Almond's work is captivating and seductive but his more recent series, of The Callanish Stones and Perito Mereno glacier, lack the depth and impact of his Full Moon series.
For his Full Moon series, taken in Patagonia and Cape Verde, where Darwin's ship The Beagle stopped on its great voyage of discovery, Almond shot by the light of a full moon.
This affected the Moon Hoax directly, as Goodman notes, for within a few weeks the Sun offered a "curious apologia for the moon series: it had provided a welcome respite from the nationwide conflict over slavery".
Instrumental in this technical evolution back then was Tatyana Grossman, who encouraged and guided him as he made prints at her workshop, Universal Limited Art Editions, on Long Island; he also began a long relationship with the Gemini G.E.L. workshop in Los Angeles, producing lithographs like the 1970 "Stoned Moon" series, with its references to the moon landing.
Created by lone coder Eric Barone, it's an exploration of, and alternative to, the Harvest Moon series, allowing the player free rein to set up a farm, pursue relationships, and take on quests as the seasons pass in a flood of colour and whimsy.
One of the largest will be Rauschenberg's towering Sky Garden, more than 2 metres tall, an explosion of joyful colour from his Stoned Moon series when he was invited by Nasa to go to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of the Apollo 11 mission.
I will forever be amused that Natsume, creators of Wild Guns, was also the studio behind the Harvest Moon series.
Among the more positive reactions, Casamassina assessed the cleaning mechanics as "very fun and very rewarding", while Kumar compared the game to the Harvest Moon series due to both entities convert seemingly boring tasks into something fun.
The Broken Moon series is a classic horror story set in an apocalyptic future where destruction of the moon has caused all manner of nasty monsters to spring forth.
I absolutely respect if IP owners aren't down with this and would prefer we not profit off of their work because there were hundreds of animation artists who created the original Sailor Moon series on their own from Naoko Takeuchi's manga.
