It's interesting to me

[6744c55a38bd5fox]

Nice interview! Interesting tidbit about that Acronym-jacket mentioned there: you'll find an Acronym-coat at the beginning of Mankind Divided in Jensen's apartment and an email telling him that his order from Berlin arrived.

And yes, we do live in an eerily cyberpunkish world right now. Also there's no doubt at all that real life inventions and developments were frequently motivated by science fiction storys, with the "naturalistic" near future visions of authors like Gibson, Stephenson & Co right on top of the list.

[6744c55a38eb8Kolya]

From the wikipedia article about Lyle Talbot:
"She was 20, and he was a 46-year-old past-his-prime actor with a drinking problem. The couple had four children together and remained married for more than forty years until her death in 1989."

Sunday morning coffee spilled.

[6744c55a390cfKolya]

NYC cars 1974-1976 by Langdon Clay

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-cars-ruled-the-night-new-york-city-1974-1976
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2016/dec/03/portraits-new-york-city-cars-langdon-clay

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[6744c55a392f3fox]

Neuromancer - The complete BBC radio broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRxn3pDMCc4

"CYBERPUNK" - a 1990 documentary by Marianne Trench about the cyberpunk culture and it's aspects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRwU9zJcT60

[6744c55a3944aKolya]

Beastie Boys Sabotage tribute comic by Derek Langville
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[6744c55a395bbKolya]

Putting it all together.

//1920x1080 version for my laptop added
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[6744c55a39a27RocketMan]

Yeahhhhhhhh!!! [does twirly thing with thumb and pinky finger]

[6744c55a39bdefox]

Straight out of a pulp story...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3921222/The-Beast-gets-upgrade-Leaked-pictures-secret-testing-reveal-Donald-Trump-s-presidential-armored-car-ready.html

But doesn't seem quite so unreasonable after all...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/20/anti-donald-trump-activists-try-block-access-inauguration/

[6744c55a39d3afox]

"The RPG Scrollbars: Richard Garriott’s autobiography"
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/06/explore-create-richard-garriott-autobiography-review/#more-424751

[6744c55a39e87Kolya]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCQeFX9GSg
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[6744c55a3a0aaKolya]

I've been quite interested in instant photography for about a year now. I bought a camera, made quite a lot of photos, experimented, read up on Polaroid history, current cameras and films and ...
The point is: Is there anyone else here into this subject? I think there's a lot to discuss, eg Fuji's planned square format which will hark back to the old Polaroid days, tricks and tips and the fascination that a unique analogue photo holds in the age of digital reproduction.

//Also apparently these guys are creating a cheap steam punky instant camera named Jollylook.
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[6744c55a3a259fox]

No but I like the spur of the moment approach to photography. Personally, I've been wanting to start with macro-photography for quite some time now but never really find the time and also not the money for an appropriate camera lens. It's one of those "for later" projects.

[6744c55a3a4b5Kolya]

I finished watching the anime series Kids on the slope today. It's directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and the music is by Yoko Kanno, both of whom worked in the same positions on Cowboy Bebop. But only Kanno really delivers here.
The series itself is about 3 Japanese highschool kids and their cringeworthy melodramatic hyper-repressed feelings. While the animation is great, the only fun parts are when they play Jazz together. Kanno's hand is obvious here and many a fine music tip is dropped when they sample old Jazz records.

Otherwise it is as clichéd and conservative as it gets. I can't count how often I sat there and yelled "Oh my god! Just talk to each other!". But of course they keep guessing each others motivations - usually wrong - and slapping people when they should be hugging. 
But it gets worse. There's an attempted rape which is only averted when the girl provides an explanation of why the the guy is trying to rape her. This is painted as awfully romantic. Then there's a side character who is clearly marked as gay and of course he's flamboyant, shallow, scheming and annoying.
At least they avoided a happy end. But still: WTF Watanabe? You used to be cool.

[6744c55a3a6bfKolya]

I'm registered in some kind of neighborhood social network site. Usually I avoid social networks like the pest but with the people living nearby I can see some value to it. Anyway, some woman posted there that they "lost a right children's shoe (exactly like in the figure)".
The figure showed a left shoe.

So I sat there feeling my inner ZB slowly taking over. I knew I shouldn't correct her. I know exactly what she meant and everyone else will too. But ... it's wrong! Arrrgh.
I started to compose a reply with no real intention of sending it, as I sometimes do ("The figure shows a left shoe. But I can somewhat imagine the right one.") And then I accidentally sent it. There's some fucking shortcut on that site - Shift+Return I think? - that sends a post. Now everyone will avoid me in my part of town. People will change to the other side of the street saying: "There's THAT guy." What have I done? Help!

[6744c55a3a7fffox]

*slowly backs away*

I know the urge to correct others and made an ass out of myself before too. Live and learn, you know the drill.

[6744c55a3aa95Join2]

It's probably fine to casually correct such a mistake face to face in conversation and have a little chuckle then forget about, but online social media that shit is a little more permanent, like a dumbass tag tattooed to her forehead that everyone in her sphere of influence can see. Never mind the fact it could have been genuine mistake: was in a rush, had something stressful on the mind or whatever. Well, there's probably no excusing it, and it is pretty funny.

Moral of the story is fuck social media that doesn't have semi-anonymity. Never had a facebook account or what have you, never will. But also fuck those that abuse the power of semi-anonymity and act like a complete dick. I'm talking trolls and the like, not so much ZB as while he's a dick, most of the time he's just correcting someone, with a high success ratio.  So not a full dick.

[6744c55a3abf9Kolya]

I ended up waking up that night at 3am from a nightmare. Then I remembered that you can delete posts in the app. And so I did. With some luck no one ever saw it.

Today I spent way more time than I should have to fix the URL button in this forum, so that it uses selected text to create a link, instead of prompting you for linktext.

[6744c55a3b010Join2]

Today I spent way more time than I should have to fix the URL button in this forum, so that it uses selected text to create a link, instead of prompting you for linktext.

Hurrah! That had pissed me off every damn time I went to submit a text-embedded link of any sort.

[6744c55a3b25eKolya]

I'm watching 11.22.60, last year's Hulu mini-series by Stephen King in which an English teacher gets the chance to go back to 1960 and prevent J.F.K's assassination. While he does not meet Marty McFly the time period is similar enough with just 5 years apart. He even brings a sports almanac (in notebook form).
The murder on Kennedy must be one of the most written about things in American history. And the period Chevys, cola ads and men in suits are all familiar to today's viewers through other films and series (Mad Men). Sparing just a moment of thought one will also realise that the good teach cannot prevent the assassination.
And yet time travel stories have their own appeal of chrono-logical repercussions. Although this isn't a scifi story. The episodes focus more on the characters and dramatic development than time travel itself. As such it reminds me more of Quantum Leap than Back to the Future.
Anyway, enough with references! Despite not being wholly original 11.22.60 is suspenseful and interesting by itself. It also brings a new idea to the table about the past "pushing back" as our time traveller tries to change it. Which in typical King fashion is some underexplained mystical force I fear, but makes for some good frights.

[6744c55a3b655Kolya]

Es stimmt uns unendlich traurig                       It saddens us endlessly
Daß die Dinge die uns einmal                          That the things which made us once 
Fast schon fröstelnd machten vor Glückseligkeit       Almost shivering with bliss
Uns schon nach kurzer Zeit                            After merely a short kiss
Nur kaum mehr noch berühren                           Barely stir us anymore
Selbst dann noch wenn wir spüren                      Even when we sense the core
Daß wir letztlich danach jagen                        That we're chasing in the end
Immer wieder Ja zu sagen                              To say Yes time and again
Eben weil wir darum wissen                            For we know before transition
Daß wir schnell genug vermissen                       That we soon enough are missing
Was uns damals wichtig war                            What we used to hold for dear    
Und es wird uns klar                                  And it becomes clear

Wir kommen um vor Freude                              We are perishing with joy
Auf eine Geschichte                                   For a simple tale
Die uns nicht viel bedeutet                           That has little to imply
Die gar nichts anderes will                           That has no other course      
Als unseren Durst zu stillen                          Than to satisfy our thirst
Und die uns deshalb zwingt                            And thereby forcing our hand
Und innerlich notwendig                               It mandates internally
Letztlich ja unendlich                                Yes for all eternity
Langweilt und verständlich macht                      Lets us wearily understand
Daß alles gut ist wie es ist                          That all is good the way it is
Daß dieser Stumpfsinn heilsam ist                     That this dullness is salubrious 

[6744c55a3b769Kolya]

William Shatter sings a song by Pulp and it rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

[6744c55a3b8a0fox]

Earth and The Bug, all musicians I find quite fascinating, did a collabo-ambient album:

https://thebugmusic.bandcamp.com/album/concrete-desert

[6744c55a3b9acKolya]

I like it, but I wish they'd find a matching singer. As it is the music reminds me of Portishead without Beth Gibbons. Which is still really cool but a bit too unfocussed. That was my first impression anyway.

[6744c55a3bb6afox]

Well, maybe you'd like the regular The Bug releases better. They are much more vocal-centric (mostly experimental, gritty dancehall featuring various singers).

https://thebugmusic.bandcamp.com/album/london-zoo

Earth, on the other hand, makes strictly instrumental music and usually breaks away from the usual song structure conventions. It's very droney music, meaning to create a maelström-like listening experience. An aquired taste, I admit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45jpDpXCtI

Somewhere between the Doom Jazz of Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, ambient, metal and (in their later records) Spaghetti Western soundtracks.