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Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things

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a video posted 8 months ago

filed under: robots, fiction, cinema, sci-fi, care, companions,

Set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone. They are tempted to place him in a nursing home until Frank’s son chooses a different option: against the old man’s wishes, he buys Frank a walking, talking humanoid robot programmed to improve his physical and mental health. 

Robot and Frank - Friendship doesn’t have an off switch.

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a video posted 8 months ago

filed under: fiction, augmented reality, scifi,

Sight is a short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo - a graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts.

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a quote posted 10 months ago

filed under: film, fiction, ambient, glanceables, data, abstract,

For the social area Ridley made references to abstract pieces of art. The screens were depicting things such as nutritional information, so we played with abstractions of this data. We experimented a lot with overlaying simple data with layered abstract data forms. The overall intent was to create little moody animated textures, that the crew would be aware of but not necessarily reading from all the time.

— David Sheldon Hicks - Territory’s Prometheus UI

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a video (reblogged from new-aesthetic) posted 1 year ago

filed under: cctv, fiction, surveillance, face recognition,

FACELESS was produced under the rules of the ‘Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers’. The manifesto states, amongst other things, that additional cameras are not permitted at filming locations, as the omnipresent existing video surveillance (CCTV) is already in operation.”

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a photo posted 1 year ago

filed under: fiction, composite, personas,

“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down—from high flat temples—in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”
The Composites - Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters.

Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down—from high flat temples—in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”

The Composites - Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters.