From dtakahashi@utexas.edu Tue Apr 05 23:16:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!dtakahashi From: dtakahashi@utexas.edu (Dave Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Apr05.231625.2158@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 23:16:25 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- === Dave Takahashi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From kpark@unam.mx Thu Apr 07 10:13:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!unam!kpark From: kpark@unam.mx (Kenji Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Apr07.101325.8059@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 10:13:25 GMT References: <1994Apr05.231625.2158@utexas.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr05.231625.2158@utexas.edu>, dtakahashi@utexas.edu (Dave Takahashi) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Kenji Park SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."