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Phylum Sinter
@phylumsinter.bandcamp.com
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Musician, Mastering Engineer, sound designer, nerd
Runs Sinterbox Mastering since 1999
Releases on Detroit Underground, Touched, PSA, many others

Most releases available direct @ http://phylumsinter.bandcamp.com
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This post instantly recalls this - I'm not a teacher, but i've been noticing that 'losing faith in ourselves' thing for most of my life.
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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What a smile!
A decent shot of Lucy's beautiful smile, a shih Tzu with a underbite that highlights her teeth anytime she's hungry (she is always hungry)
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Gave Lucy a bath and she discovered that she likes getting her chin scratched. Kept putting her head on my hand 🐶

#shihtzu
Close-up of a freshly bathed shih Tzu named Lucy, she sits on purple sheets and looks directly into the camera as she places her chin on my hand for optimum scratching position. Another close up, she's ready for a nap, head laid down highlighting her black & white pattern on her head. She is amazing
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Back playing #Keeper in #VR tonight - showing a few friends how moving it is when you're right inside this space. You can tell every bit was sculpted with love.

It's not exactly like claymation (moves much smoother, like a Pixar movie you control), and it's as thrilling as any theme park 💜
An in-game capture of a PC / Xbox Series game called 'Keeper' played in virtual reality with a mod called 'UEVR'. In the game, you play a lighthouse that comes to life, sometime after humans have vanished. In the photo here, I have the lighthouse facing the camera while traveling just one of a countless number of moments that the craftsmanship and aesthetic of the game shines through, the closer you get to it. By playing it in virutal reality, I am not just playing it, but inside of the game world. The picture shows a dramatic red cavern with the lighthouse positioned as a portrait, with the lighthouse's... light... pointed directly at the camera.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Me and my best friends on Halloween morning, 1982 - Me on the left, Bingo in the middle, Cookie on the right 🌟🔥💜

Cookie was the first dog I knew had unlimited energy.

Fam would play fetch & frisbee with him for hours at a time. He was wild and free!

What about us?
A photo of myself at nearly 2 years old, me wearing a red and white sweater with red pants, there is a lot of light coming into the room from the left window in the background corner is a curio cabinet that my mom still owns, in the middle is our dog bingo, she was a comedian and a cockapoo. On the right is the much taller Golden retriever Irish setter mix that our dog Cookie was. I keep this photo in my studio. On the back of the photo, in blue pen, My dad wrote (in his super quick technical illustrators' handwriting) 10-31-82
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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What is that sound?
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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One more from #Keeper, a game that deserves every moment you give it 💜
In this capture from the videogame 'Keeper' out now on PC and Xbox Consoles, the player character blends nicely into a beautiful hidden space within a forest in this post-human game about a living Lighthouse that goes on a journey with a tiny bird buddy. It's a wordless narrative that carries every emotion with it, in such perfected psychedelic styled 3D graphics that are much closer to a Pixar movie than anything i've played in my life.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I cannot let this simply be a memory, I am rapt in awe... knowing fellow humans have mastered these tools, and created what my heart would birth, were it spread among many bodies through spacetime.

This is #Keeper, by @doublefine.com, played in #VR via #UEVR on PC. Being in here is a trip. 💜
descriptive text - This is a very angular, cubic sort of orange bursting rocks, hidden inside a wall within the PC game 'Keeper'. The perspective is courtesy of a game mod called 'UEVR', which allows many Unreal Engine games to run in full stereo 3D in virtual reality. It is a head trip that such beauty is just sitting behind a wall, in a game where you are a lighthouse that comes to life, and takes a journey with a tiny bird buddy. Fine digital art and a real example of unbound talent. 'Keeper' is a game by Double Fine Productions, released October 17, 2025 on PC and Xbox Series consoles. I am playing the game in Virtual Reality, so being INSIDE this space is constantly overwhelmingly beautiful, every second is worth a thousand captures, none of it seems to find the 'ends' of the game world like many games reveal themselves to be elaborate dioramas, but not this one. It hits the same notes as the greatest Pixar films, a wordless, psychedelic narrative of transformation, and shining a light. Born during the pandemic by Lee Petty, this might be the prettiest game I've ever had the honor of playing. In this shot is another hidden masterpiece, just part of a wall that vanishes when the living lighthouse (that the player controls in the game) shines its' light on it. Played November 4, 2025. 'Keeper' is a game available now on PC and Xbox Series consoles. This shot is of the Lighthouse that the player controls in 'Keeper'. It has all of these beautiful sorts of shrines, perhaps to the people before. The game is post-human, but life seems to have gone on in amazing ways, and every minute of the game reveals such unbridled creativity and craftsmanship. The kind of videogame that feels like the finest art, the brightest example of what people can create! Throughout the game, you walk the lighthouse around with one analog stick (played on an xbox controller), and control the light itself on the top of it with the other stick. The world transforms and reacts constantly, creating a psychedelic sensory overload that beats any theme park ride i've ever been on. This shot is another in-VR-inside the game 'Keeper' developed by Double Fine Productions, experienced in stereo 3D via the UEVR mod by Praydog.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Spent the #night getting reacquainted with @openbrush.app #VR.

Some 43,600 brush strokes & 117,111,117 polys later, very satisfying to just make stuff~!

Want to figure out how to sync audio with the camera paths tool next!

#MeatbagArt #digitalart
A dramatic close up of part of tonight's session, i started by creating the universe so i could make an apple pie. Lots of abstract forms, with lots of easily-accessible humanizing tools under the header 'jitter'. Basically makes your hands wiggle in weird ways, so blasting out shapes was a lot like a fireworks show, made very easily with vr controllers, painting in the air. Big fan of the polygon/hull tools and just learning the 'camera paths' tool. The plan is to make a video later this week, I made one tonight, but can do better. These shots also have a bit too much blur for my tastes (looks good in motion tho). Another still from tonight's art session, I made 6 sculptures in one big explosion of novelty. In the center of this shot, there's a red, black and gold little knotted up hive that looks incredible up close. The best part about creating in space is all the perspectives you can paint from, and then walk around them. Just satisfying, lines on paper does similar for me too. This segment, where the scene zooms through the center was inspired by cgi from old heartburn medicine commercials and Trapper Keeper art. It looks kinda messy in still shots, hopefully a video will help it stand out more. I'm also colorblind, can you tell? A close up of the beginning of tonight's session. Concentric waves (of my arms in front of me), no thoughts. Like looking at the sky, let the brain do its' thing, let the feedback loop guide me.
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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A shrine that I wandered into while playing 'Keeper', there are many of these hidden throughout the game. I haven't beaten it yet and restarted 4 times because I realized how much I missed initially. In this shot, You approach a massive skepeton sitting upon the shore, a massive blue and white cloudy sky with a few impossibly tall mountains frame the center - all of these shots are done right during gameplay, inside VR, I take the shots with a voice command and only crop them if anything before posting here. The game 'Keeper' is available now for PC and several Xboxes.
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I've been playing it in #VR via #UEVR, and being inside the world so lovingly created, where I can walk up to any bit just to see it -- it looks like a live painting, words fail... the effect is stronger than some hallucinogens -- A work of art on the scale of a Ghibli or Pixar movie.
A surreal scene as you play a walking lighthouse in the game 'Keeper' this scene shows trees that appear to have undulating pink bags of bubblegum instead of branches. Experienced in VR where everything has depth, an incredible experience. a shot from playing the PC game 'Keeper' in UEVR. A close up of your green birdy companion. The art style is one of the highlights, and I cannot think of another game that is as artfully constructed... maybe besides 'The Midnight Walk'. Totally different vibes though and more puzzles and wandering in 'Keeper'.
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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hairdo goals: moon man edition.

This is allegedly an actual photo from 1895, a 'popular hairstyle' of the time. I smell shenanigans and will spend too much time thinking about the validity of the claim (and shape of the hair).
A black & white portrait of a man turned to the right, showing his grey hair off his forehead like a wave, and beard doing the same to create a crescent moon shape from the side.
October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Love this aesthetic, 'Cascade VII, 1979' by Louise Nevelson
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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POOLS (#VR #Steam #PCVR) is the liminal space explorer my parents warned me about. Some of the audio drones that echo off of this very deliberately paced, very minimally decorated experience has me diving back in every time there's an update - i swear i haven't seen it all yet in 9 hours.
A scene that happened as I walked in virtual reality through this tiled space, regular white 4x4 tiles cover the floors and the top half of the walls and ceiling. Framed in the center, with a circular light shining down, is a torso also 'sculpted' from a white marble stone. It rests atop a rectangular pillar and has 4 plain plastic outdoor chairs (exactly as I had in my last house, and yard) facing it in a circle. The bottom half of the walls is a natural looking, unrepeating texture that is shades of grey. Striking when i'm in there inside this space. Another shot from the same VR game 'POOLS', this one frames a shiny red waterslide that comes from the ceiling, in the shape of an awkward "s" about 10m high. There are the same tiles as the other images all throughout, this room has green mosaic tiles atop the edges of the 'pool' below. The water is very lively and interactive. The sound, again, is a focus of the experience. The wall has a large pill-shaped light that shines into the space like sunlight. The water appears darker than it might be naturally... there's an odd presence in all of this game, and even some moments where i'm sure that some horror will destroy me. A very interesting effect! Finally, the last part of today's POOLS session brought me to this space where a shiny green waterslide curls around a staircase. This shot was taken between the white-tiled wall and the side of the slide, highlighting the reflection of a single light upon the ceiling on the side of it. This place is something, and I love it.
October 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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I've been sifting for better angles of this artifact from 2019 - it was done in Tilt Brush (#VR #sculpting app). It was uploaded to Google's 'Poly' site (RIP).

I remember seeing it got a handful of downloads.

If you somehow have the source file for this, lmk <3
a blue/purple ultraviolet light themed abstract art image created in a 3D sculpting app for virtual reality called 'Tilt Brush'. The app has a number of brushes that allow the user to paint in space. The picture here was a close-up of a 300+ hour project that is now presumed lost when Google decided to shut down 'Poly', a website that hosted tons of digital art from this app and others.
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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wild #front right here, Ibex are crazy good at #posing. U got #horns
October 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Check please, we're done (jk, cannot stop living in this gorgeous clay world)

#TheMidnightWalk #SteamVR #PCVR #art #design #music @moonhood.bsky.social
A screenshot from the PC VR version of 'The Midnight Walk', probably the most ideally created, with every moment oozing with atmosphere, and the story you live through in this game as 'The Burnt One', along with your trusty sidekick 'Potboy', who has a flame sort of like a Jack-O-Lantern that you both need to get through this. It's a game about losing the spark, seeing the world fall into bleakness, and finding the fire within. This shot is from the beginning of the game, and shows a stack of grey cubes framing a gigantic human hands with a retina-free eyeball in the palm, twisted towards you as you walk through. A message great for creative folks of any type, and indeed, family who have played this have come to me afterwards and wondering how such greatness comes together... this is storytelling that would not resonate in any other form. It has a soundtrack as passionate as its' visuals. A second shot from the same game and point - with two massive other hands 'looking down' at the player from above. Incredible sense of scale and artistry throughout. If you have a PSVR2 or VR capable PC, you need to play this!
October 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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U see like a couple of strobing air buddies run off with a shirt this way?
A close-up of a very unshaven diagonal portrait of a man that has been awake for several dozen hours. He needs SLEEEEB.
September 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Exploring tonight in this glowing #green cavern playing 'Into Black' - the upsampling the Snapdragon does turns everything into this painterly but still realtime impressionism that makes it all feel a little pre-rendered, if I saw this in 1996 my game-brain would pop.

#VR #Steam
A screenshot of a cavern, green mist surrounds the lights, a jagged column of stone forms a 'knee' shape framing the left side, while a massive biological, alien landscape creeps over the right side. Further in the distance, a shock of blue angular light glows in contrast to the green space. A floating robot with a single calming soft blue 'eye' floats just ahead, with a vertical light beneath.
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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What is the highest metacritic review score in your steam library? You can sort it this way - view all games then there's a 'sort by' filter.

All these years later, and nothing seems to top HL2, Portal, Quake, Bioshock Infinite and 2 Elder Scrolls games.

Have critics gotten harsher?
September 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Facebook is generally all over your junk to a frightening degree. I don't like using it. They probably break laws constantly. I remember answering this email from a class-action suit that sounded semi bogus... but today, victory! $35 bucks!

and at the right time, too - Rent is due in 4 days.
A record of the Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement that sent me $35.10 just in time to pay my rent. Phew!
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Enjoyed 'Into Black' in #VR tonight. This is a very nice place to be.
A capture from inside the Virtual Reality game 'Into Black', it shows a lighted walkway up a floating pillar of rock, which is lighted passionately contrasted from a star, itself circuled by gigantic rings of off-white steel. A blue-stepped asteroid floats near the star, upside down from the perspective of the shot taken here.
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I was such a weird kid, I was laughing at this comic that was mostly about politics when I was 9 years old.
The color cover with a painted penguin named opus sitting in a New York skyscraper library with one green and gold reading lamp he holds Antarctic dreams a book close to his chest. This is the author Berke Breathed's 10th grade art class painting, entitled gesundheit, it shows an astronaut whose head is exploded. One of the color comics within classics of western literature, Bloom county comic 1986-1989
August 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Towelscapes
August 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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'Abzu' is like Fantasia but playable realtime. Changed the world scale in VR to make it seem miniature, a thing of beauty.

The studio that made this, has a new one coming out tomorrow called 'Sword of the Sea'. The level of mastery is immense. $5!

My review - steamcommunity.com/id/phylum_si...
A screenshot taken within the game 'Abzu', played on PC in Virtual Reality via a mod called UEVR. It allows you to drop directly inside of a ton of games made with the 'Unreal Engine'. These shots were taken during play. This first shot is within one of the lotus temples within the game. Glowing white flowers rest on a glassy sea surface, topped with lilypads. The glow of the water shimmers upon the ceiling and blue tile rectangle walls. You play a rather minimal and abstract diver, what a game! Approaching the largest, glowing red sentry within the game. It is surrounded by smaller sentries that pulse if you swim too close to them, eventually causing an electrostatic burst and messing you up (one of the only things that feels like a challenge in this otherwise gorgeous experience). The player's tiny yellowish scuba-lamp glows illuminating the 4 feet of otherwise chilly blue water we're submerged in. The Sentries go hard, this is a field of angry red sentry bots, they pulse if you get too close to them, and this field is a maze you have to navigate to see it through the game. They're like metallic tetrahedrons, pointing downwards with all-too-sharp lines.
August 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM