STREAM.tag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//142008-09-04T01:44:54ZMovable Type 3.2i am legendtag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20722008-09-04T01:21:54Z2008-09-04T01:44:54ZTraveling this and that way; having new conversations with old acquaintances; old conversations with new acquaintances; cold conversations somewhere in between; skimming the surface of sleep, skipping across it like a deranged pebble; that certain crook in the elbow of...R.http://highindustrial.com/
this and that way; having new conversations with old acquaintances; old conversations with new acquaintances; cold conversations somewhere in between; skimming the surface of sleep, skipping across it like a deranged pebble; that certain crook in the elbow of the year, late beginnings as the months stretch homeward: everything conspires to disorient my spatial reasoning and abstract my perception of time. The recent past turns to legend and the very people and places I visited only yesterday or the day before become primitives in some personal mythology, shadows animated by ancient fire, rumor and myth withdrawn to remote outposts of memory. The details are intimate on a cosmic scale. I've never felt less innocent or been more naïve.]]>
it almost doesn't mattertag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20692008-08-23T08:24:21Z2008-08-23T10:11:37ZWhen it was just us, it was simple. Do people mean it when they say they don't remember? I mean it when I say I haven't forgotten. Oh, look: there you are; and there you are; but it's not the...R.http://highindustrial.com/
Oh, look: there you are; and there you are; but it's not the same.]]>
brave new worldtag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20662008-08-10T07:20:42Z2008-08-10T07:23:31ZThese shots of the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony are (s)lavish and amazing....R.http://highindustrial.com/
These shots of the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony are (s)lavish and amazing.]]>
words to live bytag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20652008-08-10T01:53:08Z2008-08-10T01:55:56Z"The only impulse Allen cops to is the one to work, maniacally, as if to stave off death. 'It's a way of coping with the world. You know, in the same way that somebody copes with it by being a...R.http://highindustrial.com/
maniacally, as if to stave off death. 'It's a way of coping with the world. You know, in the same way that somebody copes with it by being a stamp collector or a sports addict or a titan of industry or an alcoholic or something. My way of coping with the horrors of existence is to put my nose to the grindstone and work and not look up.'"]]>
sun kingtag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20612008-08-08T01:21:32Z2008-08-08T01:37:34ZThere are days in the sun: focal-point afternoons, light exploding at right angles around casements, bathing the air in wave-like particles while machines manufacture atmosphere, emitting decibels and cold as fleetly as interiors can allow; and in these hours, after...R.http://highindustrial.com/
remember: what was I like when I was twenty-five? when I was seventeen?]]>
a face only a mother could havetag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20602008-08-05T02:22:43Z2008-08-05T02:28:40Z"When I joke that Botox has created a market for a children's book that ought to be titled Why Does Mommy Look Weird?, she laughs. 'Babies learn facial expressions from their mothers, and if all these women are Botoxed, I...R.http://highindustrial.com/
market for a children's book that ought to be titled Why Does Mommy Look Weird?, she laughs. 'Babies learn facial expressions from their mothers, and if all these women are Botoxed, I wonder if we're going to see a generation of very flat-affect toddlers. You really do need to have expression.'"]]>
diablo codingtag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20592008-08-04T21:58:37Z2008-08-04T22:31:36ZI don't know much about the Diablo video game franchise (I seem to recall it being popular among a certain contingent of shut-ins during my sophomore year of college; demons, dungeons: boring), but this discussion about the fan outcry over...R.http://highindustrial.com/
Diablo video game franchise (I seem to recall it being popular among a certain contingent of shut-ins during my sophomore year of college; demons, dungeons: boring), but this discussion about the fan outcry over the latest entry's more vibrant aesthetic (versus the ashen tableaux of previous titles), and the trade-offs between atmospheric art direction and playability it highlights, are interesting.
I happen to agree with the lead designer: the grittier approach may have more integrity and present better on a one-off basis, but it's also visually monotonous when you factor in a variable like repetition during the course of the game—to say nothing of questions pertaining to its consistent, reliable execution across a wide variety of hardware configurations and the diminished visibility of interactive elements in murky environments.]]>
where childlike curiosity is the most adult responsetag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20572008-08-02T09:57:46Z2008-08-02T10:00:37Z"I am somewhat the opposite of Alan Moore, in that I regard screen adaptations of my work with little more than simple childlike curiosity."...R.http://highindustrial.com/
somewhat the opposite of Alan Moore, in that I regard screen adaptations of my work with little more than simple childlike curiosity."]]>
old dogs and new talestag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20562008-07-31T02:39:41Z2008-07-31T03:11:04ZThe first teaser for The Princess and the Frog, Disney's fabled (ahem) return to "traditional" animation is live. I'm reserving judgment until more of the content becomes available, save to say I'm rooting for this project on principle. It's fucking...R.http://highindustrial.com/
The Princess and the Frog, Disney's fabled (ahem) return to "traditional" animation is live. I'm reserving judgment until more of the content becomes available, save to say I'm rooting for this project on principle. It's fucking retarded that some people within and without the industry think "2D" animation has been categorically superseded by full-blown CGI. I'm using quotation marks to acknowledge how problematic such distinctions are in the first place, since there's considerable overlap between modern cel and computer-generated features at the production level, and the contrast between the two approaches is best defined aesthetically rather than technologically. Kudos to the comparatively recently installed Pixar brain trust for seeing that.]]>
even that's too close for comforttag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20522008-07-25T04:56:41Z2008-07-25T04:59:34Z"Yet through the smoky haze of self-aggrandizement and fuzzy memories a few intriguing tidbits slip through. Chong asked Terence Malick to direct the follow-up to Up In Smoke. Malick very diplomatically said that since Chong had written the screenplay he...R.http://highindustrial.com/
intriguing tidbits slip through. Chong asked Terence Malick to direct the follow-up to Up In Smoke. Malick very diplomatically said that since Chong had written the screenplay he should direct the film himself, which is a polite way of saying 'Are you fucking kidding me? I'm Terrence Malick! Oh God no! No, no, a thousand times no!' I guess Malick acolyte David Gordon Green directing Pineapple Express is as close as we're ever going to get to a Terence Malick-directed Cheech and Chong movie."]]>
fake it till you make ittag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20482008-07-18T22:43:34Z2008-07-18T22:52:35ZR.http://highindustrial.com/
The New Yorker, James Salter said that 'when I went into restaurants with Redford, eyes turned to watch as we crossed the room—the glory seems to be yours as well.' But celebrity came with a cost; Salter remembered Redford’s saying of movies: 'My presence in something is enough to give it an aura of artificiality.' If people buy celebrity perfumes, it is precisely because the glory seems to be yours as well. Yet the celebrities don't make the perfumes; professional perfumers do. Celebrity inexorably lends an aura of artificiality, and not just to the celebrity scent; it extends to us as well."]]>
servo disobediencetag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20452008-07-16T08:47:24Z2008-07-16T09:08:27ZAsimov's Third Law of Robotics is observed in the wild ... on Mars. (Okay, not really. But the strenuous anthropomorphism of the linked article's title speaks to our collective yearning for the robots we manufacture to become as kick-ass as...R.http://highindustrial.com/
Third Law of Robotics is observed in the wild ... on Mars. (Okay, not really. But the strenuous anthropomorphism of the linked article's title speaks to our collective yearning for the robots we manufacture to become as kick-ass as the robots that haunt our android dreams.)]]>
you had me at 'ion drive'tag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20442008-07-15T21:39:32Z2008-07-15T21:43:02ZNo clue as to its feasibility (probably null-ish) but this suggestion that the International Space Station be boosted to a lunar orbit is, at the very least, intriguing....R.http://highindustrial.com/
this suggestion that the International Space Station be boosted to a lunar orbit is, at the very least, intriguing.]]>
space ghosttag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20412008-07-07T03:46:43Z2008-07-07T05:28:07ZR.http://highindustrial.com/
Meet Dave trailer, where the Eddie Murphy robot-spaceship (seriously, who's coming up with this stuff—Steve Urkel?) emits the refrain from "Stayin' Alive" in a high-pitched alien squawk followed by a mechanically abrupt grimace that reminds me of something Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman once wrote about Murphy's similarly radioactive Adventures of Pluto Nash:
"A space-comedy bomb that would hardly be worth mentioning if not for the rictus grin at its center: Eddie Murphy, doing his zomboid impersonation of a Carefree, Spontaneous Comedy Star, an act of such terrifying falseness that it has become the single most joyless image in showbiz."
Those sharp words may have seemed ungenerous back in 2002, but in 2008 they're almost elegiac.]]>
2002 calledtag:www.highindustrial.com,2008:/stream//14.20332008-06-26T23:34:20Z2008-06-26T23:52:40ZR.http://highindustrial.com/
finally? About fucking time, if true. In my current experience, when someone sends me a multimedia message from their philistine phone to my messiah phone, AT&T helpfully lets me know via SMS, supplying a link to a web page where I can view the goddamn picture ... after I log in with a randomly generated username and password ... as long as I have Flash installed ... which of course Mobile Safari does not. Which means I have to wait until I'm near a full-blown computer before I can painstakingly type in the alphanumeric URL, by which time that spontaneous shot of the neighbor's dog doing/eating something charming/revolting is as stale as yesterday's biscuits.]]>