Textless companion to This World Is Not Real , so as to avoid the very very heavy text component and let the images stand on their own. Without the text I think the interpretation is not nearly as hazardous.
← Back various office building cubicles, as viewed from above & outside the building. slight imperfections in the glass make each yellow-LED-lit office seem warped, despite the perfectly straight grid of window borders.
← Back an office building looks normal from the outside, but as soon as the glass rounds the corner & stop reflecting the exterior, you can see the interior glow a deep yellow.
← Back looking up at a building emerging from the dark, only its lights visible, shining so bright they saturate all primary hues to form a brilliant white, causing wavy streaks in-line with the angle you're looking at it. it's like a spaceship, or a futuristic prison.
← Back three buildings loom in the night, each corrupted in their own way, standing over the light from the streets below & reaching up toward a light up above, both out-of-frame, crowded out by the full height of the buildings.
← Back a view of an apartment building with fancy curved windows is broken into unequal quarters, each becoming progressively more blocky, as if your vision is becoming digitally corrupted.
← Back two buildings, colored impossibly pure red, red light leaking out their windows and green tint covering swaths like moss, flank a similarly-red construction site at the foot of a towering green-and-red-lined skyscraper, all its windows nearing pure black. The only lights visible are pure-black ones giving off a yellow halo, with a deep blue sky just barely visible beyond everything.
← Back on the left of a building, a fairly normal-looking cloud is reflected in its glass. on the shaded side, those same clouds are transformed into rainbow heatmaps. inside the building, some impossibly-glowing pipes are arranged in geometric patterns. everything besides the clouds is crunchy + distorted.
← Back an obelisk-shaped building with square windows is viewed at an impossible angle, the sky and a concrete railing cutting similar triangles in its silhouette. the windows themselves are also impossibly-colored, looking like a film negative in parts, and almost-normal in others.
← Back different windowpanes on a building have been swapped with each other (accounting for perspective distortion) and other parts, like some pipes, metal grill, and a lone tree branch have been cut-and-pasted. everything that resulted from this transformation is intensely saturated, especially compared to the almost-black-and-white rest of scene.
← Back One small cyan-and-pink building looks up at another, much larger cyan-and-pink skyscraper, with the latter taking up the vast majority of the view. the colors on each form a gradient, and you can just barely see that there is a corner to the larger building.
wow that webp compression sure does a number huh. remember to click in on each to see the full resolution!!
