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SURFPUNK Technical Journal 031
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 11:08:54 PST
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (grpuabybtvr ireovaqrg)
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
Subject: [surfpunk-0031] DIGEST: Personality Constructs, ff5, m2k, TAZ, R.I.T.E.S., wired
| The bees spoke to me on the telephone,
| asking for isdn.
|
| David Blair <wax@well.sf.ca.us>
|
|
| WAX tripped my shit hard! Just saw it in
| Berkeley this weekend, late at night, and the
| film simply ate my brain, gobbled it right up.
|
| has become a transparent eyeball
| <magdalen@well.sf.ca.us>
|______________________________________________
Most all of this is SURFPUNK VIEWER MAIL. Tidbits and queries from our
reporters in the field. Includes an appeal for futureculture outlets
in Athens, Georgia. Someone please jack those bulldawgs in!
I thought I had sent a blurb on the Temporary Autonomous Zone at Komotion
International -- but now we have some real copy on it.
--strick
Subject: CYBERSPACE - Is there anyone listening?
Factsheet Five, if you didn't hear, is cleaning out the closets.
Mondo2000: Where in Atlanta or Athens can I get a copy
A NIGHT OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY AND POETIC TERRORISM
SATURDAY FEB.6,1993 AT KOMOTION INTERNATIONAL
[san francisco, south of market]
R.I.T.E.S. - A Reality Benchmark
Subject: wired mindvox and well
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From: gt1420c@prism.gatech.edu (Christopher Richard Smaglick)
Subject: CYBERSPACE - Is there anyone listening?
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 1:00:47 EST
Greetings,
I just wanted to make contact across the continent, or maybe just the
phone lines. I'm interested in any cyberspace/VR heads out there who
happen to understand Gibsonian logic.
I'm working on a thesis RE: Spatialization of Information: Personality
Constructs Within Cyberspace. Sounds like I know what I'm talking about
but my heads in the process of info absorb.
Any responses appreciated. Here's something to catch avid cyberpunks!
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-Something dark was forming at the core of the Chinese program. The
density of information overwhelmed the fabric of the matrix, triggering
hypnagogic images. Faint kaleidoscopic angles centered in to a silver-
black focal point. Case watched childhood symbols of evil and bad luck
tumble out along translucent planes: swastikaa, skulls and crossbones,
dice flashing snake eyes. If he looked directly at that null point,
no outline would form. It took a dozen quick, peripheral takes before
he had it, a shark thing, gleaming like obsidian, the black mirrors
of its flanks reflecting faint distant lights that bore no relationship
to the matrix around it. - Neuromancer, 1984 -
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Jackin' out,
GLICK K-
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From: Scott Dorsey <kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov>
Factsheet Five, if you didn't hear, is cleaning out the closets.
Check rec.mag for details.
--scott
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To: strick@osc.osc.com
From: jwright@moe.coe.uga.edu (Jim Wright)
Henry, I am enjoying your surfpunk journal. There is alot of rubbish mixed
with a few perils. There is alot of stuff on Mondo2000. Where in Atlanta
or Athens can I get a copy or subscription and I am also looking for
MonaLisa Overdrive. Please
decribe both publicationPI am new to the world cybertronics!
Talk with you later - Jim Wright
jwright@moe.coe.uga.edu (Jim Wright)
Department of Instructional Technology
University of Georgia
[
Can someone help in Athens, Georgia?
In atlanta -- where to get Mondo2000 -- that's easy -- Oxford Books.
Try the one on Pharr Road first. In athens, well, I'm only familiar
with the "downtown metropolitan complex" of athens, but I thought I
saw it in the newstand next to the Grill. Maybe not.
I don't recommend subscribing; it comes too slow.
Mondo2000 is kind of the glossy, flagship magazine that made a lot of
this culture known to the world at large. Radikal futureYouths like
to poo poo this rag because it's really nicely produced, widely
available, has some really accessible articles on musicians, isn't as
garage-kool as Boing Boing, tries to be tabloid, may make some money
some day (not yet, R U says), etc. I make no such judgement.
Mona Lisa Overdrive is by William Gibson. Should be an inexpensive
paperback in any decent bookstore in the Science Fiction shelf.
Should be trivial to special order, if needed.
-- strick
]
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Source: The WELL -- "g mondo" -- Topic 166: Temporary Autonomous Zone
# 1: J Matisse Enzer (matisse) Fri, Jan 8, '93
A night of Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism
Saturday, Feb. 6th 1993
8:00 PM
2779 16th Street, San Francisco.
$10 donation requested.
Call (415) 241-1568 or (415) 861-6423 for more info.
By: J Matisse Enzer (matisse) on Fri, Jan 8, '93
THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE
MEDIAKAOS PRESENTS THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS
ZONE: A NIGHT OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY AND POETIC
TERRORISM SATURDAY FEB.6,1993 AT KOMOTION INTER-
NATIONAL 2779 16TH STREET,SF AT 8 P.M. SPECIAL
GUESTS INCLUDE;
HAKIM BEY (AUTHOR OF T.A.Z.),
ROBERT ANTON WILSON (AUTHOR OF ILLUMINATUS!,
COSMIC TRIGGER, & QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY),
NICK HERBERT (AUTHOR OF FASTER THAN LIGHT:
SUPERLUMINAL LOOPHOLES IN PHYSICS, & QUANTUM REALITY),
JOSEPH MATHENY (FORMERLY OF THE INTERZONE PROJECT,
CURRENTLY OF MEDIAKAOS,AND AUTHOR OF ON
GIVING THE MEDIA A SEIZURE: A WORK IN PROGRESS).
SPECIAL NON-LINEAR CAVORTINGS AS ROB BRESZNY PRESENTS
WORLD ENTERTAINMENT WAR,
SUZANNE THOMAS OF TRIBAL WARNING THEATRE IN A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF CHAOS
NEVER
DIED!,
AURAL SCULPTINGS BY THELEMONADE (FROM WE PRESS IN
SANTA CRUZ),
MUSICKAL MAGICK BY POX ECLIPSE,
DJ CHEB i SABAH (FROM KPFA),
MEDIA ART BY JON BRIGHT,AND NINA MATHENY,
PLUS MORE SURPRISES!!!!!!
CO-CREATION BEGINS AT 8:00 p.m. AT
KOMOTION INTERNATIONAL 2779 16th STREET
ADMISSION IS $10.00 SLIDING SCALE.CHAOS NEVER DIED!
CHAOS IS CONTINUAL CREATION! THIS WORK IS PART OF A
CURRENT OF WHICH THE LAST HAS NOT BEEN HEARD!
# 5: Howard Rheingold (hlr) Sat, Jan 9, '93
Does anybody know why a person calling himself or herself Hakim Bey
faxed some kinda hoodoo-voodoo, phony-mojo curse to Whole Earth? We
don't need no stinking curses to operate in a fucked up manner!
Curses? By FAX?
# 6: virtual madness (jonl) Sat, Jan 9, '93
It's the latest fad.
# 7: Evelove (evelove) Mon, Jan 11, '93
whis they'd Fax they bad asssus down to New Orleans.
Maybe after Austin, or something.
# 8: Purina Yuppie Chow (jcourte) Mon, Jan 11, '93
Somebody fax him a Stare-EO full of rude subliminal shit
geared to rip him a new cortex. That, fellow `nauts, is a curse.
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Source: the WELL -- Topic 163: bOING bOING - Brain Candy for Happy Mutants!
# 10: Paco Xander Nathan (pacoid) Sat, Apr 18, '92
R.I.T.E.S. - A Reality Benchmark
An erstwhile journalist of the serious media once proclaimed
Virtual Reality as "electronic LSD"... Aficionados among the
VR community kwickly retorted "Sorry, acid has a better price/performance
ratio"
to settle the issue. But hey,
just what do thoze nasty
price/performance ratios look like anyway?
The deeply concerned staff at bOING-bOING has established
a reality benchmark to help track this emerging commodity
index. In phact, our study is scientifically based on your
experiences, pfeedback, hallucinations, rants, etc. So please
participate. Reality is at steak.
The proposed benchmark is called RITES, for Reality
Immersion Temporal/EcoGnomic Side-F/X. Costs are based
on the principle that most folx tyre of their toyz after about
six moons. Your input is EZ - simply figure out:
1 - what you ewes to leave reality
2 - how much that costs per week (we'll convert to US$)
3 - how immersed you get, averaged over the entire
session length (%)
4 - how long that alters the knob atop your shoulders per
session (minutes)
5 - how many alternity sessions you typikally engorge per
week
Send experiential data for statistikal analysis to:
pacoid@well.sf.ca.us
Data sets will be proffered to the number crunching goddess
Deuce X. M'Sheena according to the ancient alchymical formula:
RITES = (Reality Immersion) * (Time/Session) *
(Sessions/Week) / (Cost/Week)
For those of ewe twisted enuf to appreciate stoichiometry,
the RITES benchmark works out to be a percentage of Time/Cost
following the motto: the higher, the better. So hear is an example
table to launch ur rants:
Item Cost/Wk RI Time/Session Sessions/Wk RITES
Day Dreamer $15/26 wk 80% 10 min 7 97.07
lysergic $5/hit 75% 6 hrs 1 54.00
brain machine $500/26 wk 80% 30 min 7 8.74
shrooms $15/gobble 70% 3 hrs 1 8.40
VR $10k/26 wk 95% 90 min 7 1.56
cinema $3/matinee 5% 90 min 1 1.50
ESO/tantra $50 20% 2 hrs 3 1.44
cocktails $45 tab 10% 1 hr 3 0.40
PS: don't fret about calculating the last column; that task can be
automated by our great computers, which fill our hallowed halls...
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Source: FutureCulture
From: Paul Davilon <dav@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: wired mindvox and well
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 22:20:57 PST
Well & MindVox: I'm on both, I never spend more then an hour every few
weeks on the Well so I just download the conferences I want to read and
leave. I always feel paranoid like the clock is ticking and I don't
like it, I think the Well's pricing is too steep. MindVox is much
better about this because its real cost effective and has a much
edgeier and underground feel to it, it's the real thing, to the Well's
people talking about the real thing.
Speaking of the real thing, what is happening with MindVox? I heard
that Kroupa blew some Wired deadline because he trashed his apartment
and put his fist through a window? I talked to a friend of mine in NY
who said Kroupa, his fiance, Fancher and some other guy from LOD who
wouldn't say his name were in the emergency room yesterday. What was
this all about and is everyone ok now?
Wired: Who are they????? I read on MindVox that they have billboards
and ads all over buses, subways, buildings and it looks as if every guy
who used to write for Mondo is going to be writing for them also, or
intead of Mondo. I know Sterling, Gibson, Markoff (NY Times and
Cyberpunk), Kroupa, Rucker and even R.U. Sirius are there. Is Mondo over?
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You are in a tiny hovel. There are all kinds of
books and scrolls cluttering up the place. It
looks like the home of a sage. In the far corner
is a small bed.
There is one obvious exit: east
A sage.
> Sage says in common: Hand Runesword to me.
The sage mumbles something about your mother.
The sage looks under his bed.
You hear the sounds of hooves beating in the distance.
Sage says in common: Runesword is a very evil object.
The sage drinks some concoction he has created.
Sage says in common: Hand Runesword to me.
The sage pulls some newts brain from a bottle.
Sage says in common: Hand Runesword to me.
A skeletal man enshrouded in black rides in
on his pale horse.
The sage looks under his bed.
Death grins mischievously.
Death peers deep into your soul.
Death says: I think that I will give you another chance.
Death drops you off in the church,
and rides away on his pale horse.
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