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Showing posts with label william gibson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label william gibson. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2024
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
I was trying to figure out why I added this book to my wishlist, and found this article about a film adaptation of Neuromancer
The novel Delta-v by Daniel Suarez is $1.99 today at Amazon:
*A Prometheus Award Best Novel Nominee*
“Daniel Suarez's hugely impressive Delta-v fuses the real world with sci-fi, giving the space genre a new boost and new hope.”—Tom Shippey, The Wall Street Journal
While trying to find out why I added the book to my wishlist, I found this post from 2017:
[Deadpool director Tim] Miller will direct an adaptation of the 1984 sci-fi novel Neuromancer for Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Longtime X-Men producer Simon Kinberg will produce the film.
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[He] has a number of other projects in the works, including an adaptation of the Daniel Suarez sci-fi novel Influx for Fox
Friday, April 28, 2023
For "Zero History" fans
[kramer flies in door] they’re gay, Jerry! pic.twitter.com/iN0jjuzp0I
— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) April 23, 2023
One of the books I've reread the most.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
New book cover for Neuromancer, and some other cyberpunk odds and ends
Cover of the latest Turkish edition. Anybody for a backpiece? pic.twitter.com/1F84avyIjl
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) November 11, 2022
Bonus cyberpunk:
Friday, September 16, 2022
Fun thread from someone realizing the strange house nearby is a set for "The Peripheral"
A film production made this completely fake house in a meadow in the woods near us a couple of years ago.
— tern (@1goodtern) July 22, 2022
I don't know why, but it felt like it had an Indy 5 feeling to it.
I've been waiting two years to find out what it's in.
If you spot it in something, let me know 😅 pic.twitter.com/GsSmJfJgVp
Also had this interesting trailer next to it. Maybe solar panels and a sat dish is too modern for Indy 5. Mission Impossible, maybe?
— tern (@1goodtern) July 22, 2022
Everything here is fake.
Telegraph poles, lines, lawn, shrubs, mailbox (that's a US style mailbox in an English wood). pic.twitter.com/9L0bEFDTIU
(Recent news would serve as good viral advertising for the series.)
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
"Wild Palms," the deranged cyberpunk soap opera that ran on ABC in 1993, and the comic it's based on, are free online
I sought this out after hearing it mentioned in this round table discussion with some of the creators of cyberpunk:
The tv series was based on the comic of the same name that ran in Details magazine. Written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen, it has a few panels like this:
Otherwise the comic was mostly about a mid-level Hollywood player hobnobbing with celebrities like Carrie Fisher instead of spending time with his family, doing tons of drugs, and experiencing a lot of paranoid fantasies. It's very specific to life in Hollywood for a wealthy white guy in the early 90's. Archive.org has the entire strip, which is also available at ebay.
The tv series was produced by Wagner and Oliver Stone, and featured an all-star cast. It took many of the characters and bizarre moments from the strip and used them to populate a story about a struggle to stop an evil senator, who is also the leader of a cult, from acquiring cutting edge Japanese augmented reality to take over the world.
Angie Dickinson and Ben Savage play two of the hyperviolent villains:
Moments in virtual reality include a galloping computer virus and Jim Belushi arming himself for a day of work (silly and ugly, but sadly optimistic in light of Facebook trying to promote VR with green-eyed Zuckerberg avatars 30 years later):
Youtube has the entire series, which is also available at Amazon:
Major outlets like Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and the Washington Post described it as a cross between Blade Runner and Twin Peaks, only with a narrative far superior to the one in Twin Peaks. But every choice in the show, including line delivery and music, is absolutely bizarre. I watched every moment.
There was also an accompanying Wild Palms Reader, a sort of faux-scrapbook from the Wild Palms universe, featuring loud graphics and short writings from an eclectic group including Bruce Sterling, Lemmy Kilmister, and William Gibson (who also had a brief and awkward cameo in the show as himself).
He wrote a bit about in 2006:
While the mini-series fell drastically short of the serial, it did produce one admirably peculiar literary artifact, The Wild Palms Reader, edited by Roger Trilling and Stuart Sweezey . . . .This Reader managed to pre-figure some of the most eldritch vibes of Bush-era neoconservatism, and indeed the series can be imagined as making a very different kind of sense, at the time, if only Clinton hadn't been elected.
Only for Wild Palms superfans. Available at Amazon.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Jet magazine in the Marvel universe; Weird cameo in Space Jam; Gibson and Gunn cite their influences
Don’t judge me 😂. pic.twitter.com/wEbnJajPFk
— SOUL KANG (@SoulKingLives) July 17, 2021
It’s not digital! I’m a real nun. pic.twitter.com/0XrcC6UvhP
— Louise VanVeenendaal (@louisevan) July 17, 2021
John Carpenter’s 'Escape from New York' was a direct and quite major influence on Neuromancer. https://t.co/6SNPg1FJvO
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 17, 2021
Small correction, the books were "Able Team" and the artist was Gil Cohen. pic.twitter.com/ahwOcgV58b
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 17, 2021
"These cartoons were never made for children. Nor were they made for adults. They were made for me." -Chuck Jones
— marshlands (@marshlands) July 18, 2021
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Macy's Parade float?; Neuromancer posters; Stylish French satellite
Tell me why my mom thought The Rock’s float was Ruth Bader Ginsburg pic.twitter.com/ckvMo431ud
— caycedilla (@caycemorris) November 26, 2020
I've got the greenlight from Editora Aleph to produce a print run of posters with the cover illlustrations I did for their edition of William Gibson's Neuromancer/Sprawl Trilogy. I just want to read the room before going in, who would be interested, what size? screenprint? pic.twitter.com/cAg8sF74y4
— Deathburger_Unit_B378 (@B378Unit) November 26, 2020
Deadpool commission by the unbelievably talented @matiasbergara! His first list for us has yielded one masterpiece after another...congrats to all who made it in 2020! All 11x17 cover quality! Next list coming in 2021, join our newsletter for your chance! https://t.co/JxJMpgSSZm pic.twitter.com/VWSza2OaOT
— Felix Comic Art (@FelixComicArt) November 26, 2020
#OTD 1965 France launched the satellite Astérix into orbit. France became the sixth country to have an artificial satellite and the third country to launch a satellite on its own rocket. Astérix still orbits Earth and is expected to do so for centuries. pic.twitter.com/0YbNZOvytA
— The French History Podcast (@FrenchHist) November 26, 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
"I'm reading William Gibson's new novel, Agency, and had to try my hand at making a 'McWolven'"
for the curious, here's an article where the pastry chef who invented the muffin I believe the McWolven is based on describes the process of baking a soft-boiled egg into a muffin: https://t.co/JdrnYpOOHQ— Arlo 🐰 (@rabbitcourage) January 27, 2020
and here is the muffin recipe I used: https://t.co/Avey8ziQOb
Related:
Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip. pic.twitter.com/Nzb8q0gwRq— d. patrick rodgers (@dpatrickrodgers) January 29, 2020
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Neuromancer was inspired by William Gibson hearing people use computer words he didn't understand
Long article at The Guardian about William Gibson:
“I was actually able to write Neuromancer because I didn’t know anything about computers,” he says. “I knew literally nothing. What I did was deconstruct the poetics of the language of people who were already working in the field. I’d stand in the hotel bar at the Seattle science fiction convention listening to these guys who were the first computer programmers I ever saw talk about their work. I had no idea what they were talking about, but that was the first time that I ever heard the word ‘interface’ used as a verb. And I swooned. Wow, that’s a verb. Seriously, poetically that was wonderful.
“So I was listening to it as an English honours student. I would take it back out, deconstruct it poetically, and build a world from those bricks. Consequently there are other things in Neuromancer that make no sense. When the going gets really tough in cyberspace, what does Case do? He sends out for a modem. He does! He says: ‘Get me a modem! I’m in deep shit!’ I didn’t know what one was, but I had just heard the word. And I thought: man, it’s sexy. That really sounds like it could be bad news. And I didn’t have anybody to read it and … I couldn’t Google it.”
Monday, December 9, 2019
"He enjoys wearing the future, but fears full cosplay."
From a very long new profile of William Gibson in the New Yorker:
He spent time on eBay—the first Web site that felt to him like a real place, perhaps because it was full of other people and their junk. Through eBay, he discovered an online watch forum, and, through the forum, he developed some expertise in military watches. He learned of a warehouse in Egypt from which it was possible to procure extinct Omega components; he sourced, for the forum membership, a particular kind of watch strap, the G10, which had originally been manufactured in the nineteen-seventies and had since become obscure.It's a reminder that Agency comes out next month. Count Zero is currently $1.99.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Monday, September 16, 2019
Johnny Mnemonic VHS with clever interactive packaging
On the one hand I get that vhs is a dead format and nobody should want it, but on the other hand: pic.twitter.com/ckAZDJFLJT— brandon sheffield (@necrosofty) September 16, 2019
*Buy the Johnny Mnemonic vhs at ebay.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
New cover for Neuromancer
By Jonathan Gray.
Related:
— German Sierra (@german_sierra) December 16, 2018
friend of mine is making these very complicated embroidered sweatshirts and they look sick as hell https://t.co/oE3qlxsOjv pic.twitter.com/EgZYzxDPfB— chris person (@Papapishu) December 21, 2018
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Red Dawn 3 plot revealed by William Gibson
I keep trying to imagine a Trump-era Red Dawn rewrite where the Wolverines are on the side of the Russian invaders. https://t.co/W0Vrz763g5— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 17, 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Italian book cover for "The Peripheral"; Meet "The Pouch"; Speed Racer vinyl
The Peripheral in Italian pic.twitter.com/vv6MovsGUl— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) April 25, 2018
The result of tonight's live stream... a @robertliefeld creation - THE POUCH. Lines by @DonalTDeLay. Colors by me. pic.twitter.com/LWHGpdawmX— K Michael Russell 🎨 (@kmichaelrussell) April 24, 2018
— Erica Henderson (@EricaFails) April 25, 2018
— MONDO (@MondoNews) April 25, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
"Dutch intelligence reportedly hacked Russian election hackers in 2014"
TC:
The Netherlands’ Joint Sigint Cyber Unit, in the summer of 2014, seems to have found the den of “Cozy Bear,” as the state-sponsored group came to be known (also APT29) after the DNC hack in 2016. JSCU infiltrated its network and a nearby security camera, allowing it to see what Cozy Bear was up to, and possibly who was a member.
I tend to eyeroll at “exactly like a William Gibson novel”, but the Dutch hacking the camera in the corridor of Cozy Bear’s Moscow Square building...— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) January 26, 2018
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
William Gibson posted new material from the world of The Peripheral
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) December 13, 2017
Related, saw this today, too:
The British artist Richart Sowa lives on an island off the coast of Isla Mujeres, Mexico that he made out of over 100,000 plastic bottles. He finished building it in 2008, and it's solar-powered and complete with an internet connection. He lives there with his wife and dog— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) December 13, 2017
Saturday, October 31, 2015
William Gibson: "'What would North Korea do with this?' is an essential initial thought-experiment of mine, for any new technology."
1) If that Magic Leap gym whale was real video of an actual event, you wouldn't see the whale. The audience would -- assuming they were...
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 31, 2015
2) ...all equipped with Magic Leap's intended technology. To not be so equipped, at that moment, is also well worth imagining. As is...
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 31, 2015
3) ...what the government of, say, North Korea would do with that tech, if it were ubiquitous, or indeed, perhaps, mandatory.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 31, 2015
"What would North Korea do with this?" is an essential initial thought-experiment of mine, for any new technology.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 31, 2015
Saturday, May 16, 2015
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