Club High Castle Pre-Pandemic

I’m a huge fan of the unboxing craze that’s all over the Internet right now. I love watching unboxing videos where the person's excitement radiates through the camera as you watch them open the package and take out all the paper and packaging materials to reveal the thing inside. I suppose this is why theme box subscriptions like Loot Crate are so popular right now. We all enjoy that awesome moment of receiving a package in the mail and opening it. It’s like Christmas all over again. These trends quickly evolved to the next craze: mystery boxes. Go on YouTube and search  ‘Mystery Box,’ and you’ll find a bunch of videos. People are buying up $1, $50, and $100 mystery boxes and posting videos of themselves opening them. Some of them are gems, while others...not so much. Oh, and a few are hoaxes, so keep your eye out for pranksters.  Since I’m not the gambling type (though I do understand how fun the element of surprise is!), I decided to create my own version of this! ...

 The future belongs to those who change it. 31 December 2017 Reflections On a personal level, this year has been good to me. I got to travel to places I’ve never been before, I got to see my sister on the West Coast, and I’ve managed to improve my art. I know I mention Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle in every single post, but I want to give the creative minds behind it, the actors and actresses, and all of the people who work on the show credit. Without them, I’d have never branched out into unknown and untested artistic waters. I’d have never met some wonderful people whom I now consider friends. I’d have never gotten into making black and white photo aesthetics. So thank you. Thank you a million times over! A few highlights from 2017: What will 2018 bring? I know it will bring more travel (I have an awesome job!), more artistic endeavors, and new experiences (that goes without saying). My goal for 2018 is to finally—once and for all—to crack...

I hope you enjoyed my High Castle fan tale, The Prathra Project Files —It was a rare opportunity for fun! I don’t know if I’ll be able to come up with something like that again. A lot of work was involved in creating that, but it was all a labor of love. I cannot wait to see what Season 3 has in store for us. ★ ★ ★ ★ The Man in the High Castle  rekindled my interest in WWII. My paternal grandfather (a good man and a shining example of the Greatest Generation) joined the Navy during WWII and served aboard a ship in the Pacific. On a whim one haunting night in October, I googled his ship. I saved the few black and white photos of it I could find (including a wonderful shot of the crew) and had them printed. On Veteran's Day, I hung a framed dedication to him in the living room. After I stepped back and gazed at his black and white face, I decided I wanted to learn more about his time during WWII. My aunts say he never spoke about the war. What started out as curiosity ...

Don't forget to read the disclaimer at the end! The year was 1962, Kennedy was president, and the Cubin Missile Crisis was just around the corner. Deep within the darkest corner of the CIA’s science and technology division, The Prathra Project was in full swing. Deputy Director Klemm was about to cut the project from the budget and end it entirely when he saw something that rocked him to the very core. Enter File 02365 On the frigid morning of 3 February, 1962, Klemm received an emergency call regarding the Prathra Project. He felt a sense of annoyance as he headed down the stairwell that would take him into the basement level of redacted . He had always kept a wary eye on wild, conspiracy-theory ridden experiments like this one. So long as the higher ups insisted on studying ridiculous notions like telepathy, alternate dimensions, and alien life, Klemm had no choice but to keep the projects running—unless, of course, there was a sudden need to reallocate funds el...