Rocking a double cardigan look today. Go figure.

I also happened across this awesome clip on NYTIMES.com which is pretty much a description of the evolution of Skynesting. Fast forward 40 years and you’re in Palomar City.

Here’s a compelling article about Bionanotech in medicine from Fast Compan.

This is really the basis for muscle and skin grafting of vat-grown, non-humanoid skin. Think of the skin like a lined coat, the outside is the pattern the inside keeps it from snagging on your clothes. For this the outside is a synthetic designer skin, then a thin layer of human cells underneath to reconnect via molecular reconstruction.  The muscle grafts work the same way.

“Materials scientists were early to the evolving universe of nanotechnology, which involves manipulating materials on an atomic scale to produce molecular structures that can’t be achieved with traditional manufacturing techniques. Nanotechnology, in turn, gave rise to molecular self-assembly, where researchers create molecules programmed with instructions that allow them to join together into complex structures.”

What if he could inject the nanomolecules into the bloodstream so they could serve as microscopic vehicles to deliver therapeutic compounds? Even better, what if he could modify the nanomolecules so that they would attract the body’s own healing compounds to an injured area, kick-starting the repair process without introducing any foreign cells at all?

We’ve been working on a pitch book for Gatecrashers. The bulk of it is in the style of the Palomar Observer, then some of it is presented as if on the monitor of a STRC team dash-mounted display. But from there we have to get into the business of the business a bit and that’s where it gets a bit tricky.  Here’s a background element I created. We’ll see if it makes it to the final. ps. in the studio this morning listening to Ill Street Lounge

Working on the District outlines and history right now. Which lead to an exploration of how the Culture Clashes started.  I certainly think that some of the Skynests resemble refugee camps, though they’re probably closer to the communities of laborers who flock to places like Mumbai in search of work and to send money home to families. As I was writing today I came across an earlier entry about KR Teams.  Kidnapping and Ransom units.  The most likely scenario for KR:STRC teams would be extraction, with little regard for the kidnappers.

Ok, my producer has been hounding me to get to work on this. We’ve only been talking about it forever. So I’m hitting it with a renewed vigor, in between producing a lot of motion pictures (day job) and raising a family (6 month old baby) and renovating a new apartment (yep, pretty dope, the kitchen is gonna blow your mind). That’s my computer’s view of the back of my studio wall in Soho, NYC.

I’ve finally started working on some visuals, not just text. That’s always fun.  Peep this first pass on a logo for STRC the Palomar City special police force.  Think Hercules Team in NYC.

As I was working on this, I started piecing together the STRC teams, The main positions are Bulldog Unit, which is two cops in a wheeled vehicle. Then you’ve got STRC Street Hornets. These are single man patrols. They don’t venture far from STRC Forts which are located in every District in Palomar City.

(Oh shit, has it really been just about a year since I started this fucking blog?)

“Happy Halloween Ladies…” (name that quote?)

Ok, the branding has gone too far. We need not try to redefine the contemporary media-scape by defining it as a new way of telling stories. Stories will be told. I found this set of articles interesting at first, then a bit confounding. b/c of items like this:

I used to make myself crazy with one more qualifier — the character would have to know how to put up sites and profiles of that complexity. But I believe it’s an emerging convention not to overthink personal websites with production values exceeding the plausible skill of the character in question. (And if it’s not, then it should be!) Don’t let realism trip you into weakening your story.

I was going to trash it, but on reflection, go give these a read, they are interesting.

Show and Tell – Deus Ex Machinatio

Conveying Action in Transmedia – Deus Ex Machinatio

Characterizations for Transmedia – Deus Ex Machinatio

[and yes, those are monogrammed pajamas and I’m drinking a delicious cup of coffee brewed in a cheap black and decker with beans from La Colombe]

Alright, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Chicago. The Orrington Hotel. It’s a pretty dope, deco modern sort of joint, with dark red walls and cool round mirror in the room.  I’m on MTV’s dime, not my own, so the rooms a bit bigger than usual.  I’m on the road for 3 weeks with another project.  (peep refresheverything.com it’s very cool, very worth seeing, very worth voting for, and very worth coming up with an idea of your own.)

So I’ve got the day off tomorrow (That’s why i’m drinking wine).  And I hope to both by a book [Maximum City] and also take a bit of time to write some TGC.  I’ll send an update then.

zach

One of my top priorities with The Gatecrashers is that this world is real. So I need to find real technology to extrapolate the ‘later’ technology from. (or maybe just pull it as is and integrate).

This one is in the NY Times this morning.

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Hospital-Clean Hands, Without All the Scrubbing

By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: February 13, 2010
HOSPITAL workers often have to wash their hands dozens of times a day — and may need a minute or more to do the process right, by scrubbing with soap and water. But new devices could reduce the task to just four seconds, cleaning even hard-to-reach areas under fingernails.

read the rest in the NY Times.

Cleaning up the ‘bible’ and hitting some larger story treatments today.  I’m taking it a bit slower in the headphones with a more ambient thing.  www.paxahau.com Ambient / Electonic LIVE from Detroit. Streaming on iTunes here.

One of the most fun aspects of this world is the body mods, but I’m still tied up in the city politics.  I’m reading equal parts medical journal and the business pages for research.

more to come…

ztm

How to keep all the stories in line? I started the world wiki for myself, but that quickly became a public wiki. Now I need to find a tool for organizing all the story threads. Maybe I’ll make another wiki.