“Well, you know, that wasn’t, that actually wasn’t an influence. I was about a third of the way into the earliest version of Neuromancer when Blade Runner had its initial theatrical release, and I literally after like five minutes just sort of left the theater almost in tears (laughter) because this guy Scott had made this—what I could tell was like the most beautiful movie I had ever seen and it put the tawdry stuff I was projecting on the inside of my own forehead to shame, and I just thought, “all this work I’ve done, all this suffering, it’s now been, you know, wiped out by this movie Blade Runner.” But you know and then within a week or two I noticed that it was like a complete and utter box office and critical disaster. (laughter) Everybody Nobody went, the critics hated it, and it didn’t make any money, and in those days I had no way of seeing it again, isn’t that amazing?”

http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/livetranscript.pdf

William Gibson on Blade Runner.

Guantanamo Protest Events - May 2013 (and beyond)

anonyops:

There are a number of Protests/direct actions/marches/vigils coming up in May 2013 (and beyond) in protest of Guantanamo. Please help shut down Guantanamo. 

Ongoing (all month and beyond) - rolling hunger strike
Where - All over
who - http://www.witnesstorture.org
Ongoing - Rolling hunger strike
Where - The White House
Who - CodePink

May 12 - Contact Michelle Obama. Tell her that the detainees have mothers too. (Mother’s day protest)
May 13 - Vigil at Congress
Where - Washington D.C. Meet at Delaware and C in the Lower Senate Park. Call 202 553 9517 if you can’t find us.
When - 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
May 14 - Vigil at Congress
Where - Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
Wear orange if you can!!!
May 17-19 - Various Protests and vigils in London
Who - London Guantanamo Campaign
Follow at their website (Above) for complete details

May 17-19 - Twitterstorm!!!
Use the hashtag #opGTMO<
If you don’t want to be associated with any Anonymous-styled actions (we understand), then use #closeGTMO
May 17-19 4:00p.m.- Chicago’s many Guantanamo Protests
Where: Federal Plaza (Adams & Dearborn), followed by a march through the Loop and ending at Daley Plaza
This one has many sponsors:
  • World Can’t Wait Chicago
  • White Rose
  • IL Coalition Against Torture
  • Witness Against Torture
  • Voices for Creative Non-Violence
  • Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5
  • NW Indiana Vets for Peace.
May 17 - onward - A SUSTAINED resistance to Guantanamo
Please join us every Friday at State and Jackson at 4:30.
May 18 - Protest at the White House!
When: 5:00 p.m.
For more info: Call 202-355-9469
This action also has a TON of sponsors and could prove PIVOTAL:
  • MASFreedom
  • ANSWER Coalition
  • CODEPINK
  • MAS Immigration Justice Center
  • Witness Against Torture
  • North Carolina Peace Action
  • Americans Against Torture
  • Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
  • Stop Torture
  • North Carolina
  • Asian American Legal Center
  • and many more.

May 18 - Boston’s Guantanamo Protest
Where - Arlington Street MBTA Station Boston, MA 02188
When - May 18, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
May 19 - IT’S NOT COMPLICATED, CLOSE GUANTANAMO!
Where - Borough Hall steps, Bay Street, across the street from the Ferry terminal. Staten Island, NY 10310

Please stop torturing and close Guantánamo Bay.

&#8220;Our new installation ‘Pretty Vacant’ in Utrecht’s Centraal Museum will be open for public from Sunday May 19th until January 2014. The blue window is based on the ‘left over spaces’ of Rietveld Landscape’s earlier installation Vacant NL. This was presented in the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010.With the acquisition of the installation, the Centraal Museum realizes its ambition, with support of the Mondriaan Fund, to add Vacant NL to the collection.&#8221; Via Rietveld Landscape High-res

“Our new installation ‘Pretty Vacant’ in Utrecht’s Centraal Museum will be open for public from Sunday May 19th until January 2014. The blue window is based on the ‘left over spaces’ of Rietveld Landscape’s earlier installation Vacant NL. This was presented in the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010.

With the acquisition of the installation, the Centraal Museum realizes its ambition, with support of the Mondriaan Fund, to add Vacant NL to the collection.”

Via Rietveld Landscape

Viral Radio #17 at Red Light Radio

Viral Radio #17 at Red Light Radio:

00:00 Chapelier Fou - Protest (Dimlite re-ça va pas) 
04:13 Dean Blunt - The Pedigree 
06:48 Matthewdavid - Reunited 
09:34 Gravetemple - Ambient/Ruin A 
17:48 Paul Jebanasam - Rites: II 
24:55 Vatican Shadow - Security Cameras And Perimeter Walls As High As 18 Feet Topped With Barbed Wire 
33:26 Ital Tek - Pixel Haze 
38:22 D’eon - Transparency, Pt. IV 
42:08 Slava - Crazy Bout You 
45:23 Rustie - Triadzz 
47:36 Grown Folk & Main Attrakionz - Double M.O.B. (Kuedo Remix) 
51:22 Gazelle Twin - I Turn My Arm (Kuedo Remix) 
54:09 Inga Copeland - So Far So Clean 
57:38 Grown Folk & Main Attrakionz - I.C.E. (Kuedo Remix)
59:18 Bruce Nauman - Thank You Thank You

My monthly exorcising of demons straight from Amsterdam’s Red Light District.