Monday, November 19, 2007

Vision of the near future?




These cars are from the movie Repo Mambo, currently filming on Carlaw Ave, in Toronto.
They're called Zenn, and are electric, apparently. Also appearing are Smart cars, and a Nissan SUV.
The movie is about a near future where people mortgage their organs, and the main character repossesses them. From what I can see, even mortgaging your organs isn't enough to buy you an interesting car in the future. I'd rather dream of flying machines and walking houses.

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Gap becomes attraction: Third order simulation.


These girls took pictures of themselves in front of this picture at the Gap. Because that image will be the closest to the real person that she will ever get, this image IS real to her, and thus the relationship between the real and the simulated is disturbed. For more on Baudrillard.

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