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TV ad for Virtual Light

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Digital Life, Digital Identity - A conversation about the internet, fiction, and the future

William Gibson, associated with coining the term “cyberspace", and Fenwick McKelvey, Internet Researcher and Concordia Professor (Department of Communication Studies) explore the complex relationship between digital technologies and our identity.

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this is some of the best Neuromancer fan art I've seen, the characters look very much like how I imagined them. Great art skill too.

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The William Gibson Collection version of Buzz Rickson’s MA-1 flight jacket, based on Gibson’s use of a non-existent black MA-1 jacket in his novel, “Pattern Recognition.”

The actual chain of events went like this: A Korean friend of mine told me about buying a Rickson’s jacket in Tokyo. My friend is a multi-lateral otaku, and once had an office-mate in Seoul who collected nothing but the *zippers* from US military flight jackets. *That* impressed me. So my friend told me about the trouble he’d gone to to score a Buzz Rickson’s repro of a WWII US Navy N-1 deck jacket. I Googled Rickson’s, couldn’t read the kanji, but saw these hyper-obsessive MA-1 repros.  The MA-1 is a very complexly iconic garment, having manifested in a number of subcultures since its initial military issue in the 50s. A tiny cult of proto-Mods favored it early-Sixties Soho, skinheads made it a part of their intensely narrow dress-code (often in burgundy, which the USAF never issued either), it was part of a certain gay uniform, goths wore it (always in black). And I had always liked it, particularly on girls. I had never been able to wear one, myself, because they tend to be cut very short in the back, and I have a very long back. While Rickson’s had never made a black one, countless black jackets in the MA-1 pattern have been made over the years. It’s been a very popular, indeed classic pattern. These are not made to the specifications of the US military, but for sale to civilians. I gave Cayce one because I thought it worked for her, and I made it a Buzz, because that worked for me. I never stopped to think that Rickson’s didn’t actually make a black one, but if I had, that wouldn’t have stopped me. Hubertus Bigend doesn’t exist either, and I have my poetic license right here, laminated, in my wallet.  To my surprise, Cayce’s jacket immediately felt to me like a *character*, rather than merely a garment, and I liked that. Some time after the book was published, I recieved a very puzzled letter from the folks at Buzz Rickson’s, who had been getting requests for black MA-1’s. Once I had explained what was happening, they amazed and delighted me by asking my permission to make a repro of *Cayce’s* jacket, to market as their Pattern Recognition model. Yes indeed, I said, and while you’re at it, cut me one with an extra four inches in the back, please. Which they did, and it’s over the back of a chair nearby as I write this. I love this jacket. It reminds me of the title of a Surrealist sculpture, “An Object From The Other Side Of The Bridge”. It’s real, but it emerged from a work of fiction. (I’m not positive, but I think they all may be a little longer than the USAF pattern.) - William Gibson.

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A fan fiction project of producing an in-character tumblr for the protagonist of Pattern Recognition?

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"He speaks with Hazlitt audio producer Anshuman Iddamsetty about resonance, Health Goth, and how infrequently we hear of the 22nd Century."

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Finding a Jaeger-LeCoultre at Goodwill is very All Tomorrows Parties.

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What an amazing looking special edition, makes me wish I could read Portugese.

Brazilian special edition commemorating the 30th anniversary of the publication of Neuromancer by William Gibson 

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William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse At the Chicago Humanities Festival, 2014

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A small tease of the project I’m going to be working on for the next few months. 

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Neuromancer PC game

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Google Glass Captured Demo of Voyager Expanded Books Neuromancer eBook on Apple Powerbook 145

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For once a great use of a William Gibson inspired domain name. It's not derivative of his work but nicely complements it.

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Syd Mead's Land Yacht concept for Playboy Magazine, reminds me quite a bit of the Mercedes Land Yacht from The Peripheral, though this is obviously at a much smaller scale.

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Winter's Bone trailer. Highly influential along with Deadwood, Justified and Mr. Gibson's own youth in the Deep South on the chapters of The Peripheral set in the southern US.

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"All William Gibson’s Futures. Our top sci-fi bard is in a race with real life to create the gaudiest dystopia"