Claire Hummel

I'm honestly boggled how you kept track of them all in the first place, it's so impressive!!

I can only speak for myself, but: omigod PLEASE do not stress about remaking 'em, I love the little guys I got and they were already such a steal 🖤🖤🖤

It's not caused by strenuous use, weirdly! The doctor was just like "so it's idiopathic, but people usually recover" which was: not hugely encouraging at the time

was psyched to be on a panel at @lightboxexpo.com and thennnnnn I partially paralyzed my right vocal cord! Hoo-ray

I'm on the mend (and I now have some rad videos of my vocal cords trying their darndest to make an E sound), but it does mean holding off on public speaking for the time being 😭💔

His stuff is so punchy in person, I'm so grateful I got to see it!

a Brett Allen Johnson from one of Maxwell Alexander's small art sales: pen & ink depicting a mineshaft cut into a hill.

I nabbed this little original of his a couple years back, his stuff is just so up my alley:

You might also want to check out Maynard Dixon's work from the beginning of the last century, very much the same school with those broad, chunky, stylized landscapes! ♥️

“Two Worlds” Oil 50” x 100”

“Glass Window” Oil 30” x 34”

"The Cutoff" 28"x30" Oil

Carved out some time to hit up the Brett Allen Johnson show on its last day at the Maxwell Alexander Gallery, hands down one of my favourite working artists:

god yes, I cannot count the number of times I've brought up this article in casual conversation

I'm not at Wasteland this year, alas!!

KELLY I’M SO BUMMED ABOUT RIKIYA

Seconding RJ, your technique always blows me away! The pieces are always so lovely in and of themselves, and it’s amazing how much you can elevate them even further as part of a whole. It looks SO so fun to do.

Ohohoho the ANCIENT TEXTS

time to whip out the ol’ laserdisc baybeeeee

omigod I'm so sorry you missed the wave of slutty Wattos

sometimes you gotta design and model a Linking Book-style e-reader, just for The Bit™

@gilespink.bsky.social kept insisting that we should make the panel match the tiiiiny proportions of the original Myst linking books, and he was correct:

the laugh halfway through gets me every time

I DO AS WELL

OH MAN I'll have to take a photo when I get back home, I've been saving them for 20 years or so! I still need to figure out a more permanent display solution 😅

Cohen look if there’s one word I’d use to describe Achenar and his atrocities

it is Rascal

DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT

Photo of my Myst notes in the included Myst journal, from 1993-1997.

You can see the ‘94-‘97 time jump in my Myst notes as well, where I proudly claim “I’m eleven!!” right as the handwriting gets a whole lot better

Photo of my Myst notes in the included Myst journal, from 1993-1997.

You can see the ‘94-‘97 time jump in my Myst notes as well, where I proudly claim “I’m eleven!!” right as the handwriting gets a whole lot better

It should come as no surprise that he works in the film/digital archival field, considering how obsessive he’s been with backing up files for the past 32 years. 😅♥️

Screenshot of OG Myst save files dating from 1994-97.

Amazingly, my dad just found our original save files for Myst—I love that you can tell I didn’t get to endgame until I was prepping to play Riven in 1997, and that dad named his endgame file “Syztem Reset” to keep @hummeline.bsky.social and I from accidentally opening it:

GODDAMN congrats you two!!! ♥️

goddamn that’s WILD

PHIL IT IS A GAME CHANGER

JUSTINNNNNNN congrats you two!! Gonna make the raddest parents 😭♥️

WHOOPS realized that that was supposed to say fan-subbed, but yes totally, I definitely feel like you could see it dissolve over time! She ended up being one of my favourites in the long run 😅

THANK YOU I COULD NOT REMEMBER