Roy

Blade Runner (1982) movie script
by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
Based on the story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
Final script. February 23, 1981.
Transcript by Brian Silverman.

http://sfy.ru/?script=blade_runner_ts

[Deckard hits Roy with pipe.]

Roy: That hurt. That was irrational. Not to mention, unsportsman like.
Ha ha ha. Where are you going?

[Deckard does some amazing climbing, then jumps to next building. Roy
follows, after tossing a bird.]

Roy: Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is
to be a slave.

[Deckard falls, Roy catches him.]

Roy: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the
darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time
like tears in rain. Time to die.

Flying to New Port

John was suffering from a very strong headache he does not knows the causes. He was considering calling a doctor for months but he was afraid of discovering he was very sick. Sick enough to die. He was so tense that he was putting so much pressure on his teeth while sleeping that he couldn’t eat any solid food anymore. He was becoming thin and thin, loosing the power of his muscles, loosing the sanity of his thoughts. One of this mornings John woke up slowly. He walked until his old wardrobe. Opened it. He founded a big wooden box he used to store his belongs inside since he was a teenager, during second world war times when the church near his parents home was bombarded. John opened it. He walked until his house`s front door. Went to the street and leaved the box on the ground. It was raining as usual in New Plymouth during this time of the year. John was crying. He was tired. He stayed static as a marble`s statue for one hour; for two hours; for three days… until the neighbourhood children come and stolen all John`s belong from the wooden box and went out laughing and running. One of them was using John`s yellow helmet. Another one tried to listening a cassette he found inside the box using his uncle 80`s Walkman. The mother of one of the children found John`s business card on the table. John: The Van Man. She called his untie who was about to rent a van and suggested him to call John. Maybe John has a best price? Who knows? John was found inside his house yesterday morning lying on his living room`s floor. His mobile phone was ringing. The ambulance got him to the hospital. Now, he is being transferred to a bigger hospital in the city of New Port. He is not awake anymore. All those moments are about be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.

New Plymouth // New Port

"In a way this film is about information and the way it is transferred and the way in which it is manipulated, stunted, taken away and implanted again. Information is an extremely powerful weapon and the way in which it is deployed in this film suggests that in the future information itself will be at the centre of the way in which the world works rather than the capitalist greed on which current society is delicately perched on. Information can transcend all boundaries because it is what defines us and as such is the key element in making Newport City the way it is already." (reference)



Newport city: Newport is a c onstructed Island, built off the Shinhama ward of the Tokushima Prefecture. Newport City became a major city for trade, international relations and foreign affairs. The city was built in the early part of the millennium when issues of space started arising. There was generally not much of an urban metropolis in the Tokushima area before the port was opened in the 1990s. The area prospered, and its residents grew exponentially. In the early 2000s work began on the floating metropolis that is now known as Newport City. The city has become one of the thriving new metropolises of the new millennium. Although New Tokyo and Osaka are still very important cities in Japan, Newport City has become the significant international city. Major international corporations have their headquarters here, and many political conferences are now held here instead of in New Tokyo. As for the city's geography itself, it is built in an almost fortress-like fashion. The biggest corporate towers loom ominously in the center of the floating section, while thousands of smaller buildings surround them. An inner waterway surrounds the middle section. This waterway branches off into smaller canals that wind around parts of the city. The second ring is made of up large shipping piers (which are equipped to handle the largest sectional cargo ships) and warehouses. The rest of Shinhama, which is on land, is known as "Old Town." The northern areas of Tokushima are more spread out, and it is here where you find large estates and traditional pagoda style architecture.There are many mega-highways that lead to the floating section; unfortunately, once you are on the island it is nothing more than a hindrance to drive a car. Newport City is very dense and heavily populated, so the best ways to get around are by the elevated train system, the electric busses or by boat (provided you are going somewhere on the canal).

NSQI at the University of Bristol

(Left) Nobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer declared the centre officially open. Photo credit: Jesse Karjalainen. (Right) The NSQI centre itself – the labs are out of sight and sound in the basement.

reference:
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/43832

This week was the scientific opening of the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) at the University of Bristol. The event coincided with the Bristol Nanoscience Symposium 2010, and featured great talks from some of the pioneers of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/nsqi-centre/

The first NSQI-based research paper goes online
17 September 2010

Samantha Pitt and colleagues from the research group of Rebecca Sitsapesan have published the first scientific paper, containing results collected from the Centre for NSQI. The paper, "TPC2 is a novel NAADP-sensitive Ca2+-release channel, operating as a dual sensor of luminal pH and Ca2+" has been published online and will appear in print later this year in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.


The paper is available at:
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2010/08/18/jbc.M110.156927.abstract?sid=645e8e50-44a2-460a-8af1-b4ccb1dc564a

video mysteries

video mysteries;
We recommend you to play all the videos at the same time;

the scientists

Name: Simon Lock, Detroit
e-mails: lock@comp.lancs.ac.uk, simon@bigdoginteractive.co.uk
Interested in: Novel interaction, Public engagement, Mobile devices, Vision, Clothes, Steampunk, Wood
Likes to work in: Nightclubs, Coffee shops, Festivals, Outreach events, Fields

Name: Clarissa Ribeiro 1177 Earth Born
e-mail: almeida.clarissa@gmail.com
Interested in: design process, complex systems, information and meaning, chance and chaos and mirrors and fashion, fairy tales and indie rock and toy art and science and architecture.
Likes to play; and works for fun

Name: Isobel Taylor
e-mail:isobel.massey@gmail.com
Interested in: radioactivity, Nuclear reactor technology and coffee beans
Likes to work in: Secret Nuclear Factories' secret projects

Name: Luke Christison
e-mail: luke.christison@plymouth.ac.uk
Interested in: 3D modeling and animation, telling stories
Likes to work in: riding immersive vision theatres' virtual spaceships and airplanes

the evidences

Immersive Theatre

VanMan woke up in the midle of the night. There was a phone call. He rushed the phone.It was his brother form Amsterdam, He was ill - a broken heart from the football world cup! John must rush to his potential death bed. John leaps into a plane from the museum he used to work in, next door. An old plane from the second clone wars. Without a thought he takes off! Aproaching mt baldy on the edge of New Plymouth he realises he was down to emergency reserve and so jettison´s all superfluous contents. Opening the canopy the sudden depressureization whips off his helmet sending it down below. in a fluster he flips out his business card, throws out the flower intended for his brother and ejects and flings out the cassette tape that was playing in the ancient player. The tape spools out, covering the cityscape in an atomically thin layer of Ferric Oxide...

a nano-fiction texture tale

John The Van Man / a nano-fiction texture tale

We will tell you the story of John The VanMan:
VanMan woke up in the midle of the night. There was a phone call. He rushed the phone.It was his brother form Amsterdam, He was ill - a broken heart from the football world cup! John must rush to his potential death bed. John leaps into a plane from the museum he used to work in, next door. An old plane from the second clone wars. Without a thought he takes off! Aproaching mt baldy on the edge of New Plymouth he realises he was down to emergency reserve and so jettison´s all superfluous contents. Opening the canopy the sudden depressureization whips off his helmet sending it down below. in a fluster he flips out his business card, throws out the flower intended for his brother and ejects and flings out the cassette tape that was playing in the ancient player. The tape spools out, covering the cityscape in an atomically thin layer of Ferric Oxide...

Four intrepid scientist "The Van Taskforce" were called in to solve the mystery of the Van Mans dematerialisation in a nowhere sky...










This tale is part of a team project developed in the workshop "Scale Electric..."
19 - 20 July 2010, i-DAT.org, The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory, Ubiquity Journal. As result we have a 3D immersive model of the cassette-cityscape were JohnTheVanMan could keep flying forever. This is the story so far...

to model the cassette-cityscape the scientists used a scan in nano scale of the original item: a small fragment of the tape they found on the city road.

The story of the sound...(by Simon Lock)

The story of the sound...(by Simon Lock)

Half the guts of a cassette tape - no casing and only one spool!
I stuck the loose end of the tape to the powered spindle of my old personal cassette player;
I feed the tape past the guide pins, over the read head and over the rubber driver wheel;
Had to press the tape against the read head with my finger as it played
Recorded the audio output using "Audacity";
Must have got the alignment wrong - it played back in reverse;
Used "Audacity" to reverse the track and get the proper audio out
I guess the fortune teller's right?



Torn
Natalie Imbruglia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUrw3b85r4

I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm
He came around
And he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry

Well you couldn't be that man I adored
You don't seem to know
Or seem to care
What your heart is for
I don't know him anymore

There's nothin' where he used to lie
My conversation has run dry
That's what's going on
Nothings right
I'm torn

I'm all out of faith
This is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You're a little late
I'm already torn

So I guess the fortune tellers right
I should have seen just what was there and not some holy light
But you crawled beneath my veins
And now, I don't care

I have no luck
I don't miss it all that much
There's just so many things
That I can't touch
I'm torn

There's nothin' he used to lie
My inspiration has run dry
That's what's going on
Nothing's right
I'm torn
Chorus

Scale Electric...

Scale Electric...(Workshop)
http://www.i-dat.org/scale-electric-19-20072010/
19 - 20 July 2010
i-DAT.org
The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory
Ubiquity Journal

"John The Van Man - a nano-fiction texture tale" was created as part of the 'Scale Electric... Workshop' // In the practical session of the workshop, our team, utilised the AFM in the Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory to produce data and images from collected samples. We defined the materials themselves during the lunch time, after the morning session and used the collected material to propose matter and associated narratives for examination. As part of the Modelling Experience we used Blender to allow the interpretation and visualisation of the data gathered by the AFM and as a way to traveling into the narratives we constructed.These visualisations was hacked, tweaked and ultimately experienced within the Immersive Vision Theatre.


Context:
Scale Electric extends a series of collaborative projects orbiting i-DAT’s research
agenda. It builds on:
... practical workshops to explore the application of novel and innovative technologies
to creative practice.
... projects with the Immersive Vision Theatre (a 40 seat 9m Full Dome digital projection
system) a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and
imaginary worlds - modelling, visualization, sonification and simulation.
... research projects such as Arch-OS and Ecoid’s which stream real time data to
facilitate insights into complex temporal architectural and ecological systems (http://
www.arch-os.com/)
... more recently nano technology projects in collaboration with the Wolfson
Nanotechnology Laboratory and John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA - Art in the age of
nanotechnology, 5/02 – 30/04/2010 (http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/)
Scale Electric explores some of the ‘transcalar” (http://www.elumenati.com/
products/TInarrative.html) conundrums that are increasingly intruding into our daily
consciousness.

Process...
A: Experiencing Atoms:
The first practical session will utilise the AFM in the Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory
to produce data and images.
The materials themselves will be defined during the morning session.
Participants will be asked to propose matter and associated narratives for examination.
B: Modelling Experience:
Software templates will allow the interpretation and visualisation of the data gathered
by the AFM.
These visualisations will be hacked, tweaked and ultimately experienced within the Immersive
Vision Theatre.


Project Team…

Pete Carss (http://www.i-dat.org/pete-carrs/)

Prof Genhua Pan (http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/gpan)

Prof Mike Phillips (http://www.i-dat.org/mike-phillips/)

Dr Chris Speed (http://fields.eca.ac.uk/?page_id=65)


Supported by…

The Institute of Digital Art & Technology: [http://www.i-dat.org/]

Manifest Research Group

The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory

The Centre for Media Art & Design Research

Ubiquity Journal

Nano-Magnetic Laboratory

Univerity of Plymouth
at the Nano-Magnetic Laboratory
Faculty of Technology
20 July 2010

Four intrepid scientist "The Van Taskforce" were called in to solve the mystery of the Van Man's dematerialisation in a nowhere sky. They went to the infamous Nano-Magnetic Laboratory of the University of Plymouth's Faculty of Technology to scan the evidences found using a Pacific Nanothecnology's Atomic Force Microscope...

computer screen showing the scan of the sample of a cassete's tape by a Pacific Nanothecnology's Atomic Force Microscope
http://www.pacificnanotech.com/

the Scientists & the evidences// Simon Lock & Clarissa Ribeiro





preparing the samples to be scanned...

the cassete's tape sample inside the Atomic Force Microscope:


the scan of the cassete's tape sample:




the possible cassete:


the scan of a sample of the yellow helmet we found:


Was it a Coke Drinking Helmet?

John The Van Man

contamination walk - from Marks & Spencer to the Hoe (but not until the sea):
1) a yellow helmet
2) a couple of flower
3) tape one end under the wheel of a red car
4) a business card that was near tape on the ground
5) a takeway coffeecup from Mc Donalds
6) the picture of an advertisment: John won a price



Isobel foud John at e-bay:
http://cgi.ebay.pl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270583519031
We are planning to mix our cells with john cells; everythink from nothing; moving hands in the microscope;



This is how Simon remembers the story:

After buying lunch from M&S and collecting coffee samples from Whittards
we saw in the road a yellow plastic workman´s helmet, but where was the workman ?
We decided that he MUST be called John (what else ?)
We didn´t think about John much during lunch - he didn´t seem important
We talked about other things to scan
But then John came back into our minds and how nice his hair must have been,
what with all the modern hair science in use these days.
We found a flower to give to him, we found a tape (cassette) that was his
we found his business card (he has a Van !)
we found a coffee cup that he had used and a cigarette that might have been his ?
We were really getting a picture of John.
I hope the ambulance get´s him to hospital in time

This is how Isobel remembers the story:
The team headed to the centre of the city, first picking up food from M&S and exploring coffee beans at Whitards.
Following this a construction helmet was found, alone. Clarissa deemed it to be John. The team continues. Following consumption flowers were collected, old and new for his remains. Next in close success a tape parcialy run over by a car that John was listening to when he was hit by the car and left, and his buisness card ´´John the vanman 199´´. A few steps on the team collected the coffee cup he had been drinking from McDonalds as it was discussed how he may have smoked and left evidence within the cup. Finaly it was found and documented that he won a supermarket award and has an ebay account selling his shoes.

This is how Clarissa remembers the story:
We were about going to have lunch at the new coffee shop that is close to the sports complex (me, Isobel, Simon and Luke); but me and Isobel, we were thinking about going out of the campus to free our minds (we were at the Dome before this; immersive traveling-through 3D images: inside a fly's brain; the unknown universe's butterfly model...). We went to Marks & Spencer. I bough sushi and an apple juice with flower's flavor, Luke and Simon bough sandwiches; We went to the Hoe; We stoped to ask for coffe beans to scan in a store; we tryied tea for free; I found a yellow helmet on the ground close to the Royal Parade. We wlaked until the hoe; we had a seat near a tree, and started talking about our 'scan secret plans'; the idea was to scan nothing (NT); moving hands in front of the microscope; but there was the helmet; the yellow helmet; I was talking with the helmet: - Johnnnn!!!! We can mix John's cells with our cells! A mountain of cell to climb in a 3D simulation/visualisation; Johnnnn! We started to construct John's nano tale in our walking back to the laboratory. We collected flowers; we found a tape and a bussiness card of 'John and discovered he was the van-man'; a takeway coffee cup from Mc Donalds. We have John's e-mail now; John is at e-bay.pl; Now the yellow helmet belong to John the van-man, who is quoted in this website here: Tradesman

This is how Luke remembers the story:
After the mind expanding demos at the IVT, the teams mission began to feed our hungry bellies. We soon decided to munch down on some M&S treats, but we felt the need for a nicer enviroment to actually eat in so we headed towards plymouth hoe. On the way we kept our minds and ideas open to possible narratives and objects to scan in the atomic electronic microscope. First stop was to pick up some blue mountain coffee beans for a great cuppa, and possible scan item. Then while walking down royal parade, a yellow builders helmet was left alone on the floor, which was collected and was the basis for our narrative of the lost victim ¨John¨, Once we finished our lunch and continued back towards university we started to find odd and ends that we beleived to also belonged to John, these included a high lilly rich in pollen and colour, which was used to pay respects to the lost man. A business card. A broken cassette tape reel which was stuck under a car, which was the last thing listened to by john and a coffee cup which was his last drink. these objects make up a narrative that build a picture of johns last moments in this world. They also repesent his senses that he used, cup - taste, hat - touch, flower - smell, business card - sight, tape - sound. John will now live on forever.



tools:
http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg
http://www.blender.org/
http://processing.org/

references:
* SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE LEAVES SCIENTISTS FEELING RED
* A new first-person-shooter template for character games is included in the physics test files



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