a most excellent design for gibsons neuromancer
April 23, 2011 #
A most excellent design for Gibson’s Neuromancer.
A most excellent design for Gibson’s Neuromancer.
"Artificial intelligences will use deep-structure pattern-recognition, predictive modeling, and information theory to ensure each new trance state is popular enough to get upvoted on the hottest content-ranking platforms. "
An essay on a haunted house/mansion in New Orleans with accompanying ghostly photographs.
"first overview of the lifework of Angus MacLise, an American artist, poet, percussionist, and composer active in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and Kathmandu from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. Best known as the original drummer of the Velvet Underground, MacLise’s lifework included music, calligraphy, performance art, poetry, drawings, plays, and limited edition artist’s books."
Porteur bicycles used by Parisian newspaper delivery men. They piled 100 pounds of papers on the big front racks, many commissioned custom built porteur bikes from Alex Singer, Goeland or other great constructeurs.
The radiance through darkness of Bill Orcutt’s playing one night last June in Berkeley, CA.
Discussing Colonial Africa in 2010 via digging for African pop records in various genres and countries.
s24o is an abbreviation for sub-twenty-four-overnight, a style of bicycle camping promoted by Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works as an easy way to spend more time outside on a bike.Unlike conventional touring, the s24o encourages going on short (sub twenty-four hour) camping trips.
Atop sheets at home stay in Ubud, Bali, a sarong lain across my feet to keep them cool. Do the songs I hear outside mimic the fluttering voice of the local birds, the local bugs, the local frogs? The swell of avian chorus gives way to a mirrored cluster of ringing bells. Practicing Balinese gamelan next door plays counterpoint and harmony with the opera of nightly birdsong and insect pulse. I’m lulled into sleep and and then step out of dreams with starling morningsong and a stadium of roosters announcing the next day.
Flying to Bangkok via Beijing (formerly Peking) aboard an Air China Airbus, in the middle of some forgettable American Jennifer Anniston film (ok, ok, I was enjoying Bounty Hunter), the projected-VHS image stopped and a brief intermission of an exercise video began. Simple stretching to enliven and then cool down our twelve-hour-flight ground bodies. Not everyone joined, but I enjoyed glancing around the plane to see the mostly-Chinese passengers engaging in this halfway-mark stretch and break. From our seats, we engaged our muscles, sat up straight for the first time in hours, and mimicked the video’s attractive couple as they stretched in front of the Great Wall and that strange aquatics complex from the Beijing Olympics. Earlier in the flight I saw (and then joined) groups of passengers occupying empty spaces in the plane (in front of lavatories, empty galleys, exit door rows) engaging in similar exercises. I practiced the Swimming Dragon warm-up exercises, thinking to myself that there was something very Chinese about body- and health-minded activities integrated into everyday life. Now served some green tea, and OH, the movie continues…