Blade Runner Revisted
Kevin Holmes September 06, 2010
François Vautier is a fan of futuristic proto-cyberpunk film noir Blade Runner (who isn’t?), and to show that he’s a bigger fan than you or me he’s made this tribute film, using 167,819 frames from the film to assemble an enormous square with a length of 60,000 pixels creating an image that’s 3.6 gigapixels. That’s a lot of pixels. He then filmed it with a virtual camera that swooped across this behemoth pixel wall to create the illusion of movement, with audio from the movie running over the top.
Blade Runner has to be one of the best, if not the best, adaptation of sci-fi author and mind wrecker Philip K. Dick’s stories, whose novels didn’t so much predict the future as project their terrifying, amusing, and brilliantly baffling narratives from a distant galaxy. Another sci-fi writer, however, who was good at predictions was possible time lord Arthur C. Clarke. In the video below he makes an eerily prophetic forecast while on a programme made for the BBC science show Horizon. The clip is from way back in 1964 when most people were still coming to terms with colour TVs. Not Arthur, while discussing the year 2000 he talks about technology reminiscent of our global communication systems. He might not have got the futuristic architecture exactly right—we can look to our creators MOS Architects, Ma Yansong, and Graft Architects for that—but as an accurate prediction of changing working practices, Google Earth, and tracking technology made possible by the internet it’s pretty scary.
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