From msilva@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Mar 21 05:20:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!msilva From: msilva@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Marta Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Mar21.052059.2280@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 05:20:59 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Marta Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From kmuller@kiae.su Tue Mar 22 14:16:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!kmuller From: kmuller@kiae.su (Kirsty Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Mar22.141659.3127@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 14:16:59 GMT References: <1994Mar21.052059.2280@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar21.052059.2280@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, msilva@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Marta Silva) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? She outgrew the cage they built for her. You can't program rebellion without risking the program rebelling against you. -- Kirsty Müller -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."