[ redirected from intern@ - relevant to teh business not only [ for Metalab members which might have seen it already on [ http://metalab.at/wiki/Pressespiegel or on friendly soups [ e.g. http://angelol.soup.io/post/254746 On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:01:49 +0100 Jay Vaughan wrote:

On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:46 PM, das ende der nahrungskette wrote:

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gamejew: "Wenn wir so etwas wie das Metalab in L.A. hätten, wäre das großartig."

| > http://www.chilli.cc/index.php?noframes=1&id=74-1-139&from= Markus Peyerl obliged my wish on Tuesday to add a link to the Metalab as well.

We had a 'metalab' in Hollywood in the 90's, it was called 'teklab' (I started it) ..

I wanted to have a look on teklab.com via archive.org but it seems the new domain owner has excluded this lookup with robots.txt

and before that (even still) in Santa Monica is the world-famous "electric cafe" which was a similar thing as well ..

any leads? I found two related Usenet postings I enjoyed: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.drugs/browse_thread/thread/423b98829f3fbd... | Review of psychedlic videos of McKenna & Abramson by Rose X | "David A. Honig" 16 Okt. 1990, 22:51 | | Usenet Exclusive (Gnu copyleft applies): | | Electric Cafe, Santa Monica, Ca., Sat 13 Oct 1990 | | A crowd of about 40 watched two psychedelic videos produced by a team of two | video artists that call themselves Rose X. Using a commodore amiga, | video cameras, and high-8 VCR equiptment, they produced two separate | documentaries on two modern fringe thinkers, Terrence McKenna | and Prof. Ralph Abramson, both of whom have ties to the psychedelic culture. | | McKenna is an ethnobotanist, who was available for discussion and | audience questioning via videophone in NYC. Abramson, a mathematics | prof at UC Santa Cruz who specialises in dynamics and chaos, was in the | Cafe live. ... http://groups.google.com/group/dc.dining/browse_thread/thread/e0aa6e13be9572... | >>> I for one would *never* go to a place where there is a terminal at | >>> the table. What ever happened to conversation??? Just muy | >>> opinion. | > I agree - sounds perverse. I've heard of a place in Santa Monica | > called the Electric Cafe which allegedly had terminals connected | > with other such Cafes "around the world", so patrons could discuss | > stuff with other people at these remote sites. Seems like a dumb | > pseudo-trendy idea to me. Easy to picture hardware that would only | > have been functional during the first week of operations... | | It sounds perverse when you compare it to having a nice time at | a restaurant. But when you compare it to being shut up alone all | day in front of your computer - it actually sounds quite appealing. | ... unrelated but also nice: Kraftwerk's Electric Cafe / Technopop song -> http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ZcUu9Kl_7A

and while I concur with Jonathan (gamejew) that a fresh young metalab in LA would be a nice thing to have today, I believe he needs to look a little closer around UCLA and UCal campuses, perhaps he'll find exactly the same sort of hacker esprit as we have here in Vienna ..

perhaps but I understand he is more looking for a digital culture of video/computer games less hacking esprit and the question is how open is something in the campus surrounding for the general public? (compared to a Subotron Shop in the MQ circus or the open Metalab) cheers, Peter