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But technology is created by culture. Not the environment. My opinion is
that technology is an artifact of memetics.
"Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> on 16/03/2001 11:28:15 am
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Subject: Art deco TV
Hi Scott Chase -
>First things first, thanx for pointing out that Vice is on TNN. It's on
>right now. I was a Vice-addict and now I'm back off the wagon to recovery.
You're welcome. I stumbled onto it quite by accident, and the usual
testosterone driven need to work the remote to death.
>Second, would the rampant propogation of cheap Armani knock-off jackets
with
>obligatory t-shirts and dress shoes with no socks back in the eighties
>qualify as a memetic epidemic? Would Michael Mann be a pioneer in memetic
>engineeering?
I should scan in some of my wedding pictures, but, I ain't that much of a
masochist. Miami Vice brought in a whole ream of fads to mainstream TV.
>The musical score for Vice probably added to its appeal.
Indeed. It was unique. Jan Hammer (yup, at least two soundtrack albums,
at least, I've got two...) worked alone for the most part, scoring each
show individually, until he burned out. The show also relied to a great
extent on popular music of the period, even having guest stars from the
music industry. Hell, Frank Zappa, and Miles Davis, and Phil Collins, and
Ted Nugent, and Glenn Fry, and Sheena Easton, and, Penn and Teller (well,
they do play music sometimes), to name a few, were on the show....
>As an aside, I think it was Michael Mann who did the first movie with
>Hannibal Lector (called "Manhunter").
Yup. And Vice did a very nice little show about a psycho, with Crockett
doing the cop-too-close-to-the-case.
It was also one of the first shows on TV to utilize the new (at the time)
stereo broadcast technology, which is why you might see the 'Broadcast in
Stereo' at the bottom of the opening credits. Today, it is expected, like
color.
Technology however, in some way I cannot comprehend, is not memetic. I
clutch at environmental, but that is not adequate either. The link
between technology and culture may actually be memetics.
- Wade
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