So much good stuff....will have to take some time to go through it...
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I took the little clay pot from my purse. "Is this what you rejected?"
The ground began to tremble again. It seemed the whole Earth swayed. From the ranks of Hell came a monstrous ululation.
Klosterheim looked hard at it. "Aye. It's the same. And you've been deceived by the same trick, von Bek, as I told you."
"Then look upon it," I said. "Let all your forces look upon it. Look upon it!"
I hardly know why I spoke thus. I held the Grail up high. No shining came out of it. No music came out of it. No great event took place. It remained what it was: a small clay pot. Yet, here and there in the ranks of Hell, pairs of eyes became transfixed. They looked. And a certain sort of peace came upon the faces of those who looked.
"It is a Cure," I cried, following my instincts, "a Cure for your Pain. It is a Cure for your Despair. It is a Cure."
The poor damned wretches who had known nothing but fear throughout their existence, who had faced no future but one of terror or oblivion, began to crane to see the clay pot.Weapons were lowered. The gruntings and the gigglings ceased. Klosterheim was stunned. He made no protest as I moved towards his army.
"It is a Cure," I said again. "Look upon it. Look upon it."
They were falling to their knees. They were dismounting from their beasts. Even the most grotesque of them was transfixed by that clay pot. And still no special radiance came out of it. Still no miracle occurred, save the miracle of their salvation.
Agony, first-person survival horror full of overwrought straight-to-VHS bloody Boschian imagery with creature designs courtesy of a Guillermo Del Toro movie...but then…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxclFmAWc3Y
“In our wakeful awareness, most of us in the modern west quite automatically address the world with the questions ‘How does it work?’; ‘What caused it?’ But when we confront our dreams, such questions have no satisfying sense to them. Instead, we put a question of an entirely different order, one which our ancestors habitually asked of their experience as a whole, awake or dreaming. We ask, ‘What does it mean?’ For we at once recognize in our dreams a symbolic presence which makes what is before us other and more than it seems … [H]ere [in dreaming] is the dark mind thrusting forward a rival Reality Principle and, in the course of each night’s adventures, gaining our acquiescence. Psychiatry has learned to salvage this and that from the rich contents of the dreams. But until it integrates the dream as medium of experience into our lives, it has not reconciled the antagonism that divides the soul most radically, that between the contending realities of the waking and dark minds.”
Stranger Things is out? Nice. I'd been looking forward to that for a while. That one miniature they've been using in the trailers has always been my favourite design for Demogorgon. It's got a fugly kind of creepiness going for it that just it makes it work better for me than the hyena or mandrill heads, like a Showa era kaiju or an earlier illustration of a Lovecraftian horrors. There's something...personal about the sculpture.
It's always stuck with me. If this series solidifies that design in the public consciousness, then I'll be happy.
I found this beautiful animated gem as a randomly generated suggestion for my Youtube account. The Irish have always had a unique, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous relationship with death, so it comes as no surprise that this portrait of the psychopomp comes from artists from the Emerald Isle. Many of us never feel as if our time here is enough. What would you wish for more of in your last moments?
"Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all borders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.”
– Brian Froud
We’re excited to share this look at the map for Kij Johnson’s forthcoming Lovecraftian romp, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe—available August 16th from Tor.com Publishing! Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her. But the journey sends her across the Dreamlands and into her own mysterious past, where some secrets were never meant to surface…
Artist Serena Malyon was tapped to create the map of this strange world—one governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic, ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares. Below, Malyon outlines the map-making process, including early sketches and alternate color roughs before revealing the final, breath-taking version.
You can also read an excerpt from The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe at the B&N SciFi and Fantasy Blog.
In The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational, Rudolph Otto identifies and explores the non-rational mystery behind religion and the religious experience ("non-rational" should not be confused with "irrational"); he called this mystery, which is the basic element in all religions, the numinous. He uses the related word "numen" to refer to deity or God.
Forced, necessarily, to use familiar words, like "dread" and "majesty," Otto insists that he is using them in a special sense; to emphasize this fact, he sometimes uses Latin or Greek words for key concepts. This fact is crucial to understanding Otto. Our feeling of the numinous and responses to the numinous are not ordinary ones intensified; they are unique (I use this word in its original meaning of "one of a kind, the only one") or sui generis (meaning "in a class by itself"). For example, fear does not become dread in response to the numinous; rather, we cease to feel ordinary fear and move into an entirely different feeling, a dread that is aroused by intimations of the numinous or the actual experience of the numinous.
The word "absolute" is used in its metaphysical sense of "existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing" (OED); its adjectival form, "absolutely," is used with the same meaning. Finally, by "creature," Otto means a "being which has been created."
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. Example: the Chinese pictogram for ‘integrity’ is a two-part symbol of a man literally standing next to his word. So far, so good. But what does the Late English word ‘honesty’ mean? Or ‘Motherland’? Or ‘progress’? Or ‘democracy’? Or ‘beauty’? But even in our self-deception, we become gods.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Quote:
“Rage.
Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus’ son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die, sing of the rage that cost the Achaeans so many good men and sent so many vital, hearty souls down to the dreary House of Death. And while you’re at it, Muse, sing of the rage of the gods themselves, so petulant and so powerful here on their new Olympos, and of the rage of the post-humans, dead and gone though they might be, and of the rage of those few true humans left, self-absorbed and useless though they have become. While you are singing, O Muse, sing also of the rage of those thoughtful, sentient, serious but not-so-close-to-human beings out there dreaming under the ice of Europa, dying in the sulfur ash of Io, and being born in the cold folds of Ganymede.
Oh, and sing of me, O Muse, poor born-against-his-will Hockenberry, dead Thomas Hockenberry, Ph.D., Hockenbush to his friends, to friends long since turned to dust on a world long since left behind. Sing of my rage, yes, of my rage, O Muse, small and insignificant though that rage might be when measured against the anger of the immortal gods, or when compared to the wrath of the god-killer Achilles.
On second though, O Muse, sing nothing of me. I know you. I have been bound and servant to you, O Muse, you incomparable bitch. And I do not trust you, O Muse. Not one little bit.”
― Dan Simmons, Ilium
Quote:
“the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unselfconscious flow of little things – the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Quote:
“Entropy is a bitch,”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion
Quote:
“[A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures> Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas>]”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
What an irony that, when you have a vivid, funny, terrifying, elaborate dream, you dare not tell anyone for fear of boring them. But what if you could let someone else experience your dreams first-hand? The group of independent filmmakers behind this year’s collective:unconscious (not to be confused with the New York artist group of almost the same name) have put their waking heads together to come as close as possible to doing just that. Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker, Lauren Wolkstein, Frances Bodomo, and Lily Baldwin have created a portmanteau film by adapting one another’s dreams for the screen, which you can dream along with them by watching free on Vimeo.
“I remember back when I was a teen, watching Mulholland Drive for the first time in the theater,” writes collective:unconscious‘ producer Dan Schoenbrun in an essay on the making of the film at Indiewire. “I remember my mind being blown. I remember thinking, ‘Movies can do that?'” David Lynch has made his name with pictures, Mulholland Drive and others, that feel dreamlike in the richest, most haunting sense of the word. But rather than a set of Lynch homages, each of the five filmmakers contributing here come at the project of cinematizing the unconscious experience differently. Some may feel just like your own dreams; others may feel nothing like them....
After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
It is difficult even to choose the adjective
For this blank cold, this sadness without cause.
The great structure has become a minor house.
No turban walks across the lessened floors.
The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.
The chimney is fifty years old and slants to one side.
A fantastic effort has failed, a repetition
In a repetitiousness of men and flies.
Yet the absence of the imagination had
Itself to be imagined. The great pond,
The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves,
Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence
Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see,
The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this
Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge,
Required, as a necessity requires.
Following my discussion of surrealism, I wanted to continue to dig into "big" concepts that are key elements of the Invisible Sun setting. Today I want to explore a notion that has gone without a direct name in several recent interviews with Monte Cook: the concept of microcosm.
--
Mother
I reach for the dark
[...]
I go and I know, and I wait for you
Hold on and go on, 'cos I'll wait for you
Faster, faster, the leaves will fall
The sky will grey and my skin will dull
Hold on and go on, 'cos I'll wait for you
-- Grimes, Crystal Ball (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1ux7GiW_s)
Gamarna - Herr Mannelig
The scenes are from the movie Beowulf & Grendel with Gerard Butler (The most authentic Beowulf and Grendel movie I've seen so far, in regards of 6th century armor and clothing).
Here's a translation of Herr Mannelig:
Swedish
Bittida en morgon innan solen upprann
Innan foglarna började sjunga
Bergatrollet friade till fager ungersven
Hon hade en falskeliger tunga
Herr Mannelig herr Mannelig trolofven i mig
För det jag bjuder så gärna
I kunnen väl svara endast ja eller nej
Om I viljen eller ej:
Eder vill jag gifva de gångare tolf
Som gå uti rosendelunde
Aldrig har det varit någon sadel uppå dem
Ej heller betsel uti munnen
Eder vill jag gifva de qvarnarna tolf
Som stå mellan Tillö och Ternö
Stenarna de äro af rödaste gull
Och hjulen silfverbeslagna
Eder vill jag gifva ett förgyllande svärd
Som klingar utaf femton guldringar
Och strida huru I strida vill
Stridsplatsen skolen I väl vinna
Eder vill jag gifva en skjorta så ny
Den bästa I lysten att slita
Inte är hon sömnad av nål eller trå
Men virkat av silket det hvita
Sådana gåfvor toge jag väl emot
Om du vore en kristelig qvinna
Men nu så är du det värsta bergatroll
Af Neckens och djävulens stämma
Bergatrollet ut på dörren sprang
Hon rister och jämrar sig svåra
Hade jag fått den fager ungersven
Så hade jag mistat min plåga
Herr Mannelig herr Mannelig trolofven i mig
För det jag bjuder så gärna
I kunnen väl svara endast ja eller nej
Om I viljen eller ej:
English
Early one morning before the sun rose up
Before the birds began to sing
The mountain troll proposed to the handsome young man
She had a false tongue
Herr[Mr.] Mannelig, herr Mannelig, will you be betrothed to me?
For that, I offer you gifts very gladly
Surely you can answer but yes or no
If you wish to or not
To you I wish to give the twelve steeds
That go in the grove of roses
Never has there been any saddles upon them
Nor bridles in their mouths
To you I wish to give the twelve mills
That stand between Tillö and Ternö
The stones are made of the reddest gold
And the wheels are silver-laden
To you I wish to give a gilded sword
With a blade of fifteen gold rings
And battle how you will [well or badly]
The battle you would surely win
To you I wish to give a shirt so new
The best you will want to wear
It [literally: she] was not sewn by needle or thread
But crocheted of white silk
Such gifts I would surely accept
If thou wert a Christian [or: pious] woman
However, thou art the worst mountain troll
The spawn of a Neck (water spirit) and the Devil
The mountain troll ran out the door
She shakes and wails hard
Had I got the handsome young man
I would have got rid of my plight
Herr Mannelig, herr Mannelig, will you be betrothed to me?
For that, I offer you gifts very gladly
Surely you can answer but yes or no
If you wish to or not
Many medieval legends and myths of western europe supposed, that faeries, sprites, trolls etc. had no souls, as they were not human. But if a faery gained the love of a (pious) human and married her/him it would be given an immortal soul.
This theme is also repeated in Hans Christian Andersen’s „The little Mermaid“ (not the Disney version) and mentioned by the king in the Mummelsee in „Simplicius Simplicissimus”.
Thus the plight of the troll would be to live on without a soul and without hope of salvation in afterlife.
At the door to the House of Darkness
lies a pair of red coyotes with heads reversed.
Nayenezgani parts them with his dark stag
and comes in search of me.
With lightning behind him,
with lightning before him,
he comes in search of me,
with a rock crystal and a talking ketahn.
Beyond, at the corners by the door
of the House of Darkness,
lie two red btuejays with heads reversed.
With lightning behind him,
with lightning before him,
he parts them with his dark staff
and comes in search of me.
Farther, at the fire-pit of the Dark House,
tie two red hoot-owls with heads reversed.
He parts these with his stag
and comes in search of me,
with rock crystal and talking ketahn.
At the center of the Darkness House
where two red screech-owls lie with heads reversed,
Nayenezgani casts them aside
coming in search of me,
lightning behind him,
lightning before him.
Bearing a rock crystal and a talking ketahn,
he comes for me.
From the center of the earth he comes.
Farther...
Quote:
Things that flee and things that pursue
have their seasons.
Each of us hunts
and each of us is hunted.
We are all of us prey;
we are all predators.
Knowing this, the careful hunter
is wary. The prey, too, learns boldness
beyond its normal reach.
And then there is luck,
and then the gods.
The hunt is always uncertain.
We skinned the wolf
and in the morning
a human hide hung there.
At night, it became again
the pelt of a wolf.
There is no certainty,
there is no law
in the hunt.
Talking-god be with me.
Black-god be with me.
Luck and boldness
be with me, too.
"Top 10 secret libraries of all time"
https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jun/09/top-10-best-secret-libraries-of-all-time
Pete's Dragon Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kEv4MU17Q
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Voyage of Time Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVyWObJY9FQ
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FORBIDDEN EMPIRE Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5kUPGIGzI
...Been a while, huh? Well, another year, another Annecy.
Animation, as usual, by the students of Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image:
Phase M https://youtu.be/RYNGEIGGqSs
Nuit Blanche - A Night Away https://youtu.be/yg0yk76FX-g
#Ripaille (warning: nudity) https://youtu.be/3LSoAKJHkWA
The Trail (warning: violence) https://youtu.be/xzoSkd666FI
Hecate https://youtu.be/chOoA3Cz5eQ
Jack et le mystère de l'Orbe perdu https://youtu.be/3gF9-CTRP7k
Au Lapin Agile https://youtu.be/YW3b5npICD0
Dave Rapoza
(Guardinal/hound archon inspiration?)
Starveil comic https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313647
Steve Lichman comic https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313679
Unsung!
So much good stuff....will have to take some time to go through it...
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I took the little clay pot from my purse. "Is this what you rejected?"
The ground began to tremble again. It seemed the whole Earth swayed. From the ranks of Hell came a monstrous ululation.
Klosterheim looked hard at it. "Aye. It's the same. And you've been deceived by the same trick, von Bek, as I told you."
"Then look upon it," I said. "Let all your forces look upon it. Look upon it!"
I hardly know why I spoke thus. I held the Grail up high. No shining came out of it. No music came out of it. No great event took place. It remained what it was: a small clay pot. Yet, here and there in the ranks of Hell, pairs of eyes became transfixed. They looked. And a certain sort of peace came upon the faces of those who looked.
"It is a Cure," I cried, following my instincts, "a Cure for your Pain. It is a Cure for your Despair. It is a Cure."
The poor damned wretches who had known nothing but fear throughout their existence, who had faced no future but one of terror or oblivion, began to crane to see the clay pot.Weapons were lowered. The gruntings and the gigglings ceased. Klosterheim was stunned. He made no protest as I moved towards his army.
"It is a Cure," I said again. "Look upon it. Look upon it."
They were falling to their knees. They were dismounting from their beasts. Even the most grotesque of them was transfixed by that clay pot. And still no special radiance came out of it. Still no miracle occurred, save the miracle of their salvation.
-Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain
You think that's a lot? I've got, like, six pages to go through here. You guys have been busy, huh? Well, on this thread.
Scorn, surrealist Giger-esque first-person atmospheric horror game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvBo_rKleNw
Agony, first-person survival horror full of overwrought straight-to-VHS bloody Boschian imagery with creature designs courtesy of a Guillermo Del Toro movie...but then….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxclFmAWc3Y
We Happy Few-- just trust me when I say it probably belongs with the rest of this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izEDCqcG5SA
The Abyss - The Demonweb Pits
Crysis OST - Scavengers
Crysis OST - Prophet's Bridge
Maeldur et Kavurik - Theme
Halo OST - 117
Infinite Staircase
Delerium - Rise Above
The Vault of the Drow (Oerth)
Gladiator OST - The Might of Rome
Gladiator OST - Patricide
A Baatorian Opera:
Corvus Corax - Fortuna
And my favorite for today:
Ships of Chaos
Two Steps from Hell - Demon Rider
So awesome!!!!
Oh my gosh, that Lady of Pain is awesome! And he has a Pale Night, too!
Stunning, really impressive work by Paolo Giadonso!
Here is his page: https://paologiandoso.artstation.com/portfolio/her-serenity
This is some great art!
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By the way, if you're a D&D fan you should be watching Stranger Things on Netflix.
Think I mentioned it before but here's another trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EkMc79ZSU
Force of Will:
http://fowtcg.com/story/
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Shelley Trailer 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTc5RSuQkxQ
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League of the Gods trailer:
https://vimeo.com/171721297
“In our wakeful awareness, most of us in the modern west quite automatically address the world with the questions ‘How does it work?’; ‘What caused it?’ But when we confront our dreams, such questions have no satisfying sense to them. Instead, we put a question of an entirely different order, one which our ancestors habitually asked of their experience as a whole, awake or dreaming. We ask, ‘What does it mean?’ For we at once recognize in our dreams a symbolic presence which makes what is before us other and more than it seems … [H]ere [in dreaming] is the dark mind thrusting forward a rival Reality Principle and, in the course of each night’s adventures, gaining our acquiescence. Psychiatry has learned to salvage this and that from the rich contents of the dreams. But until it integrates the dream as medium of experience into our lives, it has not reconciled the antagonism that divides the soul most radically, that between the contending realities of the waking and dark minds.”
— Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends
Stranger Things is out? Nice. I'd been looking forward to that for a while. That one miniature they've been using in the trailers has always been my favourite design for Demogorgon. It's got a fugly kind of creepiness going for it that just it makes it work better for me than the hyena or mandrill heads, like a Showa era kaiju or an earlier illustration of a Lovecraftian horrors. There's something...personal about the sculpture.
It's always stuck with me. If this series solidifies that design in the public consciousness, then I'll be happy.
--
Lebensader, short film by Angela Steffen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjO-uwzo8BA
Rabbit, short film by Run Wrake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmdBLVEzgKI
The Elephant’s Garden, short film by Felix Colgrave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUR09yRHZU
Andy Timm: http://ptimm.deviantart.com/
Prey for the Gods - Official Reveal Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzDl2THyF4w
Prey for the Gods - Official Trailer #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5AGtu0oMUY
The Blacksmith, short film animated in Unity (a game engine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWAsayTFTo
Adam, ditto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXI0l3yqBrA
Argh, have to catch up on this stuff soon enough.
Dr. Strange Trailer #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzx-zryEgM
"This doesn't make any sense."
"Not everything has to."
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Wonder Woman Trailer:
https://youtu.be/5lGoQhFb4NM
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Legion Trailer:
https://youtu.be/Pep_HiCqYJA
American Gods Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyoXURn9oK0
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Usual caveat of not refuting/endorsing real world beliefs:
The Rifts of Art: Reclaiming Our Capacity to Be Affected by the Real
http://www.infiniteconversations.fm/episode/the-rifts-of-art/
Seemed one could make a faction/sect or religion based around some of this.
Ghost of a Tale Trailer:
https://youtu.be/9rfuK3u7_oc
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - Official Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbPTQIdjmY
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - "Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ8A5-ASz9c
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgQj7xcDJo
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - "History of Magic In North America"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBcKROEJgRQ
Coda by way of www.metapsychosis.com:
https://youtu.be/MkA3sLyEWdU
Great animation in Ghost of a Tale, and I just can’t help being a fan of Guy Ritchie.
Stromae - ta fête
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ublchJYzhao
C2C - Delta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbkF-15ObM
Omar Rayyan http://studiorayyan.com (I think he's probably shown up on these threads before...)
Ah the stuff I need to check out is piling up - but thanks for helping this thread alive guys, much appreciated!
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The Stargazer's Assistant - "Remoteness of Light"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Eqs7S34PQ
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Laniakea - Zone In Parallel Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGPQDnO8Vc
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JAMBINAI 잠비나이 - THEY KEEP SILENCE 그들은 말이 없다
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1k7CDVWVk
"Love is supposed to dignify & exalt us...how can it be love if all it does is make you lonely and corrupt?"
-Luther
"Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all borders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.”
– Brian Froud
Mapping the Dreamlands of Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
http://www.tor.com/2016/08/02/mapping-the-dreamlands-of-kij-johnsons-the-dream-quest-of-vellitt-boe/
2nd Update for Today:
Usual caveat of not endorsing/refuting real world beliefs:
Otto on the Numinous
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/numinous.html
Planescape: Torment Remix - 'The Gates of Sigil' by Scott Buckley
Torment: Tides Of Numenera OST - Mystery Of The Bloom
Torment: Tides Of Numenera OST - Into The Labyrinth
Torment: Tides Of Numenera OST - The Ascent
Good stuff!
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Rebirth Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lmzJ9g2BA
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THE MONKEY KING 2 Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uzTY7SiLSM
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPW5g12hWc
Path of Suns:
http://pathofsuns.com/
Short mini-stories for Monte Cook's new Invisible Sun rpg
American Horror Story Season 6 teasers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmwv58XBOs
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2nd Rogue One Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY
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Usual caveat of not endorsing/refuting real world beliefs:
Erik Davis. The Living World: Animism in the 21st Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf7dy3VcD4
Primitive Technology: Tiled Roof Hut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE
The whole channel might end up being helpful actually.
http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/watch-collectiveunconscious.html
Image Theatre Prague
Demo Somnolencia
Aspects of Alice
Invisible Sun
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/invisible-sun
Lunatique - TRAILER
https://vimeo.com/178188090
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Arrival Trailer #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g
After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
It is difficult even to choose the adjective
For this blank cold, this sadness without cause.
The great structure has become a minor house.
No turban walks across the lessened floors.
The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.
The chimney is fifty years old and slants to one side.
A fantastic effort has failed, a repetition
In a repetitiousness of men and flies.
Yet the absence of the imagination had
Itself to be imagined. The great pond,
The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves,
Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence
Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see,
The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this
Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge,
Required, as a necessity requires.
from Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens
Okhlos trailer:
https://youtu.be/Z1zlR10fVkw
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Weird, Strange, Surreal
http://strangeenc.blogspot.com/2016/08/weird-strange-surreal.html
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Top 30 Game Mastering Articles
http://www.gnomestew.com/top-30-game-mastering-articles/
Microcosm and Magic in Invisible Sun
http://strangeenc.blogspot.com/2016/08/microcosm-and-magic-in-invisible-sun.html
Invisible Sun, eh? Hmm.
Obduction (2016 game) trailer, by the makers of Myst and Riven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxspyVX_FqA
Uru - Ages Beyond Myst (2004 game) trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVcJ0gdSCM
Stuck In The Sound - Brother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J417T5crtm4
Gong - I Never Glid Before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiy5K81qvbg
Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
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Mother
I reach for the dark
[...]
I go and I know, and I wait for you
Hold on and go on, 'cos I'll wait for you
Faster, faster, the leaves will fall
The sky will grey and my skin will dull
Hold on and go on, 'cos I'll wait for you
-- Grimes, Crystal Ball (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1ux7GiW_s)
Grimes - Dream Fortress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3FPRaeW3Y
Grimes - Flesh Without Blood/Life In The Vivid Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9YoYCKNoE
Ah have to play catch up with this thread...
Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnkOpknGok&feature=youtu.be
AGONY Gameplay Trailer Survival Horror 2017 PS4/XBOX ONE/PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQhjizCGX0
(This one is pretty gruesome)
Gamarna - Herr Mannelig
The scenes are from the movie Beowulf & Grendel with Gerard Butler (The most authentic Beowulf and Grendel movie I've seen so far, in regards of 6th century armor and clothing).
Here's a translation of Herr Mannelig:
Swedish
Bittida en morgon innan solen upprann
Innan foglarna började sjunga
Bergatrollet friade till fager ungersven
Hon hade en falskeliger tunga
Herr Mannelig herr Mannelig trolofven i mig
För det jag bjuder så gärna
I kunnen väl svara endast ja eller nej
Om I viljen eller ej:
Eder vill jag gifva de gångare tolf
Som gå uti rosendelunde
Aldrig har det varit någon sadel uppå dem
Ej heller betsel uti munnen
Eder vill jag gifva de qvarnarna tolf
Som stå mellan Tillö och Ternö
Stenarna de äro af rödaste gull
Och hjulen silfverbeslagna
Eder vill jag gifva ett förgyllande svärd
Som klingar utaf femton guldringar
Och strida huru I strida vill
Stridsplatsen skolen I väl vinna
Eder vill jag gifva en skjorta så ny
Den bästa I lysten att slita
Inte är hon sömnad av nål eller trå
Men virkat av silket det hvita
Sådana gåfvor toge jag väl emot
Om du vore en kristelig qvinna
Men nu så är du det värsta bergatroll
Af Neckens och djävulens stämma
Bergatrollet ut på dörren sprang
Hon rister och jämrar sig svåra
Hade jag fått den fager ungersven
Så hade jag mistat min plåga
Herr Mannelig herr Mannelig trolofven i mig
För det jag bjuder så gärna
I kunnen väl svara endast ja eller nej
Om I viljen eller ej:
English
Early one morning before the sun rose up
Before the birds began to sing
The mountain troll proposed to the handsome young man
She had a false tongue
Herr[Mr.] Mannelig, herr Mannelig, will you be betrothed to me?
For that, I offer you gifts very gladly
Surely you can answer but yes or no
If you wish to or not
To you I wish to give the twelve steeds
That go in the grove of roses
Never has there been any saddles upon them
Nor bridles in their mouths
To you I wish to give the twelve mills
That stand between Tillö and Ternö
The stones are made of the reddest gold
And the wheels are silver-laden
To you I wish to give a gilded sword
With a blade of fifteen gold rings
And battle how you will [well or badly]
The battle you would surely win
To you I wish to give a shirt so new
The best you will want to wear
It [literally: she] was not sewn by needle or thread
But crocheted of white silk
Such gifts I would surely accept
If thou wert a Christian [or: pious] woman
However, thou art the worst mountain troll
The spawn of a Neck (water spirit) and the Devil
The mountain troll ran out the door
She shakes and wails hard
Had I got the handsome young man
I would have got rid of my plight
Herr Mannelig, herr Mannelig, will you be betrothed to me?
For that, I offer you gifts very gladly
Surely you can answer but yes or no
If you wish to or not
I'm curious what plight the troll would be rid of. Would she become human?
Yes, that’s the most common interpretation.
Many medieval legends and myths of western europe supposed, that faeries, sprites, trolls etc. had no souls, as they were not human. But if a faery gained the love of a (pious) human and married her/him it would be given an immortal soul.
This theme is also repeated in Hans Christian Andersen’s „The little Mermaid“ (not the Disney version) and mentioned by the king in the Mummelsee in „Simplicius Simplicissimus”.
Thus the plight of the troll would be to live on without a soul and without hope of salvation in afterlife.
Roger Zelazny - Eye of Cat
CGI Animated Short Film HD: "EXODE Short Film" by EXODE Team
SamC-Art on Deviantart.
Great stuff, need to catch up!
Muse of the wind
https://vimeo.com/180597212
Dustman and guvner?
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