I'm reading Cory Doctorow's new novel "Makers." It has the usual Doctorow tropes (I tried to portmanteau that but gave up) - new technologies, ways of making, theme parks, etc. It has a very Bruce Sterling feel to me - entertaining fiction that's mainly about new social trends and technologies, or extrapolated ones.
It feels very today and I like that.
It makes me want to go back to Montreal and rent out a big (or medium-sized, or small) warehouse to make things.
Here's a list of things I've dreamed of making:
- a surrealist salon art space that looks like an old British gentleman's club decorated by a punk rock Salvador Dali
- a puppet theatre, that would also have shadow puppetry, and making the marionettes and shadow puppets to fill it
- an origami flower garden
- a physical open source wiki library
- starting a city-wide artisanal soda business
- many different books, including a current project
- an oversized sperm-shaped kite
- a secret diner's club
And about a zillion other things.
In the makin' mood.
It feels very today and I like that.
It makes me want to go back to Montreal and rent out a big (or medium-sized, or small) warehouse to make things.
Here's a list of things I've dreamed of making:
- a surrealist salon art space that looks like an old British gentleman's club decorated by a punk rock Salvador Dali
- a puppet theatre, that would also have shadow puppetry, and making the marionettes and shadow puppets to fill it
- an origami flower garden
- a physical open source wiki library
- starting a city-wide artisanal soda business
- many different books, including a current project
- an oversized sperm-shaped kite
- a secret diner's club
And about a zillion other things.
In the makin' mood.
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Presently "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is frontpaged on my iPhone/Kindle. No, I'd never gotten around to reading it until now. It took me the first chapter or two to shake my expectations from Blade Runner, and now I'm enjoying it immensely.