We made a short film inspired by our animation process in Unreal called YUKI'S DAYDREAM! Please let us know if you enjoy it and share with your friends!
Okay, I just saw another post on my dash about how Toph and Daredevil are great disability representation. Toph is great I don’t know anything about Daredevil except that they use echolocation? I don’t want to say they’re bad representation, but I’ve got a personal reason why I’d like to see more blind characters using canes.
My grandmother (who died earlier this year), was a badass blind woman. She started losing her vision due to macular degeneration in her teens, and was legally blind for her entire adult life. And for her entire adult life, she carried a long white cane.
Once, when my mom was in college, my grandmother’s plane came into the airport two hours late. On the drive home, my mom managed to extract some of the story from my grandma (who was never a complainer, and never had a mean word to say about anyone). Before taking off, the flight attendant had literally tried to take away my grandmother’s cane before the flight. When she refused, the flight attendant threatened to have her arrested. My grandmother had a long-established legal right to carry her cane on an airplane, but the airline didn’t care. They were happy to try to take away her mobility aid for their convenience.
(They didn’t succeed, and my grandmother walked off the plane with her cane in hand.)
That incident, and others like it, led my grandmother to make a decision - in my entire life, I never saw her carry a folding cane. Her cane was a single piece of fiberglass, five and a half feet long. It was a pain in the ass to get into a small car or a tight space, and that was the point. She was the sweetest person I’ve ever met, I’m not sure she got into a single argument during my lifetime, but goddamnit she was not going to let anyone forget that she was blind, and she was not going to let them take her cane away from her.
That’s something I really wish I saw more of in fiction. I want to see blind people who love their canes. I want to see blind people who are proud of their canes. I want to see people who have fought for the right to use a cane, and are fighting on behalf of all the people who don’t have a cane yet. Because that’s what the blind people I know in real life are like.
For me, it seems that many people are way more disappointed than they probably should be. Like, the fans, including me, who were part of the fnaf franchise since the very beginning, are just happy that the movie finally got released. Also, the movie plot is more or less rather adapted to the books; many especially "newer" fans didn't read those and only know the games. I think the visual effects and the location, also the animatronics, were just amazing. Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard also played their roles amazingly. Another great fact are the many little Easter eggs that are hidden throughout the movie; I think the best one is the outro one, which may lead to another movie in a few years. However, I think many people forget that Scott Cawthon is the director of the movie, so there can't be anything wrong with its storyline; like, let's be honest....in which part of the fnaf lore did anything always make a 100% sense? Scott Cawthon always gives us much space to play with theories and assume things about the lore. And I think that's just amazing. I loved the movie, and it felt amazing to have watched it.
So my previous post went to the void, it is ok, since I have already hesitated a lot to post here our next show at Kollab during the Lighthouse association exhibition '12Hz' at Mammut I.3th floor (yes a synthetic post-capitalist non-place called 'plaza'/meaning: shopping mall/ on next Friday, 02.23.2024. from 19:00 called ’GEN.X' with dance/performance, live electronic music and video-projection.
Tonight. 8pm EST. We have to go back. The promise has been made. We said we would go back to Redfall in the fall to see if it's good now. Is it good now??? Who knows. Find out tonight only on twitch.tv/gameslinetv your line for games.
an early RIP to Mozilla Hubs (long live future open source Mozilla Hubs)
while I'm glad it will be open-sourced, this feels like the end of a small but exciting era that started in 2020. anyone with a basic understanding of a game engine could set up a VR rave, accesible to people without high-end gaming systems.
projects by Datafruits.fm, the Algorave MX community, and Matthew D. Gantt inspired me to create an environment for the (even-shorter lived) Currents.fm, and to work more with 3D tools in general.
some of these other environments still live as liminal spaces, if you've got them bookmarked.
at some point I'd like to rebuild/remaster my own Outgoing Decent Area, either as a downloadable single-player project, or on an open source community instance
no idea when that will happen, but for now, you can still explore before the shutdown....
(Chrome required for correct audio playback - it was never a perfect VR platform)