my place by David Gale
Posted in 'Ghostbusters', 'Synecdoche New York', 'The Truman Show', paranoia, simulation, theatre, war on Jun 14th, 2009
This is the final post in a series that begins below with ‘Stage & Screen 1′
In ‘The Truman Show’ (1998) Truman Burbank is the unwitting star of a hugely successful documentary TV show based on his life. The show runs continuously, following Truman from the moment of his birth into adulthood. Truman is completely unaware [...]
Posted in Mondo 2000, Neuromancer, Proust, Second Life, Toyota, Tron, detail, simulation, virtual reality on Dec 4th, 2007
This YouTube film, foregrounded courtesy of Things Magazine, features a slightly overlong tour of the World’s Largest Driving Simulator, built by Toyota. Like the little sweet cake that precipitated seven volumes of Proustian reminiscence, this promotional item provokes memories of the early days of cyberspace when, post-Neuromancer, the technophilic glossy magazine Mondo 2000 slid perfect-bound [...]
Posted in Huysmans, Penguin Classics, canon, completism, simulation on Oct 10th, 2007
I like to read, me. If I don’t do it daily I get a rash and if I don’t go to a bookshop (usually a charity shop) every 48 hours I feel unsettled. I have a lot of books on my shelves and I hope I will be able to read them all. I have [...]
Posted in Second Life, avatar, metaverse, pamper, simulation on Sep 26th, 2007
On Channel 4 News, an interview with Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of vast virtual metaverse ‘Second Life’. He appears to have fair to greyish hair with a spikey fringe. The camera angle was quite low and the lighting was such that Rosedale bore an uncanny resemblance to a well-modelled figure in a computer game. [...]