Pixels at an Exhibition

Noir Futures

2010-09-16T14:59:00.000-07:00

John Alvin, 1982
[ Warner Brothers, The Ladd Company ]

~ BLADE RUNNER ~

The Code Monkeys, 1989
[ Access Software ]

~ MEAN STREETS ~

Infinite/Undefined

2010-05-05T03:24:00.000-07:00

Eurico Coelho, 1996-1998
[ Produções Outro Mundo ]

~ APEIRON ~

Clockwise Operetta

2010-03-29T11:26:00.000-07:00

Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák, 2010
[ Minority Records ]

~ MACHINARIUM SOUNDTRACK
LP LIMITED EDITION ~

Jakub Dvorksy, 2009
[ Amanita Design ]

~ MACHINARIUM COLLECTOR'S EDITION ~

From Abstract to Concise

2010-02-27T04:03:00.001-08:00

Haruhiko Shono, 2009
[ Will o the Wisp ]

~ COMPUTER GRAPHIC STUDIES ~

We were young and wild and free

2010-01-08T18:18:00.000-08:00

Kazu Ayabe, Ueda Mineko, Kusanagi et al, 2005
[ Millenium Kitchen / Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ぼくらのかぞく ~
Bokura no Kazoku
(My Family Growing Up in the 21st Century)

There is a pleasure in the Pathless woods

2009-12-29T13:51:00.000-08:00

Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn, 2009
[ Tale of T ales | TopWare ]

~ THE PATH - COLLECTOR'S EDITION ~
please click for larger views

Playtime

2009-11-18T15:16:00.000-08:00

Dan Yaccarino & CWC, 1998
[ Sony Computer Entertainment]

~ XI PRE-RELEASE BOOKLET ~
please click for larger views

~ BOOKLET PAGES ~
please click for larger views in new window

The Big Sleep

2009-10-17T12:40:00.000-07:00

Jakub Dvorský, 2007
[ Amanita Design ]

~ SAMOROST 2 ~
please click for larger views

Jakub Dvorský, 2009
[ Amanita Design ]

~ MACHINARIUM ~
please click for larger views

Pastoral

2009-09-17T01:51:00.000-07:00

Kazu Ayabe, Ueda Mineko, Kusanagi et al, 2007
[ Millenium Kitchen / Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ぼくのなつやすみ3
北国編- 小さなボクの大草原 ~
Boku No Natsuyasumi 3 (My Summer Holiday)

Unreleased Haruhiko Shono Film Projects

2009-09-16T02:11:00.000-07:00

Haruhiko Shono, 2000-2003
[ Unreleased/Unpublished ]

~ JIGOKU NO KISETSU ~
Pilot movie for occult thriller film

~ VLF ~
Pilot movie for science fiction film

Random pages

2009-09-10T15:53:00.000-07:00

Hiroto Nishikawa, Osamu Sato
& Satoshi Ashibe, 1998
[ Media Factory, Outside Director's Company ]

~ ラブリー・スイート・ドリーム ~
please click for larger views

Gymnopédie

2009-09-06T16:07:00.000-07:00

Kazu Ayabe, Ueda Mineko, Kusanagi et al, 2002
[ Millenium Kitchen / Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ぼくのなつやすみ 2 海の冒険篇 ~
Boku No Natsuyasumi 2 (My Summer Holiday)

Automated dystopia

2009-09-04T04:40:00.000-07:00

Jakub Dvorský & Adolf Lachman, 2009

[ Amanita Design ]

~ MACHINARIUM ARTWORK & SKETCHES ~
please click for larger views

I'm a dancer. A dancer dances.

2009-08-29T14:06:00.001-07:00

Takayoshi Sato, 2009
[ Tale of Tales ]

~ FATALE ~
Artwork for Salomé

FYI - CoreGamers Blog Structure

2009-08-28T05:54:00.001-07:00

Bucolic

2009-08-15T06:11:00.000-07:00

Kazu Ayabe, Ueda Mineko, Kusanagi et al, 2000
[ Millenium Kitchen / Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ぼくのなつやすみ ~
Boku No Natsuyasumi (My Summer Holiday)

Dragonslayers

2009-08-02T16:34:00.000-07:00

Yuji Hoori, Akira Toriyama et al, 1986

[ Chunsoft / Enix Corporation ]

~ COVER ART ~

Yutaka Hirata & Yoshihisa Shimizu, 1991
[ Westone Co. Ltd / SEGA ]

~ TITLE SCREEN ~

Five damned souls

2009-07-25T18:48:00.000-07:00

Harlan Ellison, David Mullich & David Sears, 1995
[ CyberDreams / The Dreamer's Guild / Acclaim Entertainment ]

~ I HAVE NO MOUTH,
AND I MUST SCREAM ~
select external link for original video size

AM Computer voice by Harlan Ellison

Xplora 1 Peter Gabriel's Secret World

2009-07-22T04:54:00.000-07:00

Real World Multimedia, 1993

[ RealWorld ]

~ GAME COVER & CD ART ~
please click for larger views

~ ARTBOOK ~
please click for larger views

~ QUOTES ~

We wanted to pack it full of ideas. There's over 100 minutes of video, 30 minutes of audio, more than a book's worth of text and over 100 still images, so there's lots of stuff to play around with and get lost in. Besides giving you the chance to get inside the music and videos and start playing with the material yourself, we think that the interactive pieces should be a lot of fun, so we have devised a few surprises that we hope will lead you on some interesting journeys.

- Peter Gabriel

I live in the gut

2009-07-21T13:47:00.000-07:00

Brad Anderson, 2001
[ USA Films ]

~ SESSION 9 ~

Kazuhide Nakazawa, 2003
[ Team Silent / Konami ]

~ SILENT HILL 3 ~

The fascinating matrix of Heian imagination

2009-07-19T20:14:00.000-07:00

Komatsu Kazuhiko, 1995
[ SoftEdge / Yano Electric ]

~ ACADEMIC ADVENTURE SERIES VOL. 1
COSMOLOGY OF KYOTO:
VISUAL MINDSCAPE OF OLD JAPAN ~
video in original size

From Barcelona to Santiago

2009-06-15T10:10:00.000-07:00

Andres Bordeu, Carlos Bordeu & Edmundo Bordeu, 2009
[ ACE Team / Valve Corporation ]
&
Antoni Gaudí, 1852-1926

~ PATTERNS, VOLUMES & COLORS ~

Eerie Luminscence

2009-06-13T14:35:00.000-07:00

Haruhiko Shono, 1995
[ Odyssey Production / Image Entertainment / Will O'the Wisp ]

~ GADGET TRIPS - MINDSCAPES ~
please click for larger views

~ DVD EXCERPT ~
Chapter 9 : Flashing Faces

Comic Interlude

2009-06-13T04:06:00.000-07:00

David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker, 1980, 82, 84
[ Paramount Pictures]

~ VIDEOGAMES IN ZAZ MOVIES ~
please click to play the video

The Second Coming

2009-05-06T08:33:00.000-07:00

Gerrie Villon, Alex Mayhew et Dan Blore, 1997
[ Real World Multimedia ]

~ CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE ~

~ AWARDS ~

- Winner, Europrix Overall Winner -
Europrix Multimedia Awards, 1998

- Winner, Best Moving Image & Best Sound -
BAFTA Awards 1998

Roboterliebe

2009-04-16T14:26:00.000-07:00

Kenichi Nishi & Ryuichi Sakamoto, 2000
[ Love.de.Lic / ASCII Entertainment ]

~ LACK OF LOVE ~

To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream

2009-04-03T04:33:00.000-07:00

Arnold Böcklin, 1883

~ DIE TOTENINSEL ~

Fumito Ueda & Kenji Kaido, circa 2001
[ Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ICO ~
game manual concept art

The flower in ripen'd bloom unmatch'd

2009-03-03T04:44:00.000-08:00

Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen et al., 2009
[ Thatgamecompany, Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ FLOWER ~

Dear Kellee,

I have just finished playing Flower and I would like to say that the game has exceeded all the expectations I created for the last year or so, ever since our interview. Quite often did I wonder how those abstract concepts would translate into an interactive experience. The more I think of it, the more it feels like I just had a vivid dream.

Players like me live their entire lives waiting for games like this to come out and... you did it. I'm at a loss for words. I saw colors I never knew existed; I was surrounded by a beauty I didn’t think possible inside a virtual environment; every now and then… I felt genuinely moved.

Also, it feels great to finally understand the reason for the visual aid “Flow-Flower” on the initial presentation trailer.

Thank you Kellee. Extend my thanks to Jenova Chen and to all the brilliant team members from thatgamecompany. This your audiovisual and interactive poem has brought me and, I believe, so many others the joy and strength to keep believing in the videogame medium.

Warmest regards,
Bruno de Figueiredo @ CoreGamers

28/02/ 2009

The dark forest of womanhood

2009-02-19T01:45:00.000-08:00

Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn, 2009
[ Tale of Tales ]

~ THE PATH ~

Knight-errant

2009-02-01T02:50:00.000-08:00

Rare, Ltd, 1987

[ Acclaim ]

~ WIZARDS & WARRIORS ~
Nintendo Entertainment System

From Software, 2009
[ Sony Computer Entertainment Japan ]

~ DEMON'S SOULS ~
Playstation 3

Art, Inspired by - III

2009-01-30T14:50:00.000-08:00

Masahiro Ito, 2001
[ Konami / Team Silent ]

~ THE MANNEQUIN ~

Hans Bellmer, 1902 - 1975

~ LA POUPÉE ~

Art, Inspired by - II

2009-01-29T12:58:00.000-08:00

Steven Lisberger, 1982
[ Walt Disney Pictures / Lisberger-Kushner Production ]

~ TRON ~

Frontispiece Art I

2009-01-28T12:51:00.000-08:00

Roger Dean, 1989

[ Psygnosis / Reflections ]

~ SHADOW OF THE BEAST ~

Paper Moon's Pop Surrealism Alliterations

2009-01-17T15:09:00.001-08:00

Theresa Duncan, 1966-2007 (?)

~ CHOP SUEY ~
Magnet Interactive, 1998

In a place where time stands still

2009-01-14T05:19:00.000-08:00

Oleg Kozhukhov, 1998

[ Amber Company / Exortus Inc. ]

~ Лиат: Спираль мира ~
Worldspiral: Liath

Intertextuality

2009-01-04T10:38:00.000-08:00

SEGA, 1986

[ SEGA ]

~ QUARTET ~

Akiman, Akira Nishitani, Noritaka Funamizu, Kihaji Okamoto, 1988

[ CAPCOM ]

~ LOST WORLDS ~

Natsume, 2008

[ Hudson Entertainment ]

~ OMEGA FIVE ~

Sensorama

2008-12-30T11:40:00.000-08:00

Haruhiko Shono, 1960 -

~GADGET: INVENTION, TRAVEL & ADVENTURE ~
Introduction Sequence (1993)

~GADGET: PAST AS FUTURE ~
Introduction Sequence (1997)

Annabel Lee, by William S. Burroughs

2008-12-28T06:38:00.000-08:00

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849

~ THE DARK EYE ~
Russ Lees / Inscape - 1995

Visions of Iblard

2008-12-22T14:43:00.000-08:00

Naohisa Inoue, 1958 -

~ VISIONS OF IBLARD CD-ROM ~
Art Space (2003)

~ SELECTED PAINTINGS ~
please click for larger views in new window

~ View on a Clear Day ~

~ That which was covered ~

~ The Gardening Star ~

~ Highland View (Floating Stone on Great Wall) ~

~ Palace on the Lake ~

~ Store with a Sky ~

~ A Garden in the City ~

~ Firework-Master in the Field ~

Global Thermonuclear War

2008-12-16T17:31:00.000-08:00

John Badham, 1983

~ WARGAMES ~
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Chris Delay & Gary Chambers, 2007

~ DEFCON ~
Introversion Software

Nanatsu Kaze No Shima MonogatariImage Gallery Part 1

2008-12-05T17:09:00.000-08:00

Givro, Crowd, Buddy Zoo, Two-Five, 1997
[ ENIX ]

~七ツ風の島物語 ~
Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari

Launch Website

Of swift horses and roaring earths...

2008-11-17T01:52:00.000-08:00

Being a young game, SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS still has a long way to go. Because of this, I believe many other games will follow it (...). The depth of the impact that a game generates is measured by the amount of subsequent games inspired by it – now which other games will follow its footsteps, or merely make use of its qualities, we are still to learn. (...) that they’ll eventually do so is imperative and inevitable.

(by the blog's author) in Antagonism and Continuity, 2006

A love suicide

2008-11-09T15:12:00.000-08:00

SHIROGUMI, INC, 2006

[ Punchline ]

~ ル–ルオフロ–ス ~
RULE OF ROSE (2006, Playstation 2)

Direct video conversion (no recording)

~ MOVIE STILLS ~

Reutersvärd, au contraire

2008-11-04T05:31:00.000-08:00

Oscar Reutersvärd, 1934

~ THE PENROSE TRIANGLE ~

Jun Fujiki, Tatsuya Suzuki, 2008
[ Sony Computer Entertainment]

~ 無限回廊 ~
ECHOCHROME

絶体絶命都市2 (Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 2) Guidebook

2008-10-29T14:56:00.000-07:00

IREM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, INC
Maki D. & Kazuma Kujyo, 2006
[ Enterbrain]

~ BOOK IMPRESSIONS ~
please click for larger views in new window

絶体絶命都市(Zettai Zetsumei Toshi)Guidebook

2008-10-28T04:39:00.000-07:00

IREM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, INC
Maki D. & Kazuma Kujyo, 2002
[ Enterbrain]

~ BOOK IMPRESSIONS ~
please click for larger views in new window

Ōkami Official Complete Works

2008-10-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

ŌKAMI OFFICIAL COMPLETE WORKS, 2007

[UDON Entertainment]

~ BOOK IMPRESSIONS ~
please click for detailed views

Gynoid

2008-10-10T11:18:00.000-07:00

dieubussy 2008

Peter Gabriel's EVE

2008-10-10T09:56:00.000-07:00

Peter Gabriel's EVE, 1997

[ Realworld ]

~ GAME COVER & CD ART ~
please click for detailed views

~ ARTBOOK ~
please click for detailed views

Artbook credits

editor: MARTHA LAVLY

art direction: MICHAEL COULSON

graphic design: ANNA-KARIN SUNDIN

writers: JANE CORNWELL & CHRIS DARKE

photography: STEPHEN LOWELL-DAVIS

additional photography: ANNA GABRIEL,
TRISTAN MANCO/ANNA-KARIN SUNDIN & YORK TYLLIER

cover photo: Cacao (1994) by HELEN CHADWICK

featured artists: YAYOI KUSAMA, HELEN CHADWICK
CATHY DE MONCHAUX & NILS UDO

~ AWARDS ~

- Winner, 1997 Grand Prix Milia d'Or -
Cannes Milia Festival

Art, inspired by

2008-10-02T10:33:00.000-07:00

Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849

~ 神奈川沖浪裏 ~
The Great Wave off Kanagawa(1832)

Vanillaware, 2002-

~ 朧村正妖刀伝 ~
Oboro Muramasa Yōtōden (2008, Wii)

INSIDE OUT WITH GADGET AN ARTBOOK FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

2008-10-01T15:26:00.000-07:00

Haruhiko Shono, circa 1995
[ Fireside / Simon and Schuster, New York ]

~ BOOK IMPRESSIONS ~
please click for detailed views

~ PICTURE SCANS ~
please click for detailed views

~CRITICAL PRAISE ~

" A Masterpiece. " - Newsweek

" Riveting and spooky " - Wired

" A mix of Dennis Potter, Alfred Hitchcock and the dream sequence in Twin Peaks...hauntingly rendered...thelookd-and-feel is awesome " - Steve Levy, MacWorld

" Compelling graphics...a fantastic ride in a future where art deco meets Jules Verne...a compelling world worth discovering" - Louis M. Brill, CD-ROM World

~ INSPIRED ~

The gallery is open!

2008-10-01T14:22:00.001-07:00

Pixels at an Exhibition is an audiovisual blog that will be hosting videogame pictures and videos, as a part of the CoreGamers / CoreGaming: Dieubussy group of web contents. Because it is aimed for a larger audience, the brief descriptions will be entirely written in English. Words, however, will play a supporting role: static or dynamic pixels are bound to protagonize.

All the pictures, stills, photographs and videos will be of my own authorship and labeled with the CoreGamers watermark. I hope you enjoy watching this blog.

- Bruno de Figueiredo
Founder, CoreGamers