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hephaestuscrew · 5 months

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Sometimes I think about Dominik Koudelka's assistant who takes Minkowski's call in Ep43 Persuasion...

In the moment, dismissing the voice on the other end of the phone feels like the right thing to do. She can't just put any random person who calls through to Mr. Koudelka immediately; if she did, there would be no point in him having an assistant at all. And when that random caller is claiming to be Mr. Koudelka's dead wife, of course it would be wrong to subject him to that. (Cont. below cut)

She's seen Mr. Koudelka in the denial stage of grief, if only from a professional distance. She knows that the only time he took off after he heard the news was the day of his wife's funeral. She knows he started working days so long it was a wonder he got any sleep at all. She's heard rumours that he tried to insist that The Times' coverage of the shuttle crash ought to use the word 'allegedly' more. Apparently he ignored every sensitively-worded inquiry about whether he wanted to have any input on his wife's obituary.

Mr. Koudelka certainly doesn't need some cruel joke reopening emotional wounds. It's better not to mention it to him. His assistant knows that she did the right thing.

Or at least, she thinks she did. But she still can't stop thinking about that voice on the other end of phone, its desperation, its sense of urgency, its bizarre impossible claim.

So maybe she finds herself looking up Renée Minkowski, just to set her mind at ease. And there's surprisingly little information out there, but she eventually finds a clip of an interview from just before the launch of the Hephaestus mission. And that's when her stomach drops. She recognises the voice in the video. It's the same voice as the one she heard on the end of the phone. She's sure it's the same voice.

And what is she supposed to do then? Go to her boss and tell him that his wife is alive? Tell him that she lost him potentially his one chance to talk to his presumed dead wife? Admit that she didn't tell him about that call straight away? She's got no proof, just her memory. What if she's wrong about it being the same voice? Maybe it was a good impersonator, or a technological trick, or the power of suggestion. Is telling him the truth worth risking her job for? Is it worth risking giving false hope to a widower who has only just begun to move on? What if he doesn't believe her? What if he does?

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Dominik Koudelka #Renée Minkowski #Renee Minkowski #Personally I imagine that Koudelka's assistant didn't ever tell him about that call #because how can you tell someone something like that?#but if she did #there is some very interesting potential in terms of how he might react to that #which I'm sure other people have explored probably #In terms of thinking about Koudelka not taking time off #after hearing that his wife was dead #Minkowski is the kind of person who works super hard to avoid her feelings #so I think Koudelka would be similar #Thinking about when Gabriel Urbina said that before she left. Minkowski made Koudelka promise #that he would only worry about her for 10 minutes a day #and that he would be busy doing stuff the rest of the time #What can he do with that promise once he thinks she's dead?#I'm wildly inconsistent with how much I care about Minkowski and Koudelka's marriage #When I think about it in relation to the Hephaestus crew found family and their return to Earth #I'm like 'get in line Dominik. Renée's got new priorities now.#Deal with it or go away.'#But when I think about how Dominik Koudelka is someone who loved (and was loved by) Renée Minkowski #and didn't want her to go to space for two years but let her go #because it was her dream and anyway he couldn't stop her if he tried #and then he thought she'd died out there #and Minkowski tried to speak to him from 8 lightyears away but her words never reached him...#then I'm like 'oh actually I can care about this unvoiced character'#wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers

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callumhumphreys · 4 years

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INTERVIEW: DAN WOOD

Callum Humphreys: Hi Dan, firstly, thanks for taking the time to speak to me. Can you give everyone reading a little background on yourself and the work you make?

Dan Wood: I’m a self-taught photographer from Bridgend in South Wales. I’ve been shooting seriously for 25 years and came to photography via the skateboarding culture, which I was very much a part of here in South Wales for many years.

CH: In an age where sharing work and ideas is instantaneous, what roll do you think the traditional photobook plays in modern photography?

DW: It’s extremely important and has became an art form in itself. In the age of digital everything it’s vital that books exist; something tangible that can be held and looked at away from the phone/computer screen. Another important aspect is that people should continue to support books and buy whenever possible as they are not only an incredible source of inspiration but also keep the industry cogs turning, so books will continue to be made and the small profits can help the photographer to continue making work.

CH: From following your social media accounts, I would imagine you own a small library of photobooks by now haha! I know personally I have found some great recommendations from your posts on Instagram tagged #photobookjousting. What is it about the photobook that interests you so much?

DW: I’m quite materialistic and always enjoy being surrounded by items I like, but apart from that, and as mentioned above, I find photobooks a great source of inspiration - they keep the fire burning in my belly! It often surprises me that quite a lot of photographers don’t realise the power of photobooks and are constantly buying new cameras or lenses to try and get through their creative block. These types need educating on the importance of photobooks; hence the hashtag #buybooksnotgear !

CH: Do you think narratives or ideas can be shared in the same way on social media as they can in a book?

DW: To a certain extent, yes, but there really is nothing like sitting down with an actual physical photobook and watching the story unfold through every page turn. Photobooks are usually of excellent quality these days and a lot of expense goes into making them and that’s why they are usually about £30 or £40. The profits are minimal but to put something so special and of such quality out into the world is very rewarding.

CH: Do you think the resurgence in the popularity of film, and its tactile nature, has played a role in keeping physical prints and books alive?

DW: Definitely! I’ve been a film shooter for 25 years and there was a time when I was starting to get very worried about how much longer film would be around for, so it’s a huge relief. The only downside is that film has doubled in price over the last 10 years, but i’m prepared to take that on the chin. Prints, exhibitions and books are all thriving at this moment in time and it’s how photography should be - there’s a real buzz in the photo-world and I’m enjoying it immensely.

CH: In terms of your own work, I know you have already made a number of books. Do you know when starting a project that the final outcome will eventually be presented as a physical book?

DW: I fell into the book game by accident and I used to make work with the end result focused on exhibitions as as opposed to books - being published or self-publishing didn’t even cross my mind in the early days. It was an email, completely out of the blue, from Iain Sarjeant (Another Place press) where it all began - he was about to start a small any publishing company and wanted to publish Suicide Machine as their second release. These days I do have books in mind when shooting work, particularly long term projects as I like to draw a line under them when they are finished and, I feel, a book does just that.

CH: Can you remember the one photobook early on which made you realise that you wanted to share your work or ideas in a similar way?

DW: I can’t think of a definitive book that made me want to make books but I do know the book which pretty much changed everything and put me on the documentary photography path: Exiles by Josef Koudelka. I took it out of the University library (circa 1997) and It was that moment that I decided that they were the type of pictures I wanted to make - I was blown away.

CH: I understand you are working on a new body of work. Are you aiming to publish this like your past works and, can you share any details on the concept?

DW: The new work, which is about my local river and links the 2 former projects, Suicide Machine and Gap in the Hedge, will be Published by Another Place Press in late 2020. The project pays tribute to the Ogmore River, an unremarkable river that once ran black with coal dust. The series will touch on Wales’ industrial past as well as modern day environmental issues but also include personal memories of my childhood growing up with the river. I’m 1 year into making the project and aim for another year before completion - the work has been kept fairly secretive thus far and progress is only available to view on my website using a password.

CH: You have been working with ‘Another Place Press’ for some time now and have released a number of books with them. What is it like working with APP, is it a collaborative effort?

DW: I’ve been very fortunate to cross paths with Iain (Sarjeant) and have built up a strong, real life, friendship over the years - even though were are around 700 miles apart! We make an effort to get together once or twice a year, purely for social reasons, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty of book production, yes, it absolutely is a collaborative effort. When publishing a book, 2 people are definitely better than one and Iain really knows his stuff, he is a graphic designer by trade and that helps enormously with the actual book design etc. So when working with a publisher be prepared to make compromises as the publisher will spot things that you may think was a good idea, but in his/her eyes its a bad one - and its usually the publisher that knows best!

CH: Lastly, let’s say you are tired of the modern word (and hearing about Brexit!) and decide to move to a desert island. You have enough space to pack 3 photobooks… what are they?

DW: Ooh, this is a tough one *goes of to look at bookshelf* Gregory Haplern - ZZYZX; Bryan Schutmaat - Grays the Mountain Sends; Karolina Paatos - American Cowboy (I’m a huge fan of Americana)

You can see more of Dan Woods work on his instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danwoodphoto

#Photography #documentary #documentaryphotography #dan wood #interview #photobook #Wales #film phogoraphy

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imnothinginparticular · 5 years

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#finishedbooks The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. Had wanted to read some Czech literature and was recommended Bohumil Hrabal, but the few English translations I found I had seen the film adaptions of. Those films were apart of the seriously underrated Czech New wave in cinema that was brought to an abrupt end with Prague Spring and subsequent Soviet suppression. Among those films think the most known would be Daisies by Vera Chytilová while the director Miloš Forman would become the most famous after immigrating to the US in 68' and going on to make The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His new wave film Fireman's Ball was a high point in the wave along with the films, The Sun in a Net, The Fifth Horseman is Fear, Closely Watched Trains (based in the Hrabal novel), etc. For fans of photography, Josef Koudelka made his name during this period as well. So just a huge explosion of culture and before the war this novel was a high point. It is a satirical dark comedy that remains unfinished at over 750 pages. He had set out to write it in 6 parts and completed 4 (serialized) before his death. The novel begins with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that started WWI in which our good soldier Švejk displays so much fervor to serve the Austrian Emperor in battle that no one can decide rather he is feeble minded or cynically undermining the war effort. And he sincerely does his best to get himself to the front lines and just keeps getting sidetracked into this absurd bureaucratic machine. This quote sums up the novel, "The Best thing you can do... is to pretend to be an idiot." The story's protagonist is like an original mix of Sancho Panza from Don Quixote and the main character of Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz another everyman that just gets caught in the times. The scenario that results from this is darkly humorous and had me laughing a lot like Gogol's Dead Souls did. Also, because the novel was serialized, I guess, to grab readers they also hired an illustrator to illustrate some of the scenes and they kept a quarter or so of the original illustrations in the book (the cover is one) which added to the fun of the novel, think only Cocteau's novellas had anything similar. Since this is Hašek's only novel, figure I would just get this and get to Hrabel later. Shame he died before he could finish this novel and write more, this was so much fun.

#finishedbooks

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honorarycassowary · 6 years

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So I finished Wolf 359. Spoilers and long AF ramblings under the cut.

I loved the finale! I had been hoping for a long time that the show would have an open ending, and especially one that’s ambiguous/bittersweet (because those are my absolute favorite kind and I love them) and it delivered.

I took kind of a long break from the show after I listened to the season 3 finale, because I was ... pretty upset about Lovelace, Hilbert, and Maxwell’s deaths, since I really cared about all three of those characters. But on further reflection, I think that killing them off, and keeping Hilbert and Maxwell dead, was a good choice. Huge chunks of the fourth season dealt with the emotional fallout from their deaths - Lovelace had to come to terms with her true nature, Hera had to sort through her emotions about Maxwell, Jacobi had to grapple with the death of his best friend and the role he played in it, Minkowski had to deal with the calls she made. Taking these deaths and keeping them dead, and adding in the deaths in the season 4 finale meant the actions and struggles the crew faced during the course of the show had weight.

Speaking of deaths, Mr. Cutter’s death was satisfying. After all his gloating, and his utter moral bankruptcy, he got a harpoon to the head, courtesy of the people he’d hurt most. Honestly, fuck that guy. He had an even more convincingly awful person voice than Kepler.

I was surprisingly sad about Kepler’s death. I spent all of season 3 wanting to stab the man - he was a very effective and hateable villain, so absolute props to the writer and the voice actor - but season 4 made me actually start to like him. Wolf 359′s habit of introducing bigger villains and repeatedly forcing an Enemy Mine situation works wonders at making genuinely awful people sympathetic. Jacobi trying to get Minkowski to kill him in Dirty Work was just amazing. Anyways, Kepler finally doing the right thing for once in his life, in such a way that he dies with every other character (except Ms. Young) thinking he was ready to let everyone on Earth die, is GREAT. I think it’s possible that the remaining crew figured out what he did, but I would actually prefer they don’t realize it and go through their lives thinking he was prepared to go along with Cutter. It’s more painful like that, and I like that.

On the flip side, it was interesting to see Dr. Pryce live - but get her threats to Hera turned around on her, and effectively get a personality rewrite of her own. I’m interested to see what she does with her life, and how the Hephaestus crew treats her. I wonder what Hera said to her. Hera lived her whole life afraid of her personality matrix being overwritten, and then she erased Dr. Pryce’s memory. It was the only option she had with the tools on hand, but she has to feel some sort of way about it. They could potentially have a really interesting dynamic, and I’d love to see fic that explores it. I also find the transhumanist element of Dr. Pryce’s character to be intriguing. Personally, I think the problem with what she wanted to do is the idea of forcibly changing humanity, and making them compliant to her will, not the inherent concept of radically changing the self. I would be interested to see the new Pryce exploring how her former self’s ideas could benefit humanity, even though her methods, morals, and life philosophy were horribly flawed. It’s a similar thing to Hilbert, I think - they started from an understandable point, but veered off somewhere down the line. Now that her memories are erased, I want her to figure out who she is, and what she wants, and how that will shape the future of Goddard Futuristics. (I’m really curious how they - and the government - will handle so many people returning from the dead, getting amnesia, or dying for real. Mr. Koudelka is gonna break one hell of a story.)

Then, there’s what happened to Eiffel. He really gets put through the wringer over the course of the show - injected with a deadly virus! launched into space, where he nearly dies from cryostasis overuse! threw himself into a sun! mindcontrolled! and now, finally, has his memories erased. Eiffel has been the main character (though it’s definitely an ensemble show, especially once you get past season 1), and he’s grown over the course of the show. So I didn’t actually think that he’d be harmed, going into the finale. But I liked what happened to him. He tried his best to get out of the situation, and then sacrificed himself so that Pryce could be defeated. I also liked the ambiguity of whether he is the “real” Doug Eiffel. There’s been an overarching theme in Wolf 359 of “what makes a person a person? what makes you you?” and I want Eiffel to be able to explore that. He has all the logs - but that’s not a complete picture of Doug Eiffel. Eiffel had secrets, he had hidden depths, he had a life beyond his job (as he was wont to remind everyone). In the brief time we see the new Doug Eiffel, he’s similar but the not identical to the OG Doug, most notably indicated in how he says Minkovski and his confusion at the pop culture references in his logs. It’s fascinating that he’s approaching the question of “what makes you you?” from the opposite direction of Captain Lovelace - he has the same body, but none of the memories. They could get a lot of good conversations out of that. I’m not any more sure than he is about who he “really” is, but he has a life ahead of him to figure that out, which is the important part.

Hera erased both Eiffel and Pryce memories, and, like I said above, I wonder how that affected her. Don’t get me wrong - I’m proud of her! She spent her whole life fighting against people trying to beat her down into shape, and she never gave up, and she won. She was brave, but she did something very, very hard. I hope she’s able to make a good life for herself on Earth. I think she’ll fight for it. I think everyone else will help her.

I’m proud of Jacobi! He saved the day - he not only figured out Cutter had him bugged, he came up with two plausible plans and then saved everyone’s lives once things went a little pearshaped. I’m also so happy that he doesn’t think he’s a good person, and he’s not trying to be one (at least not now). I prefer to think of him as a bad person who does have moral lines he won’t cross, as opposed to a good guy fallen on bad times (even if he is sympathetic). He was so enthusiastic about being monsters with Maxwell. But I think his time on Wolf 359 has really shaken his faith and given him a lot to think about. Also, I love his arguments with Kepler all through this season. His “just admit you were wrong!” rant to Kepler really speaks to their long history and loyalty twisted into frustration and hatred. He’s got an amazing sense of palpable betrayal in regards to Kepler, and that’s why I mentioned above that I don’t want him to learn that Kepler saved them. I think it’s more narratively interesting to have him hit with the full brunt of that betrayal. Also he’s gay and I’m DELIGHTED.

Minkowski sending the ship off with Eiffel inside it was a real betrayal, and I’m glad Eiffel brought that up as a bad thing, even if he did forgive her. And, uh, immediately lose his memories. But I totally understand why she did it, and I love how strongly her protective sense towards her crew comes out. And she gets to kill Cutter, after everything he did to her and her crew. I also liked her flashback with Hera to when they first arrived - it’s a interesting contrast being awkward Minkowski who’s not sure of herself, but who immediately respects Hera’s wishes, to hardened Commander Minkowski who kills a man and saves a planet, but who maintains that love for her subordinates. I really hope things work out with her husband. Between the two of them, they might just be able to take down Goddard Futuristics.

Lovelace’s continual fight to be herself comes (mostly) to an end. I wasn’t expecting Cutter to find a new way to mind-control her, but I did now she would fight til the end. She and Minkowski make a great team, and they must have made record time on those engines. I also like that bonding moment between her and Eiffel at the start of the episode. There’s something very human about stealing your awful boss’s fancy food for stress relief, and I like the reference to the seaweed tea. She absolutely 100% deserves that vacation. I hope she’ll be able to relax long enough to make the most of it, but I feel like it’ll be a while before Goddard is dead enough for her to feel comfortable.

There’s so many ways everyone’s stories could go after the finale. I’m glad about that - I like to think of everyone’s lives as a continuing narrative, so I love it when canons leave the ending open, so we can see how the characters have changed and wonder what they’ll do in the future. It feels more real, and less neat. There’s so much aftermath that they’ve sorted through, and there’s more to come, but I’m sure that whatever they do, they’ll be good at it.

Also I felt a real emotion at “That was Wolf 359.” instead of “This has been Wolf 359.” I’m also a sucker for changed endings for finale episodes.

#cassowary conversation #wolf 359 #wolf 359 spoilers

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alicezoo · 6 years

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Teju Cole On Instagram

Amongst all the studies about Instagram’s detrimental affect on our mental health, all the time wasted scrolling and attendant statistics about how many miles we thumb through per day/hour/minute, there are people who use Instagram for purposes other than bland distraction, ‘inspo’, or self-promotion. Teju Cole is one of them.

He’s written about Instagram in the past: back in 2015, he drew the similarity between Stephen Shore’s work in American Surfaces and Uncommon Places with the kind of “provocatively unexciting” imagery Shore posts on his feed. Cole also explored the work of other photographers with original or enlivening approaches to the app, describing how following their work in this way allows a renewed depth of understanding of their more formalised work offline. Instagram, he suggests, offers the opportunity for play, for the balance between “a sense of freedom and the steady burn of an obsession” to find a visual home: “it can be a conversation that unfolds gradually”. This generous vision of the app as a worthwhile visual format is a more and more unusual one.

In the same piece, he acknowledges the way that “Instagram users value spectacular images”. The algorithm privileges the quick hit over the slow burn: vivid, dynamic, immediately intelligible imagery is the currency. Some of my favourite images to see in a gallery setting — Richard Learoyd’s sculptural portraits, made by a room-sized camera obscura, Sarah Moon’s moody, velvet tones, Koudelka’s inky prints — lose so much of what makes them extraordinary when digested through the screen of an iPhone. The nuances of an incredible hand-print, or the subtle deterioration of a photograph over time — and the mystery or weight they accrue — are also lost. Instagram represents a kind of flattening of so many of the idiosyncrasies of the photographic medium and seems to be generating a set of styles and genres of its own: close-up portraits tend to do well, and photographers who have a very clearly defined palette (restrictively so?) tend to have hoards of followers.

Cole has managed to hold the addictively saccharine rewards of Instagram at arm’s length. In fact, whilst advocating for the use of Instagram as a tool, and a valuable medium, he uses likes to tell him whether his imagery is too Instagrammable. “If I put up something and it’s instantaneously super-popular I know that — not always, but more likely than not — it’s failing on some level. There’s something too easy about it,” he explained on a podcast back in July. Implicitly, Cole is privileging the nuance of a photograph that resists immediate intelligibility or interpretation; a successful image, for him, should — perhaps — hold something back.

All this thinking and writing is a precursor to his current approach to his own Instagram feed. At first glance, it looks like a grid of almost single-colour squares. When you click onto an image — or when it appears on your own feed — it is revealed to be a close-up image of a section of painting, often with a near-uniform colour (though there are multi-coloured squares, too, more as time goes on, but always in the abstract). Sometimes the faint cracks of a painting that has aged over the years are visible; sometimes the grain of the canvas itself is visible; often the subtle tones of a red that burns and deepens, or a blue whose wash is made up of teal, navy and cerulean, can be seen when you look at the image for more than the brief moment usually allocated to Instagram looking. Cole’s own words from years previously — “provocatively unexciting” — come to mind: he is experimenting, perhaps, with the limits of his followers’ patience. Will they stay for these images that, really, offer no immediate gratification (by Instagram’s standards) at all? Will they apportion them likes? (Stephen Shore has ‘liked’ almost every one of these images, perhaps tellingly).

In fact — whilst deviating drastically from the kind of parameters that usually make an Instagram picture successful — the images offer a very different kind of gratification: the slower, harder-won but more sustaining kind that comes from close and careful looking. I don’t know which paintings Cole takes his pictures of, but inherent in the imagery itself is what Cole seems to be suggesting as a valuable mode of seeing. They present a view of a painting that is so close as to be near-forensic: the kind that you only usually see briefly, in a gallery, when you take the risk of setting off an alarm to lean up close to a painting and get a sense of the brushwork. In isolating this close-up view, Cole is allowing that brief flash to be lengthened, the contemplation extended indefinitely. The idea of making pictures out of unintelligible, identityless sections of paintings, abstracting them via their isolation, and then posting them to Instagram, is almost laughable in its disregard for Instagram’s algorithmic visual codes.

Beyond being conceptually arresting, the images have their own quiet power: it is not often that our phone feeds us a solid few inches of rich colour, with all its emotional sway (a bloody, passionate red, a cool black, the frenzied dashes of yellow onto grey). When the rest of your feed is populated by images that jostle for attention, Cole’s images burst up like islands of visual rest, a place to moor yourself for a moment before going back into the fray of the dopamine-inducing visual equivalents of a klaxon. And then, once you’ve acquired a taste for Cole’s subtleties, and go back to visit his page, returning to the grid, the arrangement of all these abstractions next to each other is as neat and bright as a Mondrian.

At first, Cole would pair his images with a brief, poetic caption. I have been unable to source many of them; some are lines taken from Shakespeare’s sonnets, some are from the Odyssey, one is from an airline instructional safety message (‘Breathe normally. Although the bag does not inflate, oxygen is flowing…’). In some captions, Cole has wrested a word or two away from their usual caption place, using spaces so that they float free. His first captions, like his images, gave little away; they are allusive anchors, often hinting at depths but rarely revealing much. They signal the possibility of a rich and profound world available should you choose to take a closer look, or to simply stop your scrolling and reflect. And then sometimes the caption doesn't appear at all. Cole didn’t appear to have a grand strategy: the images, and captions if they have them, rose up quietly, never announcing too much, never forcing your hand.

Over the last few weeks, Cole has become more emphatic in his captioning, at times alluding to a mood of political despair and, more recently, announcing: “A photograph of a detail of a painting is a photograph, not a detail of a painting.” He is firmly staking ownership of these images, this project, on a platform that often forgets it is trading in photographs at all, such is its bent towards advertising. Imagery on Instagram is less a photograph, more a product that can be bought and sold, passed around or re-grammed. With this single line, Cole reminds us that each image we post is, in fact — or can be, or should be — a photograph, not a bland record of witnessing or an ad. His grid of abstractions are acts of authorship, choices carefully made. As the captions have lengthened and become more discursive or direct, the images themselves have employed more colour, more movement. The project gathers steam, revealing its intentions apace.

Cole’s unfamiliar language — abstraction — dislocates Instagram-type imagery from Instagram at large, showing it as the doppelgänger it is. It advocates for a return to a way of seeing unmuddied by commerce or manipulation. The first time Cole posted one of these images, it was to memorialise John Berger, who believed that advertising — “publicity images”, as he called them — continued the self-congratulatory tradition of oil painting; that painting and photography have served similar social functions, and that those functions (self-aggrandisement and demonstration of wealth as much as aesthetic ingenuity) should be held under scrutiny. Cole’s project, framed as such, could be seen to extend Berger’s reasoning, or offer an alternative: that neither painting nor photography need be so mercantile. With these images, Cole is saying: “look closely, and then closer still; take your time, then take even longer. I am selling you nothing.” On Instagram, world of immediate gratification and sponsored posts, that’s something.

#tejucole #johnberger #instagram #colourphotography #oilpainting #abstract

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citadelofswords · 7 years

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If you're still doing that headcanon ask meme: Isabel Lovelace &/or Magnus Burnsides? ♥

gonna go with my girl lovelace bc if i think about magnus too long i’ll probably cry

1. what I think realistically realistically, there is no way she’s straight.

2. what I think is fucking hilarious everyone thinks that eiffel originated the “isabel lovelace didn’t die for this meme” and, well, they’re half right. but it never caught on until after lovelace came back from the dead, after everything with the tiamat recordings blew over and kepler and jacobi were locked up again. minkowski and eiffel and lovelace were all sitting in silence for a while until lovelace sighed and said, “fuck, i didn’t die for this” and broke the tension. now everyone says it.

3. what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends lovelace slept once, for longer than three hours, while eiffel was missing in the black. she dreamed of her crew. in a situation eerily similar to what happened with eiffel, she was doing repairs to the pod’s engine when an explosion dislodged her from the station. the last thing she heard over the comms was lambert, of all people, yelling her name, eerily like minkowski calling for eiffel. when she looked at the star, it was white. edging towards blue, but mostly white. the star had never been white before. she spent what felt like hours in agony, drifting, freezing, until she finally woke up (relatively) safe in her sleeping bag on the station. (when eiffel arrived back on the station, half frozen, with unfocused eyes and shaking hands missing all their fingernails, she could barely look at him. to this day she has no idea if the dream was just fear or if it was a vision. whoops i’m crying.)

4. what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway when lovelace gets home, because she does get home, the first thing she does is take a goddamn nap. and she sleeps ok for the first time in years. and then she wakes up and dismantles goddard futuristics, punches out cutter, and probably murders pryce. and the fact that she’s an alien clone is never an issue ever again. and she probably moves in with minkowski and is a weird roommate to her and koudelka. and eiffel is there. and everything’s ok. i got sidetracked the headcanon is that the first thing lovelace does when she gets home is destroy goddard. after a nap.

#dk idk idk #isabel lovelace #wolf 359 #ahofficial #asks

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sophiedayphotography-blog · 5 years

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Brighton Biennial and Fringe festival 2018

11/10/18

exhibtions that i managed to attend were:

-bill bradnt

-aikaterini gegisian

-tereza cervenova

-emeric lhuisset

-cross channel, photographic mission.(lewis baltz, marilyn bridges, jean louis, phillipe lasage, josef koudelka, chirstian courreges, fabiana figueiredo, bruce gilden, bernard prosse, jane alison and brigitte lardinois

-alex bamford

-donovan wylie

-uta kogelsberger

-heather agyepeng

my thoughts on Brighton and the exhibitions i saw:

to be really honest about it all that i personally found more outside of the exhibitions than i did in any of them which is unfortunate. but i did get a lot of images on my phone and on me pentax mx (analogue) camera.

University of Brighton Galleries- Edward street

bill brandt- not what i was expecting as it was just one of his books and scan of it on the walls around which i was hoping for ‘real’ prints as to scans and not very good scans at that sadly.But found the images rather different liked that each photo had its title on the bottom right and what im guessing is French oh the right bottom of the page.

aikaterini gegisian- it was a tv display which looked rather random just put in the corner sort of out the way not apart of anything just seems very odd and personally wouldnt have got the theme or subject behind the work although i didnt listen to the headphones on top which would have helped but just from a looking perspective looked odd.

tereza cervenova- honestly was hard to find this part of the exhibition as you had to go up a door that had a card access point which we had to ask for help as to where the gallery was and to why the door was closed. but about the work as different as most work is hung in a frame on a wall and centred which is the normal. where as with this work it was placed in a more scattered way thats what i seems first off. i like that as there not in a frame the paper curls naturally with bigger prints which most if they were to have prints on there own would straighten them out or put weights in the bottom to have a flat image which i enjoy. personally dont see a full connection with the referendum but as its response you wont see direct links but was very interesting with the displace even with the books to the side of the exhibition where the pages of the book are dismantled instead of being a whole which is different. didnt like the use of man made light as i couldnt really see the images to there full possiblity as outside was so light making it dark even though there was lights on.

emeric lhisset- one of the made reasons as to why i liked this work was mainly that the work was cyanotypes which is where the photographic material turns blue once exposed to light and the processed so you can see the image similar to black and white only that instead of white, black and greys you get white, dark blue and light blue. so to see a wall of blue as to colour or black and white it was different and i liked that stands out from most. but as to the subject or theme of the image i didnt see that the cyanotypes went ‘unfixed’ as such meaning the images change from what they are meant to be to slowly get darker due to being exposed to the light didnt see that much change from how long they have been up there although i have seen another photographers instagram about the work and could see by his image that the prints had darkened even by a few weeks in between viewings and that i didnt see the idea of many generations of migrant to Europe through these images it seemed like someone was just taking photos and same with the layout very far away from each other didnt really make sense to have them that far away from each other. but was nice to see them with natural lighting.University of Brighton- Grand Parade

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lewis batlz- found his work different as it was a book similar to the handle out about all the exhibitions for the biennial festival as its folds out. interesting that he didnt leave a border on any of his images as what most do. but after looking at his work online the original prints are the height if most walls so i can see that he wouldnt leave any space as his prints are so large think he is trying to match them together. as for the photographs themselves really bold with both colour and black and white especially as most people wont put both of them together either black and white or just colour which is interesting.

marilyn bridges- found the images different as there are of aerial shots from a helicopter im guessing which most photographers dont tend to use the birds eye view angle often mainly due to subject. but i think with this subject and body of work it helps as most would have taken the shot from ground level and wouldnt have the same effect. not sure on the dark brown frames as i can see why she has done brown as most are either black or white which can blend in to the work as the image is black and white but i dont think a dark warm tones brown was the best way to go.

philippe lesage- rather like the warm tones of the image i personally didnt find the subject of the images not very interesting but landscapes aint really my thing but i like the frames like that there square and have a think border inbetween the photo and frames.

jean-louis garnell- like the set up of the six on a block as such as most would have in a row but i like that these are bunched together which i will considering it for when im thinking on how to set up my work for the exhibition in a few weeks and explore more for my final exhibition. i think the the border around the image is a bit much would preferred more image as it looks to much.

josef koudelka- i believe that these photos were the photographers first attempt of panoramic which is different as most work is your current were as this is later work i believe which i like. like that the frames are a silver as to black, white or a natural wood colour which i know i personally didnt think of which i really like.

christian courreges- really like the Polaroid look of having square images and to put them in a regular frame so that there is more border at the bottom to give that look. really like the the thin frames work well the the images an border.

fabiana figueiredo- was different as it was pages from im guessing a book. like some of the layouts as some have 3 in 2 smaller on each side and a big image in the middle spreading across the 2 pages which i like.

bruce gildn- good size to see all the details of the images. on a plus can see the theme once you read the info on the side but if its on it own you couldnt tell like the framing and the border size just the subject is personally not my think.

bernard prossu- thought this work was rather different as most of the images were based on a poem which i havent seen before which i like as its different to most work you see these day. really like the 6 images in a block and loved the strip of negatives at the bottom so you can see more images rather different will look and explore this more with my own work shame the bigger image isnt bigger as its hard to see with the light glaring on it so having the images slightly bigger would have helped along with the border looked to thick for the top image made it look even smaller than it already was. could have done with a bigger image and less border in my opinion.

jubilee square

uta kogelsberger

found this rather different due to its size as its a cargo container which means you dont need a frame but it means the work is open to not only the elements but the public with kids going up and touching but then again it is replaced daily so the damage wont be as bad if it was the same images for the duration of the exhibition. with this in mind i couldnt find a info page as such so if you didnt have the leaflet you would really have a full understanding of the work. i did notice a stand that had postcards of each image that has or is to be exhibited which is good so you can see all the work as a body which helps you see the effect and use of different subjects. along with its a shame someone felt the need to write something rude and offensive on the work with biro which takes the meaning away from the work.

jubilee library

heather agyepong

i didnt really understand the work fully mainly due to its location that it being in a library felt i was introducing which i know i wasnt as its a public space but thats how it felt going in. also didnt think much to the presentation of the work as it was printed on a big roll of paper and hung over a metal bar which didnt look right especially in a library and along with the other work in the square it didnt have a info page as such so i had no idea as to what the work was about till i looked in the leaflet and as for the work its self i personally didnt enjoy it or understand much even after reading the info from the leaflet.

sea front/on beach

leon bellis, steve boyle, audrey marshall, colin miller, ellen miller, colleen slater and david wilsdon

i liked how the work was presented as it matched the subject of the work very well being as the work was of port life as the title suggests. really like the use of different photographers which different styles but on the same subject as you get a good variation on the subject see different representations. i like the use of the rocks at the bottom to weight the work down due to the strong sea breeze then having the work printed on a card plastic like board to make sure with work can survive the elements and still be able to see the work. enjoyed that it was outside made it more interactive which is always more fun.

west pier centre

alex bamford

i like the simplicity of the room as it was just his work and if it was on sale which i l liked had postcards to by with prints and then the main body of work. like that the prints were different sizes for size of the place but made it not so samey as such and it more interesting to the eye as they are all of the same place but different weathers and occasions. but with that in mind i like that they are all framed the same so there similar but not at the same time. and was rather sweet of volunteer working turned the light of so we could get better pictures of the work.

fishing quarters gallery

donovan wylie

not what i thought the work was going to be as the idea of a light house you have in mind just a standard photo bu this was different with that its of a light house in France with the photo taken in England with a boat in the middle rather a same the images is blurred almost so you have to get up close but makes you look at the work for longer making you think more which i like. rather different as well it being on a blooming big light box defiantly bigger than 5ft at least which was different to all the other work.

it was a shame that none of the work i attended related to my work but got to see a vast range of ideas on how to present my work.

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cities i mention in the east: kreuzberg, prenzlauerberg, fredrickshain, waschauer, neuekolln,

cities i mention in the west: charlottenburg, wilmersdorf, schoneburg

first things first, “everything’s closed on sundays.”

No shops are open. But don’t fret, because Sunday is also flea market day. and Berlin’s Mauer Park is the place to be. They have everything there form amazing raw german honey, to bastard spicy sauce, vintage polaroid cameras, and even old school adidas sweaters. Best time to go is mid-morning to noon.

After filling your tote bags with cheap goods, plenty of cafes and brunch spots are fully alive on this ‘day of rest and relaxation.’ If a cafe/spot is marked with a ✿, it means it’s open on Sundays!

chill, grab a drink, spots

Café Cinema ✿, a really trully raw Berlin spot in the heart of Mitte/Hackescher Markt (my favorite neighborhood). A great place to grab a beer or a coffee with your friend to just chill and talk.

COMEBUY ✿, the best boba in Berlin. If you’re like me, with crazy high standards, then you might be a little disappointed, but it still hits the spot when you’re craving some of that milk tea. (I actually highly recommend the rose tea with basil seeds and aiyu jelly—super refreshing). There are locations in Mitte and Ku’Dam

Siedel & Nothaft Café ✿, a really cute spot close to Mauer Park, in Prenzlauerberg, they have great coffee and a killer spinach loaf cafe. The interior is really random, and feels like a crossover of millennial pink vibes but with the rawness of Berlin.

Cafe Dich Guchlich ✿, a fun spot that’s also by in Prenzlauerberg, with killer waffles! They have beautiful outdoor seating that’s perfect for some nice desert to just chit chat about life. I love their bourbon vanilla ice cream on a home made waffel, and their chocolate syrup is also home made so I highly recommend that as well!

THE BARN Cafe ✿, has multiple locations all over Berlin! It’s a chain of “third wave coffee” really similar to the coffee trend back home in California. Their coffee is great and they have a pretty bomb egg tart.

KlunkerKranich ✿, a beautiful rooftop biergarten in Neuekölln I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PLACE. It’s the favorite spot of everyone on this trip with me. It’s got a beautiful view, affordable drinks, and just has a really great down to earth vibe.

kame Japanese Bakery, if you’ve seen my instagram at all you’ll recognize this place. They have killer matcha deserts! Matcha Tiramisu, Matcha French Toast, Matcha Cheesecake, and their most popular, Matcha Brownie. If you’re in a big group I’d had everyone order one of each and just taste all of them!!! so gooooDDDD!!!! Sadly not open on Sundays :( In the Charlottenburg/Wilmersdorf Area.

Jone’s Ice Cream ✿, my favorite ice cream spot in berlin. reminds me a lot of carmela or salt and straw (my loooves). they roll their own cones!!!! WHOOOO. highly recommend the cheesecake and matcha :) this is in Schoneburg!

Five Elephant Mitte, a really cute cafe in Mitte with great coffee and a NY cheesecake that I cannot stop thing about it was so good someone help me. ! ! ! !

FOOD

Burgermeister is one of the best burgers I’ve ever had. And it’s probably one of the few good meals I’ve had here in Berlin. My favorite location is under the train in the far side of Kreuzberg. The mushroom burger is insane and the chili cheese fries are killer.

Wursterei is my favorite place to get the Berlin-famous-snack, currywurst! It always looks like Curry36 (it’s neighbor) is more poppin, but trust me this place is better. Ask for grilled onions and order with fries and eat at their outdoor eating. It’s so chill and so easy.

Schitzelei, is classic german food serving what they sound like, Schnitzel. When you order, make sure to ask for jam! It’s really amazing with the veal.

Angry Chicken ✿, if you’re from LA traveling Europe, you most probably miss korean fried chicken (or at least i do), and thank sweet baby hesus!!! Angry chicken serves crazy good korean wings and hope baked sweet potato chips along with it! It’s right in the heart of Kreuzberg.

Jules Verne, I had the best cheese plate of my life here. The service is great and it’s a lil on the boujee side but it’s probably one of my favorite spots in Berlin! Their bouillabaisse is soooo good, and also the lamb plate was delicious!!!!

House of Small Wonder ✿, a nice lil brunch spot that came from brooklyn! japanese food with a western approach. great food great vibes <3

A Never Ending Love Story ✿, a really great place to get a socal inspired breakfast! they have a really really good french toast (i think i’m going to eat that tomorrow morning because it was so good hmmmmmhmhmhm) and their scrambled eggs (any of them) are great! Right off Kanstraße in Charlottenburg.

Shiso Burger, fusion burgers with an strong korean influence. their fries are soo good, and i highly recommend the bugolgi burger! really great despite small portions :) This is in Mitte!

Coco Ramen ✿, the best ramen spot in Berlin! The tonkatsu is classic, and they do a pretty good job of it. They’re owned by their neighbor, KUCHI, which is a japanese sushi boutique. There’s usually a line of you go around peak hours, so if you really wanna try this place go at a weird time like 3-6pm :) I prefer the one in MItte :)

Restaurant Pasternak ✿, sunday brunch only!! also really close to mauer park, so it’s a perfect day plan!! Russian styled all you can eat brunch with a beautiful outdoor setting, half a block away from my favorite park in Prenzlauerberg!

Arirang ✿, the worst service ever tbh, but the korean food here is as good as it gets for Berlin, and it’s really close to a lot of other asian eats on Kanstraße in Charlottenburg!

Good Friends, as good as chinese food gets in Berlin. It’s the best one here. Definitely nothing compared to home (The SGV), but it hits the spot when you crave some dim sum or plum honey short rib. mmmhmmm this is in Charlottenburg where there are many good asian spots :)

Lon Mens Noodle House, another spot in Charlottenburg with pretty authentic asian food! This place specialized in Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup <3 ____<3

Crazy Bastard Sauce! Is a restaurant pop up in Neuekölln that served chicken and duck burgers to showcase the companies famous sauces! If you don’t have the energy to find the burgers, they have a stand at Mauer Park to try and purchase their famous dips!

Monsieur Vuong, one of the best Vietnamese spots in Berlin. Kinda on the boujee side and also the flavors are more from the Northern part of Vietnam (there are lots of great viet places in berlin, the are the majority population of asians especially on the east).

SSSShops!!! There are definitely a few shops that I feel are so special to berlin, i highly recommend stopping by these for some cute purchases!

Tukadu, my new favorite jewelery shop in this whole entire world!! They have an insane collection of beads, puffs, trinkets, EVERYTHING, and you cn customize your own necklaces, keychains, or earrings and they make it for you! Also their premade options are also super dope!!! In Mitte/ Hackescher Mart area :)

Carhartt WIP, carhartt is a US workwear brand, but a few years ago started a streetwear brand called carhart Work In Progress! Their stuff is really great, and they have huge s

Carhartt WIP, carhartt is a US workwear brand, but a few years ago started a streetwear brand called carhart Work In Progress! Their stuff is really great, and they have huge sales every summer! Berlin is the only city with womens options! There’s a womens and a mens shop in Mitte! There’s also a combined store in Bikini Berlin

Bikini Berlin, really artsy cute store which is actually part of my studio! There are some super cool shops in there like Artek, or Promobo! They also have a KILLER dark chocolate sorbeto at Spirit Coffee, and it’s really nice to grab a cone and sit by the window to watch the monkeys! (It’s right next to the zoo). They also have a great natural foods kiosk there, called FunkYou, and their stuff is great too!

Do You Read Me?! My favorite book store here in Berlin! Ridiculously great selection of books! In the heart of Mitte <3

Pro Qm is just like Do You Read Me, but a little bigger, also a great selection! This one is off Rosa-Luxemboug

Memorials/Museums

Neues Museum/Museum Island, my god the architecture in here is insane!!! It’s a beautiful museum, and could take hours to really go through. If you don’t have time, I’d still just walk around Museum Island :) Right across from Hackesher Makt!

Spy Museum, right in Potsdammer Platz, lets you experience some of the paranoia from the DDR when the walls were still up. There are some crazy cool experiences about spy gadgets and it’s easy to feel like you’re in a movie!

Museum of Kommunication, this museum of communication is really really fun! There’s lot of activities and so much history o__o it’s insane!

Jewish Museum Berlin, coming here was part of a class, but I would have come anyway. There are some really insane spaces in there that just move you in ways I can’t explain. Highly recommend this.

Berlin Wall Memorial, a beautiful place to learn about the reality of the wall that split Germany. There’s a lot of information about tunnels, people, security and more! If you want to see more wall, and the street art that’s been done on it, I would look at if in Waschauer (Across from the Mercedez Benz Arena). The painting on those walls are very well known an protected!

C/O Berlin, they always have great photography exhibitions going on. Joseph Koudelka is showing right now and he is !!! amaze !!! Right across from the Museum of Fotographie.

Museum of Fotographie, really huge amazing photography museum! Highly recommend is. It’s right next to the Zoologischer Garten :)

DA CLUBS

So clubbing/events/going out in Berlin is pretty different from the usual typical night life everywhere else. Here in Berlin, parties don’t really start ‘till 1AM. and they usually don’t end ‘till around 7-11AM. Also if your friend group is more than two people, make sure to split up. It’s harder to get into places if it’s more than 2-3 of you at once. Berliners are weird. Also don’t wear heals and vegas clothing, Berliners hate that.

Club Der Visioänre, is one of my favorite spots to hear some good beats while getting a drink by the water with in a really cool environment. It’s really easy to get in. It’s really great to just chill, talk, meet people, and watch the sun come up. :)

Suicide Circus, one of the more cool Techno spots here in Berlin. Not too hard to get into, Make sure you know who’s playing. It’s a really great space with into dancefloor with one headliner, and the other headliner place outside under the trees for you to watch the sun rise.

Prince Charles, MY FAVORITE VENUE, i super love this spot because the bar is in an ex-swimming poor which is just such a cool vibe with an intimate dancing area! Also I got to see 143′s first European event with sosupersam so it was DOPEEEEE. In the ever so cool, Kreuzberg behind my favorite supply store, Modulor!

Some other cool ones I haven’t been to but heard a lot about were Sisyphos, Watergate, and of course the famous Berghain, Tresor,

other great spots

Teufelzberg, if you love grafitti, you have to come here. The work done on these old buildings are insane. I highly recommend booking a tour, because there’s just so much information and art to take in. Also it’s the tallest point in Berlin, even though it artificial.

Tempelhof, the very famous Berlin Airport! I highly recommend taking a tour here because of it’s ridiculous amount of history. This Airport played large role in keeping Berliners going during the cold war. Also this building SCREAMS hitler, and 3rd reich, and it’s great to learn about. If you don’t have time for the tour, visit the park! :) It’s also beautiful. Also german refugees are staying in camps there.

Monbijou Park, Beautiful park across from Museum Island, perfect for grabbing a cold club mater and chilling around.

Wasserturm. probably the most precious piece of land i’ve encountered here in Berlin. It’s a hidden park that also it’s also kinda like a lil hill? It’s hidden behind the trees that surround it, but it’s the perfect palce to pick up a doner kebab or durum, and just snack on it while watching locals walk their dogs. it’s beautiful :)

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entergamingxp · 4 years

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9 Games Developers Should Launch Porting Projects For On Kickstarter

February 14, 2020 1:00 PM EST

With Wonderful 101 Remastered succeeding on Kickstarter, could we see other studios following it? Here are 9 games that could benefit.

While it launched just over a week ago, it took less than 24 hours for Platinum Games’ Wonderful 101 Remastered Kickstarter campaign to hit the 1.5 million mark. Needless to say, it’s been a success on the crowdfunding platform and for fans that have been waiting for this cult classic action game to return.

If I was a betting man, I would put my money on more developers following in Platinum’s shoes by going to Kickstarter to fund prospective port projects of smaller games with a devoted fanbase. Here is a list of some games that I’d like to see get a similar treatment.

Shining Force

Camelot has a number of strong contenders that I would love to see get the port/remaster treatment. While the Golden Sun series is near and dear to my heart, I think the series that has a better fit in the Kickstarter space would be Shining Force. At the time, this series was SEGA’s answer to Fire Emblem–which is their take on the tactical grid-based fantasy RPG–and the series has had a lot of representation on various SEGA collections over the years.

Much like Trials of Mana though, we’ve been missing a game. North America and Europe only ever got the first scenario out of three of Shining Force 3. We’ve never had an official ending to the original Shining Force series, and it’s a shame. A nice remastered port collection of Shining Force 1-3, with the inclusion of the missing chapters, would be a dream come true. If Camelot were to launch a Kickstarter to fund this endeavor, I have zero doubt that it would be funded that day.

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Xenosaga

It wasn’t that long ago that Katsuhiro Harada revealed that an HD remaster of the Xenosaga Trilogy was under consideration. Deemed that it wouldn’t be profitable, Bandai Namco decided not to pursue work on the project, much to the sadness of fans. If the marketing analysis says that it wouldn’t be profitable, taking a remastered version of the series to Kickstarter would be the perfect solution. Let fans of the series upfront some of the cost, and speak with their wallets that we need Shion, KOS-MOS, and crew in HD.

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Eternal Sonata

Developed by Tri-Crescendo, this game places you in the fevered dreams of Frederic Chopin as he lays on his deathbed. Filled with riffs and musical puns-a-plenty, this action RPG on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is bright and vibrant; a stark contrast to the dark and macabre predicament you find Chopin in. Tri-Crescendo isn’t the largest studio and with the shaking reception of their previous Star Ocean title, taking to Kickstarter to fund a remastered port of Sonata would be perfect. It’s a fantastic title and would look beautiful on Switch or PS4/Xbox One.

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Shadow Hearts

This gothic turn-based RPG was an intriguing addition to the PlayStation 2 library. As sequels to the Koudelka series on PS1, the first two games were published in North America by the now-shuttered Midway with the final game, Shadow Hearts: Into the New World, by XSEED. Combat incorporated a spinning wheel that, depending on where you stopped on the wheel, would decide if you hit, missed, or landed a critical. A criminally underrated series with yet another passionate following, releasing a remastered port or collection would be a lovely breath of fresh air in the growing RPG space. XSEED, get on that Kickstarter and start this project, please!

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Viewtiful Joe

If Platinum can get the rights back from Capcom for Hideki Kamiya’s first Sentai-esque title, Viewtiful Joe, the results would prove equally as successful. The fast-paced beat-em-up gameplay of the first two Viewtiful games are two of my favorite titles on my GameCube. The cel-shaded art made the various cinema genre-themed levels really pop and stand out. As a long time Power Rangers/Super Sentai fan, Viewtiful Joe‘s spandex-clad hero theme spoke to me. Sharing a lot of similarities with the world of Wonderful 101 makes this an easy pick.

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Alpha Protocol

As Obsidian Entertainment’s buggy-yet-brilliant spy RPG, this darling would be perfect for the Kickstarter port treatment. Obsidian has mentioned previously that they would like to get back into the spy game before, but it hasn’t worked out. While the bugs and some gameplay quirks held Alpha Protocol back in the eyes of mainstream players, this game has a passionate following; myself included.

I know that with being owned by Microsoft now, they may have additional resources that could make a remastered port more feasible. But to take the risk, perhaps MS would need more assurance to green-light the project, which would make Kickstarter a perfect option: capital and clear display of the desire for the project, straight from the fans.

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Demon’s Souls

Putting aside the constant speculation that Demon’s Souls may be getting remade/remastered anyway, let’s assume for the sake of argument that it isn’t. This little game, which at the time the industry thought couldn’t succeed with its extreme difficulty, would go on to start a brand new genre of games, with Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and more following in its footsteps. It’s a tragedy that this first title hasn’t gotten a similar remaster treatment that its predecessors have. If FromSoftware wanted to hedge its bets on publishing costs, the Kickstarter route could be a good way to go.

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3D Dot Game Heroes

3D Dot Game Heroes is a fantastic game that has long since faded into obscurity. This not-Zelda title from FromSoftware and Silicon Studio put you in the shoes of the legendary hero’s ancestor, on a quest to reclaim magic items to banish the big bad. The world map, dungeons, and its structure were basically a re-imagining of the original Zelda on NES. What made it really unique was the fact that you could create your own blocky avatar to explore the world, using the game’s character creator.

The unique visuals along with a tried-and-true gameplay formula make 3D Dot Game Heroes a game that would do fantastic on modern platforms, especially the Switch. As a smaller, more obscure title published overseas by Atlus, the only way I could see this getting a remastered port is with the Kickstarter approach, and allowing players to show the developers that the interest is there to revive it.

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White Knight Chronicles

To put it simply, White Knight Chronicles is Xenoblade Chronicles X in a high fantasy setting, which came out five years before X did. Giant sprawling world: check. MMO-like combat where positioning matters a lot with your special moves: check. Custom character creation and tons of weapons and skills: check too. Giant magical robot knights, you can pilot: yep! There is already a demand for a Switch port of XCX, and I imagine that Level 5 could find success with an enhanced port and remaster of this series, leading hopefully to a full-on revival.

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Are we witnessing a brand new age of crowd-funded ports of old gems? I wouldn’t be against it. Nowadays, vocal fans constantly tweet at and ask the developers to port and remaster old games. There are worse ideas than tying such a project to a Kickstarter: let the fans speak with their wallets and help it get funded. Doing so would not only secure additional funding, but also make for a stronger pitch to executives. If it doesn’t meet the Kickstarter goal, it’s no loss (or at least not a significant one) on the company’s bottom line. Regardless if others follow suit, I’m excited that one of my favorite Wii U games is finally coming back. I just hope it means that we might get even more of them if it succeeds.

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Been thinkin again about Vorkosigan/Queen’s Thief parallels, obvs. My earlier character comparisons didn’t include enough women, and it continues to bother me. At first what hindered me is that, while both series do contain good women characters (though my only QT complaint aside from there not being even more books, is I do wish the women who aren’t queens got to do a little more), they’re not very much like each other. Attolia and Eddis are both so good in very distinctive ways, but Barrayar is rather thin on reigning female monarchs. Cordelia eventually becomes Vicereine with power co-equal to Aral, but she’s certainly not much like Attolia or Eddis. Meanwhile there’s a bunch of badass women soldiers in the Vorkosigan saga that have no equivalent in QT.

Then I realized there was no particular reason I had to only compare women characters to women characters, which does open the possibilities somewhat.

The most obvious first is Pym and Phresine. I was going to say something about how Phresine would totally describe Attolia’s clumsy attempts to offer something other than hostility to Eugenides as heartstopping, but when I double-checked the original quote in A Civil Campaign it was actually from Tsipis, not Pym. Still, all of Attolia’s ladies-in-waiting are pretty analogous to the Vorkosigan armsmen and retainers, I think. Loyal, proud, protective of their masters’ vulnerabilities.

Cordelia...I guess has the most similarities to Kamet, though it’s not exactly a perfect parallel. Captain of a prestigious astrological exploration crew is surely not slavery, but Kamet was one of the most powerful and high-status slaves in the empire, while Cordelia in many ways considered herself a failure. In any case they’re both forced to leave their homes for places they’d vowed never to step foot in. And both fell in love in the course of journeys they hated!

Attolia and Eddis are still not much like Gregor, or any other male characters I can think of. Their positions as rulers and, in particular, female rulers in countries that don’t easily accept female power, are too central. Lady Donna could perhaps have been like Attolia if their circumstances had been at all similar, she has the ruthlessness and the vision.

Then there’s Sophos’s sisters Ina and Eurydice, who again we don’t see enough of, but the descriptions of their cleverness and mischief make me think of the Koudelka sisters. They probably would have been better at swordfighting than Sophos if they’d been allowed to join in the lessons.

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virginieboesus · 6 years

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My Top 7 Games That I Want To See On The PlayStation Classic

I’ve been putting this post off for a while since there were so many similar posts coming up at the same time. Plus, this list is absolutely going to be based on my own preferences. It won’t be built on what would sell the most or what would be most popular. This list probably won’t feature all of the games people will expect it to include either, so I’ve been a little worried that it would upset people.

However, I really want to make this list, so I am. The warnings have now been put in place, so here are the top 7 games that I want to see on the PlayStation Classic!

7. Silent Hill

We’ll start this list off with an absolute classic Survival Horror game that more than deserves to be brought back to life on the PlayStation Classic; Silent Hill. Whilst the Silent Hill series did take a huge downward turn after Team Silent disbanded, the first four games were all amazing and this was where it all started! For the time, Silent Hill was actually a really scary game that showcased just how good the PlayStation could be for horror games.

The developers put so much effort into it, creating a semi-open world that actually worked within the limitations of the PlayStation’s hardware. This was done using the fog that is not synonymous with the Silent Hill series. This game was groundbreaking and started one of the most successful Survival Horror franchises to date!

6. Parasite Eve

The next game on this list of games that I want to see on the PlayStation Classic is Parasite Eve. Made by Squaresoft, Parasite Eve attempted to merge the active time battle system from Final Fantasy with the radial targeting system of Vagrant Story, mixed into a Survival Horror type of setting and storyline. Oh, and it did it brilliantly! This “cinematic RPG” was truly unique but was sadly never released in Europe.

Whilst we did get Parasite Eve 2, the first game is such an iconic entry into the PlayStation’s library. Because of that, I really hope it gets included in the PlayStation Classic’s list of games. That way, those of us in Europe who haven’t imported it would finally be able to get their hands on it!

5. Koudelka

One game on this list that is well and truly here because of my own opinion of it is Koudelka. I simply adore this game so much and it really didn’t get the marketing push or publicity that it needed to be a success. The game is a great example of the experimentation that went into game development back in the PlayStation era. Mixing Survival Horror style gameplay with tactical RPG battles, Koudelka was such a different game than anything else coming out on the console.

The PlayStation Classic would be a great way to bring attention to this oft-forgotten game. And in my opinion, that is something that the PlayStation Classic should be used for. I know it won’t be, as they need to include games that will ensure it gets sold… But this is my list so I’m including Koudelka!

4. Resident Evil 2

Seeing as how I just said that Sony will be putting games on the PlayStation Classic that will make it sell, one of those games is definitely Resident Evil 2. But you know what? I would be very happy with that. Resident Evil 2 is still my favourite in the series. It opened up the tension so much, added in cinematic style storytelling and gave us the Lickers and Birkin! I mean, what’s not to like about that? And yes, I know that the remake is coming out just over a month after the release of PlayStation Classic. That probably means that it won’t be on the PlayStation Classic.

However, if they were going to feature a Resident Evil game on the PlayStation Classic, I would say they should go for the best one on the console. That absolutely has to be Resident Evil 2, in my opinion.

3. Ergheiz: God Bless The Ring

Next on the list is another game I am including because of personal taste. In fact, it’s the same for the last two on this list as well. Anyway, Final Fantasy VII is already included on the PlayStation Classic so why not go for the full FFVII fan adoration by including a 3D fighting game that includes characters from Final Fantasy VII? Well, that would be Ergheiz: God Bless The Ring. Whilst it isn’t a groundbreaking or particularly innovative fighting game, it’s incredibly fun!

There’s also a dungeon crawler RPG built into it as well that is both massively challenging but also really fun to try and work your way through. So not only do you get a great fighting game but you also get an RPG as well!

2. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete

On to the penultimate entry in this list of 7 games, I would like to see on the PlayStation Classic and we have Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. I’m such a huge fan of the Lunar games. The two PlayStation versions of the games are beyond outstanding, with hours upon hours of entertainment. However, they are also very hard to get hold of these days if you don’t already own them. This rarity is actually a real shame, as it means that many people will miss out on these great games.

Out of the two, Lunar 2 is probably my favourite. It just felt more grandiose, with a sprawling storyline and great characters. The game features humour, sadness, happiness and anger at different times in the storyline, all handled brilliantly. I would love to see Lunar 2 make an appearance on the PlayStation Classic, just so that more people could play it!

1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

And so we come to the final entry on this list, and yes, I know that Castlevania is being upscaled and released on the PlayStation 4 so we won’t be seeing it on the PlayStation Classic. However, if Sony wanted to include games that defined their wonderful console in the eyes of fans, this would be one of the top games on those lists! Castlevania: Symphony of the Night needs no introduction or explanation other than “it’s Castlevania: Symphony of the Night”.

As a Metroidvania game and the epitome of that genre on the PlayStation, this is one game that they really should include on the PlayStation Classic. It would actually feel like a disservice if it were not present!

And That’s All Folks

That was my list of the top 7 games I would like to see on the PlayStation Classic. Obviously, there are a whole host of other amazing games that I would include on the console… Way more than 20. There are just my top picks.

What games would you want to see on the PlayStation Classic, if you think about your own opinions and not what would be “best for business”? Let me know in the comments below.

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smartstartblogging · 6 years

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My Top 7 Games That I Want To See On The PlayStation Classic

However, I really want to make this list, so I am. The warnings have now been put in place, so here are the top 7 games that I want to see on the PlayStation Classic!

7. Silent Hill

6. Parasite Eve

5. Koudelka

4. Resident Evil 2

3. Ergheiz: God Bless The Ring

2. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete

1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

And That’s All Folks

What games would you want to see on the PlayStation Classic, if you think about your own opinions and not what would be “best for business”? Let me know in the comments below.

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shehungry · 7 years

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first things first, “everything’s closed on sundays.”

After filling your tote bags with cheap goods, plenty of cafes and brunch spots are fully alive on this ‘day of rest and relaxation.’ If a cafe is marked with a ✿, it means it’s open on Sundays!