'An Adventure Gallery' has two main functions: it provides me a digital place to showcase some of my own visual artworks alongside some of my favorite music on Spotify, and it also functions as a story telling device (in the style of a "Choose Your Own Adventure") where branching plots carry on from one choice to the next page.
An unintended side-effect of this is that I'm forced to reckon with HTML and CSS. So, perusing through the pages can prove interesting on a number of levels-- one of them being my fiendish attempts to take over your senses with styled animations and whatever other trickery I can manage wielding only CSS code.
It's a wild ride through the Abyss, but I encourage you to begin! :)
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
In Sig...
