Lauren Beukes

theremina:

veiledvisage:

savetheplanarians:

Strangely, Wil Wheaton didn’t put this on his Tumblr (yet), so I can’t reblog it from him, because I don’t know how to share stuff from Google+ on here.  However … Eh.  I’ll let him tell you what it’s about:

A couple of years ago, I came across part of a recording called “Found on the Elevator”. It was just a few minutes of a recording from the future, that was archived on a record in the past. It was supposedly found in an elevator in New York City in 1969. 

Here’s the way it was described: “This recording is an “unauthorized experiment” that was made in the year 2058 C.D.S. (Carbon Dating System), a “blue verbal data feed” sent backwards in time to “retro A.D.” by Decker, T. L., index J-3, CMR 00965 of T-Group Roaring Vectors 252, a human cyborg who suffers from a malfunctioning number nine electrode in his head which causes him to have an emotional breakdown as he records this message. It’s a secret message to a past world he has trouble imagining, a world of foreign substances like metal, plastic, animals, soldiers… a world all physical and “impossibly slow.”

It was really fantastic. It reminded me of a lot of the late night Joe Frank broadcasts I listened to in my 20s on KXLU or KCRW when I’d be driving around late at night, because I could.

For months, I scoured the Internet, looking for the rest of the recording, or more information about it. Mostly what I found were blogs and BBS posts form other people who were looking for the same thing, but no leads. I knew it was a work of fiction, a work of art, but I desperately wanted it to be real, so while I searched for the entire recording, I imagined the world that it came from. (I won’t tell you how it lives in my mind, because I don’t want to affect how it lives in yours, should you chose to create it for yourself.) 

Eventually, I gave up the search and went back to looking at pictures of cats who want to buy boats, and forgot all about it.

Until this morning.

This morning, my friend Mer RT’d a link from William Gibson that led to the entire first side of the record. It is just as amazing and wonderful as I always hoped it would be, and well worth the wait.

Now I just need to find a recording of Side Two…

(via theremina)

Journalist/white collar boxer/ chanteuse Nechama Brodie recorded a song inspired by The Shining Girls, video by Nadine Hutton, shot at Kitcheners in Johannesburg, and produced by 88 Kilos of Sunshine. 

theremina:

“How Stanley Kubrick used Escher-styled spacial awareness and set design anomalies to disorientate viewers of his horror classic The Shining. Written, narrated and edited by Rob Ager.”

Ager’s full analysis of The Shining can be found here:
http://www.collativelearning.com/the%…