Henry Faber

@henryfaber

I develop accessible arts spaces (www.tomediaarts.org) & communities (www.gammaspace.ca); VR, #videogame & digital projects producer. Avi by Kelly K! email: henry@gammaspace.ca (He/Him)

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Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jul 19

So sad to hear about Jennifer Finch's passing. When members of L7 put up a gofund me to help pay for her cancer treatment a couple of days ago, I was really moved to see Kathleen Hanna had contributed $5k. Not a memory I want to dwell on, though.

Jennifer Finch, performing a show with L7, is framed in purple lighting as she smiles out to the crowd.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jul 13

Sad news about Sam Neil. Possession, Event Horizon, in The Mouth of Madness - wild work, even within the context of their genres. Jurassic Park ensured his legacy, but I’ll always remember him as Broken Ladder in one of my favorites of all time, Until The End of The World.

A still from Wim Wenders’ Until The End of The World, Sam Neil sits in the passenger seat of a large RV wearing a hat and a sand colored suite, holding up a device that looks like an iPad in a case, despite being a film from 1991. The Australian outback can be seen in the windshield behind him, dotted with stripped cars. The German detective, Winter, played by Rüdiger Volgar, sits in the driver’s seat, looking at him.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jun 7

Today, after catching up on some work, Mina and I dug our way through Septemberg, an autumnal area with winds and carved horrors! It was technically challenging in very different ways than the swamp. And I’m not just talking about the threshers. Very satisfying to reach the top of the Spark Tower.

Screenshot from Mina The Hollower: Mina, a white mouse with a red cloak, is standing on a giant, glowing orb, pulsing with electricity around her tiny body. The night sky is framed by clouds and stars behind her. Written in a pixelated, bold, serif typeface, the message at the bottom of the screen reads “Feat: Sparks of Genius”.

The game is rendered in chunky pixels, with a limited color palette, but in a modern 16:9 aspect ratio.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jun 1

I woke up and played more Mina. The depth to the world, and the puzzles that interconnect it in a myriad of ways, is satisfying to sift through as you slowly improve your fighting technique, gathering items of all kinds to assist you on your journey.

Screenshot from Mina The Hollower: Mina, a white mouse with a red cloak, is sleeping soundly on the edge of huge tower overlooking a range of mountains under a starry sky. A goat, glowing orb pulses behind her like spherical lighthouse.

The game is rendered in chunky pixels, with a limited color palette, but in a modern 16:9 aspect ratio.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· May 24

If you see this, post your black and white art! 🖤🤍

A black and white, high contrast photo of a courtyard behind apartments and adjacent a fenced in basketball court. In the centre of the photo is the trunk of a large tree, the bottom of its branches seen just below the top edge of the photo, a line of benches on either side of its base. There is woman playing with a child in the distance and, in the foreground, a woman with her legs outstretched across a bench is reading intently, her bare feet visible, nearly facing the viewer. Bracing her position is a young girl with her back to the camera. The light cast long tall shadows from them all.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Apr 22

I'm finally getting the chance to play Babushka's Glitch Garden and I feel seen.

A screenshot from Babushka's Glitch Garden shows an area made up of pixel art, with the player character, an elderly grandmother-like character holding a broom, on a crowded platform, featuring a floating witch-effigy with a face drawn as a child might; a floppy disk nestled in a growth of blue mushrooms, and a cat that is wearing a babushka. The room is dark and made up of dungeon-like bricks, with purplish glitches scattered throughout. There are UI elements in the top corners featuring an icon for a grimoire with sub icons of a green sprout, and to its right, an orange rectangle. The opposite top corner has a box with a key icon, followed by the number zero; it is adjacent another box with a prismatic cube and the number 9 next to it.

There is a text box at the bottom of the screen. Written in a pixel font, it reads: "hi..because you're old: you'll only remember 2 spells at a time"

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Apr 21

Share a GIF from a WESTERN you love

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Mar 20

I think the sign of a fun tool is that you reach for it to riff off of something silly someone makes in chat. This goes double if you wouldn't reach for a similar tool if you could avoid it, at all costs, under any circumstances. #picoCAD2 allowed me to realize this Buff Bunny *and* have fun.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Mar 19

I've been playing around with @johanpeitz.com's #picoCAD2 and it's really delightful. It may be my gateway to experimenting with 3D in Godot… Here's a baby ghost from @babyghosts.fund's branding in low-poly raster form!

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Mar 15

White text over a black background, a series of names listed, one per line: Rick & Lisa & Minnie & Lynn Kyle.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Mar 8

I've received some really kind comments about my game! Thank you! I've also heard from a few young folks that the shmup mechanics took them a minute to figure out. This was surprising to me, so I added some further instructions to the page.

Screenshot of instructions on the game's web page read:

Controls and Game Play:

In classic shmup (shoot 'em up) form, guide your quasi-corporeal self with the AWSD keys for movement , SPACE BAR to loose your head. Start out by trying to eliminate threats to your ego by giving them a piece of your mind. This may not always be the best strategy, however.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Mar 8

For the last couple of months, I've been teaching myself Godot. And that happened to coincide with @hauntedps1.bsky.social's #LynchianIdeasGameJam. DAVID LYNCH's passing affected me greatly. A good way to reflect on everything weird and beautiful he gave us. henryfaber.itch.io/the-third-pl...

A screenshot from The Third Space: a nearly monochromatic pixel rendering of a column of clouds are on either side of the vertical screen. Shards of glass hover in the sky over what looks like a river of coffee with giant coffee mugs floating throughout. At the top of the screen there is a bathroom sink and a mirror. Just below the middle is a flying figure in a jacket and pants, back facing the view, palms up and trailing behind him.

A screenshot from The Third Space: a nearly monochromatic pixel rendering of a column of clouds. At the top of the screen there is a there is a large window looking into space with two planets at its edges. A woman is inside in light colors, her fingers pressed to her lips in a shushing motion. Just below the middle is a flying figure in a jacket and pants, back facing the view, palms up and trailing behind him.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Dec 29

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Album cover for Ruby’s Salt Peter from 1995 - the cover depicts a worn fir with a photo of a woman inset in its cover.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 20

I even have a Moon boy.

A statuette of the boy from the game, moon, sits on a kitchen counter. It is hat with shoes and gloves in a seated position but with no body, so it appears that the clothes are all floating. A brass moon plaque ode leaning against the grassy base the boy sits on.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Sep 4

If you see this, quote repost with a vampire who isn't Dracula.

A black and white still from the film Nadja, a woman in a dark hood taking a drag from a cigarette is facing the camera, seen from the shoulders up. In the background, out of focus, a figure is running towards her from behind, both appear to be in a big city alleyway with trash bags lining the walls.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jul 11

Yes, that’s the other thing. People laugh and come up and ask to take pictures and video…

A black dog with white hair under his chin is on his back on the sidewalk, paws up playfully.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jul 5

Yeah mine was 6ft tall, too. At the beginning of art school, I got this one. It was a lot of flesh for one man’s wall.

Oversized color poster of two identical figures pressing their faces against each other, their hair shoulders, arms, and neck taking up most of the poster. The figures are Bjork, and the text above their heads advertises the Bjork Isobel single.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jul 5

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up mine:

Henry Faber@henryfaber· May 10

Bob Hoskins gritting his teeth with his eyes welling up: a still from the film The Long Good Friday.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· May 5

If you see this, post a sword 🗡️

An anime character, a woman with dark blue hair pulled into a bun, wearing an officer-like uniform sits on a concrete outcrop. She is holding part of a a large, organic sword, its point down by her feet.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Jan 7

Advertise your account using one (1) Simpsons image

Homer and Marge Simpson are driving in the family car with Bart and Lisa in the back. Marge is turning to Homer and saying “There’s no shame in being a pariah.”

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Dec 27

See an old cartoon, quote with another old cartoon.

Two highly feminized robots are swooning and dancing under glowing lights. A smaller robot, resembling a little girl, cuts a path between them making great haste.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Dec 25

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

Still from Big Trouble in Little China; Grace, wearing Chinese robes and wedding makeup; Jack, wearing a white tank top; Wang, wearing is jumpsuit, are all looking offscreen in disbelief.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Dec 3

Unfortunately, the cover of this album will just lead to more confusion. But also is exemplary of the genre!

Album cover for Morcheeba’s Who Can You Trust? features a zoom blur close up of band member’s Skye Edward’s point hair style.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 30

It was cold today. But that just won't dampen this guy's spirits.

Bosley, a dog, is a black Golden Retriever/Boston mix, and is standing on green artificial turf. He's looking directly into the camera, ears to the side like an old rotary phone or airplane wings, his tail blurry from being caught mid-wag. He's panting with a smile and the little white markings on the tips of his paws are visible.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 27

Jrew’s Jamaican patties! They have a stall around the corner from my place and Bosley is *obsessed*. He takes me over to their place, even when they’re closed. I mean, it may have *something* to with the fact I share them with him…

Bosley, the black Boston-golden retriever, is lying down, looking off in the distance expectantly, on a cracked concrete driveway. Behind him is a stall with a sink and oven on a table. A brown sandwich board sign leans against the table. It reads “Jrew’s House” with two old-timey cartoon characters waving: a ball of green yarn with giant eyes holding hands with a yellow Jamaican patty.

Bosley, the black Boston-golden retriever, is sitting expectantly, on a cracked concrete driveway. In front of him is a stall with a sink and oven on a table. A brown sandwich board sign leans against the table. It reads “Jrew’s House” with two old-timey cartoon characters waving: a ball of green yarn with giant eyes holding hands with a yellow Jamaican patty.The oven is glowing yellow as it is warming up, its racks empty. There are colorful lights lies around the umbrella over the table. An open sign is visible but it is unlit.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 25

Smile 2: extremely effective sequel that delivers on the original’s premise and then some. Naomi Scott delivers a convincing performance as both an overworked pop mega star and a guilt-ridden accident survivor quite literally hounded by demons.

Still from the movie Smile 2. In the foreground, a blonde woman with short hair is screaming in frustration. She is wearing a shiny metallic costume with high shoulders, no sleeves, a plunging neckline and a collar. People look on with concern in the background in a grey hallway. There are two loops of neon lights lowered from the ceiling illuminating the scene, though the ambient light is quite bright without them.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 23

Happy November-we'en!

Black and white photo of a black t-shirt, blowing in the wind, draped over the top of large finials on a large wrought-iron fence outside of a townhouse complex in front of some coniferous trees. The shirt looks worn and dirty; in large, white, humanist script letters it reads "Creepy Bits". Just peeking from the bottom of the frame the top of a black dog's head, Bosley, looking up at the lower corner of the shirt.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 22

When I'm just plowing through ideas, I rely on Obsidian's ability to create links to files that don't exist yet and then, as they progress through various stages in my "garden", I build maps of content (MOCs) so they can be referenced in any number of ways. Graph views also help to visualize.

Screenshot of Obsidian note with metadata properties indicating the status of the note, an overview of the concept of Value Flow, a mermaid.js graph showing how nodes work, and a modification date.

A node-based graph showing the connection of all the links in the previously described note to other notes represented as lines with arrows at the end connecting to dots where each note is a dot. The more links to/from a note, the larger the dot.

Henry Faber@henryfaber· Nov 22

Something I've been using @obsidian.md for lately: sketching out the logical layout of the home media server I've been building on a canvas. I can flesh out individual notes as things solidify. The combination of spatial + context relational notes really helps me understand what I'm doing.