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ALEXANDER McQUEEN

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British Fashion Designer  Founded the McQueen label in 1992  Creative Director for Givenchy from 1996 to 2001  Prodigy of Isabella Blow  1999 partnership with Gucci  Died by suicide in 2010, shortly after his mothers death

(10/27): Ghost in the Shell

set in the future  Newport City  Project 2501  Police are here  Lady kills representative  therm optic camouflage  politician meets with another politician (after helicopter) wants to deport him  hacker is hacking into people Puppet Master  ghost hacking  doesn't want to overspecialize  trash truck  huge market  hacker getting beat up by invisible force  ghost hack humans  the puppet master is being manipulated  32:12 monologue for the paper  replications of her everywhere white girl robot hit by bus  might be hacker  ghost is present even though it is not human  "Even a doll can seem to have a soul" "the way I am treated" ghost = soul  "what would be the importance of being human then" DNA is nothing more than a program to survive itself  a memory can not be defined but it defines man kind  Project 2501  living/ thinking entity  puppet master is gone

Second Life Research

Launched in 2003 by San Francisco based company, Linden Lab Rapid growth  1 million active users in 2013; now declined a lot 3D based, user generated content  Avatars  Linden Dollar  Free for all gaming style 

(11/1) - Ready Player One NOTES

 2045 Columbus, Ohio  mobile homes stacked like sky scrapers  all with VR headsets  born in 2027 "The Oasis" everyone is here so that is where they meet each other and make friends  James Haliday 2025 The Church of Startrek  created Easter Egg 3 keys  The Sixers  Nolan Sorrento  Parsifal  Artemis  Wade Watts (super hero's alter ego) goes backwards under the game  haptic suit I-R0K old friend  removed every reference to Karen/ gamer tag  wanted to dance but watched a movie  dance floor industry plant (working for skull guy) "I am in love with you" split up  Nolan talks to blunt bang lady gets offer from Nolan in headset  blows up house tower  gets head locked to sleep but alerts friends first  meets Artimis  welcome to the rebellion "wade" birth mark  "The Shining" movie  Room 237 Found the key  IOI drone in Columbus  Samantha taken to IOI headquarters  Sixters fou...