Folkert in Bright magazine
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- ********
looks like the spacecollective thing is about to take off!
now y'all want this to be translated, huh?
- kelpie0
knock yourself out Crouwel
- ********0
even though i love you beyond anything, kelpie, i need more votes.
my last two threads were almost completely ignored as well, so..
;)
*taps fingers on table
- kelpie0
come on you apathetic fuckers, pay attention to the man :E
- ********0
ffs alright alright..
but it will be a really rough translation, possibly following weird Dutch grammar rules for a bit....
- paraselene0
*pays full and undivided attention
- elms0
Buzzword Bingo!
- ********0
I AM ON IT!
AND YES I WILL DO MY BEST TO BE THERE COMING FRIDAY!
- ********0
:D
- ********0
ok here we go:
-----------------We are all aliens
Folkert Gorter aka Superfamous.com has left Amsterdam half a year ago to work on a unique multimedia project in Los Angeles "that will offer people a new way of thinking" and "that will let them take part in the evolutionary process of mankind". The sneakpeak he offers me proves his he may just keep his promise! The thirty year old designer (formgiver in the case of Folkie - translator) has web-cred, since he started, together with Jason Kristofer, the website Newstoday.com. This elegant portal for the online designcommunity attracts roughly 11 million pageviews per month. Gorter's new project is Spacecollective.org. Yet still hidden behind password protection, the launchdate is projected for 2007. De site will be a "non-profit, cross media information and entertainment channel for post-ideological, non-partisan, forward-thinking terrestrials". Buzzword bingo!
In webisodes of three minutes each - non-linear minutes even, in which the focus jumps from moving image to streaming typography and short facts that will offer a psychedelic perspective in just a blink of an eye - Folkert creates, together with partners René Daalder (Bright issue 06) and Aaron Ohlman, a new version of the gold-anodized plaque that was compiled by Carl Sagan for NASA as a representation for human kind. The plaque (Bright issue 02) was shot into space aboard the Voyager, today still flying with a velocity of 1 million miles a day, looking for an exchange with extraterrestrial intelligence. From this analog plaque, named Murmurs of Earth, Spacecollective will create their own variation, this time allowing everybody to participate, without the censorship such as the brushing away of the male and female genitals at the time. Each member will get its own spacecapsule, for which the member can create messages that will be beamed to the stars monthly. This way everyone can, to quote the creators, "create its own digital immortality".
SpaceCollective will be a trilogy. Apart from the website a reality-tv series is in the pipeline, in which groups of students, grocery-store employees or ex-astronauts will work on a capsule for a period of time; and a speculative Sci-Fi documentary about the state of the future of mankind. What is striking about the message is the notion that "the most hopeful sign of intelligent life on earth is the rise of the internet". The creators look upon each human being as a neurone and the Net offers the synapses that will enable us to make connections. A new collective brain can bring us to the next level of human evolution, a development that is perceptibly increasing acceleration, and that will eventually, around 2060, lead us to the coming Technological Singularity. Meanwhile Gorter is all set. He thinks of himself as a testpilot who tests concepts to ultimately return them to improve the condition of mankind.
By Adam Eeuwens, Los Angeles
for Bright Magazine, Issue 10.Translation (Dutch-English) by Janne Wolterbeek for Newstoday.com
- kelpie0
oh god, cheers man, that must have been a task to translate, but christ what a load of wanky pish! ;D
- Nairn0
This Neurone says Yes!
Thanks for the translation, Janne.
On the subject of ignoring..
"
Did you get my email earlier, Crouwel? I forgot to sign off as Nairn..e
x
Nairn
(Aug 2 06, 11:12)
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- paraselene0
i like it!
- paraselene0
i like it!
- paraselene0
well, not quite that much. glitch in the technological singularity, it would seem...
- Jaline0
It's about Space???!!!
YES
- mr_snuggles0
space...
is the place...
- ********0
what is the space collective?
I feel so out of the loop...
- ********0
wow, this thread really took off.
- ********0
- moveinspace0
thanks Crouwel for the translation. Good stuff indeed and now we know why Folkert hasn't been throwing links around in the NTB.
*begins preparing speech to send to aliens in space.