{"id":1026,"date":"2014-05-11T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:52:33","slug":"bladerunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2014\/05\/11\/bladerunner\/","title":{"rendered":"When\/where did you first see Bladerunner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Bladerunner in 1984, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastercon\">Albacon<\/a> science fiction convention at the Central Hotel in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>I was 13, on my first solo trip away from home (Whiting Bay, Arran, pop.700) to the &#8220;big city&#8221; (Glasgow, pop.700,000).<\/p>\n<p>I was already terrified of being in a city. Sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strange (in many ways) adults in a strange (in many ways) place &#8212; a makeshift cinema in a fairly shabby conference room in the hotel &#8212; watching these incredible scenes unfold on screen &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I left thinking that cities around the world were simply *already like this* (and given the difference between Arran and Glasgow, they might as well have been). And the music, which had a deep impact in shaping the music I&#8217;d go on to write in my late teens. Research, work, and, well so many things.<\/p>\n<p>Like visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/china\">Shanghai<\/a> 15 years later [March 1999], to the photo above &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[which itself was taken on a very early digital camera, photoshopped &amp; processed on a tiny laptop into a 360 spherical image, then uploaded via a GSM phone&#8230; to the web &#8212; via London &#8212; along with some binaural sound recordings,\u00a0as a kind of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_blogging\">blog<\/a>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/china\/pix\/camera_gear_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and then, onto some pretty interesting projects \/ work-in-progress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Bladerunner in 1984, at the Albacon science fiction convention at the Central Hotel in Glasgow. I was 13, on my first solo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14_045_500_street-at-night.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-gy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}