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New Morrowind gallery

I opened up a new section in my main gallery for Morrowind screenshots. One of the albums in this gallery is dedicated to the adventures of Bastet in Vvardenfel , my main character since I started playing the game in 2002. Unfortunately, I started taking screenshots on a regular basis only late in the game. Hopefully, I will fill in…

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Modeling

A stimulating afternoon with my muse ended up with a little Modeling Experiment. Playing with real clay made me realise a few things : Physical artistic media are messy but it is precisely because they involve the senses of touch, sight and smell, that they are so much more powerful at stimulating creativty. I should to use more physical media.…

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Welcome to Vvardenfell

Where do I even begin talking about Morrowind ? How about with a shot from one of the very first scenes in the game ? From the moment you step out of the prison ship that brought you, an outlander, to the Land of the Dunmers, one thing is clear : this is way more than a simple game. The…

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Video Games Aesthetics

Here is a good article about the relationships between Realism and Style in video games. Videogame Aesthetics : We’re All Going to Die! provides numerous screenshots of old and new games that make an original use of graphics, and muses where all this is going.

Giant squids and more

This is not really what I had in mind when I said I was looking for better visual tools to make sense of world events 🙂 I got frustrated today by several news articles about the Gaint Squid recently photographed by Japanese scientists. Not one of these newsbites had either a picture to show, or even a link to a…

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Weekly news pictures

I came across BBC NEWS | In Pictures while looking for more images from the recent hurricanes in the south. This site features daily picturees, photo journals, special editions and archives for about a year’s worth. Still looking for more tools to make better sense of world events… 

Hurricane Katrina in Images

As with last year’s Tsunami in Indonesia, the devastation left behind by Katrina is difficult to grasp. Printed press and even news Media are too focused on the drama of unfolding events to provide a real sense of the scale of the devastation. You have to go on the web to get the idea. NASA’s Earth Observatory provides a remarkable…

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K.Jun and 97bzo

The amazing portraits and characters from kjun & 97bzo were featured on the cover of Expose 3 this year. This is a site to visit for a glimpse of the intricate details of their 3D models. Believe it or not, this is all 3D.