
#bladerunner #blackout #cyberpunk #scifi #anime #futurenoir #neonoir #2danimation #animeaesthetic #gifs #dystopia #cityscape #spinner #glowaesthetic
Get your Blade Runner on, tickets are up for Neotropolis 2025.
Neotropolis is a five day fully immersive cyberpunk and science fiction festival in the Mojave Desert. The dates for 2025 are 23rd - 27th April.
Source: https://www.neotropolis.com/
Techbros took the wrong lessons from science fiction
When nerds get confused, we all suffer.
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/02/21/techbros-science-fiction-musk-zuckerberg/
Detalles de los materiales y ayudas de la partida de #BladeRunner #TTRPG #LoDelRol
The original #cyberpunk, they said. But #BladeRunner is #FilmNoir - mood, femme fatale, antihero, moral ambiguity. That's really why it works so well. And that explains what cyberpunk actually is. It has to have most of those elements, otherwise it's not doing the job.
Wannabe cyberpunk that gets tied up with its technology is all wrong. It might be effective on its own terms, but it's not the thing itself.
Then Blade Runner goes well beyond both cyberpunk and #noir. The moral ambiguity is challenged with the possibility of salvation, and it makes a serious attempt to identify the meaning of humanity.
Neither of those themes have much to do with technology.
The flying cars, the robot owls and toys, and the ubiquitous giant screen ads are technique to alienate us from what believe to be true and normal. It's only Deckard's possible redemption that reprieves us from that.
Aunque #BladeRunner es una gran película y un clásico, como adaptación de la novela "¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas?" (buen título, horrible para citarlo
Por ejemplo todo el tema pseudofilosófico del mercerismo y las "cajas de empatía" o las diferencias entre clases sociales y cómo el que puede se larga de la Tierra. O la incapacidad para distinguir realidad de ficción en un mundo en el que los sucedáneos han sustituido a los originales.
@clive
Thank you so much for posting about this. I consider myself a huge #Vangelis fan and yet somehow, this one didn’t make it onto my radar until you posted it.
There are cues and sounds throughout The Tegos Tapes that remind me of Blade Runner and there are definitely some sounds directly from his Blade Runner work (I’d know those sounds anywhere). I remember a conversation with Chuck de Lauzirika on alt.fan.bladerunner during the time he was working on the Blade Runner 25th anniversary DVD release with Scott Free/WB. He mentioned that he had found over 400 minutes of unused music Vangelis had handed over to the production just sitting in their #BladeRunner archive. I suspect, but naturally cannot prove that some of that material may be amongst this work. This is just speculation of course and I recognise that I probably, desperately want it to be true.
Love that part of my job as a #cybergoth streamer is to discover that the #BladeRunner 1982 end credits are done in Goudy Old Style. #design #nerd Okay, go about your days. twitch.tv/maerchen1313
Ridley Scott Recalls Pitching ‘Blade Runner’ Backers On Harrison Ford: “He Was Not A Star”
#News #BladeRunner #HarrisonFord #RidleyScott
"I hear you're one of those guys who go after replicants... a... a Blade Runner."
"Actually, I'm more of a Blade Stroller, than a Blade Runner."
Today in Labor History January 2, 1921: Karel Čapek’s science fiction play “R.U.R.” premiered. "R.U.R." stands for “Rossum's Universal Robots.” The play introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to the world of science fiction. He derived the word “Robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs, a derivation he attributed to his brother, Joseph. The play is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.
Čapek was opposed to all forms of totalitarianism, including both communism and fascism. As a young man, he worked as a journalist, in Prague, where he wrote on topics such as nationalism, totalitarianism and consumerism. As a teen, he was expelled from his high school for participating in an unauthorized student club, which he later described as a "very non-murderous anarchist society." In 1938, he had the chance to leave for the UK, but refused to leave Czechoslovakia, where the Nazi Gestapo had named him "public enemy number two." He died later that year from pneumonia.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #karelcapek #sciencefiction #scifi #robot #serf #slavery #totalitarianism #satire #play #playwright #theater #film #bladerunner #rebellion @bookstadon
DEC 31 2023 (part 2 of 2)
After that, I walked the streets for about an hour. There were very few people about. With the tall buildings, the rain, and the illuminated signs, I felt like I was in #BladeRunner. #cyberpunk
The subtitles were garbage, the image grainy, but NEO-TOKYO didn't care. It crashed through the screen, all neon & concrete, a symphony of blood & metal. This was no sanitized future with ray guns & teleporters. It was chaos, rebellion, the future as a punch to the face. And it was GORGEOUS.
Then 1992. UCLA common room. #Bladerunner Director's Cut. No voiceover. No hand-holding. Just the rain soaked streets of a dying Los Angeles. Even the ads had more life than the people.
To the lackwit who handwaved the merits of #BladeRunner
Let's get this straight. The future was never going to be whatever classic sci-fi promised. The utopian future of Star Trek or Asimov was strictly a fantasy for who believed that humanity would magically fix itself just cuz we invented cool gadgets. BladeRunner doesn't predict the future. It was more of a warning where we were headed if we didn't stop screwing things up with corporate greed, inequality & environmental neglect.