“You’ve still got the paradigms print gave you, and you’re barely print-literate”
– William Gibson, Neuromancer“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
– J.G. BallardRelated Articles
“Twitter is like little animated hieroglyphics in the margins of a working manuscript, offering obscurely breaking news”
– William Gibson, Twitter.
LINKS 8/1/10-14/1/10
Links etc harvested from my Twitter account.
2010-01-14 23:20:15
ballardian: I’m in love… Vincent Fournier’s photos of the “retrofuturistic space industry”
http://bit.ly/5oKwcp | http://bit.ly/5nMbWE
via @paleofuture
2010-01-14 23:06:16
ballardian: Finally, some sense. Re: Nitin Garg – “On both sides, a lot of hot air and finger pointing – a dialogue of the deaf”
http://bit.ly/5OAkbv
2010-01-14 22:57:26
ballardian: RT @Glinner: seen the blog devoted to exposing ad agencies who copy ideas from the interweb?
http://bit.ly/1VgNdo /via @cslyons
2010-01-14 21:27:37
ballardian: I miss the future… Geoffrey Hoyle’s 2010: Living in the Future children’s book (’72), now digitised:
http://bit.ly/5dxd8u | via @bigstanno
2010-01-13 23:47:13
ballardian: Ballard’s Vermilion Sands…. RT @ethel_baraona: Book Review: Interactive Architecture |
http://tinyurl.com/y8ehh2b /we make money not art
2010-01-13 23:39:31
ballardian: RT @marcusod: Superb visual reporting. Big Picture’s heart-rending insight into the horrors of Haiti
http://bit.ly/7jMwZ3
2010-01-13 22:49:03
ballardian: Nick Sowers & the architecture of war: RT @soundscrapers: The End of the Grand Tour |
http://is.gd/6dtCL | my military travels in 2009
2010-01-13 21:53:24
ballardian: The Sweeney & Brutalism: “a hardhatted transition between decaying, smashed-to-fuck factory & modernist housing regen”
http://bit.ly/5HQZ79
2010-01-13 09:02:39
ballardian: @alanbenzie I’ve got this: http://bit.ly/5NW7Tb. Artemiev revising excerpts from Stalker, Solaris, The Mirror.
2010-01-13 09:00:22
ballardian: @paul_h_williams Yes, the Stanislaw Lem school of alien contact is very different from the James Cameron school!
2010-01-13 08:50:46
ballardian: My house, hopefully. RT @VariousArch @bryanboyer: What will be the 2000s gasometer? Ruins beautiful enough to renovate rather than replace?
2010-01-13 08:46:35
ballardian: My friend visited with his 2-year old daughter. I was playing Artemiev’s Stalker s/track. She wouldn’t stop wailing until it was turned off.
2010-01-13 05:16:29
ballardian: “The baggage reclaim hall was a Ballardian experience, when the arcane support systems of modern life stop working” http://bit.ly/6rBlxp
2010-01-13 02:36:23
ballardian: “Brisbane needs Dubai-scale high rise boom” Wow. Brissie must be the only city still looking to Dubai for inspiration:
http://bit.ly/6Q1Swm
2010-01-13 01:57:41
ballardian: RT @Glinner: Wow. I missed the “effective immediately” part RT @kalimkassam Google.cn now shows Tiananmen tank man pics
http://bit.ly/6jyfA0
2010-01-13 01:49:16
ballardian: RT @mrphoenix: Interview w/ 3rd & 7th creator Alex Roman:
http://bit.ly/5HkokQ
—-> film here for those who missed it:
http://bit.ly/8HU05q
2010-01-12 05:50:56
ballardian: Boo! RT @BoingBoing: Facebook blocks “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine,” now a cease-and-desist reported
http://bit.ly/7Kk8Ec
2010-01-12 05:31:54
ballardian: “Has the Internet changed your thinking?” Eno, Coupland, Dawkins, Shirky, Rucker etc
http://bit.ly/7m631w | http://bit.ly/7C6VfL
via @bruces
2010-01-12 04:31:35
ballardian: Zomia, Asia’s “shattered zone”, a region “deliberately constructed to keep the state at arm’s length”
http://bit.ly/4GEsxX | via @harikunzru
2010-01-12 04:28:35
ballardian: Oh dear, that’s a bit wrong… “Movie-goers feel depressed & suicidal at not being able to visit utopian alien planet”:
http://bit.ly/5y8nK2
2010-01-12 04:11:52
ballardian: More on mythogeogaphy from things magazine: “walking as exhibitionism”
http://bit.ly/63E599
2010-01-12 04:10:18
ballardian: Ha ha! On the other hand: the Web Suicide Machine! “Lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles”
http://bit.ly/5aLtCV
2010-01-12 23:20:50
ballardian: RT: @bengoldacre @iankatz1000: Stop press: Google ends censorship in China
http://bit.ly/7SzeIB
2010-01-12 23:20:00
ballardian: RT @daj42: The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion. Jaron Lanier rethinks “open” information culture {@nytimes}
http://bit.ly/4PYjWs
2010-01-12 22:38:02
ballardian: Must be out of touch: had no idea William Gibson designs bags:
http://bit.ly/kqHas (Check out the comments: who spilt blood in the water?)
2010-01-12 21:51:40
ballardian: “Porn more more valuable than politicians” … porn joins a long list, then…
http://bit.ly/62Pof7
2010-01-12 07:31:45
ballardian: RT @lyndons: Watched Ch9News for 1st time in yrs. Heard the word ‘Aussie’ 20x & only political news seemed to be contents of PM’s winecellar
2010-01-12 07:13:05
ballardian: Albert Speer Jr: “‘The Slums of the 21st Century Are Being Built in Dubai'” [Spiegel] |
http://bit.ly/8B5WkF via @archinect
2010-01-11 05:16:01
ballardian: More on Phil Smith’s mythogeographical process, including ‘mental exercises for sideways walkers’:
http://bit.ly/7a1j41
2010-01-11 05:13:06
ballardian: This is mythogeography, of a sort: Aussie rocker Billy Miller’s guide to old Melbourne footy grounds:
http://bit.ly/6Y6f0z | via @davegraney
2010-01-11 05:09:48
ballardian: Phil Smith’s new book, Mythogeography: Walking Sideways “levels of the city reflected back in the levels of the walker”
http://bit.ly/8rmn47
2010-01-11 05:01:54
ballardian: The Baja coast: “a peaceful getaway or a lawless frontier?”
http://bit.ly/7Keltf | via @centrifugalcity
2010-01-11 04:49:47
ballardian: “Burtynsky has a Ballardian eye for the incongruous, vast machine shapes out of place & time”
http://bit.ly/62wFgZ | http://bit.ly/5rWJL3
2010-01-11 00:22:09
ballardian: I visited Guam & thought there needs to be a film about its 2nd-class US status. And there is:
http://bit.ly/5ahDuy | via @soundscrapers
2010-01-11 00:13:32
ballardian: Man throws 2 bottles of acid from above into crowded Hong Kong tourist spot:
http://bit.ly/4wttpx
2010-01-11 22:49:14
ballardian: Not sure why I am doing this, but here goes: my thoughts on Twitter – “Defending the Indefensible”:
http://bit.ly/7ZzZEp
2010-01-11 22:20:04
ballardian: “Welcome to the age of robot reporters”:
http://bit.ly/6BjX1r
2010-01-11 21:26:32
ballardian: Just what was life like in the UK in ’08? RT @somebadideas: the ancient ley lines of Woolworths
http://bit.ly/7k02bf | via @Richard_Kadrey
2010-01-11 21:21:16
ballardian: RT @GreatDismal: Twitter is like little animated hieroglyphics in the margins of a working manuscript, offering obscurely breaking news.
2010-01-11 20:37:14
ballardian: RT @lyndons: How Twitter was born: the first 140 users – guardian.co.uk
http://bit.ly/7m7cqe
2010-01-11 18:27:22
ballardian: ‘Journicide’ – the well-written story is becoming extinct:
http://bit.ly/4rgBAU
2010-01-11 17:57:29
ballardian: “Porn studios lead the stampede into 3D TV”:
http://bit.ly/83F8lL
2010-01-11 17:44:00
ballardian: Gothik/erotic. RT @johncoulthart: ‘Crash’, Bethany Shorb’s photo series inspired by JGB & The Normal’s Warm Leatherette
http://bit.ly/6YAexA
2010-01-11 13:03:16
ballardian: Last night, I dreamt I raced James Taylor for pinks.
2010-01-11 12:46:29
ballardian: Weird uplifting timeshifting downbeat phased Carl Sagan/Stephen Hawking lock-loop mashup:
http://bit.ly/L4WZg | via @paleofuture
2010-01-11 12:32:50
ballardian: Die Dubai, die… RT @LittleMonsta: Trailers for video game set in a Dubai reclaimed by the desert
http://j.mp/4ZBuij | http://j.mp/4nn3tW
2010-01-11 10:59:35
ballardian: RT @factmagazine: BBC’s Brian Eno documentary premieres this month:
http://bit.ly/52SYau
2010-01-11 10:09:44
ballardian: RT @bigstanno: Assault on Precinct 13 “I’ve got a plan, it’s called save ass. We jump out that window and run like a bastard” BEST LINE EVER
2010-01-10 23:43:12
ballardian: Radiophonic legends… rare photo of Delia Derbyshire & Daphne Oram, taken by Malcolm Clarke:
http://bit.ly/774QRY
2010-01-10 21:34:44
ballardian: Could you make it with Roxxxy? Sex robot with articulated skeleton, built-in cooling system and five personailities:
http://bit.ly/5e8GU8
2010-01-10 12:16:28
ballardian: “A bridge between imagination and reality must be built” – Raoul Vaneigem
2010-01-10 12:07:39
ballardian: “Piece now!” Watched Weather Underground doco. Fascinating period of history. Will follow up w/ a viewing of Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park.
2010-01-09 06:17:41
ballardian: Dr George Miller: from Mad Max to Babe & Happy Feet…. strangest career trajectory of any director?
2010-01-08 23:21:41
ballardian: Hey, all of you who like abandoned utopias, post-civilisation ruins & Ballardian malls in disrepair, visit Second Life!
http://bit.ly/7I2IAw
2010-01-08 23:08:42
ballardian: RT @theauteursdaily: Viewing (2’27”). RED RIDING trilogy, HD, opens w/blurb from @kpunk99:
http://bit.ly/5DN49J
2010-01-08 22:12:09
ballardian: Finally saw District 9. Wow! It’s not perfect, but it is GREAT. Owns Avatar. Oh, for a parallel universe where D9 rakes in a billion bucks.
2010-01-08 09:31:17
ballardian: Two reverse perspectives on the Nitin Garg murder, from within both countries involved:
http://bit.ly/8lCl6q | http://bit.ly/7eCnEd
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