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Hilobrow – John Carpenter

Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than a movie trailer with JOHN CARPENTER’s (born 1948) name above the title and his own analog synth score. Carpenter’s breakthrough was Dark Star (1974), a wiseass repudiation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s intergalactic awe. Bits of the movie’s code can be discerned...
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The Year Of The Sex Olympics

Nigel Kneale's anticipates the nasty underbelly of reality television with this BBC play, reviewed by Matthew De Abaitua
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Shynola’s Red Men online scrapbook

Human tracking 08/02/2012
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."Winston Churchill […]
From real, to virtual, to real. 04/02/2012
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Anthropomorphism and the social robot 04/02/2012
The use of human-like features for social interaction with people can facilitate our social understanding. It is the explicit designing of anthropomorphic features, such as a head with eyes and a mouth that may facilitate social interaction. This highlights the issue that socialinteraction is fundamentally observer-dependent, and exploring the mechanisms und […]
Looking for patterns. 03/02/2012
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HEAD 03/02/2012
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