like dysphoria hitting in the moments outlook.com freezes. i love how the cursors really do distract my monkey-brain a bit from the alienating task (why is jonah mueller only getting 10% of what he’s owed for the accident??) and strange, melancholy friendship spilling out with a stranger. the jank you’ve made is the polar opposite of corporate shine, making the whole thing feel like caramelldansen’s stuck in my head during a microsoft teams call. love love love this
Honestly it’s like a chapter I forgot to write in. DLC about the boys watching this happen, unsure what they have to do with any of this and why the gays are so worked up
Stumbling through the ruin for the next bit of warmth, the camera zooming in the moment you look over the edge, your writing over each palette-morph sunset, I love this dearly.
This is so tender, and the video elements add a real sense of place to the apartment. Dysphoria as a third character rushing home to mess with them is clever too >.> Cleanly done!!
How on earth?? I can't wait to see what you cooked up in the unlocked deck- it's such much care/playfulness/whimsy (and worldbuilding? idk if that's the right phrase) in such a tight package. ILB grand slam also goes crazy
yet it always matters, especially if we live in those core countries with the most power and responsibility to stop this. it's why I/II/IV end on scenes of mass action.
sometimes i think about Palestinians painting a George Floyd mural on the West Bank separation wall in the height of June 2020. or about how Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "Beyond Vietnam" speech exactly a year before his assassination in Memphis. Trump himself was just 22 at the time, about to graduate from UPenn.
our fights link and echo, learning and building because we're up against the same foes and have no other choice. i can't know if they'll win our future but despair surrenders it entirely to authoritarians and warmongers, small men with big ideas about how the rest of us should live and die.
"the burning crosses fall to dust, the drones all fall into the sea, we bring the world our dead deserved a little closer as he flees"
This was great!! The tight layout and transitions go so well together too, you've made a few assets go a long way (reminds me a bit of Nosferatu's castle sequence)
thank you!! seeing PANOPTICON mid-development made me redo some of the graphics for this one, it's amazing. maybe Decker's harshness/half-nostalgia/accidental grime lends well to political writing about the 20's!
I went through this with a friend group last winter and you captured so much of it. The aftermath is fucking horrible and strange. Honest work like this makes it a bit less confusing. Thank you for making this.
this means the world, thank you- and fair point on the reclaiming! (i think i was pre-emptively blunting something that should confront the reader so i may patch that)
ahh thank you! i love the workflow of Decker, it encourages a great interplay between visuals and text snippets that's easier to write in than typical essays
