Category: asides

Speaking of Inception, Observations on Film Art has the best review of Inception I have come across so far: So we ought to recognize that Inception is relying heavily on motivation from these two sources, genre and commonsense realism. Science fiction grants the possibility of entering people’s dreams through a futuristic technology. Likewise, we have…

“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways”. John Slater in ‘My Life as a Fake‘ – Peter Carey 2003

Hermes has begun breeding its own crocodiles in order to meet demand for its handbags. #not_the_onion (Old news, yes, but I found this hanging out in my drafts folder and thought it worth linking to)

There is a 100km, nine day traffic jam outside of Beijing. Surely after nine days stuck between the same group of motorists, some form of economy and community must emerge. China Mielville’s novel ‘Iron Council‘ (not his greatest novel…) comes to mind, set on a train that is a linear, kinetic city.

Tokyo Compression. Michael Wolf 2010

Glitches and The End of the Virtual World, by Robert Overweg. A series of artworks set in the borderlands of video games; the unfinished peripheral areas not meant to be found by gamers. via Mammoth