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Simpsons McBain under attack by Commie-Nazis
00:33Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA mise en abyme moment in The Simpsons pits action hero McBain against the ahistorical forces of the Commie-Nazis Read more…
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Coding a computer scientist as evil
01:26Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsComputer scientists in the popular imagination of the 1970s were frequently "coded" as evil Read more…
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Lost in Space original title sequence
00:54Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA binary kitsch aesthetic combines with Saul Bass-style high contrast animation in the title sequence for Irwin Allen's Lost in Space Read more…
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Holographic home movies in Minority Report
03:10Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsHow do the technologies of holography and virtual reality alter the cinematic imaginary of home movies? Read more…
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Retro: The Camera and Mad Men
06:22Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsAn illustrated video essay on cinematography in AMC's Mad Men Read more…
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Route 66 computer science lecture
01:08Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA 1961 episode of the television road series Route 66 prominently features an IBM 709 mainframe computer accompanied by a typically exclusionist lecture by a computer scientist Read more…
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Rockford files data surveillance didactic ending
03:39Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe didactic ending of the Rockford Files episode "The House on Willis Avenue" (S4E21) warns against eroding privacy due to data surveillance Read more…
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Mannix title sequence
00:49Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe opening title sequence from the first season of Mannix, using multiple split screens and ambient supercomputing Read more…
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Rockford Files and data surveillance
01:00Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsJim Rockford uncovers a secret, domestic data surveillance system in 1978 Read more…
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Virtual boxing via HMD in Hackers
00:33Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsEvil systems administrator Fisher Stevens uses a head-mounted display for virtual boxing during his free time in Hackers Read more…
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Post-Soviet computer retailer in St. Petersburg as internet cafe
01:36Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA Russian computer hacker goes to an IBM computer store in St. Petersburg to send an e-mail Read more…
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Surrogates title sequence outlines utopian/dystopian binary
03:35Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe opening title sequence of Surrogates neatly summarizes the competing utopian/dystopian rhetoric that inevitably surrounds emerging technologies Read more…
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BSG original Cylons
00:42Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsGlen A. Larson's original Cylons in Battlestar Galactica have the same red LED "eyes" as KITT from Knight Rider Read more…
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Intel via iPad in MI4
00:29Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA more prosaic instance of touch screen gestural interface in MI4 Read more…
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Person of Interest title sequence
01:14Posted: Oct 17, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe opening title sequence of the CBS series Person of Interest describes the development of a government AI system capable of predicting violent behavior Read more…
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What do Superman, Jesus Christ and Videodrome have in common?
03:03Posted: Oct 16, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThis scene from The Matrix Reloaded pays homage to multiple cinematic superheroes and tropes of the body, death and resurrection Read more…
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The 1K Project II machinima by BlackShark
03:06Posted: Sep 25, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe 1K Project II uses more than a thousand cars composited into a TrackMania landscape to create a frenzy of automotive aerobatics and destruction Read more…
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The 1K Project II machinima by BlackShark
03:06Posted: Sep 25, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe 1K Project II uses more than a thousand cars composited into a TrackMania landscape to create a frenzy of automotive aerobatics and destruction Read more…
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The N-word of the 27th century in Battle for the Planet of the Apes
03:53Posted: Sep 21, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA human is punished for using a word associated with past repression of apes Read more…
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Verbal sparring between a future human and analytical computer on Star Trek
03:10Posted: Sep 15, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsAn agent from the future is sent back in time to interrupt the U.S. space program before it precipitates planetary destruction but first he must win an argument with a computer. Read more…
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Example of image manipulation from the 2004 Presidential campaign
Posted: Sep 15, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA composited image of Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry and activist Jane Fonda was circulated prior to the 2004 election Read more…
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Decommissioned IBM AN/FSQ-7 computers play the control panels of an alien space ship in Soap
03:24Posted: Sep 15, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe televisual convention of randomly flipping switches to control computers is taken to amusing extremes Read more…
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NASA control room of 1997 as imagined in 1965 on Lost in Space
00:56Posted: Sep 15, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe technoscientific imaginary was in full-swing when Irwin Allen envisioned what space exploration would look like in 1997 Read more…
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Data processing and geolocation in the late 1960s televisual imaginary
01:07Posted: Sep 15, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe punch cards used for information storage and retrieval could be read like telegrams while radio beacons anticipated GPS for urban surveillance Read more…
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Mannix vs. Technology
01:07Posted: Sep 15, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsTechnocratic corporate surveillance is contrasted with the rugged individualism of the private detective Read more…
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LA Times front page juxtaposes apocalyptic image with announcement of Roberts' confirmation to the Supreme Court
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsWhen John Roberts was sworn in as Chief Justice, the LA Times published this uncannily apocalyptic front page Read more…
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Harry Shearer's Pepper Spray Cop
03:12Posted: Sep 14, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsHarry Shearer created this mix about the UC Davis campus police officer who pepper sprayed student protestors on November 18, 2011 Read more…
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Lenka Clayton's Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet
00:29Posted: Sep 14, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsLenka Clayton created this remix of George Bush's 2002 "Axis of Evil" speech by extracting individual words and arranging them in alphabetical order Read more…
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Barbara Bush comments on the positive impact of Katrina on poor people
00:08Posted: Sep 14, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsBarbara Bush points out that relocation was actually good for poor people in New Orleans Read more…
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Life Magazine Lincoln Continental ad
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThis ad for a Lincoln Continental convertible appeared as a two-page spread in the Life Magazine from October 2, 1964 Read more…
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House Title Sequence
00:30Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsOpening titles for the Fox medical drama House Read more…
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Disney Cut and Paste
03:28Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA remix showing uncanny resonances in Disney animations Read more…
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Weeds Title sequence
00:52Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThis video assembles several different cover versions of "Little Boxes," the Malvina Reynolds song used as the theme song for "Weeds." Read more…
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The Game talking television set
03:57Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA television set once again appears as a narrative device for communicating with movie characters Read more…
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The Game home movie memories
01:46Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe visual vernacular of super-8 home movies is once again invoked to signify "memory" in a Hollywood feature film Read more…
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The Game diagnostic
02:57Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsMichael Douglas takes a series of physical, emotional and psychological tests as preparation for the start of his "game" Read more…
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The Game revelation
09:28Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsThe narrative climax of The Game represents the culmination of an elaborate series of events, resulting in an impossibly precise outcome and catharsis Read more…
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eXistenZ interface
03:44Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsCharacters in a virtual reality game begin to feel slippage between the "real" and "virtual" worlds Read more…
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eXistenZ game mechanics
08:34Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA scene from eXistenz highlighting the game mechanics and mise en abyme structure of the narrative. Read more…
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The Smiths, There is a light that never goes out
04:01Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by ccManager with 0 commentsA music video by the Smiths evoking nostalgia and placid suburbanism Read more…
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