Somewhere in the city. Somewhere in my mind! Photo by lilypenelope
Japanese ryokans inform OWIU's renovation of Duane House in LA
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Mid-century modern and traditional Japanese influences blend inside this
Los Angeles home, which the principals of design studio OWIU have
reimagined for...
10 hours ago
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This reminds me of Fritz Lang's film Metropolis. Pipes and valves in the mind: that metaphor still makes sense to me.
How is it with the modern machines: hard- and software for all kinds of computers? OK: If you forgot something you might say: "I'll search for it on my hard drive."
But do the new machines give us pictures? I don't know how my laptop looks inside. How does the internet look like? What would this picture look like transposed into the world of the new media machines?
As in the metaphor of Lang's movie it's all in your mind. The beauty of modern machines relies in the fact that their "memory" is mostly a storage where your ideas are stacked. A parallel brain, whose sophistication is based on our inputs. Isn't it weird that when something goes wrong in the modern machines we feel as if something was wrong inside of us?
"A parallel brain" - I'd say that's a modern metaphor. But can you photograph or paint it? I doubt that.
And is storage and linking of information all our brain does? I think the modern machines will lead us to a new definition of what the exclusively human quality of the brain really is.
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