'sup lads, wanna stir the pot a little & participate in this trend too, for once! aside from my more RPR-apprioriate interests of writing, worldbuilding and drawing, I wanted to take this opportunity to yap about some of my other interests & passions too!
I'll keep it short so I can elaborate more on whatever it is that y'all could be interested in: last August/September I received my Master's Degree for a lil' course on photography and film, which officially makes me a Master of Arts (which as far as I've been taught is the highest grade below becoming an actual Doctor through PhD research). a year before this I received my Bachelor's Degree for a three-year course focusing on film and literature.. so I suppose you could say that I'm an academic scholar (or former scholar, now that I'm not officially enrolled in university anymore?) of film, photography, and literature.
I've done loads of research on all sorts of media and greatly enjoyed my time at uni, and during this time I also managed to explore one of my favorite subjects, which are liminal spaces. I've written both my BA and MA theses about them, and like the lil' autistic shit I am I often integrated them into as many assignments and essays as I could.
on top of that, I've also gotten into motorcycles as per this year, a little sourvenir I took from my ex-girlfriend (oh, yeah, if you're interested we can also talk about being a butch (loser) lesbian, for all of y'all who are interested in queer theory and the queer experience in general). my final bike exam is coming up on Wednesday, and I'm incredibly stoked for it. any other enthusiasts in the crowd? let's have a chat, ey!
alright, that's all from me. thanks for reading, and ask away!
I'll keep it short so I can elaborate more on whatever it is that y'all could be interested in: last August/September I received my Master's Degree for a lil' course on photography and film, which officially makes me a Master of Arts (which as far as I've been taught is the highest grade below becoming an actual Doctor through PhD research). a year before this I received my Bachelor's Degree for a three-year course focusing on film and literature.. so I suppose you could say that I'm an academic scholar (or former scholar, now that I'm not officially enrolled in university anymore?) of film, photography, and literature.
I've done loads of research on all sorts of media and greatly enjoyed my time at uni, and during this time I also managed to explore one of my favorite subjects, which are liminal spaces. I've written both my BA and MA theses about them, and like the lil' autistic shit I am I often integrated them into as many assignments and essays as I could.
on top of that, I've also gotten into motorcycles as per this year, a little sourvenir I took from my ex-girlfriend (oh, yeah, if you're interested we can also talk about being a butch (loser) lesbian, for all of y'all who are interested in queer theory and the queer experience in general). my final bike exam is coming up on Wednesday, and I'm incredibly stoked for it. any other enthusiasts in the crowd? let's have a chat, ey!
alright, that's all from me. thanks for reading, and ask away!
I LOVE liminal spaces with a passion, especially the Backrooms and its concepts. How do you include the subject of liminal spaces in your studies? Why does it interest you, if you don't mind me asking? 👀
ohohohoho boy another liminal space enjoyer!!
so around November 2021'ish, I got in this super weird funk that I still can't explain years later, and the newly emerging liminal space edits and compilations that circulated around that time gave me a strange sense of belonging, nostalgia, and comfort that got me through the day. I was fascinated by liminal space imagery so much that I eventually decided to involve it in my university work!
initially I did this during an assignment where we were supposed to do off-brand TED Talks about a certain subject, I chose liminal spaces because I thought it was a niche Internet movement/art form that more people should know about, though the research I did at the time was very base level. moreso along the lines of just collecting some images and attaching Freud's theory on the unheimlich/uncanny to it. one semester later I also turned that talk into a video essay of sorts (it was awful, basically just a slide show of images and screenshots with music and sound fragments), and at that point I was willing to let the obsession consume me.
in my Bachelor's thesis, I had to choose both a literary work & a cinematic work as case studies, and since I wanted to talk about liminal spaces again, I choose Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker and William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as my case studies. I talked about certain spaces presented in the film, and the concept of cyberspace in Gibson's book, and compared to the modern Internet-based iterations of liminal space photos. I also described the Backrooms, and how that evolved as a phenomenon (like how some people use it as a meme and add 5000 levels and apparitions of Shrek, whereas others make high-quality found footage short films and the like). I also talked about how my fellow Gen Z are expert at labelling things and thus creating new categories, such as dreamcore, weirdcore, nostalgiacore, traumacore, etc. etc.
for my Master's I wanted to talk about the Internet culture surrounding liminal spaces again, but this time I went with a bit of a different approach and took Super Mario 64 as my case study, which also allowed me to involve some game theory in the mix. I still believe that Super Mario 64 has soooooo many amazing liminal spaces, and on top of that it's also a frequently used subject for conspiracy theories and ARGs and "ahhhh look they hid this dark secret in this secret level" stuff, so that was fun to talk about too. to keep it within academic passing limits, I also discussed the concept of 'liminality' in both of these theses, since it was quite interesting to apply an existing academic concept to something as new and obscure as liminal spaces and all the corecore stuff.
hope that answers your questions a lil' bit! where does your interest in liminal space come from?
so around November 2021'ish, I got in this super weird funk that I still can't explain years later, and the newly emerging liminal space edits and compilations that circulated around that time gave me a strange sense of belonging, nostalgia, and comfort that got me through the day. I was fascinated by liminal space imagery so much that I eventually decided to involve it in my university work!
initially I did this during an assignment where we were supposed to do off-brand TED Talks about a certain subject, I chose liminal spaces because I thought it was a niche Internet movement/art form that more people should know about, though the research I did at the time was very base level. moreso along the lines of just collecting some images and attaching Freud's theory on the unheimlich/uncanny to it. one semester later I also turned that talk into a video essay of sorts (it was awful, basically just a slide show of images and screenshots with music and sound fragments), and at that point I was willing to let the obsession consume me.
in my Bachelor's thesis, I had to choose both a literary work & a cinematic work as case studies, and since I wanted to talk about liminal spaces again, I choose Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker and William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as my case studies. I talked about certain spaces presented in the film, and the concept of cyberspace in Gibson's book, and compared to the modern Internet-based iterations of liminal space photos. I also described the Backrooms, and how that evolved as a phenomenon (like how some people use it as a meme and add 5000 levels and apparitions of Shrek, whereas others make high-quality found footage short films and the like). I also talked about how my fellow Gen Z are expert at labelling things and thus creating new categories, such as dreamcore, weirdcore, nostalgiacore, traumacore, etc. etc.
for my Master's I wanted to talk about the Internet culture surrounding liminal spaces again, but this time I went with a bit of a different approach and took Super Mario 64 as my case study, which also allowed me to involve some game theory in the mix. I still believe that Super Mario 64 has soooooo many amazing liminal spaces, and on top of that it's also a frequently used subject for conspiracy theories and ARGs and "ahhhh look they hid this dark secret in this secret level" stuff, so that was fun to talk about too. to keep it within academic passing limits, I also discussed the concept of 'liminality' in both of these theses, since it was quite interesting to apply an existing academic concept to something as new and obscure as liminal spaces and all the corecore stuff.
hope that answers your questions a lil' bit! where does your interest in liminal space come from?
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