with the changing of the leaves
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yamamanamaI don't know if the original Sword Dream won't load saved games because of an issue with Sheepshaver or an issue with PPC compatability and it takes a really long time to even gain one level as far as I can tell, so I wasn't getting far.
So instead I played through a Marathon 1 total conversion called Trojan, which works pretty well aside from crashing if you try to overwrite a save file, and then I had a dream about waking up alone aboard an interstellar voyage. Not all the ship was of human design, and there was something odd about the curvature of the walls, the colors, the inset rainbow lights leading to my suite. The suite that I took over in the absence of everyone else was of human design, though, and the walls were black and reflective.
The level design in Trojan is mostly good, aside from Death of Drummand, which is essentially an entire level worth of Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap platform jumping, sometimes over lava. Not M∞ sized, thankfully. Someone who is not James Hastings-Trew and is most likely Borzz, said that James went for “they’re aliens and we have no clue what they’re thinking, so build whatever you want” and the other guy who may or may not be Borzz was like “we may not know what they’re thinking but we know what they’re doing and the design should reflect some sort of function.” Most of the time, I can say this about the alien ship levels in Trojan. Aside from jumping from a platform over glowing goop into teleport booths to get to the reactor room. Like, okay, the goop doesn't affect their biochemistry and the shipbuilders have superstitions about right angles, I can buy that.
If there are level credts for Tempus Irae aside from JHT writing his name on his maps, I can’t find them. I do know that everyone contributed at least one level.
Abby has a green opalescent pendant.
Sarah has a patch depicting UFO Kirby flying above a boreal forest with the message “I want to believe” and “my third wish has always been three more,” which is apparently a song lyric, and a patch with flowers. She studied graphic design.
Ellie is a poet.
I don't think I posted this. The colors are even more vivid and neon in real life.
Yoshitomo Nara - Your Dog
It’s six feet tall and weighs 600 pounds.
I thought that was the Balloon Dog artist. Apparently not.
On the train, I met a 5 month old Australian shepherd named Foster.
The gallery is split into five thematic sections: color field, imaginary beings, sculpture, material, and utopia.
In high school, I had a teacher who really liked colorfield. The ones I did aren't on a large scale.
Google doesn’t acknowledge Dancing With Rain and Fire’s existence. I may be confused about the title.
Speaking of titles, if I don't give a title, chances are the painting doesn't have one.
Frank Bowling - Suncrush - evokes the flag of Guyana, the tropical light and flora and climate.
Friedel Dzubas.
Jack Goldstein
Tillmans - Silver 180
This is a photograph.
Vivian Springford
Lucy Dodd, “Ié,” 2019, Atlantic sea water from Cape Cod, squid ink, Agua de Florida, Wakame, spirulina, chlorella, indigo, herb water, fish silver powder, peony petal water, lapis lazuli, malachite, cavasanite, mica, cochineal, phosphorescence, hematite, selenite, tulip petal water, daffodils, peony, tyrian purple, and pigment on canvas, 182 x 384 inches, 462.3 x 975.4 cm, LD977
The typeface the MFA uses makes the lowercase l and uppercase I look alike.
Sandi Sloan - Owl Light
She used a pushbroom to paint this.
Judith Linhares - Sphinx
Grey Cat with Madrone and Birch Trees
I know that I petted a cat last week. Either cats are not in fact mythological creatures or these artificial memories are getting out of hand.
Ceci... Ahem. I'm sure I could do better than this.
Ok, here we go.
Cecilia Vicuña - la vicuña
A vicuña is a wild alpaca. A guanaco is a wild llama. Neither are mythical creatures. I don't really have confirmation on this, after all, I can't even trust my memories about cats anymore. One part of it depicts her childhood, while one part of it depicts the Pinochet dictatorship and the oppression of indigenous people and the reality on the other side of the Andes.
Carol Rama - Perdonami le conguinzioni
A taxidermy eye embedded in a viscera of aerosol paint and glue, referencing napalm and its victims.
Georg Baselitz - Lazarus
He'd paint things upside down in order to distance himself from them.
Alice Neel - Doll and Apple
It contrasts the symbols of fertility with the artificial, lifeless, androgynous figure.
Campoli Presti - Objectifier I, slighty used.
Rosemarie Trockel
Monument for V. Tatlin
That photo is from 2014.
Tatlin’s Tower is a never-built 400 meter tall monument to the Russian Revolution and between the lack of steel after war and revolution and the conservatism of Stalinism and the housing shortages and the fact that it was only slightly more structurally sound than Taejin’s Tower, it was doomed from the start.
I got a sandwich with beef brisket, black beans, red onion and pickled jalapeño relish, on a bulkie roll.
I swear that every year the polar vortex arrives earlier and earier.
burning question: what do you think the last country to have an elected or appointed and not hereditary woman leader or co-leader will be? I say either the Vatican because tradition or North Korea because it has a fairly young president for life.
So instead I played through a Marathon 1 total conversion called Trojan, which works pretty well aside from crashing if you try to overwrite a save file, and then I had a dream about waking up alone aboard an interstellar voyage. Not all the ship was of human design, and there was something odd about the curvature of the walls, the colors, the inset rainbow lights leading to my suite. The suite that I took over in the absence of everyone else was of human design, though, and the walls were black and reflective.
The level design in Trojan is mostly good, aside from Death of Drummand, which is essentially an entire level worth of Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap platform jumping, sometimes over lava. Not M∞ sized, thankfully. Someone who is not James Hastings-Trew and is most likely Borzz, said that James went for “they’re aliens and we have no clue what they’re thinking, so build whatever you want” and the other guy who may or may not be Borzz was like “we may not know what they’re thinking but we know what they’re doing and the design should reflect some sort of function.” Most of the time, I can say this about the alien ship levels in Trojan. Aside from jumping from a platform over glowing goop into teleport booths to get to the reactor room. Like, okay, the goop doesn't affect their biochemistry and the shipbuilders have superstitions about right angles, I can buy that.
If there are level credts for Tempus Irae aside from JHT writing his name on his maps, I can’t find them. I do know that everyone contributed at least one level.
Abby has a green opalescent pendant.
Sarah has a patch depicting UFO Kirby flying above a boreal forest with the message “I want to believe” and “my third wish has always been three more,” which is apparently a song lyric, and a patch with flowers. She studied graphic design.
Ellie is a poet.
I don't think I posted this. The colors are even more vivid and neon in real life.
Yoshitomo Nara - Your Dog
It’s six feet tall and weighs 600 pounds.
I thought that was the Balloon Dog artist. Apparently not.
On the train, I met a 5 month old Australian shepherd named Foster.
The gallery is split into five thematic sections: color field, imaginary beings, sculpture, material, and utopia.
In high school, I had a teacher who really liked colorfield. The ones I did aren't on a large scale.
Google doesn’t acknowledge Dancing With Rain and Fire’s existence. I may be confused about the title.
Speaking of titles, if I don't give a title, chances are the painting doesn't have one.
Frank Bowling - Suncrush - evokes the flag of Guyana, the tropical light and flora and climate.
Friedel Dzubas.
Jack Goldstein
Tillmans - Silver 180
This is a photograph.
Vivian Springford
Lucy Dodd, “Ié,” 2019, Atlantic sea water from Cape Cod, squid ink, Agua de Florida, Wakame, spirulina, chlorella, indigo, herb water, fish silver powder, peony petal water, lapis lazuli, malachite, cavasanite, mica, cochineal, phosphorescence, hematite, selenite, tulip petal water, daffodils, peony, tyrian purple, and pigment on canvas, 182 x 384 inches, 462.3 x 975.4 cm, LD977
The typeface the MFA uses makes the lowercase l and uppercase I look alike.
Sandi Sloan - Owl Light
She used a pushbroom to paint this.
Judith Linhares - Sphinx
Grey Cat with Madrone and Birch Trees
I know that I petted a cat last week. Either cats are not in fact mythological creatures or these artificial memories are getting out of hand.
Ceci... Ahem. I'm sure I could do better than this.
Ok, here we go.
Cecilia Vicuña - la vicuña
A vicuña is a wild alpaca. A guanaco is a wild llama. Neither are mythical creatures. I don't really have confirmation on this, after all, I can't even trust my memories about cats anymore. One part of it depicts her childhood, while one part of it depicts the Pinochet dictatorship and the oppression of indigenous people and the reality on the other side of the Andes.
Carol Rama - Perdonami le conguinzioni
A taxidermy eye embedded in a viscera of aerosol paint and glue, referencing napalm and its victims.
Georg Baselitz - Lazarus
He'd paint things upside down in order to distance himself from them.
Alice Neel - Doll and Apple
It contrasts the symbols of fertility with the artificial, lifeless, androgynous figure.
Campoli Presti - Objectifier I, slighty used.
Rosemarie Trockel
Monument for V. Tatlin
That photo is from 2014.
Tatlin’s Tower is a never-built 400 meter tall monument to the Russian Revolution and between the lack of steel after war and revolution and the conservatism of Stalinism and the housing shortages and the fact that it was only slightly more structurally sound than Taejin’s Tower, it was doomed from the start.
I got a sandwich with beef brisket, black beans, red onion and pickled jalapeño relish, on a bulkie roll.
I swear that every year the polar vortex arrives earlier and earier.
burning question: what do you think the last country to have an elected or appointed and not hereditary woman leader or co-leader will be? I say either the Vatican because tradition or North Korea because it has a fairly young president for life.
