Amazing, my daughter follows a photographer who takes pictures of abandoned places, and I think they must use post processing, but your work here reminds me of their pictures
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Ephiane wrote:OMG ! The spiral staircase is a Masterwork Thanks for showing !
Peaches wrote:Amazing, my daughter follows a photographer who takes pictures of abandoned places, and I think they must use post processing, but your work here reminds me of their pictures
ThePhotogsBlog wrote:ReverendSpooky wrote:
This really is a fun rabbit hole to have gone down! And while I agree with Peaches that sometimes the apocalypse is just a great backdrop for the meat of the story, I personally am with you in that I prefer when the cause of the apocalyptic future plays into the themes of the story. In the case of Radio Kings, it's about creating a horrible future caused by unbridled greed, selfishness, and shortsightedness, and then creating characters that hopefully can build something contrary to that out of the ashes. It's definitely a case where the "why" of things is very important, not to mention how it shapes the struggles the characters deal with. And I'm totally with you that in the end, good characters are what really carry it.
And ugh, I swear, everything Terry Gillian touches is beautiful. And I am long overdue on seeing Book of Eli. Both French novels you mentioned sound like really fresh and fascinating takes on the apocalypse, and worth a reading. The concept of nomadism vs sedentarism in an apocalyptic setting is something I'm really interested to read about. I'll have to see if there's an English translation of either. And I'd never heard of that Philip K Dick story, although I've admittedly only scratched the surface of his work. If nothing else, I'm jealous as hell that he beat me to the name Dr Bloodmoney, because that's pure apocalyptic poetry.
One of the great fun things about apocalyptic themes is how broad a canvas you have to paint your story. There is no one single model for apocalyptic scenarios, though I find the ones that involve things like giant asteroids or things beyond human ability to control are unsatisfying in the sense that the moral message about man destroying the Earth is entirely absent. In any case, every single movie I've seen involving a giant asteroid, we somehow avert complete disaster and mostly survive.
There is also no one model for what the aftermath will look like.. or how complete the breakdown of civilization is. Having studied both apocalyptic fiction, survivalists (now called preppers) and the problems with surviving a global cataclysm, I've come to the conclusion that there isn't much purpose in the idea of outliving the human race without also trying to rebuild civilization, and hopefully not making the same mistakes we made the first time. Civilization however requires order and stability, and order requires law, and hard men and women to enforce it. So, post apocalyptic stories that focus on these themes, will have a lot in common with the good old American Western and the every present theme of bringing order to the untamed West. Maybe that why the backstory to my collection has the characters in the American southwest somewhere. In building it, I was hoping to emulate the style of the old TV series Rat Patrol to some extent, but found looking at my first figure and her dress and equipment, that she reminded me a lot of the mercenary leaders in the 1968 classic "Dark of The Sun, and decided to keep pursuing that look. And if the back story to the group's survival mostly involves being in the right place at the right time when the brown stuff hits the fan, (aka not being at the wrong place at the wrong time) the main story should focus on their efforts to protect and rebuild civilization as an organized and disciplined body, despite its unusual composition.
PureEnergy wrote:This is a fascinating discussion…
Spooks, your work is always such a jaw-dropping spectacle. That staircase is a sensational, spiraling masterwork - and those photos belong in a magazine, sincerely.
I do dig the premise for your Radio Kings. It’s going to take me some time to catch up on your stories, but it’ll be time well spent, surely and most enjoyably.
Meanwhile, in a word: Superlative.
And while I love the discussion that I’ve been reading here, please continue to go your own way with regard to details, won’t you? Although the genre seems ever-available, far-reaching and quite fetching (and my own theme is rather pseudo-post-apocalyptic, although fantasy, as well); all the examples of such seem to serve the point that it is perhaps becoming a weary one, with so much singular reiteration. Your concepts are so fresh; perhaps, at least in part, because you’re not directly thinking about what constitutes the genre, so much as you are running with imagination. Therein is virtue, and invaluable quality.
Badass.
ReverendSpooky wrote:Thank you so much PureEnergy! I love discussing all the ins and outs of the genre, and I am always trying to test my ideas against other concepts, to make sure they hold up. The Radio Kings really did come from me wanting to do some sort of post-apocalyptic figure, but NEEDING to find my own fresh angle on the genre. And everything I build is visually predicated on first the concepts and backstories. I wish I could say I wasn't thinking about the genre, but truthfully, a lot came from dissecting it, and actively trying to look for ways to subvert the conventions of it, about how it HASN'T been approached before. Heroes who are, in certain ways, as mad as the villains, and actually love and thrive in the brutal anarchic wastelands. So the one thing I can guarantee, is that the Radio kings will always stay true to to it's own bent vision.
Stryker2011 wrote:My personal favorite PA stories are either hundreds of civil wars on a global scale, or multiple EMP attacks that wipe out anything and everything run by electricity.
ThePhotogsBlog wrote:There are only so many apocalyptic scenarios we can think of; Nuclear war, alien invasion, asteroid strike, global warming and or global resource depletion, plague, zombies, scientific experiment gone awry, massive coronal ejection from the sun, rise of the machines.....
But all of these really only serve a purpose, which is create a setting for the protagonists of our stories to live or die by. At the end of the day, we can only milk the cause of the disaster so far and it's the interactions between the humans, be they the heroes or villains of the story or both that give depth to the story. An asteroid crashing into the Earth, a nuclear weapon exploding over your home city, a plague....these things have no feelings, no thoughts. Simply destructive power without a purpose and indifferent to what lies in its path. So regardless of the originality of the concept, if indeed such a thing still exists, what makes a story enjoyable would be the quality of it's characters.
ReverendSpooky wrote:But I think it's really dependent on what the cause of the collapse of civilization is. Is it a pandemic?
ReverendSpooky wrote:In the case of Radio Kings, it's about creating a horrible future caused by unbridled greed, selfishness, and shortsightedness, and then creating characters that hopefully can build something contrary to that out of the ashes.
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