In William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, there’s an online community formed around mysteriously found video (the Footage), which was being released in bits and pieces online. I always wondered if there were real world examples of that – and it turns out, yes:
If there is no known footage of [early 20th century dancer Vaslav Nijinsky], where was this archival footage coming from? From the New Yorker article:
“Because it turns out, these aren’t films. They are computer-generated artifacts, made by Christian Comte, a French artist who has a studio in Cannes.
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You’ve seen this, right? Fox sure does “accidentally” turn a lot of Republicans into Democrats at the most opportune times.
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Best movie review I’ve read in a long time. Ever, perhaps.
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Astana’s Chris Horner won’t be at the Tour de France this year, and he plainly explains why.
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Few quicker ways to piss off a cop (and find yourself in manufactured trouble) than to ask for his badge number. Funny, that.
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I understand why they blurred out “fucktaco”, but “ballsack”? Really? In any event, I must be 12, because I found the whole thing quite amusing.
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Health insurers defrauding their clients? Well I never . . .