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Brock // tonicwater

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dandori master // environment artist (lfw!) (he/they) 🇵🇸

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

september #storygraph hopefully october i can finish up some of the non audiobooks I'm chipping away at.

my september storygraph recap. Lists 8 books read, 3246 pages, avg rating 4.38

cover collage of the books I read in September. Titles are: A Trade in Blood, Steering the Craft, Ludluda, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, One Leg on Earth, Enemy Feminisms, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and Canon

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

not a lot of reading while on vacation. Gogmagog might be my favorite fiction read this year so far! #storygraph

My August storygraph. 3 books read, 1004 pages, average rating 4.42

Cover collage for august. Titles include If We Burn, Gogmagog, and Citadel of Fear

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

july #storygraph

My July 2026 story graph recap overview. Text reads 7 books 1976 pages, 4.39 average rating

Cover collage for the books I read in July. Titles include: Braiding Sweetgrass, Revolutionary Suicide, Cheek by Jowl, t zero, My Life (Fidel Castro), The House on the Borderland, Nightmare

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My slower & audiobook only #storygraph month

My June storygraph June wrap up. It lists 6 books read, 2,259 pages, avg. rating 4.33

The cover collage from my June storygraph. Titles include: The Dawn of Everything, Martyr!, Empire of AI, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, how to keep house while drowning, and The Hearing Trumpet

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My May #storygraph - Blood in the Machine was the only non-audio book I managed to get through this month, highly recommend!

My May storygraph recap. It shows 8 books read, 2610 pages, 4.28 average rating

A cover collage of the books I read in May. The titles include Light Bringer, Private Rites, The Galaxy and the Ground Within, Audition, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Roadside Picnic, The Farthest Shore, and Blood in the Machine.

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My April #storygraph

April overview of my Storygraph stats. 12 books read; 4,010 pages, average rating 4.34

A collage of the books I read in April. Titles are: A Drop of Corruption, Dark Age, Eight Billion Genies, Dawn, Pirate Enlightenment or the Real Libertalia, Play Nice, A Closed and Common Orbit, There is No Antimemetics Division, Record of a Spaceborn Few, A Spectre, Haunting, The Communist Manifesto (reread), and The Stone Door

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Here is some of my visualization work (what I'm allowed to show at least). I work a lot in Twinmotion and similar software so a lot of the assets here are premade. Buildings/roads/hard landscape were created by me though! Also work a ton with photogrammetry and point clouds. #PortfolioDay

A rendering of a pool and splash pad. The scene is full of people and heavily shaded by trees. The splash pad has several features spraying water. (Landscape, pavement, and building features modeled by me other assets are from Twinmotion)

A render of a large commercial building with a point cloud overlayed over it. Modeled in SketchUp by me

A render looking down the street of a downtown area. Cars can be seen parked on the sides of the road and driving down it. There is a pink highlighted bike trail on the right side of the image. Pavement and buildings modeled by me, other assets from Twinmotion.

A rendering of a trail through a garden with a large windowed building at the top of a hill behind the garden. A women is sitting on a bench along the trail. The garden has a mix of ornamental flowers as well as plants endemic to the area. Trail, landscape, and building modeled by me. Other assets & vegetation from Twinmotion

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Heyyyyy #PortfolioDay I'm a 3D environment artist from the Midwest (US), currently working in the archviz / civil engineering space. I am looking for work in games though!!

A stylized render of an astronaut looking to the moon in the night sky. There are hills, trees, and a field of grass and cartoonish yellow stars in the sky. The materials of all the elements in the scene are made to look like clay

A render of a blue, sci-fi gas pump. There are yellow screens on the gas pump giving off a glow.

A render of a building facade. The building is made of white bricks with a central green oriel window detailed with molding.

A 3D cartoonish rendering of a humanoid, seafoam green toad in a yellow raincoat. They are standing on a pink background with their hands raised up.

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My #storygraph recap from March. There definitely wasn't a theme to what I read this month if you don't think about it at all.

My March Storygraph Wrap-Up. Lists 9 Books read / 3160 pages / Avg Rating 4.31

Cover collage of the books I read in March. Books include: The Word for World is Forest, The Wretched of the Earth, Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, A People's History of the United States, The Tombs of Atuan, Rakesfall, Iron Gold, Blood Meridian, and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Read a lot last month...books good #storygraph

My February Storygraph Wrap Up. Stats include 8 books read/2761 pages/ 4.25 Av. Rating
Average book length 307 pages; Average time to finish 7 days

A list of the books I finished for February. Includes: "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" By Omar El Akkad, "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers, "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "Golden Sun" by Pierce Brown, "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood, "Morning Star" by Pierce Brown, "Marx at the Arcade" by Jamie Woodcock, and "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

read 45 books last year as part of a goal to read as much as I could in '25, I will make 45 bajillion games this year as a goal of '26

A picture of the covers of 45 books I read in storygraph. Titles include:
Can't Pay Won't Pay, Because Internet, I Robot, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Triumph of the Yuppies, Dungeon Crawler Carl: This Inevitable Ruin, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, Professor Toothy: The Final Lesson, Everything Must Go, The Tainted Cup, The Enchanted, Hellions, In the House in the Dark of the Woods, Blackshirts & Reds, How High We Go in the Dark, Annihilation, Demon Copperhead, Invisible Cities, The Woman in the Dunes, Authority, Acceptance, The AI Con, The Practice The Horizon and The Chain, Absolution, Strange Houses, House of Leaves, Catching the Big Fish, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Underland, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072, Our Wives Under the Sea, The Library at Mount Char, The Dispossessed, Exordia, Alien Clay, The Left Hand of Darkness, The City & The City, S., The Unwomanly Face of War, Against Empire, Invisible Women, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Is a River Alive?, and Doppelganger.

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Abandoned Farm House window, somewhere in rural Nebraska #reference #materialreference #environmentart

A photo of a window inside a decrepit and abandoned farm house. The window has two panes, and it's frame is white with the paint cracked. The glass is not cracked. The walls have many different textures and materials. Near the ceiling is a patterned wallpaper that is white with repeating circles that look slightly like snowflakes. Below that wallpaper is a different pattern that makes its way about a third down of the wall. It is also white, patterned in a tetrominoe of interlocking shapes with a floral design repeating. This wallpaper is heavily damaged to the right of the window (peeling, water damage, stained with a dark color that could be mold). A final set of wallpaper is below that white floral paper - separated by a small white trim - and takes up the remaining two thirds of the wall. It is a solid mint green and is heavily damaged as well, especially below the window frame - exposing plaster and wood boards behind it. You can only partially see the floor but it is covered in detritus like plaster, dirt, and wood boards

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I didn't have my camera settings dialed in so I don't have too many from Philly that turned out #kglw 3/x

Blue & purple lighting on the stage showing Joey, Sarah Hicks, Lucas, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s jamming. Westville Music Bowl 7/30/25

Stu on the flute!! Westville Music Bowl 7/30/25

Joey, Sarah Hicks, Lucas, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with a cool black and white striped background on the screen behind them. Westville Music Bowl 7/30/25

A black and white photo showing Stu, Sarah Hicks, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. TD Pavillion @ The Mann 7/28/25

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Some more tour pics I took from the crowd #kglw 2/x

A hazy picture of Cookie, Stu, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Drawn water drops fall in a line on the screen. Forest Hills Night 1 8/1/25

A black and white photo of KGLW and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s taken from the crowd in the pit. Forest Hills N1 8/1/25

Stu spotlit, holding his guitar over his head. Cookie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s can be seen behind him. Westville Music Bowl 7/30/25

Sarah Hicks and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s killing it on stage. A red glowing screen backlights them. Westville Music Bowl 7/30/25

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Some photos I've snapped on the Symphony tour. I'm having so much fun :) #kglw 1/x

A yellow stage light shines behind Stu, Cookie, and Joey as they all lock in on their guitars. Merriweather Post Pavilion 8/4/25

Stu, Cookie, and Joey silhouetted, similar to the previous image, but less yellow. Merriweather Post Pavilion 8/4/25

KGLW shrouded in blue light, going nuts on their synth table. A small, inflatable gator is mid flight above the crowd. Forest Hills Night 2 8/2/25

a wide shot of KGLW on stage at Forest Hills Night 2. A person in full goblin garb can be seen crowd surfing. 8/2/25

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Tech AI bros are in a cult lmao. ✅ Ambient spa music the entire keynote ✅ Racist orientalism AI imagery ✅ Dehumanizing people as nothing more than "intercognitive computers" ✅ And woowoo science fiction on why it's our destiny to bring "digital beings" (lmao) to the physical world #awe2025

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Brock // tonicwater @thistoad.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Still getting set up here but hello! I'm Brock, I'm an aspiring enviornment artist in the midwest. Currently work with 3D scanning in the surveying field but hoping to join the games industry soon! Outside of that I love reposting pikmin, board games/ttrpgs, & cute art

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