Wednesday, January 06, 2010
What fools we were in the 1970s when we did not know that we needed a product like this to ensure that our hair looked messy, trusting instead to literal winds of chance, inadvertent bed-head (before that was a scientific term), and desperate self-barbering upon occasion. For if science has taught us anything, it's that one cannot trust nature to revert to disorder when one's (fashion) life might depend on it. I imagine that the Axe people have incorporated nanomachinery into their product to make sure that no two strands parallel one another over a significant distance, and perhaps a dab of adaptive optics to befuddle the hapless viewer's eye to see more of a fractal Medusa's nest than is practically possible to engineer in reality. Back in those days the mathematics of strange attractors was regrettably unavailable to describe the chaotic hair dynamics that is now understood to be essential to sustain modern standards of presentability.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Crisis averted for now
Name for the last decade: The kooky glasses era
via flickr.com
Makers of novelty eyewear have had to be more inventive than usual this year because of the missing double-aughts in the middle of the year. I predict that next year the available strategems will prove to be too strained to come up with a viable marketable product.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The physical artifact arrives
The literary production mentioned previously here has not only taken shape in the real world but has negotiated the supply chain issues successfully. And of course Annabel Scheme (broken link) makes for a good read. But it's not the San Francisco I remember....
Labels: book, project, sciencefiction
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
The stage show, the film, and the concert tour
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