On 30 Sep 1999, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> QueeneMUSE@aol.com writes:
>
> In Walter John William's book _Aristoi_, there is a regular party at
> the virtual mansion of an ariste (she happens to be dead, but her
> excellent party-design software keeps running century after
> century). Every party is different, and the one described in the book
> takes place in an Escheresque building, where people can walk on the
> walls and ceilings, where doors do not lead to the same place twice
> and where every room contains subtle allusions to the ideographic
> alphabet used by the people, acting as subliminal messages.
>
Anders, are you sure that you aren't embelishing this? I probably
read Aristoi more recently than you (check my ReadingList page),
and I don't remember this. However, I did consider this an
impossible layout (Escheresque) as a desirable motif for a club
when the question came up (so perhaps I've internalized the
book scene in some way) but then I've got several Escher prints
so its a natural leap for my mind.
Now of course crossing my two favorite artists, Escher & Erte and you get some really far out images.
An alternate possible extropian motif -- SurvivalScene, where the environment (physical, sensoral, etc.) keeps changing and you have to rapidly adapt in various ways (position, shape, intellectually, etc.) in order to stay in the Club.
This is kind of a derivative of a Restaurant/club that was (and perhaps still is in Seattle) called Entros. They had half a dozen or more "stations" where you and your other dining guests could solve puzzles, make dolls, experience wierd physical stuff (strange mazes?), etc. while you were waiting for your table to come up.
Now of course this raises the question -- if Extro 5 is going to be in Houston, who is going to investigate the Houston club scene for us and make recomendations. I think a great evening plan should be to descend on one or more of the radical clubs available. Its going to have to be fairly big to hold a couple of hundred extropians though...
Robert