Techdad Discussion

[can-]

this is the thread for all things futuristic, technical, grunge-dystopian.

required reading for this course:

[bels]

therosenrot is the most cyberpunk version I've ever known.

[can-]

final home


more under the spoiler

[germinal]

[starfox64]

I feel like Neuromancer is the real cyberpunk bible, just because it takes itself so much more seriously than Snow Crash.

[starfox64]

[can-]

is that the aitor para jacket?

i would pay just to handle aitor gear. missed his bags when they were briefly at atelier and i don't think DSM NY will be open by the time this collection comes and goes. i've heard his construction barely resembles anything else

[can-]

Ralph Lauren Black Label


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[starfox64]

since when did black label put out stuff like that?

yeah its aitor. i'd love to fuck around with that stuff, but its like $5k.

[germinal]

The Aitor Throup stuff i've handled is unbelievable. Feels as if you really could survive the apocalypse whilst wearing it. The patterning is done to perfection - there's literally no seam allowances, it's sewn edge-to-edge. The bonded rubber material he has developed is unlike anything i've handled before; it flexes and moves so bizarrely, it feels like armour, or as if it's caked in goo from some radioactive swamp. Your body adjusts to fit the clothes rather than the other way round. The prices are completely understandable (although still unpalatable) when you've seen the clothes - they could never be mass-produced, you can feel the hours of hard work aitor and co have put into realising these pieces.

[can-]

i can't even imagine what it means that it's sewn edge to edge lol. does anyone know where it's manufactured?

re: RLBL- i heard from a friend who's working for ralph in the city that they are dropping black label and merging it with purple label. the two have always had really nebulous identities to me altho they are always recognizably Ralph. i've become really fond of the Ralph man in the last year.

Black Label Flight Jacket



Stone island x Diemme monkey boots

[bels]

http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/autumn-w ... ery/897905

I guess edge to edge is like... the way you sew a wound back together? Can zoom in on some of those photos to look at the seams.

(When you were a kid did you ever imagine you'd zoom in on a photo to look at a seam?)

[bels]

[germinal]

as far as i know all aitor stuff is made by him and his team in his studio in london, ccp style. doubt it could be done by immigrant workers in italy or wherever, considering that the techniques and materials used are the result of the best part of a decade of research.

do cyberpunks still listen to techno or do they listen to post rock or to idm? or genres unknown

[can-]

While out and about, cyberpunks listen to Burial

While programming from their converted one room studio (looks more like a cockpit), they listen to Ryoji Ikeda

A cyberpunk makes love to his old woman to James Blake

Kick it oldschool with New Order while geocaching

[can-]

how many techninjas can you spot in this image?

[can-]

balenciaga

[bels]

[starfox64]

[germinal]

rip ndg

[can-]

LL bean commando sweater

[starfox64]

i know you like ll bean but isn't that just a standard military sweater?

[can-]

there are a bunch of them, margiela does the best repros but I couldn't find any pix. I linked the bean one cos it's wool (mil/police versions are acrylic) and the details/price are right

[starfox64]

ervell made one last year iirc

[can-]

[maj]

[can-]

Diary of a cyberpunk

currently hurtling thru space in a metal box (to visit my parents =). there are outlets in every row, but alas no wifi. there are only two outlets for a three seat row. what about a jacket that converts into a mobile relay station, w embedded power strip and antennae?

almost got into a knife fight with this warrior on the 6 train:



clothed for comfort and function:



what's in the pocket?



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[thomaspaine]

Real cyberpunk would have taken these pictures with google glass

[bels]

Google glass is too fragile x dorky for a street samurai.

[thomaspaine]

Google glass is so dorky, but why is that? Would better looking frames and design make them cooler or is the technology inherently dorky at this point in time?