Cosmic Country Noir

A host for all of my projects on the internet. Check out my various projects above.

Updates:

2/19/2024: The card Death represents incredible, unavoidable change, and new beginnings. How fitting.

1/29/2024: A huge update today, though it's not particularly apparent. I've fixed the mobile layouts of the website, so all the riddles should appear in the correct order now. Huzzah! Additionally, The I Spy Retrospective Appendix is up!

1/6/2024: Happy New Year! For Christmas this year, I got covid! So while I was isolating in my room, I made a very janky visualize that's vaguely new years themed! Check it out!

10/24/2023: It's here. The final retrospective, on Treasure Hunt is here! We've reached the end!

8/6/2023: OOOoooOOOOOOoooOOO... it's a Spooky Night Retrospective...

6/22/2023: Back to school already?! It always bothered me as a kid when back to school ads came on in like, July. Anyways, here's the I Spy School Days Retrospective!

6/18/2023: It's taken a while, it feels like an age. Without hesitation, let us turn the page. It took so long, it felt so far, without further ado, here is The Star!

5/15/2023: I posted the fantasy retrospective and entirely forgot to put something on the front page. Oops.

4/4/2023: I'm back! Apparently I can only update the landing page every other essay. The I Spy Mystery Retrospective is finally done!

12/24/2022: Merry Christmas, to one and all! My next retrospective, on I Spy Christmas is now up!

10/26/2022: Through the haze of mist and illusions, an image forms, constructed of numerous visions. It's The Moon!

8/30/2022: It's a double update today! Who Goes First has a set of about fourty new prompts! Additionally, Temperance is finally here!

6/23/2022: Get ready for a hot summer, because The Sun is out!

6/17/2022: It's photo time, and this set is simply dreamy. Take a look at the Nightopia Skyline... also in HDR form too.

6/8/2022: Here somes more sweets, because The Smorgasbord of Sweets has a new riddle! Additionally, there's a new gallery in The Two Cities! It's the Mystery Gallery! Please enjoy the new urban scenes!

5/30/2022: I hope you're hungry because here comes The Smorgasbord of Sweets! Just don't eat too much, or you might get sick.

5/5/2022: A bunch of miscellanous projects have gone up now, including a very silly novelty. Have you ever had trouble figuring out who should go first when playing a board game? Here's Who Goes First? A generator of countless means of deciding who goes first.

4/24/2022: After a bit of a bumpy shoot, it's time for the next tarot card! The Tower is here! And it's different.

4/15/2022: On this wonderful spring day, it's time for a new alt riddle! The Deluge of Dice has a new riddle!

3/27/2022: It's the launch of a glorious new project! Coming next from this ridiculous team, it's The Deluge of Dice! The first of a new series, Visualize The...

2/26/2022: Every month is pride month here at the Cosmic Country Noir project! Justice is up! Woooo!

1/30/2022: The Suit of Swords is up! OPEN THE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!

1/5/2022: Happy new year!!! In honor of the new year, the Explore Section has been updated! Go check it out! There might even be a secret visualize there.

12/27/2021: The Day has arrived. Judgment day. For serious. XX: Judgment is up!

11/28/2021: It's heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere! The Suit of Wands is here now! Huzzah!

11/18/2021: Today is the proper launch of the explore section! Explore is meant to eventually replace the giant nature photos page. With this, there's a new photo show! Journey Across Grantucket Isle is now up! Please enjoy these photos from the summer that I finally got around to editing.

10/21/2021: Three new things today! First, there's two new galleries in the Twin Cities: The Depths of Night, and Urban Skyscapes! Additionally, The Suit of Cups has a new riddle up! Enjoy!

10/13/2021: There's a bunch of new stuff today! Some new photos have appeared in The Abyss of Memory! In particular, there's some new macro photos from a spectacular morning excursion. Additionally, The Hanged Man has a new riddle! More photos going up soon!

10/4/2021: The Hanged Man is up. That's not what you think it is. The Hanged Man is an old medieval symbol not really used anymore meant to symbolize a pause, like a guy just kind of hanging around.

10/2/2021: Happy Treasure Hunt Day! In honor of the occasion, I've written an essay about the magic of I Spy Treasure Hunt! Enjoy!

9/20/2021: A small update today! First, there's a little photo show up, an experimental little one from earlier in the summer. It's in a gallery in Grant Harbor, showing Skyscapes! Additionally, The Devil now has an another riddle!

8/30/2021: Visualize The Tarot: Volume 2 has begun! The first photo this time is The Devil!

8/27/2021: There's more! A new photo show is up, featuring views of my new city, and there's even a new riddle for The Hermit! Check the riddle selector for it!

8/8/2021: A few things new are up now! From a mysterious isle, the views of R Harbor are now visible! Additionally, The Wheel of Fortune has a new riddle up! Enjoy!

7/16/2021: I simply cannot believe it! The Wheel of Fortune is up! This marks the halfway mark of the Visualize: The Tarot project!

7/12/2021: One of the first planned Visualize photos has arrived. The Hermit is here!

7/3/2021: It's here! The next Visualize! It's the Suit of Cups! An emotional photo!

6/27/2021: I have an interesting little photo set to display. This is a collection of photos using my new macro lens. Why is the URL so weird? I'm also working on some other projects that this is secretly a part of. Enjoy!

5/31/2021: It's finally here! Strength is finally up!

5/12/2021: The Appendix is finally up! With that, the World of Cards series is formally complete.

5/9/2021: The final World of Cards picture is upon us. Visualize: The Gathering is here! Huzzah!

5/8/2021: Visualize: The Red is up! The second to last of the World of Cards!

5/4/2021: Visualize: The Green is up! Every day is earth day on Cosmic Country Noir!

5/1/2021: I certainly hope you haven't buried the light, because Visualize: The Light is up! If you have, in fact, buried the light, I recommend you disinter the light.

4/25/2021: The next phase in The World of Cards is back! Visualize: The Dark is up!

4/17/2021: The World of Cards is back! Visualize: The Artifice is now up! This is one of the most effort things I've put up on the website in a long time. It may look minor, but it has some new functionality that are an indication of how these will work in the future. Additionally Visualize: The Strange Creatures is now public.
Bonus update: I've implemented a secrets page, where you can see all of the secrets you've found.

4/1/2021: April Fools as a holiday is fun in moderation. With that in mind, Visualize: The Runes from the Screaming Depths of my Mind is up!

3/22/2021: All hail the king, as Visualize: The Emperor has arrived! This has been my most demanding visualize photo yet. Please enjoy!

3/7/2021: I've been working on this project for months now, and I finally have something to share. The introduction to my new Martial Arts Fantasy RPG setting is up in the writing section! Additionally, Visualize: The Duel is no longer secret! This means that a new World of Cards photo has been hidden somewhere! Where ever could it be?

2/14/2021: Happy Valentine's Day! In honor of the day, The Lovers has a new riddle!

2/10/2021: The About Section has been updated! I discuss the photo process there, now. Take a look at my horrible tangle of wires that is a setup! Hehehehehehehe. And there's a hidden visualize too.

2/2/2021: Love is in the air! Visualize: The Lovers is up!

1/31/2021: A lot has changed. Make sure you refresh the page in the browser, because the entire internal layout of the website has changed. You may not see changes on the frontend, but a lot has been reorganized to make things more clear. Next, the Games section has been added! Check out a bunch of my game projects, including both some tabletop and digital games! Additionally, under that section, there are the solutions to the puzzles I put up around mid-January. Finally, under the Visualize banner, there's an entire new photo series. Well, kind of. Visualize: The War and Visualize: The Blue are formally up now, with the official launch of Visualize: The World of Cards! Check those out if you didn't end up finding them through the puzzles.

1/20/2021: There's one more weird new page! It's The Vault! Let's just say that there's more than meets the eye in the vault.

1/18/2021: There's a brand new visualize! The Hierophant is up with two riddles under Visualize: The Tarot! Additionally, there's a Visualize: The Tarot cover page, that explains some of the rules and has some further links about the project, in addition to explaining the naming conventions for the riddle types. Also, the Arcane riddles with difficult items have been updated with links that explain what those items are, so anybody can complete those riddles. Check out the updated Magician: Arcane to see how this works!

1/9/2021: It's a big update this time! I have my final christmas vizualize for the season, Christmas Tree! I'm quite proud of this one as it's my first visualizes with a sub-game! Additionally, The Chariot has a new riddle, submitted by one of the original riddle writers for the visualize project. Take a look!
Finally, I've put up more nature photos, including a few new series: The Water and The Harbor. I've been sitting on these for a while, and I hadn't put them up because I didn't have series for them, but I do now! Enjoy!

1/6/2021: I've put up some new nature photos, complete with a new series: The Sky Ablaze. I've been able to capture a lot of really incredible sunsets, so I hope you enjoy them.

1/2/2021: It's the ninth day of Christmas, it's not too late for me to actually put up a Christmas visualize. Christmas Shelf is now up under Visualize: Visions!

1/1/2021: I'm going to start actually posting updates on the homepage now! Woo! My next essay is up! It's about Sonic CD and is in the writing section.