check out this 'conceptual' essay from Afterall about place and space-

http://www.afterall.org/online/place.and.space.theories.of.topographic.narratives

It looks at the idea of topographical narratives.

There is a parallel world tension at work- here's some excerpts from the essay-

"There is a tension between our desire to see the whole, from above, and to engage with individual sections of the city at ground level. "

"...memories need to be presented topographically and can be explained by key psycho-geographical premises: firstly, that the urban landscape impacts upon one's thought and behaviour at any given point - 'in different places we are different people'..."

Extra-Terrestrial Presense on Earth

The idea of invisible cultures genetically manipulating and experimenting with mankind's ancient past and present. Secret religions and societies that are still faithful to their reptilian overlords. The secret war on humanity that takes place just outside our perception. It could be complete imagination, or a most mysterious parallel world.

p.s.

i can type that up if need be--

sorry about the poor quality.

goodnight everyone

p.p.s.

here is someone living in a parallel world

check out this fetish;

masking>>>>

would-be wiki response 2222 norman's photo responses [1st week]

hey doods,

sarah merkle

10/19/09

A camera people can wear as a pendant to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives will be available on the market next year from Vicon in Oxford.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17992-new-camera-promises-to-capture-your-whole-life.html

-David

Scientists Give Flies False Memories
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015123552.htm

What does this mean for the world of parallel worlds?

David

In contrast to Ferris' utopian skyscrapers - check out the work of Usman Haq-

http://www.haque.co.uk/

-Tom

More Brain 2 Brain communication (sort of )

http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2009/oct/09_135.shtml

-Eliza

Here's Patrick's Roundabout Performance Score:

Everyone should know and visit ubuweb-

http://ubu.com/

In regards to our investigations into systems of narratives and 

the 'architecture' of parallel worlds- check these videos out by 

Ryan Trecartin- 

http://ubu.com/film/trecartin_kcorea.html

Here's a blurb by Wayne Koestenbaum --

"Ryan Trecartin's videos depict a vertiginous world I'm barely stable enough to describe. Watching them, I face the identity-flux of Internet existence: surfing-as-dwelling. Images evaporate, bleed, spill, metamorphose, and explode. Through frenetic pacing, rapid cuts, and destabilizing overlaps between representational planes (3-D turns into 2-D and then into 5-D), Trecartin violently repositions our chakras. Digitally virtuoso, his work excites me but also causes stomach cramps. I'm somatizing.But I'm also trying to concentrate." (ArtfortumSummer 2009).

Here's a couple more interesting tidbits for the blog:  

Brain-to-brain communication has been achieved for the first time... 

 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=3D/news/news_single.html?id%= 3D11230 

 ...and a little on the connectivity of our personal "parallel worlds" of wake and sleep: 

 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427291.000-are-you-asleep-exploring= -the-minds-twilight-zone.html?full=3Dtrue  

-David 

This may have some use for us in the class. Can't be sure... the examples are somewhat hypntoic, esp. the second example. Are these parallel worlds trying to collide, but merely flying across each other in morphs, like simultaneous possession?

http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=422

-Norman

This is a "companion" link for the Hugh Everett film-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_worlds

I am interested in the idea of the past and the future as infinite parallel worlds.  If we were the “never realised utopia” for a parallel world that realised our “never realised utopia”. 

-Mette

Check out this documentary about Mark Oliver Everett "E" from the Eels and his dad Hugh Everett-

The doc is called Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMZVPWQrLNU