|
Friday, May 16, 2003 08:54 a.m.
interesting tidbits on the things inside William Gibson's pAttern rEcognItion
Friday, May 16, 2003 08:46 a.m.
There's a similiarity between the way Nora works on the footage and the way Trixia is focussed in A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
The emergents in Vinge's book use a sophisticated method of altering brain activity in order to focus the worker's attention on a specific task. Nora has a brain injury that focusses her on the editing task. In the past, Nora created films; is she now creating? Or is she editing tape down to one satisfactory scene? Is she editing because the other frames are annoying as Cayce is annoyed by, say, Hilfiger?
Thursday, May 15, 2003 09:00 a.m.
stuka
"Did you know that the flying monkeys in Wizard Of Oz were meant to look like formations of stukas in flight? The Nazis were busy in Spain at the time and we were just getting our first scary footage of their efficiency."--Dan Shippey, Delta 7 Rockets
From 1942 on the Ju 87G-1 was a dedicated anti-tank aircraft on the eastern front. It was fitted with a 1400hp Junkers Jumo 211J engine. It had a maximum speed of 314km/h, a ceiling of 8000m and a very limited range of only 320km. The reduced speed and range was due to the armour plating installed to protect the pilot and gunner when flying low-level tank busting missions. It was armed with two 30mm cannons in pods under the wings and a 7.92mm machine gun in the back for the gunner.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:56 p.m.
Shinjuku
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:52 p.m.
Hongo
There are central metaphors in PR. One is the mirror-world.
The opposite of the mirror-world metaphor is the ghost-world. The studio hidden in the squats off Georgievsky Avenue is an example of a ghost-world where a neverending party took place--artists, dreamers, others now gone. Also, the flat in Hongo that Boone takes Cayce to is ghost-world, and like Damien's marsh outside Stalingrad it is a conflation of ghosts with greed, war, and violence and so on. One is a battlefield buried in a marsh, and the other is a partial ruin buried in kudzu. This ghost-world metaphor justifies, “[S]he might have told them she was weeping for her century, though whether the one past or the one present she doesn’t know.” The ghostly footage partakes of this metaphor because it is assembled from surveillance video by a woman mind-altered through violence.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:51 p.m.
Bikkle
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:42 p.m.
Kogepan at DreamKitty
Saturday, May 10, 2003 07:58 p.m.
Where Cayce tells Bigend she is when she's really in Moscow
What makes this book worth reading is the doubleness of the characters.
This doubleness is reiterated and reinforced by physical objects in the book.
Remember flecktarn camouflage? How Cayce has to figure that one out? Many things in this novel are dressed in camouflage.
Many of those camouflaged things are fetishized. For example, the Curta calculators that are developed in a concentration camp parallel the footage which is rendered in a prison. Both the Curtas and the Footage are the objects of fans, and both are hidden beneath a huge compendium of esoterica and subterfuge necessary to their "collection."
Saturday, May 10, 2003 07:52 p.m.
Saturday, May 10, 2003 07:46 p.m.
Cayce's Nemesis
Friday, May 9, 2003 05:00 p.m.
Primrose Hill #2
View of London from Primrose Hill
Friday, May 9, 2003 04:58 p.m.
Primrose Hill #1
View up Primrose Hill where Bigend takes Cayce
Friday, May 9, 2003 04:56 p.m.
Camden
Where Cayce stays in Damien's flat when in London
Friday, May 9, 2003 11:37 a.m.
Matt's zx81 homepage
Friday, May 9, 2003 11:36 a.m.
Storm A. King's resources page
Friday, May 9, 2003 11:28 a.m.
Dr. James Sempsey's list of links regarding psychology of virtual communities
Friday, May 9, 2003 11:25 a.m.
Journal of ONline behaviour
Friday, May 9, 2003 11:14 a.m.
Curta calculators
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:28 p.m.
Less expensive MA-1 jacket
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:26 p.m.
Buzz Rickson jackets
Thursday, May 8, 2003 07:54 p.m.
Rebecca Lieb's review of Gibson's PR
Includes link to Cayce's flight jacket--
Thursday, May 8, 2003 07:51 p.m.
Ian Kaplan's review of Pattern Recognition
Thursday, May 8, 2003 09:23 a.m.
Logging and annotating William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition
Thursday, May 8, 2003 09:16 a.m.
Malcolm Gladwell's article
Thursday, May 8, 2003 09:10 a.m.
Real Life Coolhunter!
Thursday, May 8, 2003 09:07 a.m.
Sunday Herald review of Pattern Recognition
Thursday, May 8, 2003 09:02 a.m.
next on BBC dos
"In the first programme of the series a very animated young Coolhunter and his team from Puma, the shoe people, went looking for the next big trend in sporty footwear. Someone should have told him that the Dutch did that already, it's called the clog. In the end the coolhunter team had to present their future-shoe prototypes to a kind of UN of trainer-experts. They even had the Irish delegate. You'd spot the Irish anywhere. In the end a pair of safe shoe s and one of the slippers made it through the shoe UN selection process and they'll be in the shops by early next year."
--Colin Murphy
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:58 a.m.
Coolhunter comic
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:51 a.m.
Philip Korting
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:42 a.m.
nomiya
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:35 a.m.
www.coolhunter.net/
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:32 a.m.
Definition
There's a typo on p. 311 where:
She tries to reply but hits that toggle again.
(bf) When the boy from the counter sorts it for her, she writes: I went there. I met her. . . .
That first sentence in boldface shouldn't be part of the email message. It should be part of the preceding paragraph because the counter boy fixes her keyboard emulation. The email message should start with "I went there" etc.
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:29 a.m.
NYT Review of Pattern Recognition
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:28 a.m.
Interview with William Gibson by Candas Jane Dorsey
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:27 a.m.
parco
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:26 a.m.
footage
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:24 a.m.
systema--How Volkov's bodyguards are trained
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:14 a.m.
the footage . . . the footage!
"Without any metafictional grandstanding, Gibson nails the texture of internet culture: how it feels to be close to someone you know only as a voice in a chat room, or to fret about someone spying on your browser's list of sites visited. ...Pattern Recognition is Gibson's most complex, mature gloss on the artist's relationship to our ever more commercialized globe."
-The New York Times
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:10 a.m.
The Footage . . .the footage . . .
Thursday, May 8, 2003 08:04 a.m.
guide to Japan
|
