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If you don’t mind flying a ship that will blow up at a moment’s notice, join the Empire and fly a Tie Fighter.
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Cover art for “The Wreck of the River Stars,” a novel by Michael F. Flynn.
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Full Afterburner
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P-38 Lightning
Nasa History
Science Fiction World
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Los Angeles the City in Cinema
Blade Runner’s future noir, proto-cyberpunk vision of a Los Angeles both post-industrial and re-industrial, both first-world and third-world, has remained in the more than 30 years since its unsuccessful first run the definitive image of the city’s future. Using a combination of studio backlots, scale models, matte paintings, and actual Los Angeles architectural landmarks, the film imagines a retrofitted, Japanified Babel of a megalopolis that, through the name of the film, still stands for a thoroughly realized dystopia - and, increasingly, a tantalizing one.
The video essays of “Los Angeles, the City in Cinema” examine the variety of Los Angeleses revealed in the films set there, both those new and old, mainstream and obscure, respectable and schlocky, appealing and unappealing - just like the city itself.
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Listening Post is an art installation by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens. Listening Post cycles through a series of six movements, each a different arrangement of visual, aural, and musical elements, each with it’s own data processing logic. Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, Listening Post is a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.
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Blade Runner, 1982
