#June2011
William Gibson Says ‘Cyberspace’ Was Inspired By Old School Arcades.
I’m insane in my geeklust for William Gibson. Totally bananas. He is my God. Everyone knows by now that the dude created the term ‘cyberspace’ and that he imagined a distant future while writing Neuromancer on a friggin’ typewriter. Now we know where he got the inspiration for the word that’s come to worm itself into our Collective Unconscious. Arcades.
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Nocturnal Transmission.
Finished Zero History by William Gibson tonight. Took me a good goddamn three months to wade through. Which is funny thinking about. On one hand, three months seems like an inordinate amount of time to finish a novel. On the other hand, the amount of occurrences that have built up since September seem voluminous.
Massive.
Scaling.
The first three months of reading was dictated by school schedules. Or girlfriend schedules. Or if I’m being truthful, playing too many video games and slacking off online masturbating schedules. Yeah kid, you know, those schedules. The last week of the novel consumption was dictated by lack of desire to leave the Gibson-generated universe. A reluctance to bid adieu to a cast of characters that I first: sort of liked. That I second: felt to be flat and thin approximations for cool ideas. And thirdly: I loved, and loathed to leave.
But such is the way things go. If we’re all just people passing by, what does that make fictional people? Vastly different than us, or vastly similar? And if you really want to bum out, I have a feeling Hamlet is going to be hanging around a lot longer than the majority of us.
Concept Artwork for Jones’ Mute has Cyberpunk Geeks Like Me Losing It
Slow Thursday morning. So let me pass along some sexy concept art from Duncan Jones next movie, Mute. Click the image for a larger rendition of it. I was unfortunate enough to miss Jones’ Moon this year which looked like a trippy riff on 2001 and other things. But this promo art along with all the good things I’ve heard about Moon have me pretty geeked out. It also doesn’t hurt that Jones intends on borrowing heavily from Blade Runner‘s vibe:
Via Slashfilm:
Mr. Jones has made it abundantly clear how much a fan of Ridley Scott and the seminal work of future noir he is and another one part unsurprising as he’s explicitly compared Mute to Blade Runner himself.
Awesome.
