Welcome to the exhibition of rediscovered works by the mid 20th century illustrator A.C. Radebaugh.

A very cool exhibit, soon to open in Philadelphia, displaying lots of futuristic graphic artwork from the 1950s. Flying cars, urban airships docked at skyscrapers, and more. This stuff is almost propagandist in its technological optimism.

Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised

] Hansen and Rubin have written a program that allows them
] to probe into all the unrestricted Internet chat rooms in
] the English-speaking world and dredge up thousands upon
] thousands of random sentences even as they are being
] typed. The casual remarks, desperate pleas, and lecherous
] queries that are sucked out of the stream of world
] chatter are then relayed in various ways on the two
] hundred or so small screens and ten loudspeakers that
] make up the machine's public face. The found words and
] sentence fragments can be strung out at random on the
] display monitors or made to race across the screens in
] constant streams, like a Times Square zipper, giving the
] thing a Jenny Holzer-like gnomic and oracular quality.

Chatter

] "I have really never considered myself a TV star. I
] always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a
] visit."

RIP Fred Rogers

There is no connection between Cayce and Case; no meaningfulness. Gibson explains that as part of his novelist craft, he goes through a complicated artistic ritual in order to summon his characters out of the ether. In this ritual, coming up with the right name is the crucial first step. And the process by which he came up with Cayce, he declares, had nothing to do with Case. "Cayce" was its own "found object" -- much as the name Case, from "Neuromancer," was also a found object, inspired originally by Case pocketknives.

Nodal point

There are some REALLY nice computer art peices on this site. I really enjoyed just surfing through it. Check it out.

CHAPTER THREE digital creations