Ephemeral Art in a Cyberpunk World — For its part, Unus Annus is situated within this crossroads of art and technology, embodying fine art traditions through a digital medium well suited to the cyberpunk world in which we live. What would you do if you knew you only had a year to live? This philosophical question lies…

From Relaxing Puzzlers to Heart-Pounding Survival Horror — I feel like I’ve completed more games in 2021 than I have in the entire last decade, and most of those games occurred in the last few months of the year — partially initiated by the Game Writing Master Class that I took, which inspired me to explore gameplay from…

Animated Masterpieces to Surreal Adventures — In the first half of the year, I had trouble diving into new movies or TV. …

Facing the monsters inside ourselves — Sometimes I have bad days, or even weeks. Over the past few years, these bad days have manifested for me in two opposing and yet integrated ways. The first is a deep longing for solitude, a desire to find some far off place away from people and the world, somewhere…

Our Lady of Survival Ghosts cling to you, so many friends and lovers, so many strangers and killers — all those who bled their lives out onto kitchen floors. You lived, but they float behind you, a wake of spirits clutching your shirt sleeves, wafting out like pale, drifting flags. You sift them with your every…

Making the attempt has value in itself — When I set myself the challenge to write 15 articles in 30 days, I purposefully set the bar at what I considered to be a reasonable height. I aimed my sights and jumped in, but didn’t quite make it over the bar. In fact, I didn’t even come close. …

A subjective experience of art — The last time I visited a museum prior to the pandemic was at the San José Museum of Art, where a friend had put together an event featuring mixture of poetry and music. …