[To best simulate the Expo Experience, listen to this track reading the article.] On December 17th, 2011, with parts and support from its parent corporation, Reality™ Incorporated Co., The Reality™ Institute held its first Reality™ Expo at Control Room in downtown Los Angeles. For the first time ever, patrons were able to get a visceral experience of what [...]
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Because all expos need some sort of break from the knowledge imparted in them, the Reality™ Expo had a series of readers/performers that read from various authorized manuscripts. Watch footage of their performances below! Hillary Kapan Seth Blake Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal Chelsea Trescott Byron Campbell Brian Pickett Patrick Benjamin
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As part of the Reality™ Expo, the Institute broadcast this 35 minute loop, an almost flawless simulation of televised media.
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A simple, elegant game illustrating the link between the player and the history of the Universe. Made using Unity3D and Processing by Michael Molitch-Hou with help from Hillary Kapan, Marc Nimoy, and Elijah Kleeman. [Download enn-weee! for Mac OSX] [Download enn-weee! for Windows]
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The authorized audiobiography of Paul McCartney is here in its complete and raw form! Finally, a personal account of the life of the musician, the formation of the Beatles, and the aftermath of the Beatles break-up. Listen to the artist’s own take on the life-altering phenomenon that was The Beatles. Part 1: How I Met [...]
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by Solipsis O. Nann You can’t count on other people. You don’t need us to tell you. You mustn’t need us to tell you, or we never would. You know. You’ve known it since your significant other left you stranded at the Senior Prom after driving your new truck through a loose field of [...]
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WARNING: This content is sexually explicit. Make sure you really wanna see dirty parts before you click here.
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an erotic piece of speculative fiction by artist and writer Scott Grunewald
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Tim Anderson, who you might know from Masterchef UK, Occidental College, the Racine, WI ska scene or your English class in Tokyo, Japan, is releasing his first beer: Mr. Squirrel Lager! Tim says in his e-mail (dated 9/26/11) to me: Hey! I am releasing a beer, as you now know. And it is certified Real™. [...]
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After years of unlimited touring and endless recordings, Chad Matheny, aka Emperor X, gets signed to a major label, Bar/None Records. To celebrate, he had a record release party at Origami Vinyl in Los Angeles (Echo Park), CA. Buy the record. Or check it out on Spotify.
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A Petition for Free Online Access of Taxpayer-funded Research
By Samuel Arbesman, wired.comScience is cumulative. But to be truly cumulative, we need to be able to read and understand what has come before us. And this comes down to an issue of access.
Many scientific papers are locked away behind paywalls. But the federal…
Darpa, Venter Launch Assembly Line for Genetic Engineering
By Katie Drummond, wired.comThe military-industrial complex just got a little bit livelier. Quite literally.
That’s because Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research arm, has kicked off a program designed to take the conventions of manufacturing and apply them…
These driverless vehicles are guided by magnetic sensors, powered by solar electricity, and they stop automatically if an obstacle appears. They are programmed to go where you ask.
Michael Molitch-Hou presents his new guidebook, entitled “Why-to: a short and helpful guide to motivate one’s pursuit of activities either a. previously not pursued or b. pursued so regularly that no one knows or remembers why they’re doing them in the first place”, to the MFA writing students at CalArts.
The Future of Stuff: Vending Machine That Prints in 3-D
By Tim Maly, wired.comNo matter how fast postal delivery gets, nothing beats the immediate gratification of pushing a button on a vending machine and having your purchase tumble down into the delivery box. The Chinese live crab dispenser and Art-O-Mat…
