Hello, random web stranger! Welcome to the Medium, basically the place where I post cool and diverse content, mostly visual art. And... Well, how do I put it? Okay, we all know that tumblr sucks. It was quite clear nearly from the very beginning of this blog, as I've been encountering its oddities, from an image compression to a weird formatting. Yes, some of the posts simply aren't meant for the tumblr format, and I knew that but kept doing it because there was no better place for my works. Sometimes, even the uploads to Imgur didn't rescue because of compression. Maybe I’m asking for too much, but I love when the content is presented in the most precise, almost obsessively complete way. Anyway, I've finally decided to make a fully working copy of my tumblr blog within a .zip archive (along with other content I create across the web), using the mighty power of hypertext. All the pages are simple, written in a quite primitive HTML code, all according to the web 1.0 aesthetics canon. Just download the file and unzip it in some folder, but keep in mind that some of the paths may be quite long considering the titles. Also, the archive is a bit of large size (2+ GB), but is worth downloading anyway.
From now, the Hypertext Medium is the most complete (not relevant, unfortunately) version of my tumblr, even more crucial than this blog itself, so instead of scrolling through the blog I highly recommend to download the archive. After all, the Medium is more than just a blog: as I said, tumblr has been nothing but a place for its content, so it can exist anywhere. However, I will keep making new posts here, as I can’t update the HM that regularly, so if the year isn’t over, you won’t see new posts in the archive. Good luck on your journey!
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What you see here is yet another fan project imagining how Bionicle's G1 storyline would have ended had it not been abandoned, in a form of concepts for web serials, including both the unfinished ones (such as The Yesterday Quest and The Powers That Be) and new, completely original stories set in the world of Spherus Magna after the Reformation. Each tale develops and further resolves the arcs of the most key Bionicle characters, as close to Greg Farshtey's canon as possible. In a sense, this is my final tribute to the wonderful series of my childhood that immensely shaped me both as person and creator, the final love letter to the universe of Bionicle. The stories will be released with one tale at a time.
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Cry of Fear — The Light
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In the self-sabotaging mind of Simon, light is his sole companion and guide. From the flashes of a camera revealing the inner darkness and the glowing cellphone screen with text messages left by his mother, to flares, then lantern, and right up to the serene morning rays of Kirkville upon the escape from the atrocities of night, doom, and gloom. I mean, in a game this dark, any source of light is literally the only way not to get lost.
Speaking of light properties in the mod, the player's camera here is also rich in various optical effects and filters such as blur and film grain, as well as notably the notorious hall of mirrors effect which is very prominent here, since the game is based on the GoldSource engine, and getting the most out of it.
Having grown from Afraid of Monsters and fine-tuning some of its ideas, Cry of Fear could be considered one of the most profound works of the modding scene. For me, however, it's the absolute pinnacle of independent development as a whole, blurring the lines between a mod and a full-fledged game. After all, Team Psykskallar provided entirely new imagery, gameplay and atmosphere to the point where the very concept of "mod" in this case became loose and purely technical. In fact, Cry of Fear is just a modern GoldSource horror game. And even after a decade, it still stays strong and scary.
Since this session is the 4th time I've dug into a GoldSrc game to capture the medium, it's both a perfect revisit and an epilogue to the in-game photography experiments I conducted in 2019. Something about this engine just resonates with me, and I will always prefer it to Source. Also, as a bonus and final chord I compiled a series of unreleased and scrapped screenshots, encapsulating the journey through voids, borders and distant nooks.
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Back in 2008, a topic was created on a fractal forum which concerned the connection between fractals and esoterics. In that thread, users were proposed to share their ideas regarding what secret properties fractals might have and how they can be used in magical practices and rituals. Over the course of 4 years, the thread gained popularity, with dozens of pages coming up, where people pondered on the mysterious nature of fractals and shared their creations. Probably the most notable thing about the topic was a group of users who decided to combine chaos magic with fractal generators. They viewed fractals, or rather their representation, as a form of sigils, which made other people used to call them "sigilists".
Despite the principle of open-mindedness and high discussion standards on the forum, sigilists were not in much favor. Even a moderator was trolling them neatly over a span of few years, although the interest for implementing fractals in chaos magic grew. The original thread was not enough for sigilists anymore, and, since many other topics were appearing, in the fall of 2012, they asked for their own board on the forum. They were refused, and it caused a lengthy conflict, during which most sigilists, unable to tolerate this attitude any longer, left the forum. Those who were "exiled", decided upon creating own community with the same theme, which was named ChaosFracktals. It was relatively small, but at the time the "backbone" for what this group would soon grow into was formed. Eventually, by 2014 ChaosFracktals crystallized into a real organization — an order or a secret society of sorts — with its own proper teaching and even a manifesto. They took the name ALTERANTA and completely rebranded the website; back then, according to their statements, they drifted away from the chaos magic concepts in order to develop their own system of thought, based on controlling chaos via mathematical laws and digital technologies. Their theory was re-founded upon such ideas as Structure, Chaos and Conduit. Putting these key concepts into practice, as alterants claimed, would allow them to change the cosmic arrangement, making it so self-similar that the whole reality would merge, neglecting the boundaries between the physical and abstract. The search for inner freedom was made collective and absolute.
Interestingly enough, over time, the community began to resemble a totalitarian sect, as hierarchy became stricter and any contacts with the outsiders were prohibited. Anonymity was one of the most essential ALTERANTA principles, as well as assigning each member a personal "matrix code". Needless to say, the users who shared any information about the community on the open web were banned or kicked out, and all traces of ALTERANTA presence on other platforms were purged by the followers themselves. In fact, only few people in the fractal community were aware of them, but those who were, either mocked them or stayed away. Otherwise, no one cared much. However, the movement was acquiring more followers, while their ideas were getting more radical. In 2016, ALTERANTA developed an ultimate goal: approaching the technological singularity and then controlling entropy with fractal magic and mathematics. The fractal magic itself stemmed from the idea of manifestation of "existential parameters" and indirectly referred to the fine-tuning of the universe.
Despite a fairly stable development, at the very beginning of 2020, all traces of ALTERANTA vanished from the Internet. Their website, accessed only by invites since 2015, was taken down, while the community's top, or the so called "highest adepts" fell of the map. The exact reasons for this are unknown, as well as is what happened to the members themselves. Quite possibly, ALTERANTA aren't dead, but have simply gone completely underground, even deeper into private chats. Sure, the movement disappeared from view at its peak, but who knows, maybe someday it will make a return?
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