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This is a cyber-fantasy omen referencing characters from Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs and Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie.
It was inspired mostly by Weird Science.
Cheers,
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Amish Patel was a cognitive science student at MIT (Massachusetts, USA) studying how self-hypnosis in human minds paralleled some of the algorithmic 'seizures' in computer programs. Patel was a very bright and inquisitive student interested in connections between psychophysics and recursive algorithms, which is why he was fascinated by the comic book character Video-Man (Marvel Comics), a 'being' comprised entirely of electrons and residing in the labyrinths of computer networks and terminal wires(!). Patel collected lots of comics, and when he stumbled upon the comics-adapted anime/cartoons Saber Rider and Space Adventure Cobra, he became fascinated with the saber-wielding knight Richard Lancelot and the galactic blue-haired heroine Jane Royal.
Amish Patel was so fascinated by Richard Lancelot and Jane Royal that he started collecting blue-and-yellow print couch-pillows (in honor of the blue-and-yellow motifs in the Richard Lancelot and Jane Royal character cartoon-drawing representations/portrayals). Amish made his entire MIT apartment a 'blue-and-yellow' daydream, to reflect his interests in 'the coordinated mind' and its application to 'parallel-universe imaginations.' Of course, Video-Man (Marvel Comics) was himself a being of entirely blue-and-yellow color, which struck Amish as rather odd and coincidental (metaphysically!).
As Amish meditated more and more about the psycho-sociological symbolic value of Richard Lancelot and Jane Royal, it dawned on him that Video-Man could be presented as a 'psyche/subconscious being' of pedestrianism oriented modernism imagination. Amish made depictions of bizarre alien creatures in blue-and-yellow dyed portraits and compared them to the blue-and-yellow virtual/cyber 'existence' of the freakish Video-Man. Amish Patel concluded that cyber-fantasies, like the colors perceived and stored in the imagination, were like 're-presentations' of modernism schizophrenia (completely harmless).
GOD: I like Amish Patel's ingenious studies.
SATAN: Yes, he's linking modernism imagination with the human subconscious.
GOD: It's great how cartoons and space-adventures have become so popular!
SATAN: Yes, it parallels the rise of comic books which symbolize 'pedestrian IQ.'
GOD: Captain America, Green Arrow, and Spider-Woman represent 'traffic paranoia.'
SATAN: That's what Amish Patel is studying --- the 'imprints' of traffic angst.
GOD: Maybe Video-Man is the 'cyber-Godzilla.'
SATAN: I think human frailty re-presented as folklore is perfectly natural...
GOD: We must take care not to 'indulge' in our angst/paranoia.
SATAN: Well, there's nothing wrong with 'omen-parables,' right?
GOD: No, but we can't become hypnotized by modern 'toys.'
SATAN: True; it seems everyone is addicted to Facebook these days...
GOD: Maybe American youngsters should watch Weird Science.
SATAN: Maybe cyber-modernism is an 'imagination crusade.'
GOD: We can find inspiration in 'behavior drawings' (e.g., Edvard Munch's The Scream).
SATAN: I'm a big fan of the Scream horror-film franchise.
GOD: Perhaps the Internet will bring out humanity's 'gross-anatomy imagination.'
SATAN: There're 'angels in the microchips.'
GOD: Praise be to Ghost in the Machine.
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It was inspired mostly by Weird Science.
Cheers,
====
Amish Patel was a cognitive science student at MIT (Massachusetts, USA) studying how self-hypnosis in human minds paralleled some of the algorithmic 'seizures' in computer programs. Patel was a very bright and inquisitive student interested in connections between psychophysics and recursive algorithms, which is why he was fascinated by the comic book character Video-Man (Marvel Comics), a 'being' comprised entirely of electrons and residing in the labyrinths of computer networks and terminal wires(!). Patel collected lots of comics, and when he stumbled upon the comics-adapted anime/cartoons Saber Rider and Space Adventure Cobra, he became fascinated with the saber-wielding knight Richard Lancelot and the galactic blue-haired heroine Jane Royal.
Amish Patel was so fascinated by Richard Lancelot and Jane Royal that he started collecting blue-and-yellow print couch-pillows (in honor of the blue-and-yellow motifs in the Richard Lancelot and Jane Royal character cartoon-drawing representations/portrayals). Amish made his entire MIT apartment a 'blue-and-yellow' daydream, to reflect his interests in 'the coordinated mind' and its application to 'parallel-universe imaginations.' Of course, Video-Man (Marvel Comics) was himself a being of entirely blue-and-yellow color, which struck Amish as rather odd and coincidental (metaphysically!).
As Amish meditated more and more about the psycho-sociological symbolic value of Richard Lancelot and Jane Royal, it dawned on him that Video-Man could be presented as a 'psyche/subconscious being' of pedestrianism oriented modernism imagination. Amish made depictions of bizarre alien creatures in blue-and-yellow dyed portraits and compared them to the blue-and-yellow virtual/cyber 'existence' of the freakish Video-Man. Amish Patel concluded that cyber-fantasies, like the colors perceived and stored in the imagination, were like 're-presentations' of modernism schizophrenia (completely harmless).
GOD: I like Amish Patel's ingenious studies.
SATAN: Yes, he's linking modernism imagination with the human subconscious.
GOD: It's great how cartoons and space-adventures have become so popular!
SATAN: Yes, it parallels the rise of comic books which symbolize 'pedestrian IQ.'
GOD: Captain America, Green Arrow, and Spider-Woman represent 'traffic paranoia.'
SATAN: That's what Amish Patel is studying --- the 'imprints' of traffic angst.
GOD: Maybe Video-Man is the 'cyber-Godzilla.'
SATAN: I think human frailty re-presented as folklore is perfectly natural...
GOD: We must take care not to 'indulge' in our angst/paranoia.
SATAN: Well, there's nothing wrong with 'omen-parables,' right?
GOD: No, but we can't become hypnotized by modern 'toys.'
SATAN: True; it seems everyone is addicted to Facebook these days...
GOD: Maybe American youngsters should watch Weird Science.
SATAN: Maybe cyber-modernism is an 'imagination crusade.'
GOD: We can find inspiration in 'behavior drawings' (e.g., Edvard Munch's The Scream).
SATAN: I'm a big fan of the Scream horror-film franchise.
GOD: Perhaps the Internet will bring out humanity's 'gross-anatomy imagination.'
SATAN: There're 'angels in the microchips.'
GOD: Praise be to Ghost in the Machine.
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