illustratospheres 4 - Crystal Chrysalis Crisis

Here's the link to view or download this series of images:


https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qCqDLB2AEiHHcdknhRR4eyJHMSzFBMBF?usp=sharing

 
This old sequence (from 2009-2010ish) was part of (one of the many variants) my main storyline.

It concerns a certain progression which has both a symbolic meaning, and the overt meaning as depicted by the visual narrative.

The Runaway Who Never Left Home

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ca-5MZfqqqMyB2sHMiyXr5oyA2G78CrW/view?usp=sharing
 
---This short-length story is a symbolic expression of certain feelings which have challenged me from a young age.

Two Strangers Go On A Long Hike Together

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a6FwzGNr6oHSOnNPpGJ83FnV1oi-ibPI/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is an extremely surreal & symbolic journey by two individuals attempting to overcome their painful pasts.

REINCARNIVORE

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J4CLRFTnr2lebAMrZ7FUbelcv5-Q1Fem/view?usp=sharing

---BLURB:

Weak Beaks Become Terrible Teeth!

What if birds could go back to being dinosaurs…?

Evolution led a certain strain of two-legged therapods

to become the very-familiar fowl who we now eat as “white meat”.

Yet the hyper-industrialization & mass-production of these avian animals

is leading towards the destruction of our synthetic system

through unending iterations of natural reincarnation & mutation.

The only question that then remains: is whether we will

 wake up from our wayward ways when our food bites back…?

 

Legend Of The Laughing Willow

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h42ojCrFqC6PZSOICsoLmDLhR1dppWOM/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is about an intensely-personal experience transformed into a symbolic version of the events with a more universal resonance, told in the way that humans once used myths to explain nature to themselves.

Seventeen Seasons Subterranean

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17JUtsy0VY75am5GadHBqDXlyC29bLL6b/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is about ephemerality, from the perspective of flora & fauna.

"cephalus zephyrus" by ?nsectoid-?nfinitude

"cephalus zephyrus"   by    ?nsectoid-?nfinitude

01. "psychic tsunami 1"
02. "psychic tsunami 2"
03. "psychic seduction 1"
04. "psychic seduction 2"
05. "psychic tsunami 3"
06. "psychic tsunami 4"



Here is the link to download this batch of music that I made:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ds77bhBcj5tzDD7h1g2CkIXCtSc9dLWA?usp=sharing



---These six tracks were created in FL Studio (sometime during 2010) by combining my own very basic songs made with the program's default presets, with numerous samples from various anime and video games that had an impact upon me.

---The samples during the four "psychic tsunami" tracks include English-language dialogue from titles such as: Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal/Reflection, Berserk (1998 television series), Serial Experiments Lain, Escaflowne the Motion Picture, NOIR, .hack//SIGN, Outlaw Star, PokeMon The First Movie (Mewtwo Strikes Back), The End Of Evangelion, Chaos Legion, Galerians: ASH, Paprika, Blue Gender, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Digital Devil Saga, Boogiepop Phantom, Twilight of the Dark Master, Blue Submarine No.6, My Neighbor Totoro, Cowboy Bebop the Motion Picture, Trigun, Drakengard, and RahXephon.

---The samples during the two "psychic seduction" tracks include Japanese-language voices from the titles: Tokubetsu Byoutou (a.k.a. Double Duty Nurses), SAVIOUR (FORST), and Bible Black: New Testament.

---In addition, I also cite inspiration from Joe Boyd Vigil, whose music was a part of the promotional commercials for Toonami, which utilized both audio & video samples from the anime programming being broadcast during those years on the television channel Cartoon Network; as well as the band Skinny Puppy, who created songs such as "Rivers" from their Rabies album, which utilized dialogue samples from many horror-genre motion pictures.

"xXx-perim-Ants arc-Hive VOL.02" by ?nsectoid-?nfinitude

"xXx-perim-Ants arc-Hive VOL.02"   by    ?nsectoid-?nfinitude

01. "a tower built of bones to reach the lavender clouds (sirens sing slow)"
02. "a tower built of bones to reach the lavender clouds (unseen sirens)"
03. "metamorphose in reverse"
04. "the answer was always within"
05. "summon the strength of the extinct"


Here is the link to download this set of songs I tweaked:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OEniKx3Zd8tM5FL3zL3Yk-83rTHRSOGW?usp=sharing


---Both tracks 01 & 02 were created in FL Studio (sometime between 2009 and 2010) by tweaking & slowing down & reversing the song "Lavender Town Theme" from "GBA Pokémon Firered & Leafgreen Music Super Complete" which was composed by Junichi Masuda (plus Morikazu Aoki and Go Ichinose).

---Track 03 was created in FL Studio (sometime between 2009 and 2010) by tweaking & slowing down & reversing a piece of unreleased B.G.M. (unofficially titled "02_bh01" in the files I downloaded) from "Body Harvest", which was composed by Stuart Ross & Allen Walker.

---Track 04 was created in FL Studio (sometime during 2009) by tweaking & slowing down & reversing the song "Track 2" from the "Chaos Legion Drama Digest" bonus CD that accompanied the "Chaos Legion Original Soundtrack", which was composed by Hideyuki Fukusawa. "Track 2" is a piano arrangement of "now I see (Theme music of Siela)," that was performed by Masato Koda.

---Track 05 was created in FL Studio (sometime during 2010) by tweaking & slowing down the song "Go Go Power Rangers (Instrumental Mix)" which was composed by Ron Wasserman, under the alias "Aaron Waters - The Mighty RAW".

ZIP file batch-download for PhoenixPhotonFly

For anybody who would wish to download the entire series of illustrations from the "PhoenixPhotonFly" story, I am now providing a link to a ZIP file containing the whole thing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18US03Og9BA5VbJtbXAGcK38ZOmTwfct3/view?usp=sharing

This should be more convenient than trying to save each picture individually.

PhoenixPhotonFly

So there you have it: all 598 images from the first (visual) story I have ever released on the internet, "PhoenixPhotonFly"!