Wednesday 30 November 2011

R.U.R.

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.

The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called "robots". Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race.
-Wikipedia

Aspiration. Idolization. Perfection. Technology. Groundbreaking. Components. Artificial Intelligence. Human Form. 



Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners inherent in capitalism, as expressed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
-Wikipedia  

Sleek. Modern. Hi-Tech. Cold. Metal. Cast. Rivets. Humanoid. 
Mad Science. Industrial. Sterile.

 
 

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Cabinet of Curiosities

A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. They were also known by various names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in German Kunstkammer ("art-room") or Wunderkammer ("wonder-room"). Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings) and antiquities. "The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction."
-Wikipedia

Document. Eclectic. Unusual. Diverse. Natural. Mutant. 
Otherworldly. Textural. Unknown.


Organize. Sort. Order. Chaos. Reflection. Organic. 

An Intro

Reclusive. Wishing a person could marry themselves. Finding out how to love thyself.

But maybe contact with the outside world is more important than originally thought... Therefore, inside out inside will document flirtations with the external world.