December 2008
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"Prolepsis" →
From Wikipedia:
“(from the Greek prolambanein, to anticipate):
A figure of speech in which a future event is referred to in anticipation. For example, a character who is about to die might be described as “the dead man” before he is actually dead. The same device can be used in non-verbal media such as film, where it is also called flashforward. [Source:...
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The Selby →
Like an edgy Apartment Therapy. Todd Selby takes photos (and makes watercolour doodles) of friends and acquaintances — the beautiful creatives and their beautiful spaces. Some of it’s interesting and inspiring, at least — like all the great art on some of those walls. The interview format is cute.
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Uncanny Valley →
The Uncanny Valley concept: that our empathy for humanoid things grows as the resemblance becomes more realistic, up to a point at which it renders disgust. It works its way uphill again as the resemblance approaches indistiguishability from humans. Developed by Masahiro Mori.
The topic remains big in Japan, as you might imagine.