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My Man Anton Schutz: An Immigrant's View of the New York

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:58 PM PDT

Anton Schutz in his studio When talking about immigration, it is either an often cited or often forgotten fact that most of us here in the USA are decedents of immigrants. What I think is more often forgotten is that it the immigrant who sees the positive side of a new life in the US and contributes to our culture in ways that current residents don't: with the eyes of the outsider.

An example is the life and work of Anton Schutz. Anton Schutz had a special way of looking at the US, in particular his views of Gotham. His portrayals of New York City are renowned for his sense of progress and his ability to capture of the grandeur of the modern city during the 1920's and 30's. After only being in the USA for a short time, Schutz was able to capture the American spirit of New York City so remarkably that his New York etchings were featured in newspapers (In particular the New York Times) in lieu of photographs. His love and portrayal of New York comes from his technical artistic background as an etcher, a challenging art form, and his life experiences in Europe.

Broadway (Reverse Etching)

His biography is nothing short of spectacular. In 1914, Schutz was drafted into the German army and served with distinction, reaching the rank of corporal. His artistic abilities led to him being contracted by the German army to draw postcards of occupied cities in Belgium and France. Often, his postcards would be of destroyed cities to be sent home by soldiers. Here, you can see the market at Meenen in west Flanders from the German WWI Postcard series drawn by Schutz. His experiences in the First World War had a profound effect on him that increased his pacifist leanings.

Meenen Market

Upon returning from war, he resumed his art and moved to Munich. In Munich, he simultaneously attended both the Art Academy and the Technical University for architectural studies. Although attending both institutions simultaneously was forbidden at the time, Schutz pursued his passions for both architectural engineering and fine art. His art, mainly etchings with a focus on architecture, sold well in Germany from 1918-1922, particularly in the galleries of Munich. It was also there that Schutz witnessed first hand the economic crisis of 1923 and the early rise of the Nazi party under Adolph Hitler. His apartment window faced out directly to the Feldherrnhalle where Hitler tried to violently overthrow the Weimar Republic in November 1923. Although socially and economically successful in Munich, he emigrated in February 1924 to New York City after destroying all of his copperplates used to print his German etchings. He simply cut his ties and set out in some fairy-tale manner to make it in the new world.

In New York, he immediately became a successful etcher, known for his technical skills and portrayals of American city life on the eastern seaboard. His depictions of the modern progressive city were so impressive, that the newly formed USSR invited him to Moscow to produce similar etchings. After returning from Moscow in 1928, he also toured Europe as an "American" artist. His primary subject was the architecture and city life of New York with emphasis on Manhattan and Brooklyn. His artwork in America, although appearing to be more technical in nature due to his focus on detailed architectural renditions of the city, actually are 'freer' than his European images.

Midtown Canyon

Despite his successes in the art world in the USA throughout the thirties, the coming war and the waning interest in black and white etchings drove him to shun art production in 1939. As founder of the New York Graphic Society, he turned his attention to high quality art reproduction. The NYGS produced many books highlighting European masters in full color from 1925-1966. The NYGS was contracted in 1949 by the United Nations through UNESCO to publish the World Art Series featuring color reproductions of world art. Schutz then traveled the world from 1949-1961 documenting world art for the United Nations.

Schutz experienced the early twentieth century from a unique perspective. He saw war as a soldier and artist, studied classical art and architecture in Munich, saw the hints of the rise of fascism in Germany, lived through an economic collapse, saw the early days of the USSR, and eventually decided that his home was NYC. There is something telling about his love for New York that perhaps only New Yorkers can know. His personal motto was "Ubi bene, ibi patria or My fatherland is where I am at ease." J. Hector de Crèvecœur wrote in the Letters from an American Farmer that this is the motto of all immigrants.

Schutz died on October 6, 1977 in New York but his etchings are still widely available. If you are in Manhattan, stop by the Old Print Shop and check out one of his etchings for yourself.

For a final contrast, you have two images, an etching from Munich of the Sendlinger Tor and in contrast a reverse etching from Brooklyn heights.



Vintage paint tin label-design

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:47 PM PDT


The Dieline, a blog devoted to packaging design, has a great post on vintage paint and paint-supply packaging art of yore.

Vintage Packaging: Paint Supplies

HOWTO make a Zombie Barbie Garden

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:45 PM PDT


Carrie and her daughters turned their collection of decrepit Barbies into a garden of ZOMBIE BARBIES for Hallowe'en: "The girls helped rat the hair of all the thrifted Barbies before I coated them with paint. Then they were dressed and creepified with black Sharpie markers. Princess even made them headstones. 'R.I.P. Freaky Barbie.'"

Barbie Zombie Garden (via Craft)



Agriculture fire-guns of yore

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:40 PM PDT


Why the hell does no one advertise great stuff like this anymore?

KILL IT WITH FIRE

Mitt Romney got a bestseller by demanding bulk-purchases of his books in exchange for lectures

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:09 PM PDT

Former GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney got his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness onto the bestseller lists by taking his $25K-$50K speaking fees in the form of discount orders for his book, according to a report in Politico:
The hosts ranged from Claremont McKenna College to the Restaurant Leadership Conference, many of whom are accustomed to paying for high-profile speakers like Romney. Asking that hosts buy books is also a standard feature of book tours. But Romney's total price -- $50,000 -- was on the high end, and his publisher, according to the document from the book tour -- provided on the condition it not be described in detail -- asked institutions to pay at least $25,000, and up to the full $50,000 price, in bulk purchases of the book. With a discount of roughly 40 percent, that meant institutions could wind up with more than 3,000 copies of the book -- and a person associated with one of his hosts said they still have quite a pile left over.
How Romney made a best-seller (via Super Punch)


Hairy masks of 1978, a catalog page

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:03 PM PDT


Redyoda sez, "Flickr user toyranch scanned these insanely awesome images from a 1978 Traveler's Novelty & Mask Catalog. Says Gary Spiegler: 'I'm hiding behind this mask because I'm ashamed to show myself. Yes, I'm ashamed because our prices are the LOWEST in town and my competition is out to murder me.'"

Traveler's Catalog 03 (Thanks, Redyoda, via Submitterator!)



Onion Bag Scrubbing Hack

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 05:41 PM PDT

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Everyone knows that the worst part about baking bread is having to clean up the sticky floury mess from counter tops, bowls, and utensils. The gluey mass refuses to come out of sponges, and gums up anything it touches.

I always dreaded the prospect of trying to get the gunk of sticky flour or melted cheese out of a sponge or brush until I recently discovered a solution in the form of the netting that onions and other vegetables come packaged in. By cutting up the stiff netting bags from packaging into about 6" squares you can make reusable super scrubbing tools. A few bags will produce more than you'll need. Now when you're finished scrubbing you can toss or recycle the used netting (make sure to rinse off the gunk first) and marvel at your flour and cheese free sponges.

Note: As an avid fan of the previously reviewed No Knead Bread I can attest to the simple brilliance of this cleaning hack. No more ruined sponges! --OH

-- Pen Duby

Onion bags
Free Comment on this at Cool Tools. Or, submit a tool!

Scraper Bike Team of Oakland documentary

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:31 PM PDT


A film by Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari.

"In order to become a member of the Original Scraper Bike Team, you must: Be a resident of Oakland. Be at least 7 years old or older. Retain a 3.0 grade point average, create your own Scraper Bike… (It Has To Be Amazing, Or Else You Can't Ride.) A single-file line when riding. After 10 rides The Scraper Bike King and his Captains will decide if your bike is up to standards and if you can follow simple guidelines. After your evaluation we will consider you a member and honor you with an Original Scraper Bike Team Shirt. Only worn when Mobbin' Stay posted to our website for all upcoming Scraper Bike Rides..." -- The Scraper Bike King
The Original Scraper Bike Team of Oakland came to Maker Faire in San Mateo in May, and they were amazing.


Luke's mini-Catfish experience on PostSecret

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:21 PM PDT

My pal Luke Pebler was an unwitting PostSecret card, and he hopes the sender will get in touch with him.
201010151308On Saturday night, I received a frantic text from my wife instructing me to check postsecret.com "seriously right now." Although I was peripherally aware of the site, full of anonymous secrets collaged onto postcards, I had never visited.

Imagine my surprise, then, when the page loaded and the first postcard was me. Specifically, an old picture of me standing in my living room, wearing a Denver Broncos jersey and giving the camera a thumbs-up. The following handwritten secret had been overlaid:

To impress a girl
I rooted for the Denver Broncos
I hate myself for it

Over the next couple days I received many messages from friends and family, all ZOMGing over my appearance. The reactions broke cleanly into two camps -- about half thought it was hilarious and assumed that I or someone close to me had submitted it as a goof; the other half were convinced that a stranger had used the photo, and found that bizarre and slightly creepy. My wife, a media scholar, immediately pointed out that I was a "creator" whose work has been "poached and reinterpreted."

I wasn't sure what to feel, at first. Tickled? Flattered? Sketched out?

The more I think about it, the more I believe the author must be a stranger with an earnest secret, and not a friend playing a prank. As unlikely as it would be for a random someone to find and use the old pic (public on Flickr since 2006), it makes more sense than someone trying to tease me, through a site that I never read, by suggesting that I faked Broncos fandom (Preposterous!) in order to impress my (NFL-agnostic) wife.

I'm fascinated by the idea of someone using an amateur photograph of a stranger in such a fashion, when most PostSecrets make use of professional imagery from print ads or magazines. This person went to the trouble to find my picture online, print it out, add their secret, and snail mail it to PostSecret -- where it was rescanned and put back online, thus completing the social-media-compost Circle of Life.

I've gotten over my initial case of the willies. I'm dying to meet this person.

Which is, of course, antithetical to everything PostSecret stands for -- but I don't care. If you're out there, sir or madam -- I admire your sense of humor and taste in stock imagery. Please consider getting in touch.



Best political attack ad ever?

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:00 PM PDT


Richard Metzger says:  
The back story here is that Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz kicked a kid in the face at a charity soccer game over the summer."

Best negative political attack ad of all time?

The world according to San Francisco

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:54 PM PDT

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As Homer Simpson once said, "It's funny cause it's true!" The World According to San Francisco (Thanks, Ted Weinstein!)

Rare Topps trading card stuff for sale

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:51 PM PDT

Wolverbeast

Joey Anuff is selling off some rare and excellent old Topps trading card stuff on eBay. He says:

This stuff is all from before my time, tracked down and collected out of perverse fascination rather than any personal nostalgia. EC Comics has been fairly well-canonized for a few decades now, but outside of Wacky Packages, the work of the same gang for Topps in Brooklyn is barely known outside card-collecting circles. Especially when you consider that Topps' mid-'60s operation basically consisted of young underground comix scenesters like Art Spiegelman and Jay Lynch art-directing legends like [Wally] Wood, [Basil] Wolverton, and [Jack] Davis for a fairly non-trivial mass market (Glen Bishop/Bobby Draper), this era easily deserves the Smithsonian treatment. Or at least a few more Flickr galleries.
Gallery: Rare Topps Issues & Display Boxes 1965-1973 | Basil Wolverton's Ugly Hang-Ups Topps 1968 | eBay auction

The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:41 PM PDT

Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop

More than 60 images of L.A.'s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up "The Beautiful and the Damned", a show on display at Track 16 Gallery at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. Following, in this post: a photo gallery of selected shots featured in the show.

Curated by filmmaker/journalist Kristine McKenna, the exhibition closes this weekend— but some prints will still be available for purchase. Please contact the gallery for details. They also have copies of Summa's gorgeous large-format photo book, The Beautiful and The Damned, which is also available on Amazon.

At left: Exene Cervenka (X) at legendary punk club The Masque. Here's another reason to visit Track 16 in person: they have an actual door from The Masque on display, original "Darby Crash fucked your mom" graffiti and all.

Here's a related Los Angeles Times article. Many thanks to both Ms. Summa and Track 16 for allowing Boing Boing to present some images from this historically important series.

Boing Boing readers: were any of you there, at any of these shows? Share your history in the comments.


Joe Strummer (The Clash)



Wendy O Williams (Plasmatics)




Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders)






Dinah Cancer (45 Grave)






Johanna Went






Tom Verlaine (Television)


Bow Wow Wow


L-R: Dale Bozzio (Missing Persons), Darby Crash (Germs), John Doe and Exene Cervenka (X)


(All images © 1977-2010 Ann Summa. All rights reserved. Thanks, Laurie Steelink and Sean Meredith!)

100 million fake sunflower seeds removed from museum

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:15 PM PDT

The exhibit of Ai Weiwei's 100 million hand-made porcelain sunflower seeds at the Tate has been shut down due to noxious ceramic dust. (Via Kristi Lu Stout)

What Alternative Energy Taught Us About the Fish that Live in the East River

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:20 PM PDT

I've got a guest post up at the Public Library of Science blogs today!

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Lesson 1: There are fish that live in the East River

Sure, New York City's East River has long been a punchline for jokes about industrial pollution and mafia homicide, but it's far from being a dead zone. That stereotype is one of Jonathan Colby's biggest pet peeves. There are many species of fish living below the water, he says, and diving birds, such as cormorants, that live above. You can even watch the cormorants--big, jet-black creatures with yellow beaks--doing their thing from the promenade along the Eastern edge of Roosevelt Island.

The River really was once in trouble, but it's rebounded in a big way since the 1980s. It's just that, until recently, Colby says, nobody had documented the results that successful clean up had on fish populations.

The impetus behind the East River's first wildlife study in decades: Hydroelectricity. Colby is a hydrodynamic engineer with Verdant Power, a company that's working on installing 1 megawatt of electric generation in the East River, using a system of spinning blades on posts--similar to wind turbines. To make sure the fish don't hit the fan, Colby had to document a baseline population and then monitor fish numbers and behavior over two years, while Verdant ran a 185-kilowatt demonstration project.

Monitoring happened round-the-clock, 24-7, using both traditional sonar and a new system called Dual Frequency Identification Sonar, or DIDSON. While basic sonar tells you that an object is in the water, DIDSON can show you what the object is--whether fish or plastic bag. The images produced by DIDSON look a lot like fetal ultrasound pictures. Suffice to say, the results might look a little abstract to you or me, but experienced analysts can get at least an Impressionist level of information out of it, including the direction the fish are traveling and, in some cases, what kind of fish are out there.

"There are like 1000 fish, per month, that just kind of live here [in the area surrounding Verdant's turbines] during the non-migratory period," Colby said. "During migratory periods, you can see upwards of 10,000 fish per month traveling through these waters."

Read the rest at PLOS

"East River, Manhattan and Roosevelt Island" by Susan NYC



Hotels want to sue bedbugregistry.com, claiming false bedbug reports hurt business

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:20 PM PDT

I travel a lot, and end up staying in unfamiliar hotels in cities struck by the growing menace of urban bedbugs. So hell yeah, I check bedbugregistry.com before I go—and I check the mattress and headboard when I arrive. Via Poynter's "Making Sense of News" blog by Bill Krueger, word that some hotels want to take action against bedbugregistry.com. They claim false reports of bedbugs harm business. I've always wondered how the website works. From the article, sounds like bogus "sightings" from bored internet people or competitors of a given property could easily happen.

My Princess Boy

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 11:14 AM PDT

Five-year-old Dyson Kilodavis is a little boy who loves sparkly things: princess gowns, hot pink socks, glittery jewelry. Deal with it.

Richard Metzger over at Dangerous Minds points to a lovely children's book by Dyson's mom, titled My Princess Boy, and shares a surprisingly non-exploitative television interview with the boy's mom, dad, and older brother.

Richard says:

This child, I think it's clear, is going to be who and what he'll be. But unlike many kids like him, he's not going to grow up thinking there is anything wrong with who he is. This kid is FABULOUS and nothing less! With all of the gay bullying, suicides and the general anti-gay bigotry going on in rightwing circles, Cheryl, Dean and their older song Dkobe, deserve admiration and gratitude from the rest of us, for being such an amazing, wise examples for other people in their situation, with their loving parenting of their "Princess Boy."

You have to watch the video. Have some kleenex handy. I sure cried. It's right here: My Princess Boy: Meet the most awesome family in America
(Dangerous Minds, thanks Tara McGinley)

Amazon Link for the book.


Surf's Up. In Gaza. For Girls.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:52 AM PDT

In the Atlantic, a piece about teen girls who enjoy surfing. In Gaza. An uplifting tale of gnarly waves, until you hit the punch line: They'll have to drop the hobby when they're 17, in accordance with cultural norms. (via @legalnomads)

What's it like to hug a koala?

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 11:12 AM PDT

They sleep 20 hours a day, they're finicky foodies, they're bullied by dogs, and chased out of their native habitat by suburban sprawl. Sounds like someone needs a hug. Dan Harris reports on troubled Australian koalas in this ABC News video clip.

What's it like to be incarcerated in a US prison?

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 11:13 AM PDT

I could not stop reading this series of posts from a 99chan forum regular who returns after a 2 year prison sentence until I'd finished every last word. Terrifying, dehumanizing stuff. But is it real, or fiction? The "chans" aren't exactly where one goes for fact-checked documentaries. (via @mala)

Ralph Niese's MetalHare illustration for pocket calendar

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:14 AM PDT

201010151012 Ralph Niese's fun cover art for Tschau Tschüssi's 2011 calendar is worth a closer look. I love the colors.

"Take Me Out" by Atomic Tom, performed live with iPhones on NYC subway

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:03 AM PDT

YouTube Link. You can buy the single on iTunes or Amazon. Follow the band on Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace. Oh, fine, it's a gimmick, but a clever one. And sure beats parking a truck in the middle of a Los Angeles freeway.

(thanks, Teresa Brewer)

Next leak, next week, from Wikileaks? What's expected: 400,000 US Army docs from Iraq

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 09:49 AM PDT

Reports are circulating that WikiLeaks will release close to 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War next week. Once again, this would become the largest military leak in U.S. history. Snip from Wired News:

Measured by size, the database will dwarf the 92,000-entry Afghan war log WikiLeaks partially published last July.

"It will be huge," says a source familiar with WikiLeaks' operations, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Former WikiLeaks staffers say the document dump was at one time scheduled for Monday, October 18, though the publication date may well have been moved since then. Some large media outlets were provided an embargoed copy of the database in August.

Related: Spencer Ackerman has a must-read item at Danger Room on what to look for in the anticipated documents.

Insane Clown Posse: Stealth Evangelical Christians (bonus: Juggalo Buffet Hut)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:10 PM PDT

A one-two punch for you Boing Boing readers in the juggalo department. First, a faux video ad for Buffet Hut, which perfectly mimics the production style of actual, official "Gathering of the Juggalos" informercials we've blogged here before.
(Thanks, Cheap Little Films, via Submitterator).

When you're done with the free Faygo refills there, read this Guardian UK interview with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, which proclaims bluntly what's been tossed around online for some time: the duo say they are Evangelical Christians, and kept their faith in the closet for two decades.

They indulged in violent/shock/sexually explicit lyrics on the earlier records to attract a devoted cult of fans, the story goes— then dropped The God Shizz on 'em with "Miracles" and more recent material.

The Guardian interview is funny and disturbing, whatever the truth is—just like the band. As an aside: The interview takes place in Milwaukee. I love how the London-based writer feels compelled to hammer into our heads that ICP is violent by reminding us in the very first graf that Jeffrey Dahmer is from Milwaukee. Eye-roll. I bet he was getting ready for his flight to Wisconsin and Wikipedia'd that, and was like, "Aha! Got 'em!"

Hey, bub. Know who else is from Milwaukee? Laverne and Shirley. Also, Fonzie.

Anyway, it's a fun piece. For me, the news here is not that ICP are evangelicals seeking to convert fans to Christ. It's that despite all the frontin', they're emo souls: comment trolls and bad reviews on Livejournal get under their greasepainted skin:

"I get anxiety and shit a lot," [Shaggy] says. "And reading that stuff people write about us... It hurts."

"Least talented band in the world," Violent J says. "No talent. When I hear that I think, 'Damn. Are we that different from people?'"

He looks as if he means it - as if he sometimes feels hopelessly stuck being him.

It's just a terrible twist of fate for Insane Clown Posse that theirs is a form of creative expression that millions of people find ridiculous. But then suddenly, palpably, Violent J pulls himself out of his introspection. They're about to go on stage and he doesn't want to be maudlin. He wants to be on the offensive. He shoots me a defiant look and says, "You know Miracles? Let me tell you, if Alanis Morissette had done that fucking song everyone would have called it fucking genius."

So next time a Juggalo tosses a bowling ball into your windshield and yells "faggot" at you, then blesses you in the name of Christ—before you scream back at him, remember that he is a sensitive person with deep feelings.

Insane Clown Posse: And God created controversy


(Thanks, Matt Stone, and Mark Dery, and everyone else who sent this in)

Cop jumps into stranger's car to escape pack of wolves running on freeway: Real or Fake?

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT

Update: Astute Boing Boing readers have identified the video as fake. Good comment thread.

Details are as fuzzy as the video, and I'm jaded enough to believe it could be an ARG or a viral promotion for online traffic school. But if this video is to believed, a policeman in Russia jumped into a stranger's car when he saw a large pack of wolves running on to the freeway (the cop was making a routine traffic stop). Wonder if he still gave the driver a ticket.

YouTube Video, and Dagbladet report.

What do you think? Fake/staged, or video verité? I'm having a hard time believing it, but it's a cool clip.

(Via BB Submitterator, thanks Ferenczy)

Captain Jean-Luc PiCake: An Excellent Star Trek Wedding Cake

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 11:55 AM PDT

Via the Submitterator, Boing Boing reader qubitsu tells us:
My friends got married on Sunday, and the groom is a serious Star Trek fan. Our cake-baking friend made him an edible bust of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and the rest is history.
Flickr Link.

Pink Noise: hard-sf novella about the strange battles of the posthuman

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 06:36 AM PDT

Leonid Korogodski's publishing debut Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is a dense, hard-sf novella that takes a serious crack at imagining the priorities, miseries and joys of posthuman people. It's a tall order: creating believably nonhuman post-people means that you necessarily give up on a certain amount of empathy and sympathy for your characters who are, by definition, doing things whose motivations we can't purely understand.

Korogodski's solution is to garland the tale with a kind of scientific poesie -- a superdense rush of technical explanations for the atomic structure of the human -- and posthuman -- mind, written with the kind of passion that a pornographer might reserve for a detailed description of someone's reproductive organs, and the kind of lyricism that a poet might use to describe the same parts (albeit by allegory). This, for the most part, really works -- Pink Noise manages to be a story that sucks you in and spits you out again some 120 pages later, having somehow convinced your mind to care about the trials and tribulations of people who can't properly die and who are mostly made from computation.

The book comes with a series of technical appendices explaining the neuroscience, astrophysics, evolutionary computing and linguistic tricks that make the book hum, and when these aren't sufficient, the author has left sidebars and footnotes in the text of the story itself. These are fascinating little essays, but I don't reckon you need to read them to get the story.

What's the story? Nathi is a transhuman brain doctor, someone who can repair neurological insult in those people who stubbournly insist on having meat bodies. He is called in to rescue a comatose girl who has suffered a grave nerve insult, and so an instance of himself is inserted into her mind, whereupon he discovers that he is not who he thought he is, and neither is she. This leads to a daring escape, an epic space-battle, and a series of bizarre and imaginative flashbacks explaining the economics and geopolitical carnage left behind by the Singularity.

Silverberry Press have packaged the novella and its technical essays in a slim and handsome hardcover, with several black-and-white illustrations from Bulgarian artist Guddah. I'm sorry to say that these illustrations left me very cold, being the kind of computer-enhanced "futuristic" illustration that my eyes generally slide past at science fiction conventions.

I taught Korogodski at the Viable Paradise sf writing workshop some years ago, and it's always good to see a student doing well. This is a promising debut from a writer who isn't afraid to be as technical as he needs to be in order to tell his story.

Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale



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