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Hi! Welcome to my website :3
!!!EPILESPY WARNING!!!
Let art be weird >:3
Mini-Blog
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Just watched the first bit of Fantastic Planet. I can see why this film's a cult classic for sure, but it's one of those things I'm gonna have to watch in small chunks, given the heavy subject matter.
So far, at least, definately would reccomend if you're a fan of animation and/or arthouse films, but know that it's dealing with some themes like anthropocentricism and animal cruelty in a pretty intense and challenging way.
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Been playing Metal Gear Solid 2 for the first time recently and holy shit i love it. I've played a lot of unhinged games before but this one's it's own thing entirely
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Y'know, ofc "punch a Nazi" is a valid statement, but rly i think the best solution is just making fascist expression an illegal hate crime
did ya just zeig heile? draw a swastika on something? said some nazi shit? You're edgelord furry hater joke caught exposed as a dog whistle? Ur going in the slammer, buddy.
ofc the American prison industrial complex also does need to be reformed but if the suggestion above happened first i wouldn't complain all that much lol
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Been super sick recently, idk with what. Been feeling dizzy and nauseus, not super fun
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Rest in pieces Mr. Kirk. You're eugenics-horny neo-natalist ass will not be missed lol
But all jokes aside, don't moralize about that guys death. He was a neo-nazi and the far-right doesn't give a shit about stopping politically motivated violence as evident by the *checks notes* racially-motivated genocide of Latin Americans going on in this country right now. MAGA is only moralizing about political violence bc they don't want someone to "do the thing" bc oh boy do Americans really want someone to do that thing I can't explicitly spell out for legal reasons. hey btw u have a Cheeto stain on ur face u should clean that off sorry unrelated to what i was talking about.
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The Garden is back up ;)
it has a little more going on now
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"Ghost Room"
Short Film, Surreal/Arthouse
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"Null Intentions"
Short Film, Psychological Horror
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"Normal Mall"
Short Film, Comedy/Surreal/Arthouse/Absurdist
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"The Donut That Makes You Sad", Short Film, Horror-Comedy/Absurdist
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Man I'm kinda sad this morning but like... not for any particularly reason? Just bc last night was kinda exhausting
Should probably start the day doing something fun and/or rewarding to feel better...
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Ekkochambers now has an intro page! The main page (this one ofc) is now https://ekkochambers.neocities.org/!-Main_Page
If you run into any technical isssues because of this, please let me know in the C-Box or email me at ianorianaspencer@gmail.com so I can fix it
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I try to keep the mentality of waking up every morning and saying "The universe has allowed me to live another day. God does not strike me down with lightening for my sinful lifestyle because He fears what I will do in vengence if He tries, and now I must, through my artistic expression, make the gloriously blasphemous universal anomoly of my non-deadness everyone else's problem. Put this on an inspirational poster". ~Me
Edit: !!!!IMPORTANT UPDATE WEBZINE!!!
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PSA: GenAI is NOT getting better. in fact, it's actually getting worse because of model collaspe. Don't be fooled, this technology is not inevitable, it's a fucking economic bubble that's pulsating like a pussfilled bubo that's ready to pop. Panicking about it "destroying art" is what these tech bro web3 shitheads WANT you to do because it gives their farcical juiced-up autocomplete models more legitimacy than they're worth. OpenAI has never turned a fucking profit and subsides entirely on imagined shareholder value. they lose money every time ppl use their shitty tech. don't believe the hype
just sharing this bc some artists still seem to think that this technology is an actual threat in an economic sense. much like replacing factory and service workers with physical robots, it's still cheaper to just hire real ppl bc in reality robots are fucking expensive bc they make crazy mistakes and are expensive to run and maintain, ChatGPT or Mid journey is no exception. Companies KEEP losing profits when they incorporate generative AI (which again, relies on train data made by humans to actually get better, something theyre out of) but slapping "AI" on smth rn makes you're stock prices shoot up like the moon bc bubble. tbh this is gonna be worse for tech workers, unfortunately, than creatives in the long run bc the tech industry is groveling for SOMETHING, bc they require infinite growth but the fucking smart phone has already been invented
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A heads up: I'm about to be doing some light reorganizing of the site. Not anything HUGE nor worthy of putting a big "Under Construction" up by any means, but i'm gonna be moving a couple things around, just wanted to let everybody know in case you refresh the page and it's a little different lol
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My latest short film, "Interview With The Horrible Little Man Who Lives Under The Sink"
you can ofc also find it on my videos page
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The videos page now has some links "video collection" pages, one for short films and one for music videos. This will be a way to organize them
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"Void Elevator", Short Film, Surreal Existential Comedy/Absurdist
also on the videos page ofc
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Hey, big news: I have a dedicated "videos" page here, filled with my weird little short films, music videos and probably at some point other stuff! It probably already has some stuff you might not have seen
If you like weird animated shorts (or even just my art and music) I'd recommend giving it a whirl. It's also on the left sidebar now!
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Another one of these
Wanted to try some more subtle acting with this weird lil guy
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Been listening to a lot of psychdelic rock recently. I think it'd be fun to make an album in that style at some point. Still need to upload that EDM album to bandcamp, though...
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A spooky one
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Another faux-claymation experiment
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a faux claymation test I did in blender. In terms of the movement, I think I nailed the claymation look, in no small part bc I used a process similiar to real claymation. The materials could use some work though, it could look more clay-like, and I did prep it for chroma keying (green screen, for those who didn't take film in highschool) quite poorly, there's green light bouncing right on the model (another material issue, the IOR was too high)
I like this little faux-clay guy as well, has tons of personality!
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been playing the first Silent Hill game, not exactly for the first time but im rly giving it a dedicated chance now, and god is this game good! You can definately see how a lot of the series traditions started in this one, I love the little ways it fucks with you and the weird cerebral nature of it all. Also rly graphically impressive for it's day, has a really cinematic quality to it as well. Rn i'm on the Elementary School in the Otherworld
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tbh i'm glad they didn't have video games in the 1950s. can you imagine if they're was a hays code for video games. "All pixelated communists must be killed for the game to progress" or some shit. queercoding in games would have been awful. the timeline could be worse.
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A new demo update for MTD, with major balancing tweaks and graphical updates
Get it on Itch.io HERE
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The second installment of my Ludum Dada series is out, a Pong clone with a quasi-gothic theme. You can play it on the browser HERE. You can also find it on the GAMES PAGE. Have fun play spooky pong!
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Art dump time! Some character drawings
EDIT: I also REALLY love the jackalope femboy character (from this first picture). He's got so much angsty personality, also plus-size femboys are super cute and often don't the apprication they deserve
And ofc the chubby goth bat enby (That's me my sona. hi!)
I wanna give Ekko a hug and maybe a cuddle, they'd be soft and they have built-in blanket on their back uwu
Ugh, sorry getting so mushy about my fursona, I just love them so much. Their so cute and cool i wanna be their best friend :P
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I have a new free browser game out: Ludum Dada: Freakout!
it's a breakout clone with a trippy artstyle. I've also update the Games Page
Have fun with it :3
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I've come close to beating Hylics twice already. It's still good the second time weirdly? The games all trippy vibes, it's very meditative
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Everything feels likes it's been falling apart recently. idk why this feeling feels new since the worlds kinda been fucky for awhile, but that's how my brain works ig
BTW: finished another Hellcaster page (dont wanna share it yet though and i've been hard at work on the script
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I've been working on Hellcaster a bit more, as well as Mixtape Delinquents! I've been in quite the rut for the past while, which realy started when I had that leg pain, which is gettin better now. It's quite nice to be creative again!
I'll have more info on the progress in just a little bit ;3
Buuut in the meantime, I've made a documentation of my 3D-to-2D process for Hellcaster on the Internet Archive, so chuck that out
Also a bit from the Hellcaster script:
(Yeah I know I spelled "too" wrong lol, im just realizing this now so there's smth I gotta fix)
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I just finished Hylics and holy shit was that whole game a vibe. So surreal, void of meaning yet anything but vapid, really proving style itself can be subtance in its own right. I would reccomend it if you like weird art and oldschool JRPGs. im pretty sure it's like 4$ bucks on steam, it's cheap, anyway. Took me 6.7 hours to beat but I did get lost a lot lol
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Marvel was rly like "yeah you know The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny? lets make it real" and everyone was just like "yeah ok" for a lil bit. wack.
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sry for any momentary issues with the sight, ive done some maintenance stuff to make it a bit better on various monitor sizes and slightly more usable mobile browsers
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Anti-villians are inherently goofy bc imagine if there was a political debate and a progressive candidate was actually like, "Well, class disparity, neoliberal economics and monopolies are the biggest problems facing young Americans."
Then everyone's like, "Alright awesome you're totally right. What's you're solution?" and he's like, "I'm glad you asked! I for one think working class Americans should have easy access to forbidden eldrict knowledge and blood of the Old Ones, so they may ascend into a faustian godhood. Once they complete this guided evolution into their new grotesque form, they will have a better chance at competeing this the ultra-wealthy." And everyone afterwords is like "I really liked presidential candidate Averoth Wormwood before he got into the weird Lovecraftian stuff. I liked his ideas about universal basic income, regulating corporations and universal healthcare but his transhumanist views were a tad too radical if you ask me."
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New Indie Shit I Like webzine! Read it here!
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sometimes i wonder why i got bones. so quaint.
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ART DUMP TIME :D
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I'm kinda psyched for the PPR gambling update bc look at this:
hey uh what the fuck is happening Ville?? This is gonna destroy my brain can't wait
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Hey, small lil update, but the "about me" section is now it's own dedicate page. I did this mainly to make it easier/more convenient for ppl to get to the miniblog, less scrolling now ;3
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Lowkey obsessed with this bass music producer solely bc everyone else in that scene names themselves shit like Rezz or Virtual Riot or whatever but she's like "hi y'all im Jessica Audiffred i make dubstep" truly the James Blake of her generation lol
in other news, typing HTML on my phone just now has not been fun TwT
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Sorry I haven't posted very much in awhile, I've been busy, tired and in a bad place :(
But I have been working on a bass music album! Here's one of the songs from it, named after this web hosting service :P
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I have a podcast now!
It's a meta-fictional music-comedy podcast styled after 2000s radio DJs. I play the character of Ekko Locria (my fursona) as they host a radio station in Saint Bedlam, Hell, which is a "long-running" show that has entertained Damned and Demons alike, but is "now available" to the world of the living.
The first episode - Side-A of the "two-sided" pilot - is a bit different than what's to come, as a running gag in this one is "technical" difficulties. (Mostly Ekko talking over the songs too much and a character called Meg interfereing. The poor bat's a little thrown off their groove, given the "bigger" audience and all ;)
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My leg's been getting a lot better. Turns out some of the more intense pain may have been psychosomatic. The cramp itself is also getting a lot better ofc, less and less lactic acid is in my system every day, so that's good.
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update on the leg thing: been doing stretching and other exercises which has been helping a lot
Currently have an awful pain in my leg. According to the doctor its probably lactic acid buildup in my joints, which tracks bc i have a history of that. There's a slim chance it could be smth more serious and im getting an X-ray for that just in case, but even the doctor said that seemed unlikely. not fun either way
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weird lil animation i did. kinda mundane but it's got a cool atmosphere
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hey y'all! You've likely already saw this on my sidebar to the right, but just in case you didn't, I have a new album out early on Bandcamp called bionicman
if you look to your right (of the computer screen lol) there's instructions on how you can get it for free, if you can snatch up a Bandcamp code from the linked PDF ;3
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noir buny
and a sloppy warmup sketch lol
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I've been playing Psycho Patrol R recently. Great game, definately takes "no handholding" to a comical extreme, but if that's you're thing, i'd definately reccomend it!
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I feel a little better today. The world feels a little less hopeless today, weirdly enough.
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Ngl i've been feeling like shit lately, emotionally. I live in the US and it feels like there's this storm going on, and i don't know if i'll see the end of it. Been thinking a lot about death recently.
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UPDATE: Here's that "I'm Back" webzine
Hey Y'all! I'M BACK! >:3
I'll make a webzine soon to show what I've been doing artistically! uwu
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Issue two of my fiction webzine is out now: VOID: A Cosmic Dramedy #2
You might wanna read the first one first though!
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AN ACTUAL UPDATE REAL QUICK: pretty soon I will not be updating this website for about seven or so days, because im going on ANOTHER vaction w/ my family (i know, i just got home y'all) and this one will be at a cabin with no wifi and very little cell service. Tbh im not rly excited for this one but the whole family is going and it'll be a good excuse to work on my MTD and/or Hellcaster for a lil bit, since I'll have my computer w/out any wifi or cell service. Plus ive been to these cabin before and they are very cozy :P
don't worry though! I'll be back after that :3
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I've written a new webzine about not staying silent and speaking out for what you believe in. I think it's a rly important message rn, you can read it here or under the "WEBZINES" tab ;3
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ART DUMP TIME! :3
Hope y'all enjoy some of these :3
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Hey y'all: V5 of the Mixtape Delinquents Alpha-demo is out. It's the beginning of me solidifying the game design of MTD in practice! You can get it here!
For those who don't know, Mixtape Delinquents is a WIP indie immersive sim RPG set in a retrofuturistic dystopia ruled by a corpotocracy known as the Syndicate, who have taken over the US government and World Wide Web alike. It's very much a cyberpunk satire of the state of tech and politics, and is rich in both Deus Ex-and-Creulty Squad-inspired imsim gameplay and story rich dialogue. We see a bit more of the latter in the V5, particularly in the beginning of the (very unfinished) mall level with Lance
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I need to take gamedev less seriously, y'all. Work on smaller, sillier projects. Some of my best work in the medium of game design (like Netherpunk and Eyestrain D.Z.M.) has been when i was just goofing around and having fun, then the games were fun
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Holy crap yall! Thank you for 1000 visits! Im so glad this slice of the internet ive made for myself has been viewed by ppl 1000 times :3
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!!!EMERGENCY VACATION UPDATE!!!
hort.
resume regular activities
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If you have a sec, you should read this webzine in particular: VOID: A Cosmic Dramedy #1: it's the first in a series im doing, and its a story ive wanted to tell for a long time. It's a slice-of-slice dramedy of sort, it'll probably be release mostly in short snippets, like one scene at a time, but it'll be a bit serialized rather than episodic rly
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Update on the last post: Just wanted to let everyone know that there's an Ekko shrine now! You can get to it in the "Zines, Shrine and Blogs" Tab on the left side bar, or just click here
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idk if i ever mentioned this on this website, but my sona character's (this guy) name is Ekko, hence the name of this site. They're a very chaotic, aggresively non-binary vampire bat, but i'll save the details for a shrine webzine :3
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There's this cozy little loft where I (and my siblings) will be sleeping, although my poor kid brother is heartbroken and currently weeping over the fact that i'll be sleeping on a cushion rather than one of the beds. I was gonna sleep on this cushion anyway but the poor kid feels guilty becuz he thinks it's his "fault" :(
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My family and I are staying at a lil cabin. I don't get out of the house very often so this is a refreshing change of scenery ^^
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Going on vacation today! My parents's house is in need of repair, so they're going to Orlando and they invited me to tag along! *maybe* i'll give some updates on how it went :P
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Genuinely, everyone should go listen to Echo Alexander, and not just because we're mutuals on bsky lol. They're making some of the more interesting music ive seen in recent years, they have a distinct and unique style but they span styles. Hella underrated imo
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In this little area, im gonna post short lil blog posts like this one, about whatever: Random thoughts, updates, how life's been or even reccomendations. Just whatever comes to mind :p (By the way, the gallery is now it's own dedicated page :3