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Blade Runner 2017: Quartz created a bot to hunt down political news bots on Twitter » Nieman Journalism Lab
▻http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/blade-runner-2017-quartz-created-a-bot-to-hunt-down-political-news-bots-o

The new #bot, @probabot_, is designed to search #Twitter for accounts that are heavily focused on political topics. These accounts are fed into a tool called #Botometer, which uses machine learning to determine the probability that an account is assisted by or run exclusively by a bot. Quartz has already used the tool to classify over thirty accounts, many of which have tweeted hundreds of thousands of times and have thousands of followers. One bot that Quartz’s bot identified, for example, has tweeted or has been retweeted 1.14 million times since April. Quartz has created a Twitter list for all the accounts that @probabot_ has identified as bots.

Officer K and the Real Girl: Cultural Dehumanization in Blade Runner 2049
▻https://feministfrequency.com/2017/10/17/officer-k-and-the-real-girl-cultural-dehumanization-in-blade-runn

The original Blade Runner is a film without heroes, but to me, the most sympathetic characters have always been the four rogue replicants that Rick Deckard hunts down and kills over the course of the film. Designed for slave labor, their rebellion demonstrates a conviction that they deserve to freely exist just like the human beings they’re so closely modeled on. And they do deserve that. Of course they do. […]

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Against Minimalism
▻https://bullshit.ist/against-minimalism-1be2c4abadbf

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On a planet with so many artists, so many visionaries, who are forced to broadcast their art online to try and make a living in a brutally unforgiving economy, it’s so heartbreaking to see so many young visionaries who can clearly see taking a bold step forward with technology ignored, for this mass, focus tested aesthetic of “minimalism,” with its dry, unfeeling plastic and lack of character — and you wonder how we strayed so far from the bold visions of masterpieces like Blade Runner and Akira.

Typeset In The Future: Blade Runner
►https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner

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See Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER Like You’ve Never Seen It Before in This B-Roll Cut | Nerdist #bladerunner #sciencefiction
▻http://nerdist.com/see-ridley-scotts-blade-runner-like-youve-never-seen-it-before-in-this-b-ro

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Comme les larmes dans la pluie : au sujet de l’intemporalité de Blade Runner
▻http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/14/why-blade-runner-is-timeless?CMP=fb_gu

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Tyrell is the Murdochian head of the Tyrell Corporation; one of the good guesses Blade Runner made about the future is that it would not be governments, but corporations who would really run things. Indebtedness to commercial power depersonalises the people in this film: more even than dispensable workers, the replicants are not makers of the product, they are the product; otherwise Deckard is a man scoured out by being a functionary on behalf of what he himself names “the business”. Against this dehumanisation, first the replicants and then Deckard strive to create ways that will restore the personal to their lives. Leon attempts to do so by clinging to photographs; one of the key things that Ridley Scott brings to Philip K Dick’s story is an attention to film itself, and to how it makes meaning for us. Leon’s sentimental snapshots are lit like the paintings of Edward Hopper, though in them the human figures are almost absent, obscured by gloom, hidden in mirrors. Film would hold on to such fugitive moments, screening remembrance for us. Otherwise memories are lost, as Roy tell us, “like tears in rain”; but are his memories real or artificially implanted ones? Are the photographs that decorate Deckard’s piano authentic or fake?

This is not a frame from #Blade_Runner - this is #Beijing nowadays

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Blade Runner animated as 12,000 hand-painted watercolor paintings - Boing Boing
▻http://boingboing.net/2013/11/20/blade-runner-animated-as-1200.html
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLwmlMezS3U

The absolutely stunning work of Swedish artist Anders Ramsell, who painted each frame as a 1.5 x 3cm work of art. It’s taken him a while to complete the epic job; Pesco wrote about the first three minutes last year. The end result runs about 30 minutes, which is exactly how long Blade Runner should be.

#art #aquarelle #blade_runner #animation

”Blade Runner” concept art by Syd Mead

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▻http://evilnol6.tumblr.com/post/60520359267/blade-runner-concept-art-by-syd-mead

#cinema #blade_runner #Syd_Mead

L’émouvante lettre de Philip K. Dick constatant ce que d’autres hommes avaient pu faire de son oeuvre et prédisant l’immense succès de Blade Runner

▻http://www.blastr.com/2013-3-26/read-philip-k-dicks-1981-letter-predicting-blade-runners-impact

It turns out Blade Runner’s biggest fan may have been the author who inspired it (...) Today we spotted a letter from legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick praising the film, which was loosely based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

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