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Brittany Murphy Faster Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold
Read more . . . →Brittany Murphy will best be remembered for her role in movies such as Happy Feet, and (especially for me) for her role in this Paul Oakenfold club killer. Download "Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold" on Megaupload now!
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Class 5: Alternative microcosms
Watch: Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) My next screening has less to do with technology and more to do with alternative realities and ties up my unit on simulated realities, and representations. I felt that during later parts of Synecdoche, New York (2008) the multitude of actors existing in the same space, but playing people that are in the same room was a good representation of the avatars created in Surrogates and A.I.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Lindsay Lohan
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Happy New Year
Awesome graphics courtesy of our friend Phil Retrospector Happy New Year Kitteh Wishes you Happy New Year!Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Merry Christmas from Little Boots
Read more . . . →Little Boots records a special merry christmas song. I love how she made a Christmas video specially for the Internet. Awww
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Class 4: Simulated Realities
While I personally feel that cyberpunk is a very interesting genre because of its depictions of humans interacting with virtual spaces, the only cyberpunk film that I included in my syllabus was the Spanish film Sleep Dealer (2009). ... Digitextuality is an amalgam of this concept, fused with the understanding that digital media is breaking off from traditional media, and new media is being constructed and used in different ways than traditional media was.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Class 3: Simulated People
5 Dec 2009. <http://www.ted.com/talks/david_hanson_robots_that_relate_to_you.html>. **very cool 5 min clip** Continuing with the theme of simulation by technology I decided to show Spielberg’s A.I. ... While both readings appear in the same anthology, the Clarke reading does a good job of looking at the development of talking head machines, dating back as far as the 1830s.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Best Mash-UP of 2009, Easily
Read more . . . →This has got to be the most amazing mashup of video and music, and poetry; total art. Remixed and Revived By: Phil RetroSpector - A Thousand Secrets Download the mp3 of this song free!.
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Little Boots Laser Harp Part 2
Read more . . . →Little Boots is building a special light based synth, it looks almost like percussion at this stage, pretty cool@
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Class 2: Avatars and Simulacrum 2
My second week’s film is a recent sci-fi film that borrows many elements from classic science fiction films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). ... Henry Jenkins often writes about how films create worlds that can then be broken down and used by fans within fan culture or even borrowed by other filmmakers.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.