Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider landscape paintings from “The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter” by gamedevs The Astronauts: 3916×2236 .jpg In which you gave up playing the game shortly after entering the graveyard, since you could not find a piece of missing crow (or whatever the hell it was) and didn’t feel like slowly back-tracking over the entire … Read more
RND// To consider paintings of Train Sim World 2 game screenshots. Images via Steam Community. Sample: Download 50 x 4k .jpg images (.zip, 98.9MB) In which such images of the everyday-mundane seem to express a lightly disconcerting stillness and hyperreal emptiness – but not really. Diving Everydayness: The Wolverhampton Aqualung Society Pseudo Liminal Kenopsia In … Read more
RND/ In which you consider that, except for bots, the nets appear entirely empty and devoid of human life. That it’s ‘bots all the way down”, that the whole web is one big automatic A.I. powered advertisement for itself, continually selling the idea of itself to itself: 3840 x 2160 .jpg – via an edited … Read more
RND/ To consider beautiful, dark and strange King Of The Hill Map “Minima” by Bengal: 3440 x 1440 .jpg (low-res; higher resolution files available – zipped) To note how this dark rusty-red chocolate and grey vibe, when combined with the ‘horizontal data archive-slice’ detailing combine to create a unique section of virtual spacetime. Why the … Read more
RND/ To consider an abstract painting of character Zoichi Kanoe on his radical Heavy Dual Coil HDC-08B-3 Motorcycle: 6880 x 4024 .jpg From classic Cyberpunk manga Biomega by Tsutomu Nihei. Cyberpunk Is Dead: A Critique Night City Dreams: Cyberpunk 2077 Virtual Photography Screenshots (PC, Psycho Quality) The Video Real: ‘That Special Shine’ in Cyberpunk 2077 … Read more