Aaron Oldenburg
Game designer and new media artist. Also photographer I guess. https://c.im/@AaronO
2025-06-02
An out-of-context scene from an interactive narrative project where I use the results of other people's image-generating AI prompts (and the prompts themselves) as writing seeds.

Here's a thread where I talk about my process.

#twine #screenshot #gamedesign #interactivefiction
Her eyes are combinations of multitudes of eyes. She has thousands of parents. Her face is a trash heap, a recycle bin, a compost bucket, the result of worms, tiny, microscopic, atomic, wriggling and combining based on their own desires, their own attraction to each other.

Continue on your walk
2025-06-01
Went looking for the bathroom behind a sandwich shop and ended up wandering the weird halls of the Belvedere Hotel.

#Baltimore #spooky
A "life"-sized Slimer from Ghostbusters emerging from plastic wrap on a white platform behind glass. Floor is checkeredOld (art déco?) hotel hallway with checker floor. Dramatic shot of a large blue door
2025-06-01
2:20 am EST, by Andy Warhol's grave, a squirrel with bright shining eyeball.

#webcam
Black and white nighttime photo of a cemetery. There is a small rodent in the grass. The animal's eye is large and illuminated by the camera. It is the brightest thing in the picture.
2025-06-01
My software work, A Mass of Radiant Flies and a Body, at a show in South #Korea.

#newmediaart #gamedesign #silhouette
Some blurry silhouettes of flora on an LCD monitor.Some blurry silhouettes of flora on an LCD monitor.
2025-05-28
The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus (Kingston, Jamaica, 1998)

Was here for a week for a student exchange trip
Outside the dining hall. Overcast day, large lawn and sidewalk leading to a long, flat building. Wonderful smells of food cooking, I seem to remember it even the smell of wood fireWaiting while reading a book of local poetry, in the foreground against a hilly backgroundA tall dark bush or tree against the skyA dark scene with the hint of a tree
2025-05-26
Istanbul (2011)

Images taken with some Android Hipstamatic clone
A floor with a long crooked gutter in the middle ending in a shallow circular hole. Someone's feet are in the pictureA window with a long line of potted plantsA wall of windows with vague dark scenes behind themAn evergreen tree eclipsed by a different tree, with a palm tree to the right
2025-05-24
Some dogs mocking us outside the #xr conference.
Two large dogs in birthday hats and large goggles laying down on platforms.A black dog with googles sliding off its face
2025-05-23
Two doorways at night. The open one is throwing light onto the closed one
2025-05-21
Some pictures around Florence (1999)
#photography #trees #italy
The shadow of a (cedar?) tree against the facade of a buildingA shower lit from a windowA playground slide against a background of trees
2025-05-20
Monet's gardens (1998)

#photography #France #impressionism
A French country house behind an array of flowersA small path surrounded on both sides by flowersThe facade of a house covered in vinesDense foliage a large weeping trees
2025-05-18
First volunteer shift in the Hamilton Art Gallery. It's required, as a member of the collective. I'd forgotten how much I love gallery-sitting volunteer work. Just having a quiet space all to yourself. I mean, hopefully someone comes by 🙃

#art #gallery #collective #Baltimore #painting #sculpture #mixedmedia
A wall of a gallery lit by spotlight. There are two animal masks on the left, and on the right two images of goats made out of dried flowersInside a gallery looking out the window. A few small 2D works on the right sideBehind a desk, looking at several colorful 2D works
2025-05-16
I've been using this Center for Land Use Interpretation field book for general note taking, but I'm curious about typical use for this type of graph paper. Do people tend to just do plotting on the right side? The lines are so dark and the spaces so small it interferes with most of what I can imagine doing with it. The paper on the left makes more sense to me.

#fieldbook #notebook #landart #contemporaryart
Red, slightly torn cover with the words Center for Land Use Interpretation and Field Book E 64-8x4 WOpen spiral notebook. The graph lines on the left are light and have wide spaces. On the right they are dark and dense
2025-05-16
Florence, 1999
#photography #Italy
Shot looking up at a wall of windows with shutters in varying degrees of openness
2025-05-13
I really love how dark it gets in invasive bamboo forests during the day.

I did exaggerate it a bit by playing with the contrast. However, in person the darkness is also exaggerated because when you're standing outside it, your eyes are adjusted to the sunlight.

(I just noticed that for some reason this post is hidden from my profile...)

#forest #darkness #trees #photography #bamboo
A close-up of bamboo trees lit by the sun, a dark space behind them
2025-05-10
Just had adjaruli with tarragon soda at the Georgian restaurant Sakartvelo in Philly.

It was great and exactly what I wanted as my main course but toward the end definitely began to understand why it is categorized as a shared appetizer. It's a lot of cheese. Bread was amazing though.

#easterneurope #food #cheese #bread
A boat made out of bread. The boat had sprung a leak and filled with cheese. A little poached egg and pat of butter are swimming. A green drink in a clear glass is off to the side.
2025-05-10
Oluwafemi's the zournal of repeated things, the third exhibit at Vox that I loved. Having the whole dark room with hypnotic video and music all to myself was also a treat.

#videoart #music #pattern #repetition
A large dark room with two distant projections showing colorful patternsA close-up of an organic, changing video image. Pink and purple predominate
2025-05-10
When I got there, I was buzzed in by a voice, but the third floor seemed spookily empty of people. I enjoyed that feeling of a hidden presence of a person in an eerily still gallery.

Evan / Ewe Greensweig's work
An orange painting of a black building done in thick strokesA candle on a blackened table in the foreground. Three darkly abstract paintings in the background

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