Virtual 1930s Harlem 109
Raiford writes "Students can now take fully guided field trips in a VR environment. An article in the newsroom section of the IEEE website describes a trip to an historic Virtual Harlem setting in the 1920s and 30s. The article gives a description of the VR technology and programming and states that the simulation is supported for both Silicon Graphics and Linux platforms"
One more for linux (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Help! (Score:1, Funny)
Get some Michael Jackson CDs instead. As long as you don't have any boy band CDs, you won't have any more problems like that.
Re:Help! (Score:1)
Of course, if you ahve Curious George stuff, the monkey might also be in a little trouble.
Re:My first thought was the 13th Floor (Score:2)
The Thirteenth Floor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Thirteenth Floor (Score:1)
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0139809
I have an idea what they have been influenced by (Score:2)
Re:I have an idea what they have been influenced b (Score:1)
oh, virtual harlem... (Score:2, Funny)
*runs away and looks for another headline*
Re:oh, virtual harlem... (Score:1)
Re:oh, virtual harlem... (Score:1)
Re:oh, virtual harlem... (Score:1)
Why? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Why? (Score:1)
Re:Why? (Score:1)
I bet its for college schools like harvard (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why? (Score:3, Informative)
125th street is as much of a mall as you'll find on the island. The old storefronts, clubs, and apartments have been replaced by chain outlets like Old Navy and the like. The few remnants of the old days have been completely comodified and stripped of their sincerity. The Apollo no longer has any sort of focus on Jazz or Blues, and even then Jazz and Blues stopped being innovative areas of music decades ago. Harlem in the 1930s was a cultural center, a breeding ground for a new and uniquely American style of poetry, music, and art. Now it's just the last frontier for the complete Gentrification and Disnification of Manhattan.
So where's the virtual East Village of the 1970s?
I've dreamed of this for ages (Score:1)
Doh (Score:5, Funny)
That's over at VirtualIslam.sa (Score:1)
For all my Virtual Harlem needs... (Score:2)
Well, other than the game being crap, the city was awesome.
Where do I sign? (Score:1)
I got great idea! (Score:2, Interesting)
But what everyone really wants is to be able to blow stuff up. They need to use the system to create a modern day city. They should make it so that you can interact with its inhabitants, give you a selection of weapons, and set you loose to do as you will. Imagine a living, breathing city to cause complete havoc in! If only.
Oh wait... Maybe it's not just a daydream, maybe someone's already done that [gta3.com].
Re:GTA3 is for sickos (Score:2)
In IRL though, I have never been in a fight since I was about 6 or 8 years old. Not once! And I've been out partying on average maybe 3 times a week since I was 15, and I'm 25 now.. I've been into the punkscene, gothscene, industrial scene and metal scene.. My hair is a black mohawk. I often wear makeup, plastic clothes and sometimes even highheel boots.. I almost always hang out with goths, industrials, punks, hippies, transvestites and other non-mainstream "genres" of people.. I also often go to BDSM- and fetish-clubs.. I know that many people just reading this post are thinking "I want to beat this sick fuck up", but still, I haven't been in a fight NOT EVEN ONCE for the last 17 years or something.. Surely it happens all the time that people want to fight with me, and it's always the "suit people" who do, but I can always just ignore them and walk away or talk myself out of it and calm them down...
What I wanted to say was, although a bit too verbose, that I'm kind of the opposite of violent. Still I love watching filthy gore-movies and play ultraviolent computergames. Not ANYONE should tell me what I can do and not do, as long as I don't step on others toes (if they don't want to be stepped on, that is *G*)... If you don't agree with that, you're just being narrowminded, or a control-freak. Or both.
Re:GTA3 is for sickos (Score:2)
Then I'm a "fucking pussy" then. I simply see no reason to fight for such stupid reasons.
Re:GTA3 is for sickos (Score:1)
Okay, how's this: it's a modern spin on the cowboy archetype (or going even farther back, that of the bandit wandering though the woods, as in Rashomon). There's always been a certain glamour to a lone figure who makes his/her way in the world by living outside the bounds of the law. Yes, crime is involved -- cowboys held up banks and shot up bars, bandits robbed whatever nobility happened to be schlepping through the forest on a given day -- but almost never to the point where it's disturbing enough to shatter the fascism. (Which is why the lynchings and rapes you mention would have no place in GTA3).
Pure and simple: it's escapist entertainment of the type that's been going on for centuries.
Funny, that (Score:1)
Re:GTA3 is for sickos (Score:1)
Are you serious? (Score:1)
Why so resentful? (Score:1)
You're full of it, and a coward to boot. Post with your id, why don't you?
I'm writing my dissertation, in the process of earning a Ph.D. in English, so I have plenty of education. I don't use drugs. I teach at the University of Virginia. I am biracial and am at times racially oppressed.
What's so hard to believe about the possibility that some of us experience oppression in ways you cannot understand?
I'm not saying oppressed people don't do bad things. They do. But most oppressed people don't do such things. Most oppressed people--black, white, geek, female, asian (what you call chink), handicapped--are exactly that: oppressed.
Re:Why so resentful? (Score:2)
Re:Why so resentful? (Score:2)
I live in downtown Atlanta and I see a huge share of ignorant ass black and white people, mainly young ones. Both populations have a formidable number of obnoxious members. This is evident after any major event here. A black targetted concert will be accompanied by lots of trash in the streets, loud music, and kids shouting all types of expletives. The white concerts generally have more trash, at least as many expletives, and a tendency to sporadically shout out "wooooooo!!" and "owwwwwwww!" at ridiculously loud volumes for no apparent reason.
Anyhow, the bigger point here is that the Harlem Renaissance was a wonderful period of artistic development in the United States and the original poster was probably frustrated at people making comments about crime and drugs in that neighborhood. It is sad that such small minded thnking is still around... but whatever.
Re:Why so resentful? (Score:2)
I've lived in predominately black and predominately white neighborhoods. Downtown Atlanta just happens to have a mix of millionaires (and at least one billionaire named Ted Turner has moved around the corner), middle class, and homeless people with the usual business people thrown in during the daylight hours. It also happens to be in the middle of one of the most diverse college campuses in the U.S. (Ga. State University). In an environment like this, EVERYBODY shows their asses. I'm not old or squeamish, I love it downtown. I'm just telling you what I see and it ain't just black people acting a fool.
Peace.
Re:Black people and crime statistics (Score:2)
Percentage-wise, I'd be willing to wager that more blacks commit crime than people of other races. This may have more to do with predisposition than poverty, I haven't read any reports to swing my opinion either way. One sidelong glance at modern day Africa tends to skew one's view, however....
Let's say you have a 100% negro neighborhood in south Dallas or any other poverty-stricken, negro-filled neighborhood. Will there be a higher rate of teenage pregnancy, drug use/addiction, substance abuse, domestic violence, welfare mothers with dozens of children, and fatherless families? Of course there will. These are all inherent side effects of extreme poverty. These are the children of a welfare state.
Now let's say you have a 100% white neighborhood in a trailer park in Anywhere, USA. Will they suffer the same ills as the negroes in a similar situtation? Of course, and more. For some reason whites in poverty tend to be more morally bankrupt than negroes in a similar situation, hence child abuse and molestation among low income families being higher among whites than any other race.
If anything, cash flow plays the largest factor in how any group predictably acts. A middle class negro neighborhood would closely mirror a middle class white or asian neighborhood. Class reflects education (in most cases), and we all know the value of education. Education generally brings a higher quality of life through wider and more lucrative employment opportunities.
Overall, people tend to be 'classist' first and foremost, and 'racist' secondly. They're both pretty tightly integrated after all. I realize being honest about my opinion and this issue is risking Karma, but mine is pretty high and I think I present some intelligent thought.
Re:Black people and crime statistics (Score:1)
The same could be said for a goodly part of eastern Europe, certian sections of Asian, and regions in the middle east.
Remember that nearly the entire CONTINENT of Africa was screwed over, enslavement, disease, then a dependency upon a heavy consumption based cultural living method was created, and Westerners are STILL paying for slave labor and even EXECUTIONS to take place over there to further their business means.
You want fucked up? Well yah Africa is fucked up, and it is going to stay that way because big businesses are paying for it to be fucked up.
Re:Black people and crime statistics (Score:2)
Re:Black people and crime statistics (Score:1)
My point exactly. It is NOT an African thing, everybody does it. The way you said it was implying that African's and those of African decent have a tendency towards anarchistic attitudes and behaviors, I was just pointing out that the rest of the world is pretty damn nutty as well and that singling out Africa was not fair.
Re:Black people and crime statistics (Score:2)
Re:Colonialism was the best thing to happen to Afr (Score:2)
Do your research, "civilization" found them, and then shot them. They where taking up valuable forest land you know. . . .
Harlem 2002 (Score:1)
I've gotten to play with early stages of this.. (Score:1)
One of those overpriced SGI-based things (Score:2)
If they made the thing available as a VRML world, it would be more accessable. VRML isn't used much any more, but it finally works quite well. VRML 97 sucked on 1997-vintage PCs, but with a modern graphics board and a broadband connection, it's far better than it used to be.