Yes, it's that time of year again: the primary impact that Burning Man and methamphetamines have had on the computer industry is the SIGGRAPH Fashion Show. This year we learn that, In The Future, your clothing will look like an office building's HVAC system pooped on your head. Oh wait, that was last year too. Nevermind.
"The event's latex-clad emcee and founder, Isa Gordon, referred to herself as the 'cyborg host' and read her lines from a head-mounted teleprompt running a Microsoft operating system. The device, which rested over one eye like a pirate patch, crashed several times during the show, then died mid-show when batteries ran out, requiring a return to paper scripts."
That's plastic tubing, tubular crin, and foam in her hair, and i think it looks like complete ass.
I hope it revolts and suffocates her in her in bio-goo ALA tentical porn.
These people are a prime reason why the Quaker lifestyle seems so appealing.
I think you mean Amish. Different bunch.
The Amish lifestyle is attractive until you realize that it means "no deodorant" and "no air conditioning".
I work in downtown Chicago, and we get a suprising number of Amish people wandering around the Loop. They ride the train in from some big Amish community out in central Illinois. You can definitely detect them if you are standing downwind.
and this is different from working with computer people how?
Don't know about you, but my workplace's colo just installed a 20-tonne AC.
Don't let it poop on you!
Too late.
And just what is wrong with looking like the office building's HVAC system pooped on your head.
That is so 1998.
Meh.. I'm getting old.. gotta find some sort of angle for my midlife crisis.
What was wrong with 1998?
drreagan.
It was still years before anyone figured out that modems aren't meant for coffee making, and that 28k wasn't a fast alternative to carrier pigeon.
Sure, latency on pigeons is bad, but packet intercepting with a good cat is a lot more interesting
I remember seeing Captain EO too.
ya know, i am torn -- this or the octopussy? i can't decide.
And we thought the 1930's vision of the future was quaint.
Why does the new version of the future suck so much when up until the 70's it was so cool?
We stopped going to space, started worrying about pollution and the dystopian future. ST:TNG was probably the last 'rosy' view of the future, whereas everything else has gone post-apocalyptic.
...and even Star Trek has the Borg.
PRIORITY OVER-RIDE. NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED.
MUST BREAK TARGET INTO COMPONENT MATERIALS.
[it's a reference to <lj user="pfrank">'s icon. great game.]
Great game? I believe it's the best computer game I've ever played. Bar none.
Please, gothic slash industrial from 1980-something onwards is a rejection of ST-TNG in favour of the Borg.
If Windows will be running headgear I have to wear in the future, I'm just gonna kill myself now.
Heh, Isa is an old friend of mine from, you guessed it, Burning Man.
And you probably did her hair :)
I, for one, welcome our new HVAC overlords.
Brings to mind Laurie Anderson in the 5th Element. God, what a crappy movie that was!
Laurie Anderson in The Fifth Element?
I think I'm the only person in the world who loves that movie. It's corny awesomeness. The best comic book style movie around.
This woman just looks like a tool. She's wearing a headdress of tubes and ducting and her eyepiece runs Windows? How fucking lame is that. It's like a Winamp skin that looks like a stereo deck built into a post apocalyptic Ark of the Covenant.
I think I'm the only person in the world who loves that movie. It's corny awesomeness. The best comic book style movie around.
Fifth Element is fantastic.
Until Zorg buys the farm. Then it falls to bits.
Movies always suck after Gary Oldman's character dies.
That movie sucked ass. It was pretty, but absolutely terrible. Milla Jovavich's hotness could not save it, and Chris Tucker was just unforgivable.
Laurie Anderson had nothing to do with the movie at all.
The only way my brother could convince me not to throw it out was to write the word "boobies" on with a time reference.
This looks more likely to be what people will be wearing soonish :
What's that from?
I keep thinking Apple should open up a design store where they can sell their official sycophant robes. That's almost it, except the tassel/earphones should be white and they should have some steel/aqua somewhere...
See, it's all about the molded plastic unibrow for me.
Can't get enough of that hot unibrow action.
-transiit
That's a CyberTiara, you insensitive clod!
right. and one of these days Neal Stephenson is going to write a book about Groucho Marx and his SteamTiara.
(provided, of course, that he doesn't keep going into the past and write about the cyberpunk equivalents of the stone age)
-transiit
And if he wrote about the stone-age cyberpunks, he'd chisel it in stone for authenticity, and he'd take 20 years to do it, and it would also be longer than the unabridged Encyclopaedia Britannica.
She had a headcrash. Outstanding.
you know, it really seems like a whole lot of work for the paultry payoff of attaining Queen Of The Nerd Convention status.I mean a starving refugee will tell you that a PB&J sandwich is the most amazing tasting thing if he hasn't eaten in days.Also, I thought that vision of the future went bankrupt when the dot-coms did?besides, everyone knows this is how people will look Our New Future.
AFAIK, Ellen Spertus still holds that title.
http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Geek/
Her outfit actually looks better than the title picture's as well...
Slap her in a corset, and you wouldn't be able to tell her from most of the gothic prima donnas in my end of the world.
Wow. They also managed to cross Tina Turner with Molly from Neuromancer.
Dude, when you said "psycho hose-beast" you weren't kidding!
Yeah, because they're going to have so much fucking oil with which to make all these plastics.
Perhaps a process of oil-reclamation from crappy pseudo-futurist costumes will be invented and save the day.
I'm sure you mistyped - you meant oil-reclamation from crappy pseudo-futurist costume wearers, right? Sure, olive oil is better, but in our bleak dystopian future, only the overlords can afford that.
There will always be greasy teenagers. Always.