Okay – this isn’t really like the AR I posted about before but I couldn’t help but stick in this nifty clip from John Carpenter’s They Live.
It’s AR – sort of.
Cheers.
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“Looks like I’m all out of bubblegum…”
I remember when Carpenter rocked.
Funny, the image I had from your previous post was everyone walking around in white uniforms that send out codes to display fashionable clothes. You’d simply download the activation code for the latest jeans.
Ooooh! Designer and homebrew AR fashions. I like it! Could do the same thing for cars – and houses – and faces too — the makeup industry would be forced to go digital cuz everyone is augmenting their outward appearance.
Of course the poor folk would be forced to watch the well-to-do shuffle around all baggy faced and dishevelled in matching dim white coveralls but that might help them feel more confident about themselves as the upper classes devolve into characters from THX-1138.
I’m kinda liking how the fture is comin’ at us.
cheers
Zen Captcha: ROUS Washington
Yes – there ARE Rodents Of Unusual Size there.
P.S. – some day I gotta try out this “Leave A Video Comment” option. But not today – I look like shit and my AR tech ain’t up to snuff – yet.
What did you mean by “you can’t go home again”? Did you work on the production of the pilot for “The Magician” 1973 starring Bill Bixby? If so who exactly were you?
Please sign the petition for its DVD:
http://www.petitiononline.com/TMDvD1/ Thank you!
Alas, no, I did not work on the show – I was but a mere fan at the time. When it first aired I thought it was SO cool and a truly ripping exotic yarn – but – the passage of time reveals the slack storytelling methods and pacing of early 1970′s television and more entertainment was derived by laughing at the excrutiatingly lethargic unfolding of the tale than by reliving the excitement remembered from so long ago. It would have been better to have just remembered it than to have attempted to review it.
And the capper was when Dorian and “the girl” were making good their escape – scrambling frantically from the basement dungeon – and he hands her a skimpy sequined leotard: “Quick, put this on.” We were on the floor then.
I really liked that show, and still do, but now the experience is coloured forever by this latest viewing through these jaundiced eyes.
Cheers.