Photos of Hagia Sophia

[likethebeer]

I've never seen a photo that shows the way that building works:
http://erhansasmaz.deviantart.com/art/Under-the-Dome-of-Hagia-Sophia-273427593

The page also has links to photos of more architecture. Interesting.

Comments

Damn George Lucas

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I went back & was seeing lots of old buildings in Europe & (with the thought of Science Fiction), I kept seeing all those Star Wars prequels.

Re: Damn George Lucas

[immemor.livejournal.com]

lol This is a beautiful cathedral that took generations to build… but it needs robots!

Re: Damn George Lucas

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Maybe in 300 years.

Re: Damn George Lucas

[immemor.livejournal.com]

What we need is an android of Philip K. Dick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ930zzYxl8

Re: Damn George Lucas

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

That was pretty good.

The voice recognition technology must have gotten a lot better. Although I am not really interested in learning Philip K. Dick's favorite movie; more interested in what he thought about things. I read some of his work, in collections of short stories. The work is different than the movies - I think there's a certain approach to his work that's become standardized since Blade Runner: they've thrown out the anachronisms and the casual sexism.

Re: Damn George Lucas

[immemor.livejournal.com]

I never read any of his work. “What is reality” never interested me as a subject. I can sit through a movie of it, but a whole book, eh, probably not.

Casual sexism as in “are androids offended when you slap them on the robo-booty?” Or casual sexism as in: “Thanks for the sex… what’s your name?”

Re: Damn George Lucas

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

1950s casual sexism: the girl gets married to the main boy; the girls work only as secretaries, etc.

His written stories did not strike me as carrying on the larger themes of "what is reality", but I never read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" or "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" to see how any story or book themes compare to the movies. His stories struck me as good old fashioned science fiction (from the '50s-'60s).

Re: Damn George Lucas

[immemor.livejournal.com]

So bland, uninteresting female characters. Kind of like Hemmingway’s women?

In a hindsight kind of way, it is interesting to read sci-fi visionaries who predicted something miraculous but never foresaw women getting out of the secretarial pool. Robots that think for themselves – of course! Women who think for themselves – oh, come now, don’t be silly.

Somthing from before your time

http://immemor.livejournal.com/2012/02/23/