mystcore

Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties, Rizzoli  2008

pages of hilma af klint's sketchbook

Concept art by Josh Staub, taken from endofages.patchallel.com 

INCONVENIENTLY LAYERED AND COMPLEX COSTUMES FOR EVERYONE

[Originally posted on August 29 2022]

Celtic star

Moonrise At Mono Lake, California, USA - Author: limb_language

Sea stacks at the Oregon Coast - Author: devilish_affogato

Myst Exile , Edanna swamp.

Initial concept sketch followed by a couple of work in progress screenshots taken from within the game.

Blender & Photoshop CS5

Ever play Myst? Ever look into the backstory? The D’ni were a race from our world, though no one ever met them, with the Art of writing linking books to other worlds. Pretty much everything about them is fascinating, but let’s start with their written language.

So is the Stranger, because there’s no reason for a white person to be in New Mexico in the early 1800s.

Also about the holographic imager, I always thought that was a D’ni thing that Gehn was using. Is there a source that it was from Keta? That would also be interesting.

“The construction of the imagers has proceeded without fault. It is interesting to see how easily I’ve been able to adapt the D’ni technology to mimic that of the Amad; in some ways the similarities between the two cultures was striking. I wonder if perhaps there had been communication or commerce between the two cultures in earlier times; maybe Keta’s people were even descendants of the D’ni. It pleases me to think so.”

And I cannot begin to express how RELIEVED I was to discover that there was no mag-lev puzzle in the game. @_@

RIUM+ (who else?) painstakingly restored them a few years ago (like, going so far as to track down the original creators for help). He has more info about the journals and his restoration work on his website, and you can go try to solve them if you want. Be aware, the thing does require Java, so that may give you some headaches thanks to how persona non grata the Java Web Plugin has become in browsers of late.