STRANGE IMAGINARY GAMES
RND/ To consider Repo Man (Alex Cox 1984) and the sadness of America – a painting: 3440 x 1440 .jpg – shoutout to artist Jeff Darrow, whose style was emulated. Price for such a concept as this: £45k – contact Robert today for details — Wrote to the director about how his film successfully captured … Read more
RND/ To consider a painting of Dead Land America. Featuring three scenes from Land Of The Dead (Dir. George A. Romero 2005) – 3166 x 3994 .jpg So we pour it in a Pernod bottle and start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swamps and garbage heaps, alligators crawling around … Read more
RND/ To consider various odd in-game scenes of virtual urban tension in Sub Rosa (PC): 1920 x 1080 .jpg – edited images via Steam Community Example Reference Links Bullet-Time in Simulation City: Revisiting Baudrillard and The Matrix (PDF) Designing Buildings Wiki – Living in the hyperreal post-modern city Eric Randall Morris – Hyperreality : On … 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 an unofficial UFC poster starring Jorge ‘Gamebred’ Masvidal as Urban Ghetto Jesus: 2056 x 3178 .jpg, 32 cols – screenshot via UFC press conference While it may indeed be highly useful to note that “Gamebred don’t play”, it’s certainly good to remember the General Style Rule, which clearly states: “Acting like a … Read more
RND/ To imagine a framed portrait of London with an abstract sky: 5990 x 4827 .jpg [Insert semi inspirational but ultimately existentially disquieting quote about London here.] Ideal / Idealized Cost for such Conceptual Work: £300K – contact Robert What today for details. — // how to play big science
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