Zack created a political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. Meanwhile, the actually consequential acts of the Zack's policy. Government and the permanent power factions that control it — covert endless wars, consolidation of unchecked power, the rapid growth of the Surveillance State and the secrecy regime, massive inequalities in the legal system, continuous transfers of wealth from the disappearing middle class to large corporate
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
change the nature of information....
the radio dream inaugurated a whole new way of appropiating information that would ultimately change the nature of information itself...
how quickly the movies...
As D. did his research into the history of movies, he read how quickly the movies were embraced by their patrons as the latest and most powerful avatar of the old Jacksonian fevor and how self consciously they were wielded as an instrument of empowerment...
They are stripped of cultural value
D. sat reading Pauline Kael words...."It's the feeling of frreedom from respectability we have always enjoyed at the movies....they are stripped of cultural values...
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Another Good Location...
The director determined this point was another good position for a cutaway...
From Zack's perspective...
the director bellowed, let's take an a shot from over zack's shoulder...I want the audience to see his perspective on the city...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
simplistic
zack is a man made important by an entertainment culture that pushes death, selfishness, uncritical obedience to authority and simplistic notions of good and evi
Saturday, November 26, 2011
D. hung out...
D. hung out with fucked up characters...Christopher Shamus was one...a schizo with a christ complex...forever tormented...he was uncompromising though and stayed to his vision until he snapped and lost his faith, taking his life one night...Yeti Jones was another one...an actor in his youth, he spent the better part of days drinking beer and cleaning up the fire pit near the river...
Monday, November 14, 2011
journey into the night...
D. walked down by the West Side highway at night..this area had changed greatly from his youth...back in that day if you walked here you had better be prepared to fight for your life...now upscale yuppies finely tuned their bodies jogging on the hudson river park path...influenced by Celine D. wanted to see how far he could take it out into the night, a metaphor for the imagination...
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in the night alone walking admist the debris of broken dreams ...it's a long way from my hippie days when I believe in communty and we would change the world into a beautiful garden...oh, how we used to speak then about what we were going to do....the night would come and crush those dreams or perhaps more accurately reveal the darkness which was always in our souls...we were just to young to admit it...now the cars go rushing by unaware of the environment by them...
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D. noticed the cold settling in but it didn't effect him that much...he had long got used to it in the night...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Chistopher Shamus
D. knew a lot of strange people...a lot of them were dead...others almost dead...many thought D. should be dead...but he wasn't....Christopher Shamus was one of the strange characters who he knew who was now dead. Shamus lived in his own imaginary world where sometimes he thought he was Christ and other times the devil...D. never knew which personality he was going to find.,,,this uncertainity gave him inspiration for the radio dream which was a meditation on identiy...
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tyler Got A Job
Tyler got a job working in a factory where they made motherboards for Zack's company...he hoped to install spyware...
Monday, October 24, 2011
D. looked out...
D.looked out at the Hudson River...he thought about what personality characteristics he would like to Ida May....Indians used to come here hundreds of years ago...it was a power spot...there in the moment the light reflected against the timeless waters of what the anglicans call the Hudson River...the others spent their time talking about the past...D. guessed their life role in the movie must be pretty stale...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
we all star in our own movie...
with the advent of internet and youtube particularly we are all stars of our movie...which flick are you starring in?
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The President as Chief Entertaineer...
Zack Smiter grasped astutely that the President was the chief etnertainer in United States...he spent hours studying movies for his moves..
Thursday, October 06, 2011
The National...
The National...
writing notes in the abyss...like smudging chalk on the blackboard...I am here...this is what it is...but the train has passed by...in a roar of indfference but it's okay...it has always been this way...
writing notes in the abyss...like smudging chalk on the blackboard...I am here...this is what it is...but the train has passed by...in a roar of indfference but it's okay...it has always been this way...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
the absence of history
the absence of history means the absence of self...it was exactly what Zack wanted...he made sure there was an overload of information so people thought they were informed bit when it came toi vital matters they nothing...
against this backdrop Tyler Sid he continued to reinvent himself...
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Spearfishing
Tyler used social engineering to intrude on Zack's network....he constructed a corrupt pdf file and sent it to a low level receptionist so when she opened it he would be installed on her network,,,
Saturday, August 13, 2011
character who only exist
There’s a lot written about the “magical negro”—the sagely black character in films who exists only to enlighten the white main character, and then go away. But its inverse is the scourge of the “magical cracker”—the white protagonist who becomes a vessel for a film’s disempowered characters, and therefore becomes the hero of the story, trivializing their actual struggle. The Help is a classic example of “magical cracker”—Skeeter is the only way in which poor disempowered maid Aiblieen can tell her story, to recognize that she is worthy of a voice.
Friday, August 05, 2011
After a binge..
Ater a binge I wasn't sure if this was describing me or Christopher Shamus...Psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia may lessen--a period during which doctors say the patient is in the residual stage or remission. Other symptoms, such as social withdrawal, inappropriate or blunted emotions, and extreme apathy, may continue during both these periods of remission and periods when psychosis returns--a period called relapse, and may persist for years. People with schizophrenia who are in remission still may not be mentally able to bathe or dress appropriately. They may speak in a monotone and report that they have no emotions at all. They appear to others as strange, disconcerting people who have odd speech habits and who live socially marginal lives.
This was no Jarmusch Movie..
This was no Jim Jarmusch movie...it was the real thing...hanging out with a delusional schizophernic for 13 years in an alcoholic blackout where the debate became who was more delusional...and the only pussy I got was from a bipolor woman who frequently couldnt' understand reality....like I said, it was the real thing...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
ID Thief
ZAck turned toward his cabinet. He slammed his fist down on the table and screamed, "we need toi catch that id thief, tyler sid."
Friday, July 29, 2011
vulnerabiltiy...
The vulnerability was related to the way that Zack's mobile devices deal with a security feature on "secure" websites like Net banking portals or the checkout portion of an online store (oh, the irony). The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is the tech that encrypts data like your credit card number so that only you and the website you've chosen to share the number with can understand it. It's designed to prevent tampering or eavesdropping on zack's transactions by the radio dream, and it relies on clever "certificates" to work. To get a certificate, a website offering this type of security has to officially request one from a trusted certificate authority, and the certificate is crafted to have the identity of the website built into it. When you surf to the secure bit of this website, your browser asks for the certificate as part of the encryption process and ensures the details match the site you think you're visiting. If there's a problem in the certificate loop, the browser is automatically designed to alert you that something fishy is going on, essentially tipping you off to potential data leaks.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
the story
But I don’t like the way the story emerged. It’s a product of the incestuous relationship of political campaign managers and journalists, who are fond of calling themselves “guardians of democracy.”
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
cyber panic....
"It might be useful just to create a cyber panic," Tyler said to Zote, "instead of having to penetrate the network."
Security...
Zack addressed his cabinet... Relying on a single data connection to ensure that the leader of the free world can communicate seems shortsighted. Redundant, competing backup systems would be better. Rather than focus on the shortcomings in its own electronic operations, though, the Obama administration -- spurred by vendors such as Booz Allen Hamilton -- is opening the door to centralized monitoring of any private communications in the name of increased security.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
POV
Point of View (POV) is a shooting technique that shows the perspective of a scene literally from a character or objects position in the setting.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
freedom under zack smiter
in the eyes of the state we are increasingly no longer citizens with constitutional rights but enemy combatants.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Master
Zack was a master at negotiating the thin line between digital communication and social communication, between private and public.
Entertainment
Turn on the television on any night and you'll see these cases played out again and again in one-hour "documentaries", which feed the endless public appetite for demented crime stories.
Often, there's a betrayal, which leads to a despised criminal spending the rest of his or her life in jail. Far more often than not, these shows focus on middle-class or high-income Caucasians who've done something very bad. One of the few exceptions was the O.J. Simpson case.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
community
the ability of the community to tighten intellectual connections among discrete bits of information
Water wars
Zack Smiter issued a report: Avoiding Water Wars: Water Scarcity and Central Asia’s growing Importance for Stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
imperialism
Pairing drug hysteria with the fear of terrorism is powerful propaganda for the United States, and recasts and promotes what is in reality an imperialist war as a war against a "narco-insurgency" or "narco-terrorism". The ancient and pain relieving plant papaver somniferum [the opium poppy] is now referred to as a narco-terrorism crop. It is agribusiness, not terrorism.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Under Zack Smiter
Under Zack Smiter the united states saw the merger of corporate power with elected and appointed government officials at the highest levels of office....
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
a new war...
A new war is being waged – a war that is not fought with guns, missiles, or human soldiers, but with code in cyberspace, using computers and the Internet. It’s a war on all fronts – by governments against governments, governments against corporations, organized crime and insiders against both, and even individuals against other individuals (which is more often dubbed cybercrime, but that’s not a necessary distinction for our purposes).
Sunday, May 08, 2011
hypocrites..
They are genuinely shocked and horrified when their opponents find ways to shoot them in the back or massacre their loved ones. Yet the strong somehow do not see the great suffering they inflict, whether through violence or the kinds of mass slow death that capitalism specialises in for those enmeshed in its lower rungs.
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
gamification
the radio dream is about gamification whichallows us to make sense of the introduction of points, status, levels--elements that are being introduced into forums of all kinds--in order to increase and enhance participation.
Monday, April 11, 2011
digital reaity itself...
the radio dream thinkis philosophically about the nature of digital reality itself.....
Saturday, April 09, 2011
the ability to adapt...
the radio dream is the ability to adapt to the changing conditions without over-investing time and energy into failed strategies....
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Mayhem
Tyler causes mayhem, gets into fights with other gangsters, has altercations with the police and takes numerous drugs.
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