another step towards full corporate enclosure, this path: via control of experience as aestheticized gamespace.

"Nothing in particular is happening in the films, just life rolling by. . . . Because we’re unused to seeing such early examples, there’s that sense of amazement – the same feeling you get watching colour films from the 1930s and 40s. It's a shock to realise that these top-hatted Victorians were human beings, getting on with their everyday lives. . . . They are silent of course. You have to imagine the noise just as you have to imagine the stink and the rain. . . . the development of cities is not so much about changes in the built environment, but about something more subjective. It is the people, the way they move and the way we perceive them, that creates the impression of a great gulf. The explicit message is that our cities have been transformed; not so much by he wrecking ball as by changes in the way we behave. There's an implied message about film as well – how it has grown from a very innocent beginning into the all-conquering, magical, deceiving medium that it is today."

pretty innovative book marketing, here. (also reminds me of a way old school website that I think was hosted by pomona . . . ) (via danched)