Tagged digital

No Bake, Cheesecake

RND/ consider the modern phrase “No Bake, Cheesecake” – closer in translation to simply ‘No thanks, sweetie’, than “Close, but no cigar” or “Don’t peek, Applejuice.”

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“No Bake, Cheesecake”

A scenario in which the cult of ‘no bake’ somehow symbolically resists the existential-cultural imposition of ‘baking’; in this hyperreal universe, everything is cool, does not cook but merely ‘sets’, is firm, a little too (synthetically) sweet, but also ruthlessly efficient; the ideal of ‘no bake’ culture seems to be not merely ‘a meal in a pill’ but an ultra-futuristic ‘life in a pill’ – zero calorie, ideal to share with one’s automatic virtual friends.

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Marie Goes Hunting In The Tangled Pagan Wood (Triptych)

RND/ To imagine hunting in a tangled pagan Triptych. For Marie; many thanks for the quality art supplies.

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Triptych: Marie Goes Hunting In The Tangled Pagan Wood

Ideal / Idealized Cost for such Conceptual Work: £350K – contact Robert What today for details.

Through the green graveyard of leaves
Where the stoat rehearses his kill
And the white skull grins in the fern
– Henry Treece, Poem III

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Abstract Conceptual Digital Art Painting: RGB (Unafraid Of Barnett Newman)

RND/ to consider an abstract conceptual digital art painting of / featuring Barnett Newman:

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RGB (Unafraid Of Barnett Newman)

– An reinterpretation of “Red, Yellow and Blue iii”, with muted / shifted colors, divided into strips with overlayed curves and small, city map-like structures

Ideal / Idealized Price For A Concept Like This: $1.2M

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Example Reference Link

Photographic Videogame Art: Contractors VR

RND/ to imagine photographic videogame art of some / other hyper-generic V.R game called “Contractors VR”

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– In which such images symbolically express what Robert What terms “The Video Real”

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Cyberpunk Is Dead: Crackdown 3 Review posters

RND/ to imagine a Crackdown 3 review by Rock Paper Shotgun as garish digital conceptual art posters, highlighting the notion that “Cyberpunk is Dead” [1]

Reference Links

  1. Cyberpunk Is Dead
  2. Cyberpunk Is Dead: The Movie
  3. Modern Dead Cyberpunk As A Total Johnny Mnemonic
  4. Cyberpunk 2077 Storytelling
  5. Cyberpunk Vision Apocalyps
  6. Dead Cyberpunk Cities

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