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arsont-t · 7 months

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#bioshock #bioshock 2 #andrew ryan #frank fontaine #sander cohen #gilbert alexander #yi suchong #sofia lamb #augustus sinclair #dr steinman

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splicedm0th · 6 months

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Bugs when you lift up a rock

Obligatory bioshock fan redraw of the raptures best and brightests photo

#bioshock #sander cohen #andrew ryan #brigid tenenbaum #gilbert alexander #sophia lamb #yi suchong #bioshock 2 #bioshock fanart #fanart #digitalart #rapture #minervas den

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kluskinoodles · 29 days

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I kinda forgot to post this, my partner convinced me to do these guys

I tried to do it as canon accurately as possible so, I will stylize them later. Which mean now cause I’m on that brain rot

#bioshock #bioshock 2 #should I even tag all of them??#fort frolic #kyle fitzpatrick #hector rodriguez #silas cobb #sander cohen #martin finnegan #augustus sinclair #gilbert alexander #jack bioshock #andrew ryan #j.s. steinman #brigid tenenbaum #stanley poole

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turianhumanclient · 1 year

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What I know about the situation at Zaum Studio OÜ, developers of Disco Elysium

Perhaps you've heard of the deplorable situation of Disco Elysium's fired leads, of the oust by majority shareholder and CEO, of the lawsuits and rest of the cultural association and 'old guard' still at work there, quiet and held quiet by corporate policy and perhaps embittered by the 'auteur' theory holding parasocial public.

What I am going to share with you is information that is publicly available through Estonian and United Kingdom company registers. I haven't seen any news outlet feature this information yet.

WHAT IS NEW HERE?

Ilmar Kompus, the current CEO who was installed in 2020, had actually been a shareholder all along since Zaum Studio's founding in Estonia.

Kaur Kender, the author in his own right and producer at Zaum, has founded a lot of game development companies in Estonia and United Kingdom, while Zaum worked, published and updated Disco Elysium. These apparently went nowhere, some of them are now defunct. All of them had Ilmar Kompus or some ZAUM subsidiary as shareholders, and some also shared correspondence addresses with ZAUM's UK subsidiaries.

The 'game pitch' that cost Zaum 4,8 million euros and funded Kompus' acquisition of majority share from Linnamäe, the so called Pioneer One, has been previously reported by one gaming news outlet to have come via Anu Reiman's YESSIRNOSIR Limited. I have discovered that Kaur Kender held a game company in UK called Pioneer One Ltd that was active between years 2018-2022, and it had an Estonian artist Kristiina Ago as its secretary. I cannot prove that it was this entity that sold it instead, but it is a glaring coincidence nevertheless.

Kaur Kender and later Ilmar Kompus have founded a succession of ZAUM studios (Zaum London, Zaum UK, Disco Elysium UK and now Zaum Studio Limited) which have held the main development operations in UK. Kurvits and Rostov/Taal hold minority shares in Zaum UK. The later ones are all Ilmar Kompus-held in shares. I suspect this is a method of his to sever the fired leads' means of control to the company's branches in UK.

Both the 'main line' of Zaum's UK companies and Zaum Studio OÜ back in Estonia have loaned money to the tune of millions to Newelysium and Revachol in UK (Note, Revachol OÜ in Estonia is held by ZAUM cultural association members and is not a game studio)

What does it all mean then? I am not certain. I have not practical experience in game dev industry to say whether constantly making side companies or shells is a sign of a healthy leadership.

However looking at all the shell companies made near annually, and how the successive ‘main studios’ have consolidated into Kompus’ hands, I am going to speculate a bit. This has been a long con. Whether there was going to be a product that sold well or not, Kompus, Haavel and Kender were going be the ones collecting the jackpot. There were shell companies being established even as the game was floundering after the estonians’ walkout. All the ‘artists’ had to do was just do the work and not get in the way of money.

But then ZA/UM made an award-winning darling game of the year. TV show adaptation deals. Lead developers like Kurvits and Hindpere standing at the Game Awards Show spotlight. Audience eating up all that and latching onto whatever crumb and morsel might come next.

A clean exit sale out of a modest studio became impossible. Now there were developers in the studio who knew they were worth A LOT and with shareholders’ power both in Zaum Studio OÜ and Zaum UK Ltd to hamper any sale to Tencent, Amazon or Microsoft. Now we reach the part of “toxic misogynist auteurs trying to steal the IP for themselves.” who had to be let go.

Kender's lawsuit around the turn of 2022-2023 and divestiture of his Zaum Studio OÜ shares as result muddles the water for this speculated theory even more as he still holds directorship in a number of shell companies with Kompus back in UK. There is also Dark Maths Studios that he founded this April in UK, so it remains to be seen what he'll do and if its with Kompus and Haavel or alone.

#disco elysium #zaum #studio zaum #za/um #studio za/um #robert kurvits #robert kurvitz #alexander rostov #sander taal #helen hindpere #tonis haavel #tõnis haavel #kaur kender #ilmar kompus #püha ja õudne lõhn #terrible and sacred air #pjõl #pjol #aleksander rostov

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opabinia-fan · 9 months

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some obscure bioshock posts i made

#bioshock #bioshock 2 #stanley poole #sander cohen #andrew ryan #artistic liberties #gilbert alexander

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nynnph0 · 16 days

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favourite ship dynamics

i love rare pairs so much, but then theres nothing about them :((

all three are old(ofc) and were based off of the 4th pic which i saw on twitter back in july of last year btw

#gilbert alexander #yi suchong #brigid tenenbaum #rosalind lutece #sander cohen #js steinman #bioshock #bioshock 1 #bioshock infinite #bioshock fanart #fanart #meme fanart #im a huge multishipper when it comes to bioshock #i love all and every ships in the game #EXCEPT JATLAS/JACKTAINE I AM ITS NUMBER ONE HATER RAHHHHH #(and all the other problematic ships ofc)#ethans art!!!#she can draw!!!

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fashionbooksmilano · 3 months

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Nick Knight

Introduction by Charlotte Cotton

Designed by Paul Hetherington

Harper Collins, New York 2009, 264 pages, 27x32,5cm, ISBN 978-0-06-171 4573

euro 240,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

Nick Knight is among the world's most influential and visionary image makers. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is renowned for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with designers including Alexander McQueen, Comme des Garçons, and John Galliano. Advertising campaigns for clients such as Christian Dior, Yohji Yamamoto, Shiseido, Jil Sander, Swarovski, and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as award-winning editorials for W, Vogue, Dazed & Confused, Visionaire, and i-D magazines, among others, have kept Knight at the vanguard of progressive image making for the past three decades.

This incredible volume—with all images selected by Knight—is a midcareer retrospective of his work, from 1990 to the present day. With an introduction by Charlotte Cotton, curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the book includes work for major advertising campaigns for Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Levi Strauss, as well as numerous prestigious fashion publications. It features collaborative work with Björk, Michael Clark, Peter Saville, Gareth Pugh, Massive Attack, and Hussein Chalayan, photographs of the natural world, exquisite editorial images for Vogue, and models who defy fashion's stereotypes. It also includes examples of Knight's ground-breaking performance and film work on his Web site, SHOWstudio.com, the first to seriously consider how contemporary fashion photography would be shaped and expanded by the Internet—and is the contemporary reference point for many of the most innovative ideas and experiences of fashion today.

With more than 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, this volume is a landmark in both the genres of photography and fashion.

23/01/24

#Nick Knight #fashion photographer #Dior #Louis Vuitton #Comme des Garçons #John Galliano #Yohji Yamamoto #Alexander McQueen #Jil Sander #fashion books #very rare books #fashionbooksmilano

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bebemoon · 2 years

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what would @bebemoon wear~ ?

alexander mcqueen “irere” collection shredded silk gown, rtw s/s 2oo3

costume originally worn by margot fonteyn as juliet in the ballet “romeo and juliet”

jil sander rtw a/w 2o22 heels

coty “la rose” eau de parfum

efff (vintage shop) sheer chiffon off-the-shoulder gown

harlot hands “flight of the moth” necklace w/ shell, stainless steel and various soft metals

sororité vintage la perla silk-blend white sheer boned bra, antique cream lace full skirt and pear strand waist belt

marina bychkova’s “cinderella” bjd enchanted doll w/ cast sterling silver corset, shoes and hair ornaments, c. 2oo9 (in lieu of a bag or whatever, just carry an intricate porcelain bjd under your arm, right ?)

servalan from “blake’s 7″ wearing a shredded one-shoulder black gown w/ white pearl beaded bra-top