Robyn Miller
@tinselman.bsky.social
Writer, artist, composer and user of fun and interesting tools.
Left: big portrait, in progress. Right: small portrait, complete. #oilpaint #escapingAI
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Left: big portrait, in progress. Right: small portrait, complete. #oilpaint #escapingAI
The right use of AI.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The right use of AI.
Continuing to paint. 🎨
About two dozen so far, drying out in various stages of completion all over our apartment. Piles in my office. Above the cabinets in our kitchen. Above refrigerator. All over my wife's office. This is not sustainable!
NOTE: Skull is reproduction.
About two dozen so far, drying out in various stages of completion all over our apartment. Piles in my office. Above the cabinets in our kitchen. Above refrigerator. All over my wife's office. This is not sustainable!
NOTE: Skull is reproduction.
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Continuing to paint. 🎨
About two dozen so far, drying out in various stages of completion all over our apartment. Piles in my office. Above the cabinets in our kitchen. Above refrigerator. All over my wife's office. This is not sustainable!
NOTE: Skull is reproduction.
About two dozen so far, drying out in various stages of completion all over our apartment. Piles in my office. Above the cabinets in our kitchen. Above refrigerator. All over my wife's office. This is not sustainable!
NOTE: Skull is reproduction.
Roughly 30 years ago, I recorded the Riven soundtrack in the basement of CYAN's offices on the KORG Trinity (and a Yamaha VL-1). Korg has recently released the Trinity as a software synth. By the way, it's on sale for $149. www.korg.com/us/products/...
TRINITY for Mac/PC - MUSIC WORKSTATION DRS | KORG (USA)
TRINITY: The 1995 Icon Reborn
www.korg.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Roughly 30 years ago, I recorded the Riven soundtrack in the basement of CYAN's offices on the KORG Trinity (and a Yamaha VL-1). Korg has recently released the Trinity as a software synth. By the way, it's on sale for $149. www.korg.com/us/products/...
Having more fun with oil painting. Biggest problem: finding places to dry them.
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Having more fun with oil painting. Biggest problem: finding places to dry them.
I created this video years ago as part of promotion for Augustus Gladstone, a feature film that I wrote and directed. I was glad to see that this video holds up. The feature is available on YouTube for free. #soundtrack youtube.com/watch?v=-t3H...
Robyn Miller: How to Make a Soundtrack
YouTube video by Raziel Abulafia
youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I created this video years ago as part of promotion for Augustus Gladstone, a feature film that I wrote and directed. I was glad to see that this video holds up. The feature is available on YouTube for free. #soundtrack youtube.com/watch?v=-t3H...
Reposted by Robyn Miller
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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Live from "war ravaged" Portland
September 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Live from "war ravaged" Portland
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Today we're having a gander at the minute books of the Merchant Adventurers.
The archive is held with our friends @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and contains documents from the 1200s to the present day.
The minutes from meetings are from the 17th to the late 20th century. A short thread...
The archive is held with our friends @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and contains documents from the 1200s to the present day.
The minutes from meetings are from the 17th to the late 20th century. A short thread...
June 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Today we're having a gander at the minute books of the Merchant Adventurers.
The archive is held with our friends @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and contains documents from the 1200s to the present day.
The minutes from meetings are from the 17th to the late 20th century. A short thread...
The archive is held with our friends @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and contains documents from the 1200s to the present day.
The minutes from meetings are from the 17th to the late 20th century. A short thread...
I just hit 27 million streams across all my albums, so I decided to award myself with this (virtual) gold record (which I don't exactly deserve).
🎵 Most streamed: Atrus’ Theme, from RIVEN
🥈 Runner-up: Gehn’s Theme from RIVEN
Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music!
🎵 Most streamed: Atrus’ Theme, from RIVEN
🥈 Runner-up: Gehn’s Theme from RIVEN
Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music!
July 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I just hit 27 million streams across all my albums, so I decided to award myself with this (virtual) gold record (which I don't exactly deserve).
🎵 Most streamed: Atrus’ Theme, from RIVEN
🥈 Runner-up: Gehn’s Theme from RIVEN
Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music!
🎵 Most streamed: Atrus’ Theme, from RIVEN
🥈 Runner-up: Gehn’s Theme from RIVEN
Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music!
And today on Myst island…
June 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
And today on Myst island…
If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74. QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard ... Bill changed the world www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.
I haven’t seen these for decades. I’m not sure these were finals, especially the grayscale map on the left. Even so, cool beans.
Thanks to the source Making of Myst footage, I was able to grab higher resolution screenshots of @tinselman.bsky.social mock working on Myst Island height and color maps. This is what I ended up with after some light cleanup in photoshop:
June 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I haven’t seen these for decades. I’m not sure these were finals, especially the grayscale map on the left. Even so, cool beans.
I had a blast hanging out with Ron, Joel, and Jawmaster at the Retro Repair Roundup last night. We talked about everything from the birth of Cyan, to the joys of creating our early 1 bit kids games, to some of our early inspirations.
Many thanks to Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social for joining us last night! It was great hearing some of the development history of these classic games!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9HX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9HX...
Robyn Miller - Retro Repair Roundup - Episode #78
YouTube video by Retro Repair Roundup
www.youtube.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I had a blast hanging out with Ron, Joel, and Jawmaster at the Retro Repair Roundup last night. We talked about everything from the birth of Cyan, to the joys of creating our early 1 bit kids games, to some of our early inspirations.
Reposted by Robyn Miller
A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.
www.politico.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
AI is slop trash? Please don’t tell me it’s because it steals from artists. I’m an artist. Every half-decent artist steals from everything they’ve seen. Art is ideas. Concepts. Expression. AI is a tool with which one can create new ideas. AI is not creative and cannot express (and I’m not your guy.)
Man, discovering this is very likely the real guy who helped design Myst, now making AI slop trash is super depressing. Come on my guy. @cyan.com is this guy legit? :(
Myst action figures and island collectibles. Failed due to shoddy production and bad marketing.
April 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
AI is slop trash? Please don’t tell me it’s because it steals from artists. I’m an artist. Every half-decent artist steals from everything they’ve seen. Art is ideas. Concepts. Expression. AI is a tool with which one can create new ideas. AI is not creative and cannot express (and I’m not your guy.)
Myst action figures and island collectibles. Failed due to shoddy production and bad marketing.
April 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Myst action figures and island collectibles. Failed due to shoddy production and bad marketing.
Cosmic Osmo Reboot? If only.
April 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Cosmic Osmo Reboot? If only.
Does anyone remember the Myst Happy Meals! Collect all five toys!
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Does anyone remember the Myst Happy Meals! Collect all five toys!