From nreyes@cmu.edu Mon Feb 14 22:41:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!nreyes From: nreyes@cmu.edu (Natalia Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Feb14.224107.4105@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 22:41:07 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Natalia Reyes "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Sun SparcStation 20 / System 7.5.1 From mlee@netcom.com Wed Feb 16 05:04:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!mlee From: mlee@netcom.com (Mikhail Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Feb16.050407.6288@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 05:04:07 GMT References: <1994Feb14.224107.4105@cmu.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb14.224107.4105@cmu.edu>, nreyes@cmu.edu (Natalia Reyes) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? > Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Mikhail Lee Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------