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Come Wander With Me - DEMO RELEASE

Just dropped a new demo for Come Wander With Me! A DLC-Sized Mod. This demo contains the prologue chapter. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/91638

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Forgot I had a Tumblr! Alright folks! Check it out. New quest mod for Fallout: New Vegas has just dropped!

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From Ashfall,

A location I have designed called Rock Village. (Name WIP and not final)

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Interior redsign for my mod, The Happy Place for Fallout: New Vegas.

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Images from the Ashfall Project. Test Firing a Howitzer.

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Final Project

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Photography Final Project - Proposal

The topic of my final project is the overall theme of Loneliness, Sense of Self, and Depression(Perhaps with hints of nostalgia thrown in). More often than naught, these three topics go hand in hand. My overall goal with this project is to express these themes visually through movement, lighting, and staging.

I'd like to acomplish this by simply using the following methods. The easist, and probably most expected method to use, will be the exclusive use of black and white photographs. Nothing sells the mood of dark and dismal han a black and white photo. (At least to me.) The major issue with this overall project of course, being that everyone might expirence the topics of my final differently, so I'll be mostly focusing through the perspective of one particular individual which will be portrayed by myself.

I want to create an enviroment that incorporates lighting in a way that makes it feel like it's strangling the subject in the photo, portraying an ersatz closturephobia. I want to take a lot of public photos for this project as well, getting peoples faces and movement into the shot. I want to portray movement as fast and blurry, like rushing water while focusing on myself in these images being in focus and sharp in the shot. I want the subject to feel completely isolated and alone even in a room full of people. Pulling these types of images off is going to be fun and will offer a rather unique challenge as I attempt to pull them off. Crowds of people can be confusing and may even cause anxiety or fear for some people. I feel that this technique of visual display may show that, if I'm able to pull this off to the fullest extent that I have planned.

To also add my signature touch of unnerving or uncanny immagery, I will not be showing anyones faces in the photographs. Instead, faces will be completely erased with only the blank flesh where a face would have been. This is to be done to express the lack of identity in the crowds, and to make them seem more nightmarish and terrifying. What's even more terrifying than crowds of people without any face or identity is to look in the mirror and to see nothing looking back.

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Come Wander with Me Cover Art

Which is better?

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Footage from my newest game.

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Early Screenshots of Robco Resort

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Photographer Research Post 8 A Look at the Work of Francesca Woodman.

"You cannot see me from where I look at myself"

-Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was a photographer most well known for photographing herself and other woman. They were black and white photos that often featured the subjects being naked, blurred, having obscured faces, or fading into the background as if to merge with it. There is a hint of sadness behind them as well, but that may only be bolstered by the fact that Woodman died at a very young age due to suicide. The suicide has been attributed to her inability to attract attention to her work and a failing relationship. It truely is a tradgedy.

What drew me to the work of this photographer is the sort of surreal nature of many of the photographs. A lot of them almost feel dreamlike and unantrual, and I really enjoy how the enviroment is played with in many of these pictures. These pictures are haunting with their nature and I think they have real staying power.

Her work is very conceptual. I feel a narrative forming in many of these pictures that almost comes off as melancholy and or tragic and I wonder if that speaks to the nature of the photographer herself.

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Photographer Research Post 7 A Look at the Work of Margaret Bourke-White

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

-Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke White is a well known photojournalist from America whose landmark effect on the world of photography and photojournalism was being the first female war correspondant and being the very first person from a foreign country to photograph and document soviet industry. She is also responsible for taking a photograph that was used as a cover for the very first issue of Life magazine.

During the 1930's, she was among the first photojournalists to be allowed to enter the soviet union to take photographs. There she would take photos of all the famous individuals of the country such as Jospeh Stalin, Karl Radek and many others. Her photos showed a mixed, yet overall positive view on the soviet union.

Later on, she would become the first female war correspondant during WWII, where she traveled to the Soviet Union after they broke their pact of non-agression with germany. She captured the german invasion of moscow on camera from the safety of the U.S embassy.

She would also go on to take photos for the Korean War in the following years for Life magazine and document the ensuing violence.

However, one of her most well known achievements was the documenting of the India–Pakistan partition violence. She is well known for documenting the violence that occured during the seperation of India and Pakistan. Pictured above is one of her most famous photographs of Mohandus Ghandi.

What attracted me to the work of this individual was the less of the fact that she was the first of something and therefore worth of merit, but the composition of a lot of the photographs that were taken. While a lot of the war pictures were interesting, I found the images taken of inudstry and the world of both america and the soviet union to of particular note. The image of the woman laying upon a gargoyle suspended several thousand feet above the ground was particularly stunning. The danger of the shot is what ultimately excites me, as well as how it shows the city down below. It's composition is just interesting is what I am trying to say.

The war photos, espeically the air raid over moscow, are more captivating due to the story behind the photo rather than the photo itself, I will admit that. It's still interesting to behold.

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Demntion - Theme Project

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Photographer Research Post 6 A Look at the Work of Walker Evans

"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."

Born in November of 1903, Walker Evans is a gothic photographer best known for his work documenting american life during the Great Depression. His overall goal as a photographer was to take photographs that be "literate, authoritative, transcendent". It's almsot as if, in his photos, we're getting a link to the past even though the picture was very much taken in the present. They feel very melancholic in nature, especially his most famous image posted below.

He had an eye for the american life, and his photographs really set a feel for the times they were taken. Although I will admit, quite a few of them have more than a melancholic feel, but also a creepy one.

This picture in particular, I like how everything is allinged.

OVerall though, what brought me to this photographer is the gothic nature of everything, and as I mentioned, the melencholic and creepy uncanny feeling that some of this pictures have. I really feel like I'm looking at something from a scary movie in some of these, even though I don't believe they were taken with the intention of being creepy. I find it kind of inspiring to take creepy photos in what would otherwise be ordinary everyday life.

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Photographer Research Post 5 A Look at the Work of Robert Davidson

"It was one of the most exciting times to be involved in the music scene. I have been taking photographs ever since."

While not as well known as many of the other photographers I've covered, Davidson was one to find early success in the industry and even retired at the age of 17. He became friends with a manager who managed several bands such as The Moody Blues,Procol Harum and The Move. Eventually becoming the offical photographer of the manager, he found himself taking photos famous names in the business at the time. This included such names as The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Frank Zappa. One of Davidsons most famous pictures is the one of Frank Zappa sitting on a hotel bathroom toilet,

Recently, he's come out of retirement and has returned to the world of photography. His focus has been less towards rock and roll as of late and more towards capturing the world around him,

I was initially pulled into this artists work because I had recognized the famous Frank Zappa Photograph, and found myself really interesed once I heard his story. I feel that a lot of the fame he recieved may have more so based on luck, but despite that I'm pleased to see how well he managed to succeeded. To do such work at a young age is more than commendable. I enjoy the drive to photograph the mundane but also provide a sort of interesting narrative to it. Although he doesn't really seem to have a style so much, as he takes photos from various ranges, I think they're still decent enough to warrent some merit.!

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Photographer Research Post 4 A Look at the Work of Ansel Adams.

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept"

-Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams is probably one of the most well known Photographers of all time. Even I've heard of the guy, and I generally know nothing about the world of Photography. Born in Febuary of 1902, Adams primarily focused on taking enviromentalist Black and White photographs of the landscape. Considered a purist in his work, he helped formed a group that advocated for the pure form of photography that favored "sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph." A lifelong advocate for enviromental conservation, his work was mostly revolving around activism and message spreading. His persistant work eventually inpsired the expansion of the national park system.

What interests me about this figure is what he was able to accomplish with his pictures. While I don't think they area as visually interesting as some of the other photographers that I've covered thus far, I will say that the overall compoistion of the images offers a very interesting angle on a lot of these locations.

I find this image particularly inviting as it really sets the tone for this beautiful place.