Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To imagine an infinite, procedurally generated Suburbia Simulator game. Some example screenshots, taken from the excellent Terracotta by developer Olivia Haines. 3440 x 1440, 16 color .png In which such an emotionally overcast play-space would accurately express the feeling of acute terminal boredom, listness, flatness and un-profound everydayness experienced by walking around the houses … Read more
RND/ To consider a hyperreal conceptual painting – the concept being the world as an empty (/suburban) illusion, quietly devoid of anything. 4070 x 2790 .jpg Ideal / Idealized Cost for such Conceptual Work: £480k* – contact Robert for details. *What it would roughly cost to get the fuck out of my miserable, shoddy, cramped, … Read more
RND/ to consider a mildly apocalyptic digital art Diptych entitled “Suburb” 5999×5334, 16.2MB edited in Gimp few of us now recall that perilous summer. what began as a game, a harmless pastime, quickly took a turn toward the serious and obsessive, which none of us tried to resist. after all, we were young. we were … Read more
RND/ To consider a morning crow on your porch, talking to itself about morning crow feelings, and not caring about the universe: In which such images somehow bring to mind quiet, mildly mysterious suburban detective stories by Kobo Abe — // how to play big science