woops

is not like other people
very late to this thread - i've been resisting my own dematerialisation for some time, it has now begun - but the virus is an obvious vector of dematerialistaion.

the tarot cards read like this to me: unwritten rules enforce more solitary screen time. anonymous glass office blocks are empty inside as well as out replaced by video chats - the office is just a showroom for the business done on zoom. the new builds look like the computer-drawn concept images shown before building begins, with only one or two humans standing around outside. faces anonymous behind masks outdoors. don't touch anything, the virus lives on surfaces. empty buses and trains, joggers everywhere with no destination. take out only

the music i've been presented with is less sonically dematerialised than an influx of live streaming by singers with acoustic guitars gathered around a backlit computer campfire
 

woops

is not like other people
on the generative music discussion that took over briefly, i find this a bit of a misnomer as nothing is really generated. the rules of generation never change so the variations are so endless but so similar as to become insignificant. you can't come back in an hour or a century's time and find a different record playing
 

woops

is not like other people
the music i've been presented with is less sonically dematerialised than an influx of live streaming by singers with acoustic guitars gathered around a backlit computer campfire

i'd only have heard your rita oras and katy perrys and many many mores in a shop or in mcdonald's all of which are now closed. topshop pop: but topshop is shut
 

catalog

Well-known member
anonymous glass office blocks are empty inside as well as out replaced by video chats - the office is just a showroom for the business done on zoom.

this bit from what you posted the other day i really liked.

it made me think of years ago, when i went to dubai - 'city of the future' - and i went for a walk one morning, befor eit got really hot. i walked towards their skyline, and i saw all the hidden bits, like the huge water pipes to make the flowers bloom, the immigrant workers in rags cleaning everything, but the most interesting thing is that when i got to the skyline, its only one building thick, and theres no-one actually there. so they've copied the new yourk skyline, but its not real. it existed as a visual signifier only as something to work at a distance. there was nothing real inside it.

ofc might have changed now, probably has, but this was a revelation to me at the time, which you've just reminded me of.
 

woops

is not like other people
this bit from what you posted the other day i really liked.

it made me think of years ago, when i went to dubai - 'city of the future' - and i went for a walk one morning, befor eit got really hot. i walked towards their skyline, and i saw all the hidden bits, like the huge water pipes to make the flowers bloom, the immigrant workers in rags cleaning everything, but the most interesting thing is that when i got to the skyline, its only one building thick, and theres no-one actually there. so they've copied the new yourk skyline, but its not real. it existed as a visual signifier only as something to work at a distance. there was nothing real inside it.

ofc might have changed now, probably has, but this was a revelation to me at the time, which you've just reminded me of.

thank you. while luke's not here,

what you describe in dubai sounds like the financial district looked on DMT, an urban landscape in two dimensions, stuck together like an onscreen collage.

everything i hear about the place sounds like a nexus of drugs and ballard and baudrillard and apocalypse all at once, plus lockdown now presumably
 

catalog

Well-known member
yeah i walked round there years ago, same thing. like one minute you are on chrisp street, the next you've got that hsbc monstrosity in front of you. and it's all so papery when you're there.
 

catalog

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off topic a bit (sorry) but has anyone ever been to the smithsonian museums in DC? they've got all the space shuttles and things. i went as a kid and i remember thinking fucking hell, these all look like they're made of cardboard, as if they've been up in space
 

catalog

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Mr Tea, from the lagers right now in Greenwich thread:

One of my abiding memories of the place is from about this time of year, 2009 or 2010, when I walked up to the shopping precinct beneath Canada Square and noticed that not all of the baubles on the big Christmas tree were actually baubles. Some were discs of card with a printed text on them!
 

catalog

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ok you're at work, fine, think about it, formulate a response and get back to me.
a box should be the easiest thing to put your thoughts into. a page is a box.

'the box', 'the form', and you can do it later! the page as a storage device
 

mvuent

Void Dweller

having said that im just going to post a random image. this aesthetic--beautiful, inviting screen area vs. drab, unadorned everything else--has become really popular over the past few years. dematerialization illustrated by interior design. technology not integrated into the living space but rather as some sort of mirage.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Anyone here take note of how this homogenizes our horizons? We are operating on the same operating systems, browsing the same browsers - the variation is superstructural, but the infrastructure is constant.

edit: that is, our environments (we being processing systems) are becoming increasingly identical.
 
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linebaugh

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having said that im just going to post a random image. this aesthetic--beautiful, inviting screen area vs. drab, unadorned everything else--has become really popular over the past few years. dematerialization illustrated by interior design. technology not integrated into the living space but rather as some sort of mirage.
The windows framed by macabre blocks of black, locked into an immutable beige triangle.
 
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linebaugh

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But I understand the feeling. I used to tack a comforter over my living room window when playing games. Feels theres not enough space for the stimulation, so you blur your horizons. This is why Im never bothered by the light when I use my computer outside. Anything on the walls in the pic above would betray the illusion that the walls arent right there.
 
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