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1796

timespace coordinates: The Flying Train, Germany, 1902


timespace coordinates: A Trip Through New York City in 1911


timespace coordinates: A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s


timespace coordinates: San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906


timespace coordinates: A Trip Through the Streets of Amsterdam, 1922


timespace coordinates: Laborers in Victorian England, 1901


timespace coordinates: Views of Tokyo, Japan, 1913-1915


timespace coordinates: Moscow, Tverskaya Street in 1896


The oldest recorded video, timespace coordinates: “Roundhay Garden Scene”, England,1888


 timespace coordinates: 1895 – France, Lyon, place des Cordeliers, – Factory outlet, France, Lyon, Monplaisir, chemin Saint-Victor (today rue du 1er Film) – The Landing of the photography congress in Lyon, 

1896 Launch of a ship, France, – Switzerland, Geneva, National Exhibition, Swiss Village,  – Westminster Bridge, Great Britain, London,  – France, Lyon: Quai de l’Archevêché,  – Panorama of the Grand Canal taken from a boat, Italy, Venice, Grand Canal,  – Arrival of a train in Perrache station, France, Lyon,  – Broadway, United States, New York,

1897 – Jaffa Gate: east side, Jerusalem 1897The pyramids, Egypt, Giza Panorama of the Golden Horn, Turkey, Istanbul Camel caravan, Jerusalem, –  France, Lyon, place du Pont  – Japan, Kyoto, Honshu,

1899 – Biarritz: the beach and the sea, France, Biarritz, – Grande Plage, –  Bad weather at the port, Italy,

1900 View from a whaling boat in motion, France, HyèresPanorama taken from a sedan chair, January 25, 1900, French Indochina (now Vietnam), village of Namo, Annam

1902 Fort-de-France: market, Martinique, Fort-de-France, French Antilles


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games, movies

1795 – Monster Hunter (2020)

timespace coordinates: the New World (where humans co-exist with a wide variety of large and savage monsters)

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Monster Hunter is a 2020 science fantasy action film produced, written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, based on the video game series of the same name by Capcom. The film stars Anderson’s wife Milla Jovovich in their fifth time working together as director and lead actor. The other cast members include Tony JaaTip “T. I.” HarrisMeagan GoodDiego BonetaJosh HelmanJin Au-Yeung, and Ron Perlman.

Anderson said that part of the film’s inspiration was based on a crossover event in the game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite in 2010, in which a military squad briefly faced monsters from the Monster Hunter series. (wiki)

Pre-production   /   imdb

books

1793 – The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2 – 2019)

timespace coordinates: – journey across Europe and the East The setting is a world dominated by the Magisterium, an international theocracy which actively suppresses heresy. In this world, humans’ souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of sapient “dæmons” in animal form which accompany, aid, and comfort their humans.

The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust. The story is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Pullman took his title The Secret Commonwealth from a 17th century book of the same name by the Scottish clergyman Robert Kirk, about encounters of country folk with supernatural creatures. (wiki)

goodreads   /   jesussotes

animation

1792 – Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)

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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spanish: Psiconautas, los niños olvidados; festival title: Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children) is a 2015 Spanish animated drama-horror coming-of-age film written and directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero, based on the comic Psiconautas by Vázquez. It is the follow-up to the pair’s short film Birdboy, following the titular character, a shy outcast in a post-apocalyptic society, and Dinky, a teenage mouse runaway fleeing her desolate island home. (wiki)

imdb   /   rottentomatoes   /  albertovazquez.net/ 

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1791

Machine in the ghost 

Can a robot pray? Does an AI have a soul? Advances in automata raise theological debates that will shape the secular world (read on aeon)


“… With some exceptions, this conception of automata and biotechne preceded the actual construction of robots, with legends about artificial life existing centuries before the accomplishments of a Renaissance engineer such as Turriano. Still, automata and artificial intelligence couldn’t help but have certain religious implications, whereby the ‘magical and mechanical often overlap in stories of artificial life that were expressed in mythic language’.

Even while simple mechanical beings were constructed in Ancient Greece (and the Islamic and Chinese worlds as well), legends about artificial life proliferated across cultures and centuries, and inevitably had a theological gloss to them. Kevin LaGrandeur, a professor of technology and culture, has written that ‘modern cybernetics is at least partially the product of a very old archetypal drive that pits human ingenuity against nature via artificial proxies.’ Witness medieval legends about constructed men, such as homunculi or the golem. In such stories, the emergence of an artificial intelligence allows for the exploration of creation more generally, where we can ask how unique the human mind is and in what way our cleverness can act as a surrogate for the divine.”

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documentary, Uncategorized

1787 – Kachalka (2020 short documentary)

timespace coordinates: 2020. Kachalka gym in Kiev, Ukraine

a gym built of Soviet-era scraps is a creative community hub


“Its name derives from the Ukrainian for ‘to pump’, and it’s built from scrap metal, so it would be easy to think of the Kachalka gym in Kiev as a Muscle Beach Venice (way, way) east of Los Angeles – a place for hardbodies only, novices need not apply. But in fact, whether you’re looking to get as buff as a World’s Strongest Man competitor, land a few blows at a punch-bag built from car tyres, or simply pose awhile on the machines, the outdoor, free-to-all gym has room for you. It even comes with its own on-site volunteer instructors and sports masseurs.” read more and watch here.

from Irish filmmaker Gar O’Rourke   /   imdb