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The GOAT

frog

Final Fantasy VII, on the path to Mt Corel, you enter via a rocky path that leads to a beautiful sunset over the mountains. It's one of my favorite places in the game.

Sending you lots of love pal

CHRONO CROSS Squaresoft Playstation 1999

Chrono Cross ad (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #ChronoCross

orange leaves of a common serviceberry. its a close up photo and theres really nothing else to see, but the leaves are pleasant. enjoy them while you can because for four month its just gonna look like barren twigs shooting up from the earth

the orange leaves of the common serviceberry, theyre very nice but also theyve mostly fallen off since last week. they just get perfect and immediately disappear. its not fair to me, the consumer (of nature)

steel pipe

Masque of the Red Death skully behind a grandfather clock

Masque of the Red Death

#Art by Iren Horrors

Leon stands outside of Kendo's Gun Shop as enemies close in around him from off screen // Resident Evil 2 for Nintendo Gamecube, photography on CRT TV

A dark and solitary alley constrains on all sides. the light from above is trapped into dark shadows by the surrounding brick wall.

from an overhead view, Leon looks forward in a cramped room full of garbage

a close shot of the bars breaks up the street light that revels the graffiti on the walls

#crt #photography #horror

Happy birthday!!

Dude didn’t even try to hide it

James looks forlorn into the mirror. his eyes are recessed on shadow as if to hide away from his own perception. He takes a long look at himself before receding into the inky black darkness // Silent Hill 2 for Playstation 2, photography on CRT TV

#crt #photography #horror

3 years SIGNALIS! Thank you from rose-engine

SIGNALIS was released 3 years ago today.

It still feels like a dream that people still play,
discuss and create fanart of our game today ✨

Thank you for your support throughout the years!

Focken treece

Pyramid Head opening the front of the helmet with his hand in the apartments' closet scene.

Pyramid Head strangling James in their first fight. The front plate opens and lets out a black moving appendage.

Pyramid Head's front plate sliding open during the windup to impale Maria with the spear in the Lakeview Hotel.

Close up view of the dead Pyramid Heads after their final boss fight. The front plate of their helmets stays open after killing themselves, but nothing can be seen inside.

SH2 - Pyramid Head's helmet opens a handful of times in the game. He pries it open in the closet scene, then it slides open while strangling James (first boss fight) and when killing Maria (both times). He finally pries it open when he kills himself at the end of the game, and stays like that, dead.

Small clothes depicting “ears” and a “smiling mouth” hang down from the hands and head of a crucified figure. Also a pair of scissors and IV tubing exist behind the "smiling mouth" cloth.

From the Otherworld assets in a PS2 title Silent Hill 3 which I designed and modeled back then.

Nine Inch Nails "Art is Resistance" flyer, 2007. The Art is Resistance flyer, designed by 42 Entertainment with art direction by Trent Reznor and me, was plastered around cities to draw players of the NIN “Year Zero” ARG to real-world gatherings, secret meetings of “the resistance” in the Year Zero fiction, but also a very real mechanism to plant the seeds of real-world activism into a story about what the future might look like if more people didn’t “wake up and give a shit.” Unfortunately, the future turned out almost exactly like what we imagined in Year Zero, but the message - that art is resistance, and you have a voice - is more important than ever.

Question (u/tiktock34): What do you think is the most powerful combination of art and music today, given our political climate? Im thinking of movements similar to the "Art is Resistance" type of message. Lots of music and lots of artists but its clear you are passionate about the blend. Also, thanks for the years! Huge fan Rob Sheridan: I think about this a lot, and wonder what the role of art should be in this particular moment of resistance. It's weird to look back at the NIN Year Zero ARG and "Art is Resistance" campaign from 2007 and see that the future took the bad path anyway, almost eerily to a tee. Not that I expected an album to change the future or anything, but at the bleakest of times I couldn't help but second-guess if art did matter anymore in terms of actually affecting change; if I should have been more involved with organizing or with direct action, if we were deluding ourselves in thinking we were doing anything more than a cool art project. But then, year in and year out, again and again, right now included, fans tell me - more than any other project I ever worked on, by far - how much Year Zero meant to them, how much the Art is Resistance campaign inspired them, how it changed the way they viewed the intersection of music and politics. They show me the AiR flag tattoos, their numbers from the ARG, the friends they made through the process, the paths they took after - some even met their future spouses! And it reminds me that yeah, what we did mattered, because a lot of fans were radicalized by that experience to be more politically-aware and think more like activists, and a lot of artists were emboldened to speak out more. 1/3 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

These days artists/celebs are expected to have an opinion on everything and will even get called out for not speaking up on some things, but back in the early 2000s there was this real cynicism about music being "political." Bands would get so much backlash and told to "stick to music" if they voiced political opinions. I'm proud I helped NIN be one of the bands of the era to really break through that barrier on With Teeth and then demolish it completely on Year Zero, and help a lot of fans come around to how fundamentally intertwined art and politics have always been. And today? I don't think there's any right or wrong way to combine art / music with message, because I think just making art - any kind of art - is a crucial part of the resistance we need right now. At the core of the fascist project is the removal of intellectual and artistic freedoms, and that tells you all you need to know about how much art matters. Between the billionaire techbros & CEOs showing how much they revile creators by racing to gut their livelihoods, and the grotesquely ugly, unfunny, uncreative anti-aesthetics of the right-wing movement, a systemic disdain for the arts and sciences is stronger than it's ever been. In a moment like this, we all have to keep making human art and connecting around human art, whether it's aggressive music that calls the fuckers out directly or just cute drawings of cats that make people smile. I know artists who are making very direct and provocative protest art; speaking truth to power loudly and directly is important, but it's not everyone's lane and it's not the only way to use art right now. 2/3 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

I also know musicians who are just carrying on with their shows without really speaking out specifically, because they know how many vulnerable people are in their audiences going to their shows for strength and community, and they don't want to put additional targets on those peoples' backs. Protecting your community matters, too. For my own part, thinking about all of this over the past year was a big motivation in doing my art book right now. The feeling of not being sure who I should be or what I should say as an artist in this moment, how much it matters, and finding along the way that some of the art I was making that was really connecting with people and helping them, was art that wasn't literal with a specific message, it just honestly evoked the way I was feeling and the way I think a lot of people are feeling. The catharsis of feeling together, of knowing you're not alone in the way you feel, of seeing artists who matter to you also feeling the same thing; that gives strength, and strength is power. It's okay to check out to take care of yourself. And it's okay to find joy in music, art, movies, games, books, sports right now. I'd say it's crucial to find joy, more than ever. They're counting on you sacrificing joy, because then you lose hope, and then you lose the strength to fight back. Art is resistance, and joy is defiance. If your little drawing of a cat brought you or someone else some joy today, that matters. They want you to give up. Keep. Making. Art. Rob Sheridan, 16 Oct 2025 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊

hello, this comes out today. its maybe 30 minutes long and has a lot of behind the scenes type stuff.

big thanks to zane and the crew. i will probably carry this one with me when its all over.. one of the best things ive done.

5pm normal time.

sunlight bounces off the gently rolling water as the camera pans out into the horizon. text on the screen in plain white says 'I'll be here' // Final Fantasy 8 for Playstation, photography on CRT TV

#crt #photography #squaresoft

FINAL FANTASY VII - MIDGAR classic map layout! just the places you visit in the OG game, with some cheating. the game's route goes 1>8>7>4>5>6>7>0. full resolution: www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

a gunblade stored in a case, disassembled next to some ammunition. the whole image is in greyscale and the light is heavier on the reflective metal // Final Fantasy 8 for Playstation, photography on CRT TV

a series of overlapping belts adorn the waist of our unseen hero, his unzipped jacket shows a necklace dangling over his chest

#crt #photography #squaresoft

YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling SNEAK PEEK: "The Good, The Bad and the Hangman" Trailer | AEW Stories

new hangman propaganda film being disseminated this friday

(its actually very good and i am proud of it)

youtu.be/05Nter-UzF8?...

Steel pipe :)

Time for my quarterly bsky post if only to say that Sundays are for uncovering corruption and betrayal among the ruling class and the church (playing final fantasy tactics)

a little bee sippin n slurpin on some yellow goldenrod, thusly named because the blooms are golden, but also the bee is yellow, this is like alliteration but with colors

nothing says ‘its fall yall’ like bees buzzin around on your goldenrod while the strawberry bushes you planted nearby just absolutely fuck off right back into the waterlogged clay into which you placed them

vinegar blast

Digital illustration of a black cat in a big round pumpkin. The illustration has an fall themed border with plants, mushrooms and pumpkins

🍂 Is it spooky time yet?!

#cuteart #illustration

Knuckle tat ideas:
mych emro
3chr strv
thbl kprd
frnk iero
bull lets

it's such a great example of generic LLM speech, and how easy it is to see the patterns