The Nightmares of Eduardo Valdés-Hevia
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- Discover a universe of horrors in this special Halloween episode. An exploration of Eduardo Valdés-Hevia’s many dark and brilliant worldbuilding projects.
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Have you ever seen a photo of a planet made entirely of living flesh? Or an insect-human hybrid that can control minds? Or a thousand-foot-long sea serpent that emerges in Iceland every year? These images might look like they come from some long-lost paranormal case file. But this is actually the work of the brilliant artist and worldbuilder Eduardo Valdés-Hevia, who has spent the last several years bringing to life a menagerie of nightmares.
Brought to life through a combination of old photographs and new elements, Valdés-Hevia’s art merges history and the surreal, with images that feel like they come directly from classified historical documents. The artist creates stand-alone images as well as richly detailed series with dense, interconnected lore. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll investigate the monsters and madness of these dark case files.
Now, prepare yourself for the terrors of Valdés-Hevia…
0:00 Welcome to the Horror
1:40 Megalamorpha - Part I
5:19 The Façade
7:19 Assorted Terrors
10:03 Megalamorpha - Part II
13:27 Xipe-Totec
15:03 The Lycanthrope Project
17:44 Megalamorpha - Part III
19:49 Support the Artist
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Thank you so much for featuring my work!
Seashine was better anyways
What about crossover
The megalamophos are fascinatingly horrifying nice work😅
I didn’t about this stuff before, but damn do I need more! This is just the perfect mix of screwed up and fascinating!
Seashine
I laughed unreasonably hard at Eduardo taking the absurdity of crustaceans near-always favoring the body plan of crabs and applying it to humans.
Of course you did dr bright. You probs would have done the same
Really? Do we need to append the List again?
Who let him use the computers again?
Reject humanity, evolve to crab
Oh hi dr bright i heard you are not allowed to ride SCP 682
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.
That last line sent shivers down my spine 😂😂
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!?
@@blackshogun272time
Does it rain on Meat Planet?
Eventually it would be hit by an asteroid, so no worries... it would eventually lose its sight over millennia.
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.
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 like to call Fiji Mermaid "budget mermaid"
@@alvianekka80 I like to call seals ‘dog mermaids’
What about we send vegan there
@@leejerrett8268 You know how Dogs(Canines), Seals and Bears have kinda the same face? They have common ancestors before branching out.
I love how he left little Easter eggs of his signature in almost every drawing
Good catch ;)
What kind?
@@gamesgames3318 a mirrored N with stripe on it. I cant see it at first before i read the coment
I began seeing that too haha
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 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.
Wayne Barlowe's work is fantastic.
I’ll def hav to check it out
I keep suggesting this too!
Wayne Barlowe looks like a decent addition to the Hellraiser franchise.
@@te9591 that would be insane to see
This is so sick. Im worldbuilding for a cosmic horror/dark fantasy dungeons and dragons campaign currently and this guy's stuff is so inspiring.
I want a story, were a guy, research and kills these things..
You should read hellstar remina
So, Call of Cthulhu?
@BaneRain
The artworks and photographs are ghastly, but they're not so repulsive as to refer to them as "sick".
Sick us a slang word used these days to describe something impressive.
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
That image of Santa Claus in the chimney is both deeply unsettling and hilarious at the same time.
This is honestly one of my favourite channels. I LOVE speculative biology.
Me too, It's interesting.
Me too. Does fantastical creatures combined with real life biological concepts count as speculative biology?
@@unselliecontinents3338 yes.
Fantasy + Science
Some of this is more analogous to fantasy than speculative biology, but that is by no means a negative criticism on my part.
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
@aphidkirby yeah
@@housewilma4904 pupa means ass in Polish... a bit confused I was, for a while lol
@@ahmedwisimulaha7525 The thing coming out certainly looks like ass.
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!
9:44 - There is one cycle; and it IS Crab.
You may not like it, but this is what peak evolutionary performance looks like.
The calling the artist irl caught me off guard and I love it
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
He's actually covered the Mystery flesh pit before, check it out.
@@gloomyallo1830 must've forgotten about that one thank you
That meat planet concept feels like Brethen Moons from Dead Space games
@@prasmahendra4172 yes was thinking the same thing lol
Have you ever heard of "Hellstar Remina" by Junji Ito?
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
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
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.
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.
I was hoping someone else would mention it. It’s clearly inspired by Ito.
That's what i think when i see the thumbnail. hellstar remina
Was looking for this comment. Thank you now I can sleep in peace.
I adore hellstar remina
Yes, it's clearly inspired by Ito's manga.
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
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?
The artist said it himself. It wasnt eaten. It died because it didnt find a star and it lives off light
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
Do you by any chance remember which book? As that sound amazing
@@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.
Damn sounds scary fcker was hungry huh🤣
LMAO I remember reading Galaxy of Fear when I was a kid!
You said that so casually. I love it.
"Oh the planet just ate a few inhabitants, you know, just a regular Tuesday."
This guy is like a western Junji Ito but with photography in tandem with realistic art
He’s nothing like Junji Ito. Junji Ito knew how to bend perception, Valdez-Hevia is bending biology and history.
@@haha-lj5sq even the living planet?
@@patrickbyrne5070 hell star remina nom nom
@@rafflesiadeathcscent3507 haha nomity nom noms liiiiiiick
@@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 loved the format of this episode!
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?
A third option could be that both works were separately drawing on the same inspirations and arrived independently at similar conclusions.
@@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 I think that the manga version of parasyte predates the Facade art, so it's more likely that it was inspired by parasyte.
@@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.
I had that kind of hallucinations when on surgery ten years ago. it still haunts me.
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!
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.
9:18 craaaaab people craaaaab people
These types of videos are soooo entertaining. Never stop making these
I love this man he covers one of my favorite topics speculative biology in space
Bro doesn't even say hi, just jumps straight into the questions as soon as Valdez picks up the phone. Boss.
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.
I love these types of photo edits, fantastic that you're spotlighting such a great artist!
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 CZcams. 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
Definitely need more interviews in these videos. Awesome work!
I've only seen two of your videos but have enjoyed them greatly. Thank you for an introduction to these great artists!
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
Thank you so much! ❤️
I love both his art and your videos, but never did I dream you would mix the two together!
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.
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 think the Lycanthrope Project is my favorite of his works. It’s such a unique take on a very old tale.
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.
It's reminds me of the brothern moons from dead space ._.
Reminds me of Hellstar Remina
reminds me of Scorn...
Reminds me of a Planet-world corrupted by Slanesh in the warhammer 40k universe
Reminds me of the Iris from Gemini Entertainment
I absolutely love found footage and it’s artists like these that really inspire me!
I've been a big fan of Valdevia for a while now and it's so cool to see you covering their work!
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!
It's perfect to see one of my favorite artists getting this much recognition! His works are amazing and so bizarre...
5:21 so glad to see jerma getting recognized 😊
How is this man simultaneously everywhere and nowhere i go, i cannot escape his name
So glad to get a new Curious Archive video!! As always, thank you for featuring such an amazing artist!!
I love these projects of speculative evolution and creatures where they show an alternate reality where they exist.
Dude! I love his work, this was great. Thank you for spotlighting him
Simply brilliant! I’m feeling some Lovecraft, some Kafka, and a whole lot of heebie-jeebies. The Lycan project is terrifying.
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!
YES the work of Eduardo is amazing
@1:13
That is the most chilling image.
It's a creature that isn't evil or malevolent. It's a creature that is likely fueled by pure instinct. However, because of its nature, it would be perceived as evil. It's goal isn't to harm or terrorize. It's goal would be to simply feed and perpetuate its own existence. A human would be seen as nothing more than prey for the sake of sustenance.
And it's impossible or almost impossible to stop nature.
Thank you for turning me on to this artist.
I get the feeling we're seeing an influx of artists like Eduardo, who adopt the Eldritch horror caught on tape and posted online style of horror, as a result of the fact that actual videos of paranormal stuff usually tend to be faked or too low quality to know for sure if it's real or not. We as a people yearn for the paranormal after years and years of looking for it and as a result artists are appearing that reflect that desire. And that desire is in turn itself a reflection of our fear of bigger, and worsening problems that we are currently facing and that appear to be coming our way in the real world. Giant creatures in the sky are basically the Eldritch horror equivalent of COVID, this big unstoppable unknowable thing that can take millions or even billions of lives without even trying.
Wow, I love how deep this artist does stuff.
I started to follow mr Valdes-Heiva thanks to his werewolves series
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!
The amount of time I've spent pn Valdés-Hevia's twitter feed is ridiculous, his art is just so mesmerising
YESSSSS THE BIG BUG GUY!!!!! I'm obsessed with his megalomorpha pieces and love reading all the newest bits and pieces that're released.
OH MY GOD I LOVE EDUARDO, I’ve been following their work for a while now and I’m so glad you did a video on them!
Im so happy to know that theres spanish talking people doing spec biology and wierd proyects! This is so cool.
All of these are like materials for an extremely interesting movie, a cinematic universe. Man, so excited 😊
it's relly nice seing an artist you've been following for a while getting more attention they deserve
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.
It’s nice to see a new video. As always, I love the video and love the collab! Keep it up.
this is astonishing. Actually terrifying unlocks a real sense of fear and tangibility 👻
You're channel is amazing. Subscribed.
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.
I've actually been following this artist for a long while on twitter and his work has definitely inspired my own, great stuff
Thank you! Amazing work! ❤🎃
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 CZcams 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.
Yet another ace of an episode, gotta love this man.
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!
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.
omg this is so cool! great video as well
I love his art style
Nothing I love more than hearing an artist share their passion projects, it's awesome that Valdevia is in this video
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!
This is one of my favorite channels of all Time. Keep up the awesome work. 🤩😍👍👍
Finally my favourite horror artist
This was an interesting new format. It's cool getting some direct perspective on the artist's thought process.
9:26
A wise man once said,"why does everything evolve into crabs?"
Such an amazing video!! One newer series of his is the Fractal series, and it's one of my favorites!
That Imposter One Was Absolutely Horrifying
I feel like they must have been inspired by the Manga Parasyte.
Wow. Think I found a new favourite artist. Never knew I needed something like this.
Just wanted to say thanks this was awesome I love the art and lore
“In several interpretations, some angels have multiple wings.”
“Like bugs do?”
“… I guess…?”
A chill runs through my heart every time he says "megalomorpha"
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.
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
When I saw your upload I did a double take like oh cool I’ll watch it in a sec 😮 curious archive 🎉LETS GOOO🎉
I've seen this artist on the site formerly known as Twitter, and I love the aesthetic he pulls off! I'm so happy to see him getting some recognition!
this man is a creative, visionary genius. you've just earned a patreon supporter.
Amazing! You should really do a video on the world of "made in abyss" it's a facinating work in worldbuilding...
The planet in the thumbnail reminds me of the planet from Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito