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.

NAME MEMORIAL

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WP3w9lAVdA-WtXhPzlka0JZjaejnOwL_/view?usp=sharing

---This document is a humble memorial to characters from stories not-to-be.

Message From A Character To The Writer

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VPUv7vEwWrVwFBX-QBWAEWcSPI8rFrJW/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is a symbolic reinterpretation of the train-of-thought which led me to benevolize as many stories of mine as I could. And to accept letting go of the ones I couldn't.

Turning Monsters Into Flowers

---This series of images is especially significant to me, 
because it represents a highly personal process of changing something painful into something beautiful.

Although I might never know what fruit these flowers produce,
it is important to point out that they ALL grew from the same tree.

May all adversity you face be converted into something to assist your ascendency. 

THE CAGE-BUILDERS

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kb2__UmpApMIrXPsONK0Sy6lXlSD_w7g/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is about an EXTREMELY simplified enumeration of the cage-like constructs of samsaric bondage; both obvious & subtle.

Water-Cycle Of Souls

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hjoGmYCUGY-JGo6-PZUM9VYEoztxmHe2/view?usp=sharing 

---This short-length story is about an underlying unity which is easily forgotten amid the strife of life. But considerate contemplation of the water-cycle can help serve as a reminder that our seemingly-separate containers are part of a bigger container that connects us all.

Mister Stinger-finger The Mosquito Nosferatu

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BkLz5H2YS40SkzZRRUOMmj_8laM9M_Uu/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is about a symbolic consequence to environmental abuse, which results in a variation of one of fiction’s most common curses.

The Tale Of How The Sea-Slug Came To Have No Shell

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DuTwKF18gUnElhpDTmQVPL_hYAuYb6w/view?usp=sharing
 
---This short-length story is another mythologically-styled “explanation” for biological phenomena in the natural world, with a symbolic undercurrent.

The Firefly Who Refused To Let The Last Field Die

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kb7EyDF7rj0UCS9HZtrtr2eX1yJYHpGL/view?usp=sharing
 
---This short-length story is about persistence & cooperation ultimately triumphing over surrounding circumstances.

Cloud-Bottle Beetle

"Internal turmoil can be as brutal as the turbulence of a lightning-storm,
but always remember: emotions will pass back into clearer pastures just like the weather." 

illustratospheres 1 - Xenoglyphique

---Here's the link to view/download a selection of 223 illustrations that span a very wide swathe of my life. They are arranged by an overarching theme that gives a glimpse into a parallel reality, but does not directly tell a linear story.
 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YhLqgsQuo3mkFxT8QWPc_OkhrZHrxMGX?usp=sharing

Sisyphus The Dung Beetle

Here is the link to view or download the PDF:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pxerEIPlS1uWa0VB1PIL87rdNlScyT_Y/view?usp=sharing
 
---This short-length story is a symbolic expression of a very specific form of frustration.

The Snake Who Wished He Was A Dragon

Here's the link to view or download the PDF:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1STC1M7LTvXEbmV3_FmPFUw1tyOBCjBey/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is a symbolic expression of the strain caused by idealization of others’ abilities, while simultaneously failing to acknowledge one’s own individual gifts. And while the feelings that inspired this sequence are derived from modern times, those emotions are being interpreted through a continuation of an ancient mythological foundation, which itself shows how the common ancestry of this whole world has had to deal with issues that are still relevant to this very day.

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.

A Ladd And A Lass Long Mismatched

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14kYaqLTVsktaxmG7UryEqU5XYvJrKQxA/view?usp=sharing

---This short-length story is a symbolic piece of pseudo-erotica concerning two "deformed" persons and their quest to find a mate that can love them despite the peculiarity of their anatomy.

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.

"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".