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infactforgetthepark · 3 years

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[Free eBook] Beyond the Doors of Death by Robert Silverberg & Damien Broderick [Award-Winning Science Fiction]

Beyond the Doors of Death by Robert Silverberg, a much-awarded SFWA Grandmaster, and Australian author Damien Broderick, is a science fiction double feature, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Phoenix Pick Press.

This is their featured Free eBook of the Month offer for August, and is a double feature pairing Silverberg's 1974 novella “Born with the Dead” originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which was a recipient of the Nebula and Locus Awards, with a follow-up story written by Broderick which further explores the concept, and a new introductory essay by Silverberg. There's also a tie-in sale offer for several of his backlist novels.

These stories are set in a future world with a form of afterlife with the potential of the revived dead, known as the “re-kindled”, altering their new lives as they revisit their memories with a different perspective.

Offered DRM-free worldwide through Tuesday, August 31st, available directly from the publisher's website.

Currently free directly @ the publisher's dedicated promo page (DRM-free ePub & Mobi bundle available worldwide; follow instructions on the page to reset the suggested cart price to $0.00)

There's also a tie-in discount offer for 7 more reprint books authored or co-authored by Silverberg across various genres and decades for just $5 for the entire bundle of: The Last Song of Orpheus, The Mutant Season, Starborne, When the Blue Shift Comes, The Masks of Time (a 1969 Nebula Award nominee), Thebes of the Hundred Gates, and also a non-Silverberg science fiction co-authored by Damien Broderick & John Brunner, Threshold of Eternity.

Description “Born With the Dead” (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards.

The story describes a future in which the dead can be "re-kindled" back to a new form of life. While they remember their pasts thought, their personalities are subtly shifted and the ordinary concerns and feelings of their original life no longer concern them.

The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. Broderick uses Robert Silverberg’s original novella as a starting point for a brilliant leap into the far future, widening the scope and tenor of the original story by revisiting some of the subtler implications of the original story.

#free ebook #robert silverberg #damien broderick #born with the dead #science fiction #nebula award #locus award #drm free #afterlife

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hedgehogreads · 7 years

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Seasoned long-distance travellers know there is only one thing worse than waiting at the carousel for your luggage.

This is giving up waiting at the carousel because the swine have lost it all between Djakarta and Cairo and you know you’ll never see it again.

- Damien Broderick, “The Kaluza-Klein Caper”, from The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

#waiting #travelling #Damien Broderick #The Kaluza-Klein Caper #The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy

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empathist · 2 years

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@ EmmettScanlan The whiskey was a prop. But the prop ran dry….. multiple times. BTS photo from London shoot out tomorrow, courtesy of me boy Damien Broderick

#Emmett Scanlan #Beard

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desertpups · 3 years

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Hozier, Grammy-nominated five-piece Fontaines D.C., Elbow, Pillow Queens, and Rhiannon Giddens are among the line-up for the new season of Other Voices when it makes its return to RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on March 4th.

The new season of Ireland's longest-running music TV show will also come from new locations, including Cardiff, and Ballina.

The series, presented by May Kay and Huw Stephens, is now in its 19th season and will run for 10 weeks, from March 4th at 11.05pm.

Hozier will kick off the season with an intimate, stripped-back, performance, featuring new string arrangements by Ireland's Crash Ensemble. Viewers can also expect performances from two Choice Music Prize nominated acts - the indie rock four-piece Pillow Queens and singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, both of whom released debut albums in 2020.

Other Voices founder Philip King said: "The Other Voices series coming to you on television this year features a range of truly remarkable performances from Irish artists who opened their hearts and raised their voices in a powerful and emotional musical response to the events of what has been one of the most complex and difficult years in Ireland's history.

"We have been so lucky to have the support of Minister Catherine Martin which has been essential in enabling us to produce Other Voices this year and it is a privilege to work with these amazingly talented and creative artists and with the wonderful crews that make them audible and visible."

The new series will include three special episodes, with Fontaines D.C. performing in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol, Other Voices regulars live Elbow from Ballina and Dingle, and a special highlight episode of the upcoming Other Voices Cardigan, with performances from rapper BERWYN, post-punk-poet Sinead O’Brien, violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain and more from Cardiff.

Damien Dempsey, renowned folk singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, alt country musician CMAT and For Those I Love - the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer David Balfe - will also feature in the series.

Full list of artists featured on Other Voices series 19:

Ailbhe Reddy, Ani Glass, Aoife Nessa Frances, Aoife Ní Bhriain, BERWYN, Brigid Mae Power, Catrin Finch, Cinder Well, CMAT, Conchúr White, Crash Ensemble, Damien Dempsey, Elbow, Fontaines D.C., For Those I Love, Foxjaw, Hozier, Juice Menace, Luz, Mark Lanegan, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Gerry O'beirne, Nealo, Niamh Regan, Peter Broderick, Pillow Queens, Rhiannon Giddens, Séamus & Caoimhe Ui Fhlatharta, Sinead O'Brien, Son (Susan O'Neill), Sun Collective, The Gentle Good.

#hozier #andrew hozier byrne #other voices

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bolachasgratis · 5 years

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Bolachas Now Playing, a new music Spotify playlist updated every Tuesday.

Less than one year after the release of the excellent “The Horizon Just Laughed”, Damien Jurado is back with his 14th LP, the first on Mama Bird Recording Co. and Loose Music. It’s impressive how his songwriting keeps getting better with time - Jurado’s output between “Saint Bartlett” and now is arguably the best of his career - and this (mostly) acoustic collection of songs that clocks at a mere 27 minutes is by no means a secondary volume of his immense discography.

Plus: new tracks by Todd Snider, Paper Beat Scissors, Carl Broemel, Richard Hawley, The Mountain Goats, Alex Schaaf, Courtney Barnett, Aldous Harding, Heather Woods Broderick, Mega Bog, Sonny & the Sunsets, Os Amigos dos Músicos, Evripidis and his Tragedies, Trond Kallevåg Hansen, Lily Hayes, Palehound, Jesca Hoop, Lowly, Mutual Benefit, Josh Ritter, John Paul White, Anthony D'Amato, and Adam Carroll.

Bolachas Now Playing, 14/2019 (#184):

Damien Jurado - Newspaper Gown Damien Jurado - The Shape of a Storm Todd Snider - Like a Force of Nature (feat. Jason Isbell) Paper Beat Scissors - Don't Mind Carl Broemel, Eric Hopper - Junk Richard Hawley - My Little Treasures The Mountain Goats - Sicilian Crest Alex Schaaf - Drive On Courtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates You Aldous Harding - Fixture Picture Heather Woods Broderick - I Try Mega Bog - Diary of a Rose Sonny & The Sunsets - Someday I'd Like to Be an Artist Os Amigos dos Músicos - Mar en ondas Evripidis and His Tragedies - Giati Ton Agapo Trond Kallevåg Hansen - Dieselkjelleren Lily Hayes - Soft on Me Palehound - Aaron Jesca Hoop - Shoulder Charge (feat. Lucius) Lowly - baglaens Mutual Benefit - Diamond Day Josh Ritter - All Some Kind of Dream John Paul White - Yesterday's Love Anthony D'Amato - Passing Through Adam Carroll - Caroline

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tehuti88-art · 3 years

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7/9/21: r/SketchDaily theme, "Free Draw Friday." Posting late today but it's just a character portrait.

This is another somewhat unusual one as this character has only ever been envisioned as anthro in the past, this is his first human appearance! Meet Luther Broderick, experimental human version. (He's always been described in my writing as being blond with mesmerizing "icy blue" eyes; to be honest, he should probably look a bit more sinister and less crazy eyed.) As far as I can recall, he's had only one previous drawing done, decades ago (probably the Nineties), a rough drawing of him in canine anthro, fullbody form chasing after another anthro character with a gun. In some of my older fiction, Luther is a primary antagonist and a really, really bad guy (one of my characters I actually feel rather uncomfortable talking about in detail, just nasty stuff); he had a really messed-up childhood which explains (though does not excuse) some of his behavior. Anyway, he ends up taking control of the cult that features in my earlier writing and this puts him at odds with my protagonist Damien, who I also gave human form for the first time recently (in my Tumblr).

I was in my teens, and I remember my cousin came over to spend the night; we had little in common and weren't really close, but I was lonely and tried hard to befriend and socialize with her over my arcane interests, which included my writing and then-anthro characters. I used to LOVE showing...well, TRYING to show off my creations to anyone and everyone, especially my peers, in the hopes of finding a likeminded spirit. I was largely unsuccessful and this instance was no exception. :/ After explaining my cult story a bit to my cousin, I showed her this old drawing of Luther. And all she had to say (paraphrased) was, "The bad guy is a dog...?"

This was the point at which I realized if I wanted my work to be taken seriously, I needed to conceal the fact that all my characters were cats and dogs. This was before the Internet and I'd actually never heard on "furry" or "anthro" art before, and just assumed I was the only person who drew like this (Disney art never entered my mind--there were no murderous cultists in any Disney movies I'd seen). My cousin's reaction showed me how odd my ideas were, and in my writing I gradually began omitting references to "tails" and upright ears and such, and I stopped showing off art of my characters. Unfortunately, despite these efforts my writing was never taken seriously anyway, and none of the friends I made after this point were ever interested in any of it (I only ever had one friend who shared an interest in my fiction and collaborated with me--I adopted a few of her characters as my own--but she moved away a few years later and lost all interest in it, too), so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Here I am today, failed wannabe writer of anthro characters.

When I finally got online I learned I was NOT the only person who wrote about talking animals AND who takes such stuff seriously. But I never succeeded in fitting into any anthro communities (I think I'm not furry ENOUGH, ironically), and some ridicule of my characters persisted, so with minor exceptions like my Apsiu (original species) and Trench Rats (basically on permanent hiatus), the whitewashing of my anthro characters as human continues. Here is the latest example. I'm really no good at drawing anthro characters, either (probably the other reason I've never fit into the anthro community), so I can't really win either way. I now post these guys at Toyhou.se, which makes me feel a lot less weird, though it's near impossible to get noticed there with my mediocre skills. Oh well.

...That was a lot of text I do not think will be read, like the rest of my stuff, but it's context. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And anyway, I think I'm done.

[Luther Broderick 2021 [‎Friday, ‎July ‎9, ‎2021, ‏‎2:16:08 PM]]

#artists on tumblr #sony sketch #sketchdaily #original characters

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kinkmom · 4 years

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What Alpha!Dave's name is: Dave. What Alpha!Dave's name isn't: David, D, Derek, Dominic, Damien, Dylan or any other dumbass boyband names ppl come up with. (This goes doubly with Bro... his legal name is Dirk, but he goes by Bro. That's it. He's not a freaking Broderick.) Is this a petty topic? Sure. But am i ready to die on this hill nonetheless? Absolutely.

Incredibly petty but if it isn't the same hill I'm dying to die on!

I personally let David slide for Alpha Dave in incredibly specific circumstances but that is purely due to a very lengthy contidioning process.

#KM answers

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transcendtouch · 4 years

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A Brief Introduction to Immersive Systems: History of VR (part 1)

According to Oxford Reference, “Virtual reality is a synthetic technology combining three-dimensional video, audio, and other sensory components to achieve a sense of immersion.” Merriam-Webster defines virtual reality as “an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (such as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one's actions partially determine what happens in the environment, also: the technology used to create or access a virtual reality.”

Both of the above definitions focus on the technological aspect of virtual reality, describing it as a contemporary means. However, virtual reality is more than an artificial environment. It is a simulated experience that can be completely different to our reality. The Online Etymology Dictionary defines that the term “virtual” was being used meaning “influencing by physical virtues or capabilities, effective with respect to inherent natural qualities," as early as the late 1400s. It is also stated that it has been used in the computer sense of "not physically existing but made to appear by software" since 1959. “The term "virtual reality" was first used in a science fiction context in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 novel by Damien Broderick.”

Trying to pinpoint the exact origins of virtual reality has proven to be quite a challenge, considering how difficult it has been to formulate a definition for the concept of an alternative existence. However, in this post, we too will be focusing on the technological milestones that led to today’s applications of virtual reality, making it an innovative –soon to be essential- tool.

In 1838, Sir Charles Wheatstone invents the Stereoscope, a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.

A 19th century stereoscope:

In 1935, American science fiction writer Stanley Weinbaum presents a fictional model for VR in his short story Pygmalion's Spectacles. In the story, the main character meets a professor who invented a pair of goggles which enabled "a movie that gives one sight and sound [...] taste, smell, and touch. [...] You are in the story, you speak to the shadows (characters) and they reply [...] the story is all about you, and you are in it." This sound a lot like our idea of a tangible painting, doesn’t it? (image source)

In 1956, cinematographer Morton Heilig creates Sensorama, the first VR machine (patented in 1962). It is a large booth that can fit up to four people at a time. It combines multiple technologies to stimulate all of the senses: there is a combined full colour 3D video, audio, vibrations, smell and atmospheric effects, such as wind. This is done using scent producers, a vibrating chair, stereo speakers and a stereoscopic 3D screen. Heilig thinks that the Sensorama is the "cinema of the future" and he wants to fully immerse people in their films. Six short films are developed for it.

In 1960, Heilig also patents the Telesphere Mask (image source ), which is the first head-mounted display (HMD). This provides stereoscopic 3D images with wide vision and stereo sound. There is no motion tracking in the headset at this point.

In 1965, Ivan Sutherland, a computer scientist, presents his vision of the Ultimate Display. The concept is of a virtual world viewed through an HMD which replicates reality so well that the user won’t be able to differentiate from actual reality. This includes the user being able to interact with objects. This concept features computer hardware to form the virtual world and to keep it functioning in real-time. His paper is seen as the fundamental blueprint for VR. “The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal. With appropriate programming such a display could literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.”

In 1966, Thomas A. Furness (a.k.a “the grandfather of VR”), a military engineer, creates the first flight simulator for the Air Force. This assists in the progression of VR because the military subsequently provides a lot of funding for producing better flight simulators.

In 1968, Sutherland, with his student Bob Sproull, creates the first virtual reality HMD, named The Sword of Damocles. This head-mount connects to a computer rather than a camera and is quite primitive as it can only show simple virtual wire-frame shapes. These 3D models change perspective when the user moves their head due to the tracking system. It was never developed beyond a lab project because it was too heavy for users to comfortably wear; they had to be strapped in because it was suspended from the ceiling.

In 1969, Myron Krueger, a computer artist, develops a succession of "artificial reality" experiences using computers and video systems. He creates computer-generated environments that respond to the people in it. These projects lead to VIDEOPLACE technology which is mentioned later.

In 1972, General Electric Corporation builts a computerised flight simulator which features a 180-degree field of vision by using three screens surrounding the cockpit.

In 1975, Krueger's VIDEOPLACE, the first interactive VR platform, is displayed at the Milwaukee Art Center. It uses computer graphics, projectors, video cameras, video displays and position-sensing technology and it doesn't use goggles or gloves. VIDEOPLACE consistes of dark rooms with large video screens to surround the user in "VR". The users can see their computer-generated silhouettes imitating their own movements and actions - the users' movements are recorded on camera and transferred onto the silhouette. Also, users in different rooms can interact with other users' silhouettes in the same virtual world. This encourages the idea that people can communicate within a virtual world even if they aren't physically close.

In 1977, the Aspen Movie Map is created by MIT. This program enables users to virtually wander through Aspen city in Colorado, like with Google Street View. There are three modes: summer, winter and polygons. It is created using photographs from a car driving through the city. There are no HMDs but it is the use of first-person interactivity and it suggests that VR can transport people to other places.

In 1977, Sayre gloves are created by Daniel J. Sandin and Thomas A. DeFanti, at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary research lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. These gloves are the first wired gloves. They monitore hand movements by using light emitters and photocells in the gloves' fingers. So when the user moves their fingers the amount of light hitting the photocell varies which then converts the finger movements into electrical signals. This may be the beginning of gesture recognition. Furness creates a working model of a virtual flight simulator, for the military, called the Visually Coupled Airborne Systems Simulator (VCASS). Image of a wired glove:

In 1979, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation integrates VR into its HMD, the VITAL helmet, for military use. A head tracker in the HMD follows the pilot's eye movements to match computer-generated images.

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#history of vr #history of virtual reality #timeline #vr #virtual reality #immersion #immersive systems

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