The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel
The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel
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What cloud formation is this? Is this a cloud formation?
You guys are leaving through the end of times. Who knew all this would just end up as a minor inconvenience to daily life.
Nice Neuromancer reference, I feel like it’s rare to see those!
Sweet Jesus, that’s scary.
*Itachi has entered the stage*
There’s going to be so much bird shit.
r/visualsnow
Jesus that’s a lot of birds.
One of the best opening lines.
Future generations will think it was night when they read that line.
One of my favorite opening lines in fiction.
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“The actual problem with all these migrating starlings is not that they shut out the light but that they blanket everything in smelly, greasy guano. Because the starlings feast in the olive groves outside of Rome, their poop is super oily. And there is a lot of it — so much so that tourists must use umbrellas to avoid getting rained on, and Rome has had to call in the big guns to get rid of the pesky birds.”
BLENDER NOISE TEXTURE
Drone swarms from The Diamond Age.
Great post with a cultured reference. You love to see it
Striking picture.
This is what I pictured when reading it, as the “snow” effect was the color of a non-tuned channel growing up.
But, correct me if I am wrong here, didn’t Gibson intend for this line to refer to a ‘dead channel’ effect that pre-dated the visual snow? A more solid grey aluminum quality?
EDIT:
[Here](https://youtu.be/nauvjMM2fzY?t=247)’s an example.
As Gibson said himself, “sodium silvery and almost painful”. I think that was a slightly different quality than the visual snow that most of us likely grew up with.
You are too much the artiste, Herr Case
Brilliant book
The Birds.
Real deja vue there
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/kx6kvb/the_sky_above_the_port_was_the_color_of/
People hold this lime up as something that is impossible to visually convey, but instantly invokes imagery. I dont really agree with that.
Oh birdpocalypse? Yea we used to have those more 20 years ago
I thought it was a textured ceiling initially.