{"id":267,"date":"2009-04-11T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lofiscifi.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2009-04-11T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T15:45:34","slug":"alive-in-joberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/inspiring\/alive-in-joberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive in Joberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was staying with Kent<\/a> in San Francisco a few weeks back I was talking about the doc style of Ghosts<\/em> and he recommended the phenomenal “Alive in Joberg<\/a>” by Neill Blomkamp. Blomkamp grew up in Vancouver but was born in South Africa, and makes great use of the style of movies made about SA and Africa in general.<\/p>\n

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When I got home I saw this great lo-fi sci-fi discussion thread<\/a> referring both to Infest Wisely and Blomkamp’s short, so obviously I was meant to see it. There’s lots of interesting shorts on the thread, including others by Blomkamp, but “Metalosis Maligna”<\/a> is my favourite. It’s a pretty amazing surrealist approach to lo-fi sci-fi, with the crazy growth on the x-rays giving the viewer a chance to imagine what the condition looks like.<\/p>\n

Just typed up the notes from the brainstorming session and workshop we had last week. Some really great ideas to explore. I’m wondering what an Asian-dominated future will look — when most of my previous near-futures assume the continued ascendance of western-style capitalism, a more intense corporation-mediated reality. I’m also going to be looking into how people in India have developed their outsourcing foothold.<\/p>\n

If you have any thoughts\/suggested links or reading on this, email me or post a comment. And if you get a chance to read the script, I’m soliciting feedback until April 20th at which point I’ll be diving in again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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