From fsantos@illinois.edu Sat Oct 26 04:30:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!fsantos From: fsantos@illinois.edu (Fiona Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Oct26.043042.5164@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 04:30:42 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Fiona Santos Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From pwatanabe@earthlink.net Sun Oct 27 17:58:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!pwatanabe From: pwatanabe@earthlink.net (Pavel Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Oct27.175842.5071@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 17:58:42 GMT References: <1996Oct26.043042.5164@illinois.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct26.043042.5164@illinois.edu>, fsantos@illinois.edu (Fiona Santos) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Pavel Watanabe "Marcus is not one man." Sun SparcStation 20 / TOS 4.04