'STRANGE IMAGINARY GAMES'
RND/ To consider weird ‘noclip’ Virtual Photography of Quake 4 videogame. Examples: Download 250 4K Quake 4 images (.zip, 220.4MB) Hyper-Gothic Megastructures In Quake Map Honey By CZG Quake Enhanced: Dimensions Of The Machine Noclip Virtual Photography Screenshots
RND/ To consider classic Sci Fi TV series Space 1999 and its slightly naff (and often creepy) atmosphere: 1920 x 1080 .jpg – via Blu Ray screenshots A reference for anyone developing a videogame simulation of Moonbase Alpha. A ghostly and ethereal mood can be felt throughout each episode – it floats unseen like a … Read more
RND/ To consider generic videogame screenshots of nothing – a lament for ‘The Video Real’: 1920 x 1080 .jpg via Steam Community In which such an exhibition is a historical-cultural record, not of something but of precisely nothing. Images of nothing – of the ‘sickness of seeing’ perhaps – but definitely of little else. The … Read more
RND// To consider a conceptual painting of Siouxsie Sioux in Brooklyn: 5088 x 3460 .jpg Ideal / Idealized price for such a concept as this: £500k – contact Robert What today for details — To also consider a conceptual painting of the character of Billy from the sci fi b-movie classic “Predator” (John McTiernan 1987): … Read more
RND/ To consider some fragmentary deep space fiction entitled “You Know You Want Some Of This.” 0. After a mildly promising start, Henry’s life quickly devolves and fragments into an odd, generic, absurdist tragi-romantic sci fi survival horror romp through an apparently empty Mars base, populated by the simulated digital ghosts of the recently deceased. … Read more
RND/ to imagine 70’s style parodies of superbly cheesy dimestore novel covers. Amazingly kitsch images courtesy of Baen Books, 1211 x 1920 .jpg: — Example Reference Links Baen Books Concept Covers The Existential Dryness of Historical Fiction Paperbacks Cyberpunk Is Still Dead: L33t Amazon eBooks and Good-Bad RPG Concept Fan Art Postmodern Ladybird Books Remix … Read more
RND/ To imagine paintings of ‘superbrutal’ megastructures – so termed, because they seem to go beyond regular Brutalism. Images via https://escapismgame.wordpress.com/ 3840 x 4008 .jpg — Example Reference Links Imaginary Megastructures New York Megacity Morning Verticality Dark Synth series: images of Dead Cyberpunk-Vision Cities Megastructural Photoshop Remix of Gustav Wunderwald Abstract Encounter: The House … Read more