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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...

Podcast #2: Dark Matter Literature

 


Check out the second episode in my AI-generated podcast on the New Mythology for the New Millennium. The playlist is here. The podcast is based on an essay I wrote about my work, which I then submitted to Google's AI. The AI then reconfigured the essay into a podcast format. The essay concerns the dark matter goddess character, aka Isis, and dark matter concept which sit at the heart of my novels-in-progress, Isis Chrysalis and Ink of the Palimpsest.

Isis Chrysalis concerns the actual history of the dark matter goddess, with stories set in the past, present and future. Ink of the Palimpsest is about a group of connected contemporary characters who are living in a reality affected by the dark matter goddess storyline.

My Pinterest boards were set up to collect images which resonated with my vision for each of these books, as well as my poetry.

See my Pinterest board for Isis.

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