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I am a cosmic horror who lives in the shell of a kid. what next?

All cosmic horrors begin in the shells of children. What's next is to decide: Will you inflict the chaos you suffered onto the next child, or protect them from it? Thus as we shed our first skins, we either decay into cosmic horrors or grow and bring compassion to that cosmos.

Until then, probably Nintendo and potato chips.

//rude.

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Mozart cafe - Toronto, Canada (late 1990s)

Designed by Burdifilek of Toronto

Scanned from Stores & Retail Spaces 3 (2001), and Gourmet & Specialty Shops (2001)

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Real-world Analogs for Bloodborne’s Architecture

This is a partial documentation at best; nevertheless, I’d like to share what some casual research has yielded for possible points of inspiration for Bloodborne’s environmental concept artists.

Probably the most inarguable association I’ve found so far. You can see at least a couple of buildings around Central Yharnam modeled on the one depicted in the concept art. Below that is a photo of the Richardson Olmstead Complex. Despite all of the alterations the Bloodborne version makes, the building’s general shape has been preserved, and the towers are unmistakably indebted.

Above is the bridge that links the Upper Cathedral Ward’s manor to the Lumenflower Gardens; below is a painting of the Rialto Bridge. You can find photos of it, but I thought this moonlit picture was especially complementary. Perhaps the largest difference here is the portico; Bloodborne’s moves away from a rusticated single-arched design to one that is tripartite but still vaguely Italian, with a scrolled pediment and allusion to Venetian windows. Thanks go to Richard Pilbeam for providing the screenshot (and several more).

Here’s where the associations become largely a matter of style or hopeful guesswork. Above you see the triumphal archway that leads to your encounter with the Cleric Beast; and below is Philadelphia City Hall. I’m not saying that the latter explicitly informed the former – just that the arch has the general look of Second Empire designs, and that City Hall’s facade was a convenient comparative point. What throws me off the most about the main (seemingly broken) pediment for Bloodborne’s arch is that all of it is shallow relief sculpture; the tympanum, very unusually, has next to no recession. Makes me wonder if the designers copied a design and didn’t bother volumizing it.

We’re more or less going on silhouettes now. The screenshot is a view from, I believe, the cliffside close to the Cathedral District; the two photos are both of Prague churches, the first St. Vitus Cathedral and the second Church of Our Lady before Týn. What I’m paying attention to here are the towers’ tops. Compare St. Vitus’ main tower’s twin-cupola dome to the building in the lower-left (not extreme left), also sporting miniature onion domes on the corners. And compare Týn Church’s agglomerated spires with that of the closest structure in the screenshot. Again, guesswork, but it‘s the best I can do for now.

This is nothing but a formal comparison. You might think that the rotund structure on the left with arched windows and conical roof set against a gabled wall is an arbitrary design, but it’s in fact the standard design for the exteriors of Romanesque churches’ apses. The photographed church is San Piero a Grado. Bloodborne’s variant is merely taller, turning the form into more of a tower.

And we’re ending on another formal comparison. The screenshot shows a scene from the lower stretches of Old Yharnam, while the photograph shows a gabled side of St. Marien Church in Greifswald. Emphases here are on the steep and significant roofs whose gables are lined with elongated, pointed-arch windows – or blind niches containing actual windows here and there – with angular mock turrets interrupting the gables’ sloping roofline. This is a generally Geman and Flemish type of design and interpretation of Gothic principles; you won’t find it in, say, Italy or England during concurrent periods.

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Sony Style Store in the Sony Center complex - Berlin, Germany (2000)

"Located right in the heart of Berlin - the new Sony Style Store is the first flagship store in Europe to be inaugurated after the ones in New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Simple backlit glass walls with large bubbles fashioned out of Plexiglas spheres and cubes of frosted glass are the dominant element of the interior, serving to display the products and graphics throughout the premises. Colourful gel cushions just beg to be touched. On the first upper level the theme is cool, futuristic and light. Beetle-like illuminated objects made of translucent Plexiglas and aluminium are used to display the audio products. Video cameras at the window provide a panned view of the interior. The home entertainment area on the second upper level is clearly organised, pared down and elegant. Inviting, liveable arrangements with comfortable armchairs, lamps and hi-fi systems and a high-end studio incorporate the essence of a home movie theatre. "Playtime" is the motto of the uppermost level.

In contrast with most of the games, the space is bright, futuristic and abstract. The relaxed atmosphere invites visitors to play and touch the Playstations. Specially designed title presenters on the walls show current Sony music that can be listened to on headphones or watched in the form of a video or a DVD on a monitor which is mounted above head height. A centrally located round counter that is four metres in diameter serves as an information centre and, during events, it constitutes a major focus when it is used as a bar."

Designed by Design Company, München

Scanned from the book, 'Concept Shops' by Ingrid Wenz-Gahler (2002)

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Death Grips performing live at The Roundhouse, London on October 29th 2016, in full suits without any explanation. Source: Photographs by Jamie Cameron.

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Bar Maddalena - Prato, Italy (Dec. 1989)

Designed by Stefano Giovannoni & Guido Venturini

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nightclub TWILIGHT (1989)

place: Nakasu, Fukuoka

designer: Setsuo Kitaoka

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These are actual lyrics someone is paying me money to record and mix and master I just cannot believe….that….this is a real song someone sat down and wrote and was like “yeah, yeah this will really kill the rap game”