Sign in or register
for additional privileges

MACHINE DREAMS

Alexei Taylor, Author
Previous page on path     Next page on path

 

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

The first encounter


Looking around the Abu Dhabi mall, I couldn’t help but realize how big the place was. While my eyes were scanning the display windows of my favorite shops, it caught my attention. I loved to go shopping at Bershka because the store always managed to provide unique and fashionable products. I had been there just a few days earlier, but the shirt that caught my eye was new. A simple white shirt, printed on it front was one of the characters from the “Angry Birds”. Or, so I thought. At second glance, I realized that the original red, furious but irresistibly cute character had been slightly altered to appear female. It had a grey bow on top of its head and sported long, seductive looking eyelashes. My attention would not been drawn to it, had it not been for the fact that my roommate and I had recently begun to play the Angry Birds game together, taking turns to crack the levels, often on weekend mornings.
Comment on this page
 

Discussion of "The first encounter"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

Previous page on path Angry Birds as a social tool, page 1 of 4 Next page on path

Related:  Angry Birds as a social tool,  Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History,  The Writer,  Sources of fascination (4) - Mechanization of men,  Matrix - The pill,  What makes an observer modern; Jiwon Shin,  the Writer,  Phenakistoscope Phenakistiscope Optical Toy Fantascope,  Alterity,  Symbolic,  Hypothesis,  Hugo and the city,  Hugo turns into an automaton,  Final essay - Proposal,  background for ethnography,  Automatons and its sources of fascination,  Sources of fascination (2) - Representations of memory,  Resources,  Conclusion,  The technology behind,  Angry Birds,  Jaquet-Droz - "The Writer",  Questions,  Bibliography,  Angry birds shirt tags,  Sources of fascination (3) - Threat of automatons,  Epistemology,  Persistence of vision,  Maintaining the Writer,  Jaquet-Droz automata,  The ideas and values behind,  the Writer - inside,  Aura,  Bibliography,  The Human Touch: Towards a Historical Anthropology and Dream Analysis of Self-acting Instruments,  Hugo magic trick,  jiwon,  Toothed wheels,  Frans Zwartjes "Spectator" (1970),  the Writer,  Development story of the Angry Birds,  Hybrid,  Simulacra,  The Uncanny,  Nanook of the North, Robert FLAHERTY, 1921,  The Bird's social purpose,  The digesting duck,  Hugo,  Spectator,  Final essay background,  Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life,  Are Humanzees Possible?,  Gregory Barsamian - Runner,  The Matrix Poster,  Aura handwritten,  Presence footprints,  Sources of fascination (1) - Playing god,  Technology used in automata,  Gregory Barsamian - Feral Font,  Bershka and its connection to Angry Birds,  Presence,  Jaquet-Droz automatons