A little boy rose up under the shadow of the sky ring. He has friends under quarantine. The son of a fisherman, lacking any opportunity he rose up to become plague doctor.
Originally penned by Justin Barber, modified by Will Carey and Mark McKenna, drawing by Peter Rubin with Christine Schreyer and Judith Crow
A biological weapon is an experimental virus created by those in government who want to rid Rilao of those who want to live a simpler, natural life. It was weaponized and ready to deploy.
Robert Cooksey, Per Beith, Jae Sayaka
Zoos, underfunded, decide to run secret betting rings where modified alpacas are raced on zip lines. The alpacas are also used in the transportation of goods.
Pictured here are the 3 leading zip line, race Alpacas of Rilao. Brainpaca is the finicky-speed demon. 3 Pink is very attuned with his zip line and knows the proper moment when to weave and turn. Marakihau is the crowd favorite, but has lagged behind lately due to a recent snout injury.
Igor Knezevic, Joe Micallef, Donna Flynn
An .stl of the alpaca is available via the dropbox link for 3D printing.
Having stored their soul imprints in the coral vaults the coral imparts a unique tattoo formed in biolumience.
Michelle Bollinger, Anna Christy, Jon Dugan
While exploring a VR wilderness sanctuary, Rilaons can choose to meet the Shaman, an imaginary character who recounts Rilaon superstitions to the explorer. If you go through during carnival, the Shaman marks the participant with a VR tattoo that lasts beyond the VR experience.
Alen Catolico, Barbara Rodrigues Mota, Jessica Escobedo, Elizabeth Valmont
The children of indigenous Rilao are superstitious of the Virtual Reality images being fed to them on a daily basis. So much that they have created capes made of coral and tree sap that have the power to block out the virtual images surrounding them. However, they must refrain from wearing the cape for long periods of time to prevent permanent blindness.
Eduardo Ramirez Jr, Bill Redmann, Steve Villa, Pascal Forneri
Coraleen is a parified sculpture made from the bacteria of dead people trapped in a deep catacomb beneath sky ring. the bacteria feeds the synthetic coral which grows the muka tree.
Anne H Lann, O’Shea” Myles
This was really fun! 🙂
While rebuilding a series of STEMs, a tunnel was discovered leading to an arena carved into the hillside. At the center of the arena was an altar carved from the coral, bearing several artifacts labeled with the initials “E.P.” A nested series of locked stone boxes contained a number of vials – doses of antidote for the plague. As these were controlled by the state, the presence of this artifact confirmed the presence of a subversive group, dedicated to a person, one “E.P.”
Pascal Forneri, Steve Villa, Eduardo Ramirez Jr, Bill Redmann
Photograph: Close-up of the innermost box and one surviving vial.
This travel bopok is more inspired by Rilao’s virtual representations of other countries than by actual facts. It reflects the lack of communication with the outside world that Rilaoans had for centuries and that persist to the present. It depicts Africa as one giant country inhabited by one ruling tribe and the United States as a snowy wasteland.
Bill Desowitz, Peter Sapienza
The final project ended up being more of a positive viewbook about the Narrows district
In 1985, Muka oil began flowing through massive pipelines constructed inside the pre-existing catacombs underneath Sky Ring City. The chief architect of this project – Raymond Dunt – disappeared shortly after its completion. His body was never found. This letter, recently translated, shows the anguish and grief felt by his concerned wife.
Byron Laviolette
The original note on this posting suggested that the body had never been found. This was true until recent excavations under the water basin below Sky Ring City discovered a mass grave, composed of bodies ranging in date of death from 1920 to 2059. Dunt’s body was in fact discovered during this excavation and will interned at the upcoming UNESCO/Canadian Ministry of Heritage/ByoLogyc memorial/mausoleum/museum/medical research centre to be located at the heart of the city.
