Stickers to promote the hobby

Stickers made by hobbyists have started to become popular.

Over the past few years, stickers have become increasingly important in the growing INQ28 and independent hobby scene. This is not a trend I would have anticipated, but with the prevalence of reusable water bottles, who does not want to have stickers from their favorite hobbyists to plaster on them? Whenever I attend a convention or narrative gaming event, everyone involved in the INQ28 scene is handing out their new stickers. Tim (@howlingmad_looping) has been doing his best to document the stickers created by the INQ28 scene with the 28 Community Sticker Archive, which you can find HERE!

Godling: Triptych

The Godling envisions a masked figure and crafts a lonely world to fit them.

Below is a digital representation of my entry to the interactive miniature art show Godling, hosted by Martin McCoy (martin.mccoy.art), Shane Brockway (7he_blindman), and Joe Aquilina (armageddon_bound) at Selva Gallery (1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn) between January 29 and February 1st. It was designed to be viewed on a slide projector, as all the images were taken on slide film. Since not everyone will be able to view the piece at the Godling show, I wanted to show it here.

Godling: developing E6 film

The Godling envisions a masked figure and crafts a lonely world to fit them.

At the end of the month, Martin McCoy (martin.mccoy.art), Shane Brockway (7he_blindman), and Joe Aquilina (armageddon_bound) are running an interactive miniature art show called Godling. Many incredible artists have created pieces for the show, including Eli Parson (redwetskeleton), Isaac Tobin (weirdingsway), Marcello Rizza (uollas_uolsh), Brian Roussel (rojasnoirlac), Matt (squared_paints), and many others! While we chatted with Shane and Martin earlier this month about the event, I wanted to share a bit of the piece I created for the show. Rather than creating a physical diorama to display at the event, I photographed three separate scenes on slide film, which will be displayed with an old slide projector at the gallery. Slide film is more difficult to develop than negative film (Black and White and C-41 film), with the E6 process requiring more temperature-sensitive steps. Despite this, the process has always interested me because the resulting film can be viewed directly without inverting the images. The Godling show provided the impetus for me to learn to develop the film myself, cut the frames, and insert them into little cartridges so they could be viewed in a projector. The result is a piece called Triptych, in which the viewer (Godling) imagines a masked figure and crafts one of three lonely worlds to fit them. All of this is told via a slide projector as a “choose your own adventure style narrative.” Below are a few photos documenting the creation of Triptych. I hope you can visit the Godling show to see the entire piece (Selva Gallery, 1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, January 29 to February 1)!

Dragged into Turbolasers 126: Godling: An Interactive Miniature Art Show

We talk with Martin and Shane about their upcoming interactive miniature art show: Godling! Consider visiting it from January 29 to February 1 at Selva Gallery, 1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn.