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Posts by Justin Hellstrom

1434 – Salt Bloom | Crossover – Sleep With Me

Our second crossover with the Sleep With Me podcast is out now! Listen to Scooter's very sleepy edition of Salt Bloom over on the Sleep With Me feed, and keep an eye out for a unique release on Bandcamp in the coming weeks. 👀

www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/1434-salt-bl...

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A generated edit of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom boxart with a logo that reads:
'I NEED WORK AND ALSO MONEY
PLEASE HIRE ME 
I WROTE A BOOK AND EVERYTHING'

A generated edit of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom boxart with a logo that reads: 'I NEED WORK AND ALSO MONEY PLEASE HIRE ME I WROTE A BOOK AND EVERYTHING'

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No Kings - No Executioners

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Two dudes in a halved bull costume taking a smlke break

Two dudes in a halved bull costume taking a smlke break

A fun SXSW poster I made while trapped in the liminal hellscape of Austin airport's South Terminal

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Never posted the full trailer for Salt Bloom here! Follow a curious oceanic probe on a lifeless ocean world.

An hour long audiodrama + OST + artbook over at Local Files Club on Bandcamp: localfilesclub.bandcamp.com/album/salt-b...

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Writer and sound designer wearing a shirt printed with his oceanic robot audiodrama cover

Writer and sound designer wearing a shirt printed with his oceanic robot audiodrama cover

Not at GDC:: but will be at SXSW & Podcast Movement this weekend. Come say hi and chat about robots, robot sounds, all the sounds.

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Put an ant in his apartment.
Put another ant in his apartment.
Put two more ants in his apartment.
When he looks for more cut the power.
Another ant. Another ant. Another ant.

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Aquatic rover holding its arm up to bandcamp logo on a salt swept seashore

Aquatic rover holding its arm up to bandcamp logo on a salt swept seashore

It's Bandcamp Friday: which means 100% of sales go right to artists and labels!

Help us spawn more robots, tea and audiodrama over at localfilesclub.bandcamp.com

(I made it lime green with some symbols from Marathon, because hooray the game is finally out too!)

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A social graphic with (clockwise): the Salt Bloom cover art, the text Bandcamp Friday March 6, the Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop cover art, and the Local Files Club logo

A social graphic with (clockwise): the Salt Bloom cover art, the text Bandcamp Friday March 6, the Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop cover art, and the Local Files Club logo

It's Bandcamp Friday! The friday that Bandcamp waives their fees and 100% of your purchase goes to the artists and labels. If you haven't bought your copy of Salt Bloom or Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop yet, today is the day.

Find them both on Bandcamp: localfilesclub.bandcamp.com

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Woot woot woot - beep beep boop - thanks for tunin in 🌊🤖

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I followed my heart & listened to lots of new stuff & was particularly thrilled by @scratchybananas.bsky.social's #SALTBLOOM & @oldermodal.bsky.social's #MRSSHIPTONSTRAVELINGTEASHOP. Really love the direct to consumer approach from @localfiles.club. Will have much more to say next week. Love y'all.

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Ay it is tough to let everything go and rest as long as you need, but its the only thing that I've found to work - or be sustainable for my psyche

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omg thank you thank you thank you everyone!! 🙏😭 the game made enough to pay for the Steam listing.
“she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died” is coming to Steam! 🎉✨

2 months ago 60 14 0 1

I’m sure a certain subset of online shitheads is ecstatic right now, but what happened to highguard — and the many people who worked on it — is tragic. we can’t keep making games like this. a more sustainable approach is literally the only way forward

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To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...

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Today my little aquatic probe scifi audiodrama went live. Super thankful for everyone who has listened so far and supported me and this weird robot. There is extra cool art stuff in the Bandcamp download too. Thanks again, and happy Friday ya'll.

localfilesclub.bandcamp.com/album/salt-b...

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Salt Bloom, by Justin Hellstrom 22 track album

SALT BLOOM is here! Get your copy of @scratchybananas.bsky.social's sci-fi mini-epic, including the full soundtrack and a twelve-page illustrated art book, over on Bandcamp: localfilesclub.bandcamp.com/album/salt-b...

2 months ago 5 2 1 0
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I'll be hanging out while my little robot burbles around an ocean planet - go RSVP so we can hang!

2 months ago 2 1 0 0

Shoo missed it - anyway to catch a recording?

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Seventy-year old man with white beard in dark wool hat and dark glove walks from the right out of a concentrated cloud of smoke, with a stark bare branch young tree in front of him and two red decorative pavement markers to either side.

Seventy-year old man with white beard in dark wool hat and dark glove walks from the right out of a concentrated cloud of smoke, with a stark bare branch young tree in front of him and two red decorative pavement markers to either side.

Theia Chatelle's amazing photograph of Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis...emerging from a cloud of tear gas. Signed there a couple of times, great SF/Fantasy bookstore.

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5 questions with Justin Hellstrom The mastermind behind Salt Bloom tells us how he ends conversations at parties

I have a little interview about my weird process and weird inspirations. My folder system is a bonafide nightmare 🐙🐙🐙

www.localfiles.club/5-questions-...

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RSS or Not? Podcasthon, Edison's latest reports, Transom x Blue Mountain, casting calls, Harvey in Hell, Petrified news and more Plus, recording at SXSW, share your show with a tap, subscription revenue models, AIR's New Voices Amplify program, and more

Thank you to Fiction Podcast Weekly for including SALT BLOOM in “Launches and Milestones” this week! If you’re not already signed up, make sure to subscribe to stay up to date on all things audiodrama. fiction-podcast-weekly.beehiiv.com/p/rss-or-not...

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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

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Got some some ocean robot anime in the works.

3 months ago 2 1 0 0
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Not sure - but given all the AI job postings for writers and artists to train specific LLMs, and how many seem to hit over 100 applicants in just an hour or two, it doesn't look or feel great.

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THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD leaflet. Visit UVW-CWA.org!

THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD leaflet. Visit UVW-CWA.org!

Come by the Peacock terrace and get a leaflet, or digitally spread them around online!

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Why not: first line + the cat who didn't eat me (yet).

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Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop, by Skadi's Symphony 21 track album

Counting down the days until Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop crashes into an audio player near you... our first release is out this Friday! Pre-order it today to get the files as soon as humanly possible.
localfilesclub.bandcamp.com/album/ms-shi...

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