it's cool that you interview the artist and allow them to speak about their art. a lot of horror artist, amateur and professional have their work stolen and recontextualized outsize of their control. this video is a great show case of their work!
it doesn't just happen to horror artists. plenty of artists get their art stolen and repurposed by jerks who don't have anything better to do with their lives.
Something that horrifies me about the meat planet is this: If it was in orbit even as far as the moon, it could EASILY see individua faces in a crowd. An eye more than a mile or two wide, or even hundreds of miles wide as shown, would be so much more powerful than any telescope we've ever made. It could hunt targets across galaxies. It could be looking at you right now.
And are we just gonna ignore that one of the living world's had decayed to the point it was just bones? What could've picked my manz clean like that in the void!?
Love the mermaids especially; I appreciate how there was effort put into thinking about how an otherwise entirely ‘human’ upper body would have to change to suit a Cetacean-like habit, makes the whole thing feel more like a coherent life-form while simultaneously reminding me of a ‘Fiji Mermaid’.
I love the fact that these are not just pieces or artwork but stories with lore behind them. It's awesome. I'm also a huge fan of the found footage genre so I loved this
Someone needs to call David Cronenberg like asap. He would love this! If we're getting into unsettling territory, I suggest looking into Wayne Barlowe's depictions of Hell and the Inferno. Complete with castles made of souls and flesh of the damned.
This exemplifies my favourite thing about this channel, it doesn't talk about weird spooky art as like "Top 10 spooky stuff that might exist ooooh so spooky" but as what it actually is. Art.
I love that you can hear the smile in his voice as he explains his art and some of his processes. This is clearly a man who loves what he does, and I look forward to seeing more of his works! I'd never heard of it before this video, but now I want so so much more!
I LOVE Megalomorpha! Surprised to see you didn't talk about the guy that opened a giant pupa, got inside it and then threw himself into a river, the pupa later showing up on a shore open and empty...
so i assume thats the erased part of the cave paiting showing how the insect human hybrids are made shove a human inside a pupa and burry or drown it and it will gestate into a hybrid bugman.
@@housewilma4904 Yeah!!! I really like that so much I imagine the liquid ooze of bug inside would recognize the human body so the Imaginal Discs can grow insect body parts around it, it's incredibly macabre and creepy i love it
About 15 years ago, I started assembling a coffee table book with a similar slant. I collected old photos from garage sales and flea markets. I started editing them in photoshop and building stories around them. It definitely wouldn't have had the scope and depth of this, and the world building here is fantastic. @Valdevia really did something amazing with this. I'm inspired to pick up that project and spin it up again, but now I'm scared it would be derivative. I really love this.
I saw "Meat Planet" and immediately clicked I think Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is another one you might like looking at And another comment further down about The Eternal Cylinder which is absolutely something you could do an entire series on
I recommend everyone watch Eduardo's twitch streams (under his last name), he's an amazing artist to watch and he's a lot of fun to chat with. It's a great way to get even more lore
the "meat planet" work reminds me of junji ito and his horror story "hellstar remina". A story about a meta-terrestrial being the size of about Saturn that flies at impossible speed thru space, and is only revealed when in orbit of Jupiter that it consumes planets.
Really dug this video. It's super cool that you spliced in the interview with the creator. It adds a lot more depth to the interpretation of the original work. I imagine it isn't always easy to get in touch with the creators that you make videos of, but I think I think this video really shone with that additional perspective
Now my mind, steeped in the OSR as it is, spins with a question: "What if a space necromancer found that meat planet skeleton? Would they make it their lair? Would they try to reanimate it?" Sounds like an idea for an adventure module.
That's Atropus, the world born dead. Not a resurrected flesh planet, but an undead elder evil. Turns any setting into Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask with a zombie apocalypse.
Two staged game, start off as a necro who job it is to bring this dead god planet back to life. After that u can change to control this god planet as a weapon to destroy the universe or save ( insert dilema here) with it. Not original idea but cool concept
I remember a Star wars book in the 90's about a living planet that ate it's inhabitants every so often. It ended with the crew trying to jump to light speed and not being able to because the living planet was chasing them and the gravity we'll trapped them. Cool book
@@thunderfox53 Galaxy of Fear: Eaten Alive I haven't actually read it, I had to search it up, but seeing from the synopsis that the planet is called "D'vouran" absolutely sent me.
8:23 I've seen that in my dreams. Not even kidding. It was in chest high water and one of those swam by me. The color was darker, but that was what it looked like. I was a big reader of the old paperback Ripley's Believe It or Not books as a kid. So I imagine it came from the same devil fish hoaxes that inspired this art.
He is incredibly talented, somehow he is able to provide the same sense of otherworldliness and horror in pictures as Lovecraft was in words. Not related to this video, but do you have any plans to cover the creatures of Rain World? Daszombes has done a few videos about the speculative biology of that video game and I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it.
@@haha-lj5sq I feel incredibly sorry that you can not see any similarities in these two creators of horror fiction. Even more so that you feel so strongly about being incorrect that you would try and correct others.
I stumbled upon Eduardo and the Megalomorpha a while ago but couldn’t make any sense of it. Thank you both so much for sharing these wacky worlds with the rest of us!
I've been trying to find Megalomorpha again for ages! Thank you Curious Archive for helping me rediscover it, along with so many other terrifying spectacles!
Thank god this channel exists, i would have never found a medium like this without people like you bringing it too the lime light of RU-vid. im 100% hooked and im already looking into getting alot of the books you have covered too experince them my self. keep up the good work, i love every new upload
i love this. really wholesome. and the meat planet reminds me the cosmic horror of junji ito; one of the horror genres i find most interesting. valdes is super talented and creative. i would love to see a horror movie with the concept of one of his art works.
The "living planet" that entirely made out of flesh is really remind me of the "Ruin" from the game called Starbound where an entire planet is an one giant organism with its own small ecosystem inside them and with lots of tentacle. iirc it's just aimlessly wander around the universe and devouring the other planets.
OMG I stumbled upon this video a while ago and then a long while ago I started thinking about it and wanted to watch it again and for the life of me I couldn't find it again and couldn't remember the name of this channel and I am stupidly happy I stumbled across it again! Definitely subscribed this time, I learned my lesson.
14:35 a horrifying thought not mentioned about the skeletonized version of the meat planet, "what stripped it of flesh?" It's not like it would rot out there in vacuum so what ate the flesh off of it?
@@noblenormie1179they're not saying something killed it. They're saying something stripped it of its flesh, since flesh can't rot in a vacuum something ate the flesh off the no longer living planet.
I love these videos that aren't your run of the mill spec evo projects and really delve into more creative and creepy projects! Many kudos to Eduardo Valdes-Hevia for these unnerving images and the rich backstories and lore behind them! I hope to see more of his projects in the future!
I don't "fill in the gaps" and I'd dare say it wasn't the intention either; the exact thing that is frightening and exciting at the same time is the potential that stems from the unknown. Great video, great art. Thank you
Fuck yess!! thank you for covering Valdevia's work!! Hes been a favourite artist of mine for a while now and I hope everyone who enjoyed this checks him out! his live streams are some of the most relaxing and wholesome streams ive ever watched
0:30 is so fascinating; bringing to life the idea of an actual bible-depicted angel (im assuming thats what its supposed to be) in our modern-day realm is incredible
Although I do love the videos that dive into video games. These ones that dive into other creator's works are probably the best ones. Props to the Archivist and Props to the Artist!
Very cool! If you're going to be doing more GENERAL art and worldbuilding projects, might I recommend the works of Simon Stålenhag? He's made a few art books, and I actually have one, The Electric State! His artwork involves normal landscapes being contrasted with the wreckage of gigantic machines for one reason or another (Electric State specifically notes them as WAR machines), and it's as beautiful as it is haunting. I sorta think it'd be nice for him to get more exposure, kinda like what you did for Alex Ries with your Birrin video (I'd been following him for a while before then). One of his books, Tales From the Loop, was even made into an Amazon Prime series!
I think there is something deeply uncanny about the Megalomorpha's mind control. If anyone would come across a giant mosquito with a human skull, you would expect them to run away in fear, so seeing one as part of a family photo has a very paradoxical and unsettling vibe to it.
This Chanel, all videos on it, your narration and the projects you showcase are superb, it's honestly one of the best subscriptions, i get thrilled when you post a new entry to the archive. Also, Eduardo, real nice work, some images evoke something in my guts, its amazing, and the mystery you created about your pictures is a work of art.
As someone who suffers from a phobia of insects, I actually had to flip my phone upside down and exclusively listen to the audio during the megalomorpha sections.
This is one of a few channels of get genuinely excited for when I see a new video! I wish nothing but success and happiness for you so we can continue to enjoy what you produce.
This is exactly the kind of thing I love. It's like art made from the best refined 2010 anonymous /x/ stories for which I have great nostalgia. Glad I came across this
Hello Curious Archive! I absolutely love your videos; the Curious Archive is one of the greatest RU-vid channels for exploring speculative biology projects I’ve ever seen. A very interesting world that I've been dying to learn more about is a world set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry. Scorn, an upcoming survival horror game is coming to PC and Xbox on October 21st, 2022, and I think that the bio-mechanical nightmare that is Scorn's industrial planet would be an awesome addition to the Curious Archive. While the world of Scorn may be a little too brutal for you, if the game piques your interest, I’d love to watch an episode all about your travels on Scorn and learn alongside you about how the world works and what it might have been before its inevitable fall.
I think an artist like this would like a family tradition we have for Christmas. My grandfather made up a creature called the Hyperwatamus which was described as part Hippo, part Alligator and part something else. A creature that rides on the bottom of Santa's sleigh or comes up from the sewers and makes its bed around the Christmas tree. It attacks anyone who tries to take the presents from under the tree (meant to keep the kids away until everyone is ready) and someone has to fight it (my grandfather and then my dad) and send it back down the drain.
The "Facade" reminds me of Parasyte: the Maxim. Manga turned anime, alien parasites fall to the ground, infecting a number of people. The "normal" life cycle of the parasite has them infecting people's heads, replacing them with the parasite which is polymorphic, highly intelligent, and largely hostile to humans on an instinctive level. There are plenty of examples of the parasites eating people in their entirety. The parasites then go on to adopt their host's normal life. Really fascinating story. Now, I just wonder which came first: did the Facade mimic Parasyte, or did Parasyte copy the Facade?
@@jonathan0berg I suppose it is possible, but there was one image of the Facade in the video that looked almost exactly like one of the first panels in the manga featuring a parasite transforming their entire head into a giant mouth, used to consume another person's head. It feels too much like an easter egg to me, but ultimately it can't be proven one way or the other.
@@daniell1483 like so many body-horror movies. Although Parasyte is an OK, manga/anime.. I don't think it was the inspiration, since the idea has Been used countless times in litterature and film.
Thank you for showing us an artist we,at least i,I,, wasn't aware of. Really awesome stuff. Also nice to know that minds as twisted as mine exist elsewhere!
Someone out there should calculate how much energy the meat planet would have to intake to sustain itself. And also how dense its bones must be as to support its weight and not instantly collapse in on itself. I love these kinds of speculative biology horrors! Great work by the author!
I am sure someone has mentioned this already in the comments but just in case, there is a very good indie game called Death Trash that takes place on a planet being over run by meat and meat creatures. Meat grows out of the ground like plants and if enough of it clumps together it becomes a living creature. It’s a cool game.
Dude the photo of the shored shelf in Maine and the Antarctic expedition's date? love the lore pieces and refferences to other horror works as much as I'm loving these pieces!
Honestly, I have yet to see something truly gut-wrenching to me; a picture of the sky and in the distance a titanic entity that hovers past the atmospheric layers. It would be subtle, ghostlike, and would blend in with the hints of blue of our sky. These traits would be an obvious tell that it is something enormous even in relationship to our own planet.
We have such cool projects like this in existence and still get horror movies that rip off each other rather than being new and original like this stuff.
