i haven't read it but just read about it on wikipedia. ha. i have to read up
to get your jokes sometimes, david. yes being from aleph null is being from
very far away indeed, given that aleph null is the first and most homely
order of infinity.
speaking of sci-fi, i watched herzog's 'the wild blue yonder'. now there is
an inventive, imaginative, and _different_ approach to sci-fi. he uses many
of the conventions of sci-fi but usually in a new way. i will actually watch
that one again.
having moved recently to vancouver, i got a different cable company, a local
one, and their price for internet and tv is quite good. but, it turns out,
the stations you get are, for the most part, not very entertaining. you can
buy the more entertaining stations, of course, for an additional charge. so
i have taken to using a file-sharing program to download things i want to
watch. recently i searched online for lists of 'the top' sci-fi films and
downloaded many of the films. as you might expect, 'the wild blue yonder'
was not prominent or even on many of those lists. but, having seen it, and
having become familiar with several of those lists, it really should be.
and, watching 'the wild blue yonder', i had a feeling of, yes, watching the
work of a poet. by that i mean, well, i'm not exactly sure what i mean, but
the film is highly imagistic and aware of the medium and genre its operating
in. it isn't afraid to shut up and work in images. it isn't overly
novelistic. the dialogue is mostly a monologue, perhaps entirely monologue
(i will have to watch it again--it was late and i fell asleep for part of
it). as though it was closer to being a poem than a conventional story. very
fine work indeed.
by the way, i have added an 'about' button to aleph null at
http://vispo.com/aleph . that button opens a window of text that may not be
finished, but includes sections titled Credits, About, Help, The Title,
Tones as Colors and
Sounds, Slidvid of Aleph Null Stills, and Performance Issues. there is also
now a color-picker for the background color. so the piece is about 90%
finished. the only other additional thing i want to work on is to add more
stuff to the 'shapes' slider. the html 5 canvas tag offers ways to draw
curves. i would like to have aleph null be able to show very curvy things.
like the polygons only very curvy.
ja
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: Slidvid of Aleph Null stills
> It just struck me that 'Slidvid of Aleph Null' would make a great name for
> a
> character in sf-fantasy novel ...
>
> or perhaps a refugee from 'The Cyberiad' ?
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