_forEr0s/sinAngels

Visualizer for the first level of mem0.

I've been thinking about ways to enhance the visual experience online, especially for small screens like our phones. On a computer screen you really get to dive into the scenery, and as soon as it's posted on social media — Instagram and all — it loses its spark.

But I remembered how it felt to customize my old Skyblog. It wasn’t just about throwing out information that gets lost on a friend’s feed. Having a blog gave context to the information — the incipit of your very own universe, where you could see the implication of the author.

As a kid, I spent quite a while staring at my family's tattered paperback cover for Lloyd Alexander's The High King, the fifth and final book in the high fantasy kid's book series 'Chronicles of Prydain.'

It's a visceral scene that pulls the viewer in like any cover should. Check out the fear in those bugging eyes. The ligaments of the knee. The ligaments on that Couldron-born zombie's neck. A lot of ligaments in this one! This image may have been my childhood introduction to the concept of ligaments.

The artist is the Belgian illustrator Jean-Léon Huens (1921-1984).