About the Lainzine
So what is this thing.
the Lainzine is a free, not-for-profit zine created (largely) by / for fans of the late-90s anime Serial Experiments Lain and the many relevant communities, websites, and dusty art-projects it has inspired over the last decades. topics covered include "digital life", the intersection of art and computers, cyberpunk themes, programming and opsec, pseudo-religious technobabble, and whatever else people feel like sharing, all presented in a lain-inspired ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｑｕｅ format.
ok, so why should i care?
well, if any of the topics above seem interesting to you, have a look at the archive . "production quality" varies a bit, as it's taken a while to figure out how best to present things and make them all pretty, but there's still interesting stuff to read no matter which you pick up.
and, if you like what you see there and have something you want to share as well, please don't hesitate to read the submission guidelines and do so! as a free community project, the lainzine is what people make of it, with those people being anyone at all who feels some sort of affiliation with lain and the many things the name has come to mean. so don't feel like your work or ideas don't belong just because they differ a bit from what's been in past zines. we're all connected, after all :P
if you have any questions (or just feel like saying hello), either shoot an email at lainzine@protonmail.com or stop by #lainzine on Freenode !
i like these topics, but your stuff's lame
here are a few links to interesting people, then:
http://lauren-mccarthy.com/
https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.fr/
https://fauux.neocities.org/
go look at them instead!
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| Popularity Members ' }) }) })(jQuery); play Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings.
Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, whose other works include , is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the significance of their presence.
[Written by MAL Rewrite] won the Excellence Prize in the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival. It has been subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds such as the and by the American Philosophical Society. |
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 Serial Experiments Lain Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired". Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired". Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired". - Yasuyuki Ueda
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More like this Did you know- Trivia There are numerous references to Macintosh and Apple Computers: The phrase "To Be Continued", with a colored "Be" is shown at the end of most of the episodes. This is a reference to BeOS, whose logo has similar coloring. The Be company was founded by Jean-Louis Guasse, a former Apple executive. The Navis use an operating system named Copeland, which was the codename for Apple's MacOS 8. Navi's operating system has a graphical user interface (GUI) similar to that of MacOS. Arisu's Navi resembles the original Apple iMac. The series slogan "Close this world. Open the NeXT" is a reference to the NeXT company, founded by Steve Jobs in the late '80s and purchased by Apple Computer in December 1996. All of the Navis shown in the series use one-button mice as Macintosh computers do. The electronic voice heard saying the episode titles is the "Whisper" voice from the MacOS Speech Control Panel, a program that permits text-to-speech. The child's Navi that Lain used to use was modeled after the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. The HandiNAVI, the handheld computers which both Lain and Arisu used was based off the Apple Newton, the first PDA. Navis and Macintoshes are both built by companies named after fruit, Tachibana (a type of orange) and Apple, respectively.
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Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura.
the Lainzine is a free, not-for-profit zine created (largely) by / for fans of the late-90s anime Serial Experiments Lain and the many relevant communities, websites, and dusty art-projects it has inspired over the last decades. topics covered include "digital life", the intersection of art and computers, cyberpunk themes, programming and opsec ...
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Serial Experiments Lain. Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide.
In 2020, the review-aggregation website website Rotten Tomatoes, classified Serial Experiments Lain as one of the 25 anime TV series that have been essential to the medium over the last five decades.
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Serial Experiments Lain: Created by Yasuyuki Ueda. With Kaori Shimizu, Bridget Hoffman, Dan Lorge, Randy McPherson. Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
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