Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Passing through

We are too much persuaded that we are the solid ones, and the internet is the home of ephemerality.

Time-lapse video of static objects and ghostlike flickering humans: this is the world perceived from the point of view of websites.
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3 comments:

  1. nick stewartMarch 31, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    Thanks again for excellent talk at WSA today. Will you be posting it on here?

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  2. Sean CubittApril 2, 2011 at 10:10 AM

    not here Nick - bits have appeared, or related items: a version will be available internally; and a longer version of the second part is on my slideshare (linked lower down the page)

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  3. milkredApril 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM

    that is so beautifully true

    it makes me remember william gibson's concept of a 'walled city', a visualisation of an online community, a briefest flicker of an address before it moved to another segment of the net. the most amazing thing is that he wrote it in 1996

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