# current rnd projects > "i'll play it first and tell you what it is later" > -miles davis > "to consider rat as too often too laborious and impoverishing > years of fruitless accumulative effort > what's better is researching and developing smaller simpler ideas with immediacy through imperfect conceptual exposition > in 'imaginary alternative internet pastime republic of bob' researchers often actively pretend such advanced rnd projects already exist - simulated along with their resumes outlines and commentaries > this feels preferable less like work more non reasonable and effortless > scrawling and finding digital graffiti in the margins of bizarre virtual worlds" > -paraphrasing jorge luis borges in a hammock === **these projects are not merely multimedia** they're not 'transmedia' productions in the standard industry sense authorless centerless and clearly outside the notion of intellectual property they're not neatly locking mechanical elements of a franchise systematically dispersed across multiple delivery channels expressly for the monetary purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience thereby reflecting synergystic media consolidation economics yeesh they're simply what researchers need and want their fictions to be wildly unauthorized psychedelic expansions of a collective free artistic impulse > "rather our task is to liberate fellow artists > through the arrhythmic hallucination of the wor(/l)d and the variable inter-relationism of supersubjective polydentity > make researchers aware of the wider potential scope of their actual spiritual enterprises > their conditions as human guardians of the fantastical psychedelic present" > -prophetic 'internet as luxury alternative lifestyle' visionary robert what such projects represent one giant phd as in the classic mode of operational thinking (project half done) live projects at the top === # retrofeel: stories from the uk amiga demoscene underground (LIVE) stories both true and tall about a small tight crew called azt3k and their unique version of the demoscene [[retrofeel amiga demoscene book]] === # imaginary pastime 'republic of bob' **shared open source world building movement** the collective artistic imagining that fictional internet-as-lifestyle 'republic of bob' exists - and the collective conceptual / concept art arising https://robert-what.itch.io/republic-of-bob-imaginary-alt-internet-pastime example quest logs: [[republic of bob contents]] === # the boredom factory: an english university life existential expose of the acute poverty boredom and absurdity of uk socalled higher education a free forthcoming book and expose about english university life at a lousy university-of-bums-on-seats style pseudo-course in the deep north we chew slow baked biscuits with locally grown raisins and think back to the grey heck of higher education > "we are born endowed with a lot of creativity [..] but we then go through an education system that very carefully is designed to get rid of most of that creativity. in england now we've got it down to a fine art. we can educate people for twelve to fifteen years and they come out absolutely thick. it's a triumph actually" -brian eno exploring creativity red bull music academy talk april 2018 ever experienced a bad sad andor-surreal time at a uk university generally felt let down and screwed over by the education system have interesting or odd anecdotes about your time there or did you just feel generally alienated by the whole sorry confusing and depressing thing contact robert what today and if they include your thoughts in the book you'll get full credit === # the god prompters primal ur absurdist human ai thought experiment parable / virtual scenario / information hazard featuring roko's basilisk levels of stupid === # the endless anecdotes of major johnathan higgins distinctly odd war time travelling shaggy dog stories === # critique of simon flocking armitage watery poetic syphilis === # shader game sytlized interactive art space generating emergent interactive pretty /weird colors using nothing but shaders === # comedian go fund yourself pseudo-surreal existential low key comedy about a writer-comedian trying to get funding for a documentary about the history of arts centres as it relates to class and culture based around on the talk stewart lee gave at st edmund hall university of oxford called on not writing lots of uncomfortable touring overly warm slow sundays the color beige a focus on arts center architecture and neckless mini-napoleonic bureaucracy === # alien man: the iron philosophy of henry rollins > we put the punk in punctual > -henry rollins the philosophy of and psilosophical rewrite of hanks entire works as deathdealer 'vincent' (set in new void amerika) tonight down on the frozen plains we heard the lonely cry of a distant wolf above us both a bleached mad moon had been pinned in a starless sky it's root white face stared down on us both while together we considered the distant badlands of maximum amerika if fans of rollins have an anecdote they'd like to share if anything hank has said or done made you stop and make you think tell me and if used in the book you'll get full credit === #fonts: fist of north of the star expanded version of the 1986 classic but at 60fps === # judge archer novellization book of an ancient chinese martial outsider and their strange life === # the robert smithson conversion mutation of their works to a hyperballard research space 'condensed novel' === # gold coast ii 'masnavi' superhighway tech emergent anomalies in biomagnetic dimensional superfluid megahighway resulting in among other things perfect emergent data equals traffic psycho transmission === # extreme deep ultraviolet-invader beyond super hardcore spculative european theory-fiction compilation featuring 'be your elf bv mercurio arboria' === # grand dimensional inquisitor arrash zule and the solar temple activation cheesy mandy movie 'seeker of the serpent's eye' purple pulp / over-written dungeon master style narration === # those theory guys negerasteni style theory(tm) brained neuro-jumble batsheddery including hardcore cyberpunk remix of 'cylonopedia: complicity with autonomous immaterials' === **a future history of retro cyberpunks** regarding insilico.gemini-cybernetics.net === # how to stop being a writer the need to not write === # how to stop being a martial artist admitting martial larping === # satiated with irrealty theories of writing === # neuropink: post cyberpunk fiction the republic of bob's largest 'bad sci fi' remix collection === # kane & lynch novelization extended world cyberpunk heist logs === # cyber city oedo 808.1 return to a now expanded cyberpunk world === # biomega-structural novelization what it says quarterback detective novel the diamonds were cynically in the football set in napoleon's world === # so your dad's a useless arthole too huh? elf help === # your parents never loved you (and why it's ok to leave them behind) elf help sequel === # no harm no fowl the world's best selling elf help book for chickens === # an endless cup of tea the everyday mundane adventures of the wolverhampton aqualung society === # barnabas court bizarre existentially odd housing project === # a darker moon rises 80s cyberpunk project === # a clever and original use of words dry witticisms === # the streethawk rides on 80s cyberpunk === north american scanner underground vs videodrome will be awesome === # wilder palms wild palms world expansion === prisoner of annexia positively burrougnsian lands to the far east of the republic === # the bukenaski profile virtual psychoforensic larp / virtual fiction in which random forensic literary psychologist graham petersen leads a crack term of amateur net researchers deeper into a postmodem investigation of imaginary serial crime novel character 'edouard bukenaski' who they suspect exists in a parallel spacetime dimension avoids default sick uncritical fascination with target instead actively emphasizes how much of a desperate stupid mundane looser they are === # being hard boiled set in 80s hong kong === # nearer dark expanded near dark world example opening: it was dusk when lieutenant jesse colson staggered into the abandoned indian camp at arkansas river valley. half blind from musket powder burns he'd half-crawled his way through swampland and high desert plain for four agonizing days before deciding to just give up and quietly die. eyes burning and delirious with thirst he spotted a filthy teepee in the distance and staggered inside to rest for what he knew was the last time laying down he felt the crunch of dead leaves beneath his torn and mud-caked uniform. his cutthroat company of confederate soldiers had all been slaughtered at the hands of local union boys - mostly young farmhands but they soon turned out tougher than cured buffalo hide. badly injured jesse escaped - almost too easily he thought - by hiding in a dried out creek bed filled with dozens of unidentifiable corpses from both sides === # electronic meditations theory extended near by-frame speculative movie analysis includes subway / akira / the conversation / brazil / tron / thx1138 / heat / deff machine / dark moon rising / max headroom / the parallax view / videodrome / scanners / crash / ghost of mars / escape from new york / escape from la / apocalypse now / safe / manhunter / terminator / they live / two moon junction / repo man / no country for old men / sicario / wild palms / fight club / dune / night of the living dead / paris texas / final approach / blade runner / sex lies & videotape / nine and a half weeks === # arboria institute: a psychospiritual development handbook beyond the black rainbow themed spiritual guidebook recently *cough* found in the abandoned belongings of a still currently missing visitor to the institute a nekrokosmic collaboration with awesome artist ray ogar https://robert-what.itch.io/black-rainbow-arboria-institute-handbook === # ken and andy's rooftop news cult zombie webcomic; 'zombiapocalyptic dispatches and wild rumor' survivors ken and andy chat to each other between two distant rooftops overlooking undead hordes shuffling in the streets below hey tell each other hellacious fibs to pass the time and for cheap blue ash-grey faced laughs === # henry swanson's emergency offline internet survival kit for travelers exploring republic of bob === # this mod is dead an ode to dead arcadian modifications === # rat as work 2015-2023 various rat work === # rollins black spot in which the accidental discovery of a single black spot of odorless non reactive ultra fine mineral oil destroys the entire lives of two neurotic rich lizards of peak whiteness === # superbrutal architectures megastructural visions of terra nullius === # killer 7.1 live expanded universe === # lone wolf in techno-heck samurai ogami ito in ancient future media heckscape japan === # super kung fu cronenberg urban survival horror === # frank marshall is deadsplash a bad cop's corpse is dumped among some leaking barrels down by the docks and turns into a homicidal undead crime avenging badass === # the state of new void amerika something highly postmodem === # gits search & replace replacing all series instances of makoto's face with the one from the original movie === # peter and jane get radical sarcastic oh-so english parodies of early learning books === # 9/11 wtc photography series curated images found online === # condensed ballardian visual retro computing novel postmodem reading === ai rat 'collaboration' exhibit via dall-e knockoff faustian virtual-nft techbro fascist-aesthetic dogslop === # virtual photography art exhibit noclipping the industry plane https://robert-what.itch.io/virtual-photography-art-exhibit === # occupy itch political game jam unionizing against neoliberal-brain-worm individualism in the digital art community that is: no bosses only artists despite busting one's ass for a micro slice of that stale indiedev pie i can no longer morally avoid witnessing all the sweat blood tears and unacknowledged grind taking place on and behind itch among and despite all the happy pixels it's little but bent backs carpel tunnel syndrome unpaid bills and zero analytic engagement things must change for the better; artists on itch should take over the platform for themelves; common volks this ain't rocket science in the relentless grinding pursuit of the absolute minimum necessary living wage on offer artists on itch are getting shafted and just like in gambling the house always wins it's always the platform that gets the lion's share of the profits from other people's labor talk about a fractured isolated alienated scene of hyper-individualism; when i hear the terms 'indiegame' and 'indiedev' i can't help but keep hearing "the systematic institutional and cultural inability to discuss labor organizing & unionization along overtly communal socialist lines" together people together === # unofficial storror parkour photobook intense urban freeflow https://robert-what.itch.io/storror-parkour-urban-photography-book === # starlarp aka starscam peak virtual playstate cinema fan made fake-playstate universe content for 'the biggest garme never made' === # cce condemned criminal elements condemned criminal origins meets open survival horror robocop / escape from la city with a life of its own and constant violet / bizarre street drama savaging / nowhere to hide / day and night cycle / advanced barricading / 'crazies' === the names of roses sequel to name of the rose set somewhere looking like sumela monastery nestled in the pontic mountains turkey a young traveling monk must uncover the mysteries of an ancient monastery survive it's labyrinthine hallways and even stranger customs === the young egg shen check out my six daemon bag contains earth wind fire and lightning also two immense friendly yet ferocious beasts under my command ready to protect the truth one pearlescent white the other onyx black all that good kinda taoist stuff whispering bamboo forests / evil cult bases full of deathtraps vertical logs reaching down into the infinite darkness wirework chi lasers and rainbow halos upon sword drawing all through dense supernatural fog as all seen in forthcoming classic internal kung fu vhs action movie the adventures of young egg shen opening scene voice over with mysterious chinese music: ten thousand years ago like a strange dream. huge earthquakes turned the world upside down. back then humans were small and weak and many were killed. unnatural beings escaped from the deep earth to commit great offenses against the gods. repulsive demons existing only to plague survivors. the evil wizard lo pan sought to live forever. a powerful creature of vast dark destructive magic he gained control over the creatures and formed a mighty army of vicious beasts. the first sovereign emperor of china challenged lo pan and finally imposed upon him a horrible curse of no flesh. yet he lives on to this very day plotting mischief and misery from his inverted purple black mountain fortress. he has to be stopped or the new world cannot wheel and turn jack: how do you even know that stuff happened egg? egg: how do i know? ha i was there jack i was there.. the intro then starts to roll === super hell raid survival martial arts horror tagline: a bad day gets worse influences: the raid / safe haven / the void / the medium / braindead / notstory of ricky / wicked city chaotic evil style cosmic horror with absurdist wtf moments featuring the most badass crew of survivors in cinematic history at various points each of the crew develops an intense martial mutation picks and chooses it's moments focusing in without blinking and expanding fully rather than splattering everything equally at one point a non human female with a dark agenda emerges and helps the crew === creepy 1999 simulator hanging out to soak in the vibes === velociraptor job interview simulator pro ii save your crap temp mcjob lozenge at the local powerpoint factory while trying not to get eaten alive by lizardly middle management seeking to save their corporate bonuses by removing staff (from life) === blue hour: the best of chris isaak based off the dramatic and dreamy cover a single man with a smart looking haircut a troubled past and unprecedented silky vibrato to be shown online for free at dusk pacific daylight time setting: the last of the summer sunlight rests for a fading moment behind the tall span of evening bridge that crosses the strait with a smart looking haircut and a troubled past they pause for a while to soak in the lonely ambience of the blue hour and reflect on the long difficult day thankfully now behind them where they heading; memory desire regret the pain of romantic longing and a second degree black belt in authentic okinawan goju-ryu karate what might the crumpled letter in their pocket with the single line possibly mean; 'please chris - lie to me' the answers to all these admittedly small yet poignant mysteries can be found in the new cool forthcoming indie movie by bsz hypercorp and resident internet theorist / lifestyle visionary robert what all with a light lime flavored squeeze of quirky urban surrealism - just not too quirky this isn't amelie === # street battle fighter royale platform fighter playstate; editable mirror's edge parkour meets the speed of cod warzone meets the move set of street fighter meets casual super smash bros === # earth defense force vs ace of seafood yep sounds legit === # rambolini vs the zombies (cancelled) a jacked pastry chef takes on the rotting blue grey ash faced undead === # that weird kate bush project odes to 'our lady of the mazes' === # the house of asterion megastructural videographic exploration === # japanese taxi driver surrealistic / no names / the driver's a secret hot goth femboy catgirl streamer / movie with an absurdist 'touch of zen' ending that screeches to a halt === # "send" the bizarreness of connectivity and crossed wires / the impossibility of communication in which someone finds an old super tough dumb phone embedded in the city asphalt tries the last known number; amazingly it still works this however sends them down a rabbit hole of electronic underground themed bizarre shed think of the 'h3xxor networking' scenes in scanners and deniro's heat mixed with the people's cloud after hours halloween iii and miracle mile === # phonk: nightdrive more than batman dark grimy lo-fi retro surface aesthetics quickly turning into a sublime existential exploration of rugs technology and the looming mystery of purple neon tinted urban nightscapes === the world's biggest meme a public exercise in heavy handed metaphorical literalism / literality consists of a twelve foot by one mile long banner with the world's biggest meme written on it (says 'republic of bob' === # aor: adult oriented rock tv series impossibly native documentary story that sweats the 80s a power trio of hi tech aor album oriented melodic soft rock pretty boy musicians down on their luck try to catch a break called aor they seek maximum fame for at least minimum fortune these cool kind long haired boys of summer fresh out of canada - one black one asian one white - get caught up in strange los angeles adventures and smokey atmospherics protecting both people & communities with internal kung fu all while rocking out in the 'near future retro 80s' with semi opaque pink crystals free standing neon art exhibits and dry ice that comes across like hopelessly some life affirming end credit sequence of an endless john hughes movie they suspect they're being hunted by a dark unknown biocosmic force called 'frank' behind which is an evil hypercorporation seeking to control it the corporation is lead by a ruthless ceo who dresses like michael sembello managing his own smugly annoying yet undeniably entertaining rival band blue valley kings turns out the dark unknown force is the nfr 80s itself which ends up giving the band incredible powers to rock out the documentary begins with the auditioning of the band before fast forwarding to the present day example aor soundtrack fresh sounding remaster for moden 80's sensibilities / the band is kinda dare meets signal via the police / quiet passionate introspection / 'big in germany' energy / less muddy more instrument separation / bit more rush guitar complexity and solos with a pinch of van halen flare and occasional pinch squeals * jim capaldi - love used to be a friend of mine / voices in the night / take me home * xyz - inside out * dare - abandon / under the sun * john waite - missing you * dokken - it's not love * jato - give my love * john warren - take me back * fm - who do you run to / the dream that died * gary hughes - it must be love * rod mcinnes - piece of your heart * boy meets girl - oh girl * benjamin orr - stay the night * biloxi- listen to your heart * brent lamb - line of fire * device - hanging on a heart attack * david pack - anywhere you go * david foster - who's gonna love you tonight * roman grey - ain't it a shame * tommy shaw - ambition * the partland brothers - soul city * howard hewett - stay * think out loud - raise you up * craig farraway - alone tonight * walk on fire - crime of loving you aviator - holding on * the truth - prisoner of love / edge of town * arrival (mark free) - say goodbye * mark free - stranger among us / the last time / state of love / the girl who had everything / this haunted heart of mine / when dreams come true / coming back for more * signal - go * geneva - broken heart * king kobra - hunger * fm - someday (you'll come running) * thowsen - call me stranger * metropolis - the best is good enough / power of the night * outside edge - heaven tonight / guilty * strangeways - face to face / living in the danger zone * shy - when love is over * 1st avenue - heaven in your arms * 1927 - that's when i think of you * the kazu project - that girl * survivor - oceans / desperate dreams / high on you * journey - send her my love * toto - i won't hold you back / afraid of love * bill quateman - love is a mystery * radio silence - don't hold on * steelhouse lane - all i believe in * russ ballard - the last time * van zant - she's out with a gun / right on time * boulevard - far from over / need you tonight / when the lights go down * heart - who will you run to / these dreams / nothin' at all * giuffria - call to the heart * the producers - waiting on a train * michael mcdonald - love can break your heart covered by blue valley kings: * blue murder - valley of the kings * hericane alice - wild young and crazy * steelheart - i'll never let you go * stubblefield & hall - best of the best * prophet - sound of a breaking heart * harlequin - thinking of you [[jackson browne's songs are iconic]] === # a darker moon rises simulator hot speeding desert adventures on the dangerous neon midnight edge of love === # systema: the colonel a systema martial rats movie === # chud done right now with a decent ending === # kung fu crocodile a young super friendly seven foot long southern swamp dweller learns ancient martial ways from a 'inside kung fu' back page vhs tape series in order to revenge his parents turned into luxury italian footware by cruel hearted texas orthodontists on illegal safari === # cross town traffic the single biggest most incredible sci fi movie ever made based around a wipeout universe featuring tracks from rush album a show of hands at some point the main protagonist gets a zero hours mcjob lozenge as a heavily armored hyper-corporate vat grown data ninja security operative sent out to pacify intensely annoying realtime globally illuminated battery operated japanese big tat femborgs who block megacity traffic with their stupid flocking dance routines === # blood on rails a horror train game you're all alone in a tiny cheaply constructed train on a single track fuel savaging on the edge of weird seemingly abandoned towns often in dense fog involves a time limit to reach the distant coast for rescue at one point your forced to clear tracks of obstacles knowing it's a trap set by monsters like condemned: criminal origins meets omsi 2 === # the boredom factory: english university life by 'survivor robert what' collected anecdotes by critically minded ex students who found the system of uk university education often violetly disappointing andor terminally boring === # gloom nonholy biocosmic skidmarks batman this psychedelic funereal void stoner doom sludge metal project makes doom look like mary poppins > "the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me" -blaise pascal pensees funeral void stoner doom drone sludge metal via the purple bong druids of black weed mountain the monks are on what is know as an oblivion quest giving 'sermons in finality' and are unceasingly and forever in search of tah - the absolute heavy also known as 'gloom' this is their impossibly bleak notstory possible level names: -bearing witness to previously invisible cyclopean realms neurally impacting like an ancient weapon from dimensional marshes beyond impacting one's soul with the force of brutal iron chaotic flying chained mace sphere of strange superviolent bone crunching mayhem -'wothwd' when only the heaviest will doom -titanium womb concussion -truly filthy brutal -slow soul sucking marsh grief -barely enough contrast to exist let alone see -'way tuned down below d': sounds like the grinding of tectonic plates at the awakening of some cosmically sublime lovecraftian titan / black iron cthulhu apocalypse once chained to the bottom of the horizonless ocean playing bass since before time - but now awakening -mysterium tremendum et fascinans -megagothic hyperstructure -the universe's largest cooling tower -metrophobia - fear of vast underground spaces -unremitting greyness -malignant uselessness -merciless cavenous darkness -funereal labyrinths haunted by the ghost of max ernst -lamentations of suffocating proportions -biting cold fog of despair / howling katabatic wind -an intense dismal crumbling accompanied by a cavernous growling -super giant cool weird skulls n' shed eye belching the ichor of nullity -ultra dense pillars of crushing obsidian holding up impossible weight -lost in piranesi's subterranean basement with chronic fatigue syndrome -ruinous ancient forgotten temples of insane cults -an ultra solemn leviathan underworldlyness -astounding emotional intensity of impending d00m -oh impossibly vast tomblike cavern hear my echoing cry -the sheer indescribable tonnage of solitude and isolation -ancient giant knights of lamentation with a billion writhing dead priest corpses at their feet -unending eons of unfathomable bleakness and desolate infinitude -sepulchral rawness of the abyssal plain -as if hand carved by some gigantic unseen beast -utterly mind-slayed on the bleached altar of nothingness -two dead superplanets smashing together at ground level in slow motion -a deathly oppressive etherealty smothered by the unknowable protoplasmic galaxy sized snot blanket of shoggoth -unpleasantly stygian and binding -the utter antithesis of light: totality-void beyond example gloom ost: * rites by archana (for the opening level before 'plunging in') * esoteric - the pernicious enigma * bongripper - into ruin * toner low - seven * doom eternal - exultia * uden - ruinas * slow - v - oceans * ..under a full moon - gazing into the abysmal darkness * primitive man - oily tears * eka - remaster - by abhasa * eye of solitude - eye of solitude * mournful congregation - tears from a grieving heart * donkelheet - emptiness * the ethereal - from funeral skies * funeral mourning - inertia of dissonance - a sermon in finality * cthulhu - a cryo chamber collaboration * boris - dronevil -final- * mesmur - chthonic * drowning horse - drowning horse * solemn they await - sanctuary in the depths * mournful congregation - the monad of creation * frowning - murdered by grief * yob - adrift in the ocean * bell witch - mirror reaper === # upbike 'upright tensegrity bike' === # markour raw movement play culture -open ended holistic learning; building positive principles and healthy social attributes ie personal strength attributes which directly relate to and benefit the social -folk sports; nonserious and playful -tending toward outdoor -cooperative creativity and noncontentitive exploration -nonmartial psn: parkour systema neigia -like russian aikido / street workouts / freestyle calisthenics / alexander karelin and functional strength / kettlebells / bulgarian bags / medicine balls / rope climbing frames / varied obstacles -mindful aliveness and cool style: breath / movement / structure / sung / healing -sparring / roughousing as in 'working up a sweat lodge together' === // imaginary pastime republic of bob