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+ | ====Cargo cult interior design challenge III==== | ||
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+ | Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:38 pm | ||
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+ | We're redesigning the Snoepwinkel. Constantly. Everyone has different ideas about the best way to trick visitors into the right state of mind through our new campaign: the Plant Communication Cargo Cult. Some of us go for major redesign - like even removing walls and ceilings. Others are suggesting a subtler approach, but will anyone notice? Electricity, | ||
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+ | --druko | ||
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+ | ====Interview featuring three patabotanists==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:46 pm | ||
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+ | Magnus Dieter: Where are you from and why did you come here? | ||
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+ | Alchemilla Lily Umiliata: We are researchers and generalists from a parallel reality where plants and humans communicate and collaborate through sentient technology. We became interested in this world when we stumbled on an article on the internet about [[: | ||
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+ | Mandrago Fraser Mithrodin: You understand that both our realities share the internet; I don't know why. It's quite old-fashioned that way. I'm rarely on the internet myself, it gets boring. | ||
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+ | MD: And so you decided to intervene? How did you get here? | ||
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+ | ALU: Not really intervene, but yes, there are these activist movements and artistic and political interventions in this world, and I suppose that what we are doing could be seen in relation to that. As we learned more about your world, we had all become quite concerned about the non-communication between plants and humans, the absence of organic sentient technology and so forth, so we wanted to do something. As to how we got here, maybe Fraser can tell you more. | ||
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+ | MFM: Actually we had a bit of trouble with this - we all disagreed about how to do it. In the end It's like several giant fluffy rabbits bouncing, bouncing… Fur is essential to your survival in this case, but you can end up bouncing everywhere and going nowhere… | ||
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+ | ALU: Fraser, what do you mean? | ||
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+ | MFM: Well, a few of us decided to try a different approach after all that. And so we ingested Salvia divinorum, which was interesting but terrifying, and probably when all the bouncing started. It actually allowed us to bounce all the way between realities, and so that's how some of us ended up here, and the others could follow through the fluffy wormhole between worlds that we pioneers created. | ||
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+ | Trismegisto Herbert Taraxi: I'm not sure all of us would agree with the wording of that description. What Mandrago is saying is that we underwent a chemically-facilitated phase transition of our molecular structures - on the level of DNA - which allowed us to commute between parallel realities. (The exact process is too involved to discuss here, but it is well-documented in certain texts, such as The Invisible Landscape.) But from a certain vantage point it might not be entirely inaccurate to think of the process as " | ||
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+ | MD: What were your first impressions upon arriving? | ||
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+ | ALU: We couldn' | ||
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+ | MD: Please elaborate. | ||
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+ | For example, we discovered an abandoned candy store located in Gent, a city that is very congenial to our interests as there is already a lot of activity and engagement with plants. It seemed to be a place where an incipient plant consciousness was ready to bloom. We converted the abandoned candy store into our base where we could research and experiment, of course, but also further study and understand your cultures by interacting with visiting natives. To this end we've been growing a salon where visitors can experience the essence of plant consciousness. It's an ongoing work in progress, and changes with the seasons. | ||
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+ | THT: We also gradually started to see some potential in the technologies discovered here. Due to their inherent limitations we found it difficult not to dismiss them out of hand at first, but these very limitations inspired us to devise some novel workarounds, | ||
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+ | MD: Such as? | ||
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+ | THT: We established a pataportal to Cornwall that links online and offline worlds. A weather station has been installed, and with the data feed from this we can start to simulate sentient transmutation processes between humans and plants through a variety of mediums. These were all developed largely using indigenous technologies, | ||
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+ | MFM: He's talking about the cargo cult interior design challenge! | ||
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+ | Part II of this interview will follow shortly. | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:54 pm | ||
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+ | I saw this when it first came out in eDit_C#. It struck me as being a rather poor piece of journalism at the time, and though I grant that it is perhaps more "on topic" in this forum than it ever was in the magazine, my opinion remains unchanged. | ||
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+ | There are so many flaws here that it is hard to know where to begin. The interviewer fails to elicit the context, which remains unclear throughout; it's virtually impossible to get a picture of who (or what?) these people are and what they are actually doing - or why this is even important to us in the first place. (And after all, it hardly takes much to suspect that the whole interview is mere fabrication anyway.) | ||
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+ | In sum: why would anyone waste time on this? m( | ||
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+ | --uncookedprecaution | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:58 pm | ||
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+ | Thank you for your comments, uncookedprecaution. | ||
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+ | Maybe if you followed some of the links (or read some of the other forum posts) you might find some ' | ||
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+ | Re: fabrication, | ||
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+ | --Motionless Detector | ||
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+ | Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:52 pm | ||
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+ | When your magisterial words, I was my mouth fell right open. Far away! Your powerful and effective ideas took me on the next great wave and earnestly wish triumph in some latest presidential elections. Your support given to you I tremble with awe. This time I trust with all my soul right and sincere collaborations after reading your soulful mind eye, it being! | ||
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+ | --doorknob199 | ||
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+ | ====IVLAAMSG62 installed==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:11 pm | ||
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+ | Weather station IVLAAMSG62 finally installed and operational on the roof of the Vooruit, Gent. We now have a continuous readout of temperature, | ||
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+ | As a technological sensory organ, the weather station can provide us with a simulation and window into plant perception, as it records the features of the environment essential for a plant' | ||
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+ | ====Cargo cult interior design challenge II==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:54 pm | ||
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+ | Herbert' | ||
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+ | Fraser has officially declared the Patabotanical Cargo Cult Interior Design Challenge. We are hoping to trick people into plant communication through a meticulous simulation of plant-machine entanglement that is usual in our reality, but must be reached through special contrivances in this one. We will charm visitors into Viriditas through contagious and homeopathic interior design. Everyone' | ||
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+ | --armormin | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:08 pm | ||
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+ | Some of the results have been spellbinding, | ||
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+ | Mood: Hilarious | ||
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+ | --mango | ||
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+ | ====Nonsense==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:50 pm | ||
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+ | The art of being most relevant in the most irrelevant circumstances. | ||
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+ | --mango | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:52 pm | ||
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+ | Frazer, please read your PMs. I'd like to keep this board on topic if possible. | ||
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+ | --tritar | ||
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