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Kowloon Walled City Anonymous 2015-11-01 23:17:15 No.18591

http://uk.businessinsider.com/kowloon-walled-city-photos-2015-2
Not very cyber, but even more low-life instead. Thought you would appreciate.

Anonymous 2015-11-02 02:52:37 No.18604

A E S T H E T I C

Anonymous 2015-11-02 04:42:35 No.18611

luv u greg girard

Anonymous 2015-11-02 04:45:56 No.18612

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>>18591
relevant: http://www.mascontext.com/issues/19-trace-fall-13/kowloon-walled-city-heterotopia-in-a-space-of-disappearance/

Anonymous 2015-11-02 17:49:05 No.18631

>>18591
a futuristic version of this walled city is a location in william gibson's book `idoru`

Anonymous 2015-11-02 18:55:55 No.18633

It's pretty amazing how much this place comes up, considering the fact that it hasn't existed for decades, now.

Anonymous 2015-11-02 21:51:17 No.18641

>>18631
How is Idoru; worth the read?
>>18640
>tfw you're 21

what am I doing with my life

also sadness https://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/hong-kong-says-goodbye-to-thousands-of-neon-signs

Anonymous 2015-11-02 22:49:38 No.18647

>>18591
>Not very cyber
OF COURSE IT'S CYBER! HIGH TECH AND STREET LIFE = CYBER!!!

Here's a magnet of the 1993 book:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:06BEE1BED4F896F79357E67815E879CB9FA087D3

>>18641
How fuarrrking boring and bland! And this is interesting:
>Who has the right to amberize and archive a still-thriving culture? Who do these artifacts ultimately belong to? Has this collection ultimately sped up the process of removal?

Come to think of it: In Botkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm there's a center for vocational training: Xenter. One of the programmes is sign design. And neon lights seems to be a craft that's taught. :3

Anonymous 2015-11-03 01:52:50 No.18651

>>18647
So you're telling me people actually pay to learn how to make signs?

Anonymous 2015-11-03 11:58:00 No.18662

>>18651
Do you have a DIY neon sign guide? Because, that would actually be pretty schway, despite the fact that I don't have any means of successfully bending glass...

not him 2015-11-03 13:21:48 No.18669

>>18662
I would strive towards a semi-transparent glass full of leds (colored glass with white LEDs or transparent glass with colored LEDs) because I think it uses less power.

Anonymous 2015-11-03 20:32:57 No.18689

>>18591
>not very Cyber
The Kowloon walled city was the most cyberpunk soykaf ever.
Everything was illegal in there, the city was it's own government. People like butchers went to work there to avoid sanitary regulations. Just look at the pictures, imagine living there and walking through the alleys to get groceries while people are doing illegal stuff in the room right next to the store.
God know what would have happened if it had lived to this internet era.

Anonymous 2015-11-03 20:54:24 No.18690

>>18689
only way I see another kowloon forming is through the creation a massive low-income housing project; like an arcology but for poor people.

kowloon would have never had lasted as long as it did in the information age.

Anonymous 2015-11-04 05:44:34 No.18715

>>18669
you could probably assemble an array of LEDs into the shape you want to replicate that neon sign type of feel instead of just having a large rectangular panel with flashes patterns synchronously

Anonymous 2015-11-18 23:15:55 No.19567

>>18647
Thanks for the book! It's definitely not cheap, even used copies.

Anonymous 2015-11-19 23:29:27 No.19610

>>18662
What you could do is LEDs behind frosted plastic/glass. Something maybe like plexiglass or equivalent. It'll look cyber as fuarrrk.