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PLANETARY #27 comes out today in North America. So I think it’s probably wise for me to stay away from the internet for most of the day. Besides, I want to have put a stake in the episode breakdown of the WOLVERINE anime series by the end of today. So this is going to be just one long meandering blogpost that is mostly about me closing tabs.Model Magdalene Veen and photographer Angel Ceballos have my ideal answer to any snark about PLANETARY this week: (I should also note that Angel has her own POD book available, the beautiful SEATTLEITES, at a very reasonable price for such a solid volume.)I sent Agent Redhead into the Architecture Association bookshop for me the other day, to pick me up a copy of the first issue of MAP, the Manual of Architectural Possibilities. Yet another point at which fiction is leaking into design, and design linking into fiction (and also that it’s happening, perhaps needs to happen, on paper, like PEAR). Geoff did a post about MAP on BLDGBLOG recently that has all the links you need in it. I’ll point special attention here, where it shows you purchase points in the UK, Denmark and the US. It’s dead cheap. In living up to its name, it’s a map, a manual, and a wunderkammer of speculation about Antarctic architecture, fully tipping over to science fiction in the fullest definition of that term: social fiction, political fiction, speculative fiction and the muse of science. And it bears the official stamp of Sir Peter Cook, head of the Weird Shit International.Apropos of nothing, this is what happens when Agent Redhead attempts to make Matt Jones explain his stream-of-mentalism cultural commentary after seven pints have been poured inside him during a brain-sintering session at the Reliance. There were scalpels involved.Speaking of Jones, there has been avant-tharging again of late. Part of a Thing by Max Gadney, for a Thing called THIS IS TOMORROW that we shall tell you about when we’re entirely sure what it actually is. When I showed Zoetica Ebb’s latest print in a f
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Interesting typography and update of the Apple Ad, with the crowd wearing iPod earphones.
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On January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of the SuperBowl, Apple broadcast one of the most famous television commercials of all time. Based on a dystopian future George Orwell described in his novel 1984, the ad features a procession of soulless drones trudging into a large room to listen to the unquestioned words of their dictator whose face is being projected on a large screen. Moments later, a beautiful woman bounds into the room, evading capture by armed guards by only a few meters, and hurls a large hammer into the screen that explodes in a dazzling display of light. And so we were introduced to the Macintosh, Apple's new weapon to take on the monolithic IBM.What a difference 25 years can make. Now Apple has grown from underdog to a tyrant in its own right, preventing other devices from tapping into its iTunes software and restricting what users can install on the iPhones that they've purchased. And doubleTwist, which makes software that lets you use iTunes seamlessly with other devices, is calling it out in spectacular fashion. They've just unveiled their new commercial (embedded below) that's nearly a shot-for-shot remake, featuring an army of iPod-wearing clones sitting in silence as their master — sporting Steve Jobs' familiar round glasses — commands that "no other choices shall detract from our glory". TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco
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On January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of the SuperBowl, Apple broadcast one of the most famous television commercials of all time. Based on a dystopian future George Orwell described in his novel 1984, the ad features a procession of soulless drones trudging into a large room to listen to the unquestioned words of their dictator whose face is being projected on a large screen. Moments later, a beautiful woman bounds into the room, evading capture by armed guards by only a few meters, and hurls a large hammer into the screen that explodes in a dazzling display of light. And so we were introduced to the Macintosh, Apple's new weapon to take on the monolithic IBM. What a difference 25 years can make. Now Apple has grown from underdog to a tyrant in its own right, preventing other devices from tapping into its iTunes software and restricting what users can install on the iPhones that they've purchased. And doubleTwist, which makes software that lets you use iTunes seamlessly with other devices, is calling it out in spectacular fashion. They've just unveiled their new commercial (embedded below) that's nearly a shot-for-shot remake, featuring an army of iPod-wearing clones sitting in silence as their master — sporting Steve Jobs' familiar round glasses — commands that "no other choices shall detract from our glory". TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco
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