{"id":706,"date":"2009-08-20T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=706"},"modified":"2009-08-20T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T01:04:22","slug":"sunday-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Sunday on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new sketches for you, and one of the fringe benefits of hanging around with professional artists: the brain of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crytek.com\/\">Crytek<\/a>&#8216;s Dan Ghiordanescu parsed the thousands of lines of scribbled alphanumeric code comprising &#8220;The Island&#8221;, then turned them into the images you see below. (It always blows me away how brains can do things like that.)\u00a0 The color sketch shows the asteroid-ship <em>Eriophora<\/em> during its approach to the red dwarf DHF428; the portrait is of Sunday Ahzmundin, the grumpy single mom in charge of that particular build.\u00a0 While the <em>Eri<\/em> shot is obviously more lavish and beautiful to behold, the portrait delivers  more surprises for me:\u00a0 having spent all my time with Sunday <em>inside<\/em> her head, I never  gave much thought to how she might look from the <em>outside.<\/em> I definitely like the tousled shaggy look, though.\u00a0 And the cigarette&#8217;s an especially nice touch. (Although she must have <em>really<\/em> been hording those ciggies, given the timeline of the mission.\u00a0 Either that or <em>Eriophora<\/em> has a tobacco farm somewhere down on the hydroponics level. Which, come to think of it, might make an interesting story in itself&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Eriophora\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/gallery\/eri.jpg\" alt=\"Eriophora exterior\" width=\"560\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sunday Ahzmundin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/gallery\/sunday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Both works have been added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/gallery.htm#top\">Gallery<\/a> for posterity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new sketches for you, and one of the fringe benefits of hanging around with professional artists: the brain of Crytek&#8216;s Dan Ghiordanescu parsed the thousands of lines of scribbled alphanumeric code comprising &#8220;The Island&#8221;, then turned them into the images you see below. (It always blows me away how brains can do things like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-on-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}