“There is no there. That’s what they taught children, to explain cyberspace.“
- #WilliamGibson #MonaLisaOverdrive
In which Mr Gibson gets it right, once again. #MonaLisaOverdrive #BookSky
I got obsessed with a side character-it’s Petal from #WilliamGibson ‘s #MonaLisaOverdrive I wondered what happened after the chaos, it inspired this piece, “Two Guns; One Grave,” imagining Petal in retirement, haunted by his past.
#Cyberpunk #DigitalArt #CyberNoir
#FanArt
Mona dreamed she was dancing the cage back in some Cleveland juke, naked in a column of hot blue light, where the faces thrusting up for her through the veil of smoke had blue light snagged in the whites of their eyes.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
Finished reading #ProjectHailMary last week. Waiting on #AncestralNight at the library. Re-reading #MonaLisaOverdrive while I’m waiting.
What? I know what I like. #scifi #bookstodon
La villa Belza est une villa de style néo-médiéval construite entre 1880 et 1895 sur la côte rocheuse de Biarritz, en France. En 1825, le cultivateur Dominique Daguerre obtient par un échange avec la commune un champ curieusement implanté sur les rochers. Son fils Étienne vend ce terrain appelé champ du rossignol ou cassaou de Trespots au notaire Alexandre Dihinx. Après sa mort, deux autres propriétaires se succèdent. Un sentier permet de faire le tour du terrain. C'est un lieu de promenade pour les Biarrots. En 1882, le terrain est vendu à Ange Dufresnay, directeur général de la compagnie d'assurances le Phénix à Paris. La construction d'une maison est confiée à l'architecte Alphonse Bertrand secondé par l'entrepreneur A. Joly. Elle suit un plan rectangulaire agrémenté par un donjon néo-médiéval et une tourelle en poivrière construits par Dominique Morin en 1889. La situation insolite de la villa sur les rochers, sa proximité avec le « Trou du Diable » (un gouffre où les vagues passent sous la route lors des fortes tempêtes), le nom « Beltza » signifiant noir en français, ont alimenté des légendes de sorcellerie ou de revenants. Le nom de la maison a été donné par Monsieur Dufresnay en hommage à son épouse, Marie Belza Dubreuil.
Within a year of his marriage to Marie-France Tessier, Ashpool divested 90% of his firm, reinvesting in orbital properties & shuttle utilities. The fruit of the living union, 2 children, brother & sister, were being brought to term by surrogates in their mother's #Biarritz villa.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
Every time I see this video, I think one thing.
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That #Nena is dressed up as #MollyMillions
#Neuromancer #MonaLisaOverDrive
"the young ones" Vyvyan Basterd played by Adrian Edmondson
Yanaka looked from Kumiko to the grimacing Tick.
"I extend profound gratitude to you, sir, for having protected my daughter. I am in your debt."
"Christ," Tick said, overcome with awe, "fucking fancy that."
#MonaLisaOverdrive
Neuromancer is in production. #Neuromancer #chatsubo 📺 #cyberpunk #williamgibson #legend #SprawlTrilogy 📖 #reading #burningchrome #neuromancer #countzero #monalisaoverdrive @greatdismal.bsky.social #JohnnyMnemonic
Mona's universe consisted largely of things & places she'd never physically seen or visited. The hotel lobby was more crowded than lobbies in stims. Prior made her wait by an ad for an orbital spa while he went over to a long black counter & talked to a woman w/a brass nametag
#MonaLisaOverdrive
SALLY: If you're Swain's spy, he's gotten a lot more baroque recently. If you're your old man's spy, maybe I don't need Tick. But if the Yakuza's running this—
KUMIKO: I am no spy.
S: Then start being your own. If Tokyo's the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
Cherry said she knew where she could get him a job fixing rides in an arcade. He wasn't really listening.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
35% of Tokyo's landmass was built on gomi: level tracts reclaimed from the Bay thru a century's systematic dumping. Gomi, there, was a resource to be managed, to be collected, sorted, carefully plowed under.
London's relationship to gomi was more subtle, more oblique. >>
#MonaLisaOverdrive
There was something vampiric about the hotel room, Kumiko decided, something it would have in common with millions of similar rooms, as tho its seamless anonymity were sucking away her personality, fragments of which emerged as her parents' voices, raised in argument.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
overdriven...
#monalisa, #themask, #monalisaoverdrive
The M.A.D.Gallery is currently showcasing nine visionary images of ‘flying’ cars from the series 'Air Drive' by French photographer Renaud Marion. In this retro-futuristic series, the 39-year-old photographer depicts his childhood dreams of futuristic transportation but he's given the collection a unique twist; turning iconic, classic cars into beautiful hovercraft style vehicles.
Kid Afrika came cruising into Dog Solitude on the last day in November, his vintage Dodge chauffeured by a white girl named Cherry Chesterfield.
Slick Henry & Little Bird were breaking down the buzzsaw that formed the Judge's left hand when Kid's Dodge came into view...
#MonaLisaOverdrive
"Thank you" Kumiko said, as Swain held her chair.
"An honor" Swain said. "Our respect for your father-"
"Hey" the woman said "she's too young to need that bullshit. Spare us."
"Sally's in something of a mood, you see" Petal said, as he put a poached egg on Kumiko's plate.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
First ever drawing of Molly, and one of my first submissions to DeviantArt.
An oldie of Sally Shears, done in college (likely around 2008).
Molly in the morning. I really like how Gibson's hackers and street samurai still have these everyday moments, getting coffee in the morning and chatting about their current events.
Steppin' Razor
Some drawings of Molly Millions/Sally Shears over the years.
#neuromancer #monalisaoverdrive #molly #mollymillions #sallyshears #williamgibson #cyberpunk #art #traditionalart #lizzychrome #razorgirl
Sally Shears (Molly Millions) and Kumiko Yanaka, from "Mona Lisa Overdrive."
#williamgibson #sprawl #monalisaoverdrive #molly #sallyshears #mollymillions #kumiko #yanaka #cyberpunk #neuromancer #books #ink #traditionalart #razorgirl #yakuza #winter #London
Molly Millions, from the works of William Gibson.
#mollymillions #molly #neuromancer #sprawltrilogy #cyberpunk #razorgirl #williamgibson #monalisaoverdrive #johnnymneumonic #lizzychrome #prismacolor #sketchcard
【Kage-Low the Bassman vol.11】
⧉ BLACK CHERRY▪BUCK-TICK ⧉
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#BUCKTICK #blackcherry #monalisaoverdrive #bassman #bassist #bassplayer #bassgram #basscover #blackbird #nikkisixx #弾いてみた #hiitemita #tried
industrial ruins on a bleak landscape with dark clouds overhead
GENTRY: It wasn't just the Tessier-Ashpool AIs. People came up the well to crack the T-A cores. They brought a Chinese military icebreaker.
BOBBY: Case. Guy named Case. I know that part. Some kind of synergistic effect...
#MonaLisaOverdrive (referring to #Neuromancer)
Mona Lisa overdrive by William Gibson
3rd in the sprawl trilogy and the best of the three IMHO. #monalisaoverdrive
Pros:
Expansive world building
Follows Molly, the best character objectively
The prose!
Cons:
Gibson writing which is exhausting
Teases the central mystery without answering it!
WOMAN'S VOICE: Let her eat.
Kumiko turned, discovering the slim dark figure against tall, mullioned windows. The woman's eyes were concealed by silver glasses that reflected the room & its occupants.
PETAL: Another of our guests.
WV: Sally. Sally Shears.
#MonaLisaOverdrive
London's particles began to accrete around her. Walls of wet brick, arches of concrete, black-painted ironwork standing up in spears. This was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care.
#MonaLisaOverdrive