Now that would be more than cool. But isn't all of SL simply the avatar dreaming? That's how it seems to me a lot of the time. Lag in SL is a lot like what happens in dreams, isn't it?
Of course, there's the old Zen butterfly-dreaming-man question -- maybe we are the dreams of the avatars when they sleep. Do androids dream of electric geeks? D Pat Rapp wrote: > PS: Dana, can you program my avatar to dream? That would be kind of > cool. I'll even buy you lunch. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Dave <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, December 27, 2008 12:26 PM > *Subject:* Re: fashion sans real models > > Hmmm... Do robots dream of electric sheep??? > > */Alicia Henn <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>/* wrote: > > > In a NYT rundown of best new ideas of the year, > > http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/magazine/2008_IDEAS.html#c-ideas-4 > . > I found this interesting. A virtual fashion show with one model, > enpixelated and reiterated 12 times, passing herself on the runway in > awful outfits. It's not necessarily a new idea, but it is real now > and > I was struck by the soullessness of the very realistic image. That > same robotic lack of expression that you see in real models on the > runway is reproduced exactly in the digital version, a strange > artificial person image-imitating life-imitating personlessness. > It's a pretty intense flash movie, download-wise, but it is > interesting. Good music. > > http://www.viktor-rolf.com/_en/_ww/index.htm > > Alicia > > being. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
