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The following list is a compilation of 33 books that I read or considered for Arnth Codex as a way to study the genre.

Most of these novels have won awards such as the Hugo Awards, the Locus Awards or are considered as great pieces of fiction:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (READ)Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (READ)Hyperion by Dan Simmons (READ, this is one of my favourites)Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (READ. On a funny note, my former boss is the equivalent of a...

Abstract

The Arnth Codex project explores concepts such as Research Through Design, meme, active replicator and science fiction by analysing and comparing the artwork and influences of three creative minds (Guillermo del Toro, Stephen King, David Bowie and Laurie Anderson) to contextualize the relevance of arts nowadays.

It also explores other elements like Vaporwave by processing and changing the context of songs using audio editing software like Audacity and free synthesizers in Helm. The...

What do an American art YouTuber, two French science fiction illustrators, a Japanese manga artist and a Spanish surrealist painter have in common besides from art? From my perspective, a lot.

While I was building the world of Rineth, I also had in mind the type of landscapes I wanted in the story and even some of the dresses and armours that were going to be used but while I was writing the plot I found out that limiting the project to word only would not allow me to share the vision in my...

This post will be part of a series called Behind the Prophet’s Mask in which I want to share my experiences about some of the abilities I had to transform, learn and relearn.

Believe it or not, music has been an essential part of Arnth Codex as you might notice from the previous post. However, I didn’t write about how and why these songs matter inside the context of an experiment such as creating an imaginary galactic mythology.

For the project, I selected only 4 songs that, even if the...

In 2014, I began to create this story. It all came in pieces and at random times so much so that the only way I was able at that time to put some order was by using the music I liked.

If I found a song that had a quote or certain feeling that perfectly matched with some of the situations in my story, I simply added it to the Arnth’s Chronicles playlist.

Eventually, this tool wasn’t enough to keep order in the story. That was the moment I bought a sketchbook that I would keep with myself at...

Introduction

This document will show my progress and the experiments I made while I was trying to learn how to use programs such as Pure Data (PD), Voxal and Audacity, to create an Apocalyptic scene based on audio.

As an illustrator, most of my discipline relies heavily on images and, while I enjoy listening to music to inspire myself to keep on writing or sketching, I never considered the possibility of creating my own audio for my projects.

The only musical background I have are a few...

I’ve always enjoyed the Behind the Scenes features in DVD’s. I’m aware that this project wasn’t a movie per se, but the process in which my team and I were involved to create Mission from The Culvert Watchmen reminded me of these documentaries.

On this blog post, I want to write, from my point of view, about how this project was developed. My teammates were Natalie Bamford and Zitong Liu (I will call her Kate because that’s the name I’ve become familiarized with).

First of all, we belonged to...

Introduction

For some people is quite common to think that Positivism is related to optimistic thoughts such as “Be happy!”, “Keep calm and carry on”, or even “Be the Bob Ross of whatever hobby or endeavour you might be currently interested”, “Meditate and eat your vegetables”, etc.

However, Positivism is way different from the relation that the word might have to mindfulness because the main focus of it is earning knowledge by using the scientific method.

[image error]Yes… that’s not going to happen...

Introduction

The concept of Public Making, throughout the course, can have different variations but it has one key point that defines what it is: The combination of the idea of a creator while keeping interactivity and participation from an active audience.

For Tim Shaw and John Bowers, technologies have opened a new platform for people to be engaged to museum collections rather than just keeping the objects behind a crystal-like on the traditional association that this space is already...

Introduction – What is mapping

Mapping is most commonly associated with cartography which is defined as the study and practice of making maps.

This tool has become helpful not only to represent a space but also to order ideas on different academic disciples. After all, humans, just like Giovanni Sartori once wrote on his book, The Homo Videns, are individuals whom rely heavily on images.

During class, we used mapping on a smaller scale to create a visual representation of an area inside...