The movie Blade Runner is very dear to my heart. It is a treatise on the nature of existence expanding on, and perhaps exceeding the reach of the Phillip K. Dick work which inspired it, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Perhaps I have missed out on some greater subtlety of PKD's work, but the point of DADoES pursues the definition of fake, while Blade Runner instead focuses on what is real. Where the replicants in the novel are sociopathic monsters who emulate emotions solely to gain traction against humans who may hunt them, the humans there rely on machines to dictate their own emotions for them. They dial for "energetic determination" or "six-hour self-accusatory depression." As much as the replicants are machines incapable of real emotion, humans are similarly reliant on a machine to simulate emotion for them. In contrast, the movie's central them is spelled out for us in Deckard's apartment, when Rachel is playing the piano. She professe...
Wow, that is awesome. Makes me want to try to learn how to solder again, so I can trick out my bike for the playa. Or just freaking out the neighbors...
ReplyDeleteWhoo! Are you a burner? I had no idea!
ReplyDeleteI want to make one of these for around town; I would be the coolest gaijin around.
Woo-hoo! Velocipede Mashup!
ReplyDeleteno seriously, it's cool. I love how PacMan is the entire wheel. That they can even get the ghost is abso-f*****g-lutely amazing.
Yessir I am; if you go back in the archives to late summer 2003 I go on at excruciating length about making playa gifts out of bottlecaps. I didn't go last year, for which I am still kicking myself; I am so going this year!
ReplyDeleteHave you been?
For me, EVERY day is BURNING MAN. Especially if I actually stand in sunshine. DAMN, I am pale.
ReplyDeleteNo, I have never been, and to listen to most burners, the last good year is always the one that was three years ago (no matter the current year, and congruity be damned). It looks like something I will do when I am back in the US, the kids have been to college, and I can cast off some responsiblities for a while. Look for me in 15 years or so; I'll be the fat, nekkid, sunburned bald guy who is so dehydrated that his pee looks like Bass Ale.
Michael; yeah, the ghost is hella impressive. I wonder if someone would sell kits for this...
ReplyDeleteYes, I know there is a kit, I mean like a "done kit." MAKE is for people with spare time.