Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider more hyper-bland, instagrammatic, neurally gentrified, total-psychic-zero style ‘decaff latte moments’ photography, direct from the widespread photographic image genre “White People Photography.” Truly inspiring – that is, if you’ve all the rich inner life of a stuffed designer sofa. All images attributed to original photographers via German stock photography / footage provider Pexels: … Read more
RND/ To consider the glitches in the videographic reality of team-based, tactical Middle East FPS “Insurgency: Sandstorm” as the very thing preventing it’s radical (ideological) desimulation in the player’s mind: Nameless locations with nameless conflicts – PCGamesN 1920 x 1080 .jpg – screenshots via Steam Community That is, “The fact that ‘It’s Just A Game … Read more
SCENE 000: INTRO SOLARIZATION RND/ In which an attempts has been made to forgo the effort required to tell a story, or even express meaning. What remains as mere ‘telling’ – description without much direction. Loose narrative webbing. You had eleven megs of text standing by – a whole folder of research concerning the conjunction … Read more
RND/ consider the hyperreality of images expressed via printable 3D models 2160×2160, 1.3MB edited in Gimp Reference Link The Kennedy Assassination and Zapruder Film Jean Baudrillard: Hyperreality and Implosion — // how to play big science
RND/ to consider color inverted images of games on screens Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit 5760 pixels width, edited in Gimp, images via Flickr In which images of screens filmed by camera display an uncanny quality; scan lines, blurriness, bright spots, reflections, moire distortion pattens – in which overly saturated / washed out colours … Read more