I KEEP THE THINGS THAT STAY WITH ME.
Keepsakes & Memories
Films · Consoles · Discs & Cartridges · Tickets
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Introduction // arcadeghost
A Habit of Holding On
arcadeghost is someone who has always had a habit of holding on to things. Films watched more than once.
Games that never quite left. Old cartridges, ticket paraphernalia, discs, and other small palimpsest
pieces of the past.
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He isn't a critic or a collector trying to document everything with liminal precision. He simply
remembers certain oneiric things more clearly than others, an anamnesis of lived media.
FrameSave is a place for those things — a personal archive of films, games, and mnemonic moments that
stayed with him.
"Not trying to document everything. Just keeping the things that stayed."
— arcadeghost
Reflections // Cinema & Consoles
Films, Games, and Physical Keepsakes
He has always enjoyed films and cinema—the quiet oneiric anticipation of a dark auditorium, that
chiaroscuro hush before diegesis begins, and the feeling you carry home long after the credits roll.
Along with cinema, he grew up playing games and has always had a soft spot for older consoles and
tactile physical media.
Certain films, games, sounds, and objects naturally become attached to memories like ephemera in a
reliquary. An old cartridge on a shelf, a faded ticket stub, or the opening nocturne melody of a title
screen can bring back a specific room, a rainy afternoon, or a time in life that felt distinct and
hauntological.
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He isn't trying to document everything. FrameSave is simply his personal tessellated place to keep the
things that stayed meaningful.