We were young and wild and free

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

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

~ THE PATH - COLLECTOR'S EDITION ~
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Playtime

Dan Yaccarino & CWC, 1998
[ Sony Computer Entertainment]

~ XI PRE-RELEASE BOOKLET ~
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~ BOOKLET PAGES ~
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The Big Sleep

Jakub Dvorský, 2007
[ Amanita Design ]

~ SAMOROST 2 ~
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Jakub Dvorský, 2009
[ Amanita Design ]

~ MACHINARIUM ~
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Pastoral

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)

Random pages

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 ~
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I'm a dancer. A dancer dances.

Takayoshi Sato, 2009
[ Tale of Tales ]

~ FATALE ~
Artwork for Salomé

Xplora 1 Peter Gabriel's Secret World

Real World Multimedia, 1993

[ RealWorld ]

~ GAME COVER & CD ART ~
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~ ARTBOOK ~
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~ 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

The fascinating matrix of Heian imagination

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

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

~ PATTERNS, VOLUMES & COLORS ~

Eerie Luminscence

Haruhiko Shono, 1995

[ Odyssey Production / Image Entertainment / Will O'the Wisp ] 

~ GADGET TRIPS - MINDSCAPES ~ 

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  ~ DVD EXCERPT ~ 

Chapter 9 : Flashing Faces 

 

The Second Coming

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

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

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

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

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

~ THE PATH ~

Art, Inspired by - III

Masahiro Ito, 2001
[ Konami / Team Silent ]

~ THE MANNEQUIN ~




Hans Bellmer, 1902 - 1975

~ LA POUPÉE ~

Art, Inspired by - II

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

~ TRON ~