Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 714

Augmented Reality: Total Immersion's Vampire Diaries

*Augmented Reality and Paranormal Romance, together at last.

Music Break

*I've never heard of these people. I haven't even heard of the people they're "remixing." Sounds like they're hitting new highs (or lows) in Brazilian cultural anthropofagism. Although apparently, they're in London. Does that matter at all any more?

*Now that I'm on @cibellecibelle's Twitter stream, stuff like this just shows up.

Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures

*I'm kind of a victim for work like this.

*If you think art critics are dying (and they are), you ought to see the casualty list among music critics.

http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=392

"Description

"A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave culture. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to...

As art critics face sudden planetary extinction

*Even Stalin couldn't nail all of 'em, but the Web might just do it — it was possible, after all, to hide from Stalin.

A N N O U N C E M E N T

Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere

Will Art Criticism Survive the Digital Age?

International Seminar

De Balie, Amsterdam

www.debalie.nl

Wednesday December 9, 2009, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs (CET)

Doors open: 13.30

Live webcast:

wwwdebalie.nl/live

The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other...

Augmented Reality: Dokeo

*Le premier live en réalité augmentée, avec des animations en 3D!

http://www.dokeo-comprendrecommentcamarche.com/

*Comes with bonus keenly irritating wakka-wakka animated kid-book soundtrack!

Augmented Reality: Living Sasquatch

*Programmable animation. Nice.

Living Sasquatch - Papervision - Augmented Reality from Boffswana on Vimeo.

Vernacular video from the mayor-elect of Seattle

*"Open-source transition"? It's good to see that Left Coast domestic American politics hasn't lost its inventive oddity. Lookah the way this newly-elected urban politician speaks such fluent Web 2.0-ese. That's really kinda eerie.

Bizarre remarks for a head of state, but pure Sarkozy

*I wonder why it's taking so long for certain journalists to understand that the head of a G-8 nuclear power can be a genuinely odd human being.

*Imagine of the executive of a vast governmental superstructure dropped by and he was, like, some normal dude. I wonder when that last happened. Harry Truman, maybe?

http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2009/11/the-ungrateful-world-by-nicolas-sarkozy-1.html

Fidel Castro, Science Fiction Writer

*I never saw "El Caballo" construe his rhetorical efforts as "science fiction" before. That's pretty strange. I wonder if Fidel is reading a lot of science fiction to beguile his twilight years.

*English translation follows.

http://www.cubadebate.cu/reflexiones-fidel/2009/11/12/una-historia-de-ciencia-ficcion/

Reflexiones de Fidel

Una historia de ciencia ficción

Como lamento tener que criticar a Obama, conociendo que, en ese país, hay
otros posibles Presidentes peores que él. Comprendo que ese...

Piksel09

*Those Norwegians…

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