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Source of Matrix Style: Rave Culture

  The signature Matrix style came out of the rave and club scene of the 1980s and 1990s. The first three clips from different Matrix films ( 1999 , 2003 , and 2003 ) show the derivative 2000s' depiction of what had initially been underground illegal gatherings in warehouses, ice rinks, abandoned buildings, and parks.  Note, everything here is reproduced non-commercially under Fair Use, for the purposes of discussion.   By the early Millennium, the rave style - black shorts, halter tops, PVC body suits and sunglasses at three in the morning - became a badge of a personal philosophy, a blend of Buddhist and Sanskrit wisdom mixed with gaming, hacker politics and cyberpunk. Here are a few videos and other media from the 1990s which show the original raw sources of the Matrix's signature style, which many have now forgotten. I'm writing as someone who trekked out to an aircraft hangar with a friend in Munich in the summer of 1996, only to find it had been reclaimed from the ra...
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A Note to My Subscribers: Google Plus is Shutting Down


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Launched in 2011, Google+, is shutting down on 2 April 2019. If you follow this blog on my Google+ pages here and here, please subscribe now to my Blogger subscription list here. You can also receive e-mail updates on each new post by entering your e-mail in the 'subscribe' box in the left drop-down side margin of this blog.

Please also join my mailing list in the footer of my main Website, here. Scroll to the very bottom of the page.

The mailing list is not yet activated so I won't be annoying you with e-mails, but if Google censors Blogger more than it is already doing, I will transfer my blogs to another platform. The mailing list will be the only way I can reach subscribers to provide new Website addresses. I will also use the mailing list to notify subscribers about upcoming projects and publications.

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Google+ will be deleted because the platform exposed the data of 500,000 users between 2015 and March 2018. Google discovered the vulnerability but did not disclose it because its executives feared regulatory scrutiny about their data collection methods. They finally acknowledged the problem publicly on 8 October 2018. See Google's FAQ here, a report here, and discussion here.


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