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New video out: KONTRAPUNKT

A video about the shores and islands we're bound to return to again, and again, and again.

Hi gang!It's been a while since my last update - as per usual -, I'd like to apologize for prevalent radio-silence.TL;DR: Moved house, quit job, considering opening a Silent Hill-themed B&B.So,I did sound for a local theater production, which consumed most of my evenings this summer. We moved from shore to shore, and I simultaneously quit my job of almost a decade. So now I live in the middle of nowhere, in a town which feels like a post-...

Why Bother With Video Games?

What If your last words were: "My only regret is I didn't platinum Dark Souls 2!"This one got kinda weird... Hope you enjoy it!Now... Tired. Talk more to you soon!As always, thank you for your support! It means The world to me.- Benni

Empty Worlds And The Beasts Who Roam Them

New video out! Hope you enjoy it! It's late, I'll write something more tomorrow!E: I like how this one turned out, the vibe I managed to convey. I might still do some slight adjustments 'till I release this into the wild - maybe some audio related stuff - but here it is for you to enjoy!I hesitate to call my texts as "prose" but there are some phrases here and there I'm particulary pleased with. It's nice to feel at ti...

Updates: Good news and bad news

Hi folks! Sorry for the long radio silence!First things first; new video should be out in a couple of weeks. And about god damn time for that!This will be very much your "standard Arcane Workshop video": good games, weird anecdotes, daddy issues, overtly melodramatic passages. I have a good feeling about this one, unlike......Updates:Sorry for the lack of videos for the last few months, been little overwhelmed with personal stuff. Nothing...

Sometimes things don't work out

TL;DR: I abandoned a video idea mid-production and now as a sucky pre-christmas present you get to listen to the raw audio.-Some time ago I finished Neon Genesis Evangelion with my teenage daughter (I try my best to see she's cultured proper) and so after End of Evangelion the plan was to watch The Rebirth-series.I myself had never seen the new Evangelion-movies, and decided to check them out before watching them with my daughter.And I was a ...

The Men Who Gave Birth To The 20th Century

So it's finally done. The last one of my older videos! Yay! We are done with the old stuff and from now on it's just new material! \o/This text has always had a special place in my heart - don't really know why.I don't think it's one my best videos or texts, but the way these two stories remind each other is eery. I have this feeling like I'm onto something here - but don't really know what that something is tbh. :DBut...

The Song at the End of All Time (Patreon Remake)

So this remake is a bit of a bust for you Patrons, truth be told;The footage used is all old, so other than the audio quality and some minor visual changes, there isn't that much to see here if you've already seen the older version of the video.But here's the catch: I struggled with the pacing of this - actually I always struggle with the pacing of my videos; finding the balance between fluency, interrest, length, depth and all the sm...

The Difficulty of Difficulty

Here's the reworked version of one my videos from last year.The two remaining will be out soon, and along side them I'll have few things to bring up and announce.Hope you enjoy the new version, and those starved of truly new content; hang in there! We've almost out of the Woods!Though the remakes have taken a huge chunk out my free time, I've been writing stuff this whole spring I'm really excited about!As always, thank you fo...

The Gods to Whom You Can Not Pray

The reworked version of this old video is now done! I also lost my room and had to improvise somewhat with the narration parts, hence The melodramatic pitch black room... I kinda like it, let me know what you think; do you enjoy this more than the classic face-towards-the-camera-type-stuff?The remaining three remakes will be done in a week or so and then it's finally just new material from then on! I hyped about the upcoming videos! Have pati...

When Things Break

New video out!A collection of short texts around the notion of "when things go the way they're not supposed to", be it gameplay, a narrative trope or even reality itself.As always, thank you for your support! It means a lot!Ps. Due to copyright claims this video is unavailable in Russia so, it might get snatched away by the algorithm somewhere else also... But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.Fingers crossed!

Short Update

The script is done,the voice-over recorded,the footage gathered.Now only editing of this madness remains. One hour of weirdness is hopefully done by the end of June!"When Things Break", out soon!

New-Old video out!

Hi folks!Here's the reworked version of the NieR: Automata video I made few years ago.It was one of the first videos I made so this one has a special place in my heart.Next up is a brand new video, after which I'll return to rework the older ones.The script is almost done, just some minor edits here and there. Hope enjoy this one and have a good one!- Benni

New old videos + Update

Hi guys,This month started with a writing exercise, which lead to a voice over exercise, and then things got out of hand:I remade bunch of my old videos and here are the four first one's:The Most Important Journey:https://youtu.be/QyzhJT6nlZcThe Most Frightening Sentence in the English language:https://youtu.be/ish1AD3NLhsOf Beasts and Men:https://youtu.be/OwiD_k8N3pcTo Mend A Broken Heart:https://youtu.be/GBGYe3MUzrII'll still put togeth...

New edit of the new video out!

So, here's the - hopefully - final version of the new video.

Oopsie!

As I posted earlier this morning, I made a slight booboo and messed up the patron-list at the end of the new video.Even though none of my patrons seemed to mind the error, it kept nagging me the whole morning so I decided:I'm going to keep the video private 'till I can upload the new fixed version. Until then everyone can watch the video with the link I provided in the original post. I'll put up a new link when I've uploaded the f...

Originality, The Meaning of Life and... Frozen 2!?

This one's been a long time coming. The text is one of my favourites to date and I've been dabling with it for a better part of a year, but I just couldn't SEE the video in any way. Truth be told; I was struggling with the visual side throughout the whole thing. Even now I'm not sure if it's anything coherrent visually.Now we'll just have to wait how long it takes for YouTube to take down the video due to some Disney-relat...

The Long Wait For Elysium

New video out! A video about Greek Gods, Disco Elysium, voices within our heads and invisible gorillas. Hope you find it worth you time!Thanks for your support, it means a lot to me!All the best,- Benni

Games That Hide Their Best Moments

A video about moments hidden and stories untold. Sometimes you just want to talk about video games.Hope you enjoy the video!

Quick Update

Hi friends! I've been writing like mad for the last couple of months (and playing unreasonable amounts of Elden Ring). I've got two, three maybe four scripts almost finished, and as of writing this, I'm about hit record for the voice over for the first upcoming video.I'm travelling this weekend and, after that I'll start editing together the video. Hopefully I'll have something to show to you by the end of the month, or ea...

The Song at The End of All Times

This video started its life as a simple list of video game music moments I've found awesome... But then Outer Wilds happened and brought with it this whole tangent of childlike wonder and awe - which led to the rabbithole of my own childhood and things akin to it.This one got weird... Be forewarned.I hope you find the video worthwhile your time!PS. This one was a joy to write but a real nightmare-of-a-timesink to edit an bring together. So wh...

Summer Update

Hi folks!A quick update what's going on with me:I have a couple of videos in the works but 'unfortunately' - considering the scripts and the intended structure of the videos - they're kinda 'out there'. Which means, it's propably gonna take time to finish these even on an orderly fashion. So the "one video, one month, maybe" timeline I've tried to maintain is propably not going to stick for the rest of this...