the Tupac hologram

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lm9nq4ay1roxf0bo1_500.jpg

Another Star Wars 'shop, but better imo.

Tupac Hologram and the I Ching

"Tupac Hologram" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.[81] According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT.[81]
McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as "Tupac Hologram" or the "Tupogram". Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[52] the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of November 2012. When he later discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched.[82]

i cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see 'terence mckenna' and 'tupac hologram' in the same post

it's pretty badass that the song they had him do was "hail mary" imo

http://vimeo.com/40316092

yeah otm some dude - it was in my head all day after I watched this, such an awesome groove but a pretty left-field choice for the big reveal

"WADDUP TAMPA G O P!" - Ronald Reagan hologram, 2012

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwauq6YLJn1qcccz1o1_400.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/zybwo8.jpg

John Lennon would be the obvious next choice, right?

they should do the guy from blind melon

MJ

Steve Jobs at 2015 Mac Expo

steve jobs & dimebag darrell

Mick Mars

plato

The drummer from Def Leppard's other arm.

mohammed

Euronymous

Don passantino

"WADDUP TAMPA G O P!" - Ronald Reagan hologram, 2012

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, April 16, 2012 11:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know what would be even more hilarious, if they did ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"What the fuck is up, national review cruise??"

Breitbart holoheckler.

Apparently it wasn't a real hologram.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/tupac-hologram-merely-pretty-cool-optical-illusion.ars

wait it wasnt a hologram, just a cool optical illusion

the Tupac cool optical illusion

don't feel like dayo's post will make sense on the excelsior thread but fuck I lol'd

The Tupac Projection

Projecting Shakur: How A Dead Man Serenaded the Masses at Coachella

The Tupac Supremacy

how far away are we from a hologram doing a full, nationwide tour?

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 16, 2012 9:44 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

not too far away, apparently

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46182-2pac-hologram-might-be-going-on-tour/

MJ i think is the super obvious pick to do a worldwide hologram tour. he was basically a hologram for the last two decades of his career anyway.

i'd be into seeing something like a live Dre/Snoop tour w/ a few Pac hologram songs as its stage show killer app, but the idea of buying a ticket to see just that is pretty depressing

what kind of whimsical latinate title will the tupac hologram cirque du soleil show have?

THUGLIFE obv

Tupaque

hah

It could always be worse, much worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4AgH3CBBg

MJ i think is the super obvious pick to do a worldwide hologram tour.

The Man In The Mirror

xxxp: I mean, their other shows based on artists are called "Love" (Beatles), "Viva Elvis" (duh) and "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour" (also duh) so I think we're going to be lucky if it isn't called "2PAC: An Urban Poet Gunned Down In The Prime Of His Life By An Unknown Assailant Makes The Perfect Soundtrack For Chinese Contortionists"

Bellagio, 2014: Yo.

the funny thing i think is gonna be now a bunch of profitable past-their-prime artists are probably going to do these elaborate 3d scans of themselves performing now so that after they die we can have a middle-aged Madonna or U2 hologram instead of a youthful '80s version

Rien, Mais une Partie de Gangster

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2m0jbLVGm1qlhvawo1_500.jpg

i find this all disturbing beyond belief but i feel like 15 year old me would be psyched at a world with an idoru tupac

I think doing it as a surprise at Coachella was cool, but having people pay with the expectations of seeing Holo Tupac seems really shitty to me.

sorry, but this is still the best combination of real/animation in the live gig sense :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRLM7NTB7S0

or of course there was this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_gnMOom7kE

there were plans to 'tour' this type of show live, but the costs were massively prohibitive.

such a shame as that could have made the plastic beach shows a lot more more interesting.

hope that I live to see something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8

2012: A holographic Steve Jobs introduces "the new iPhone"
2015: For the tour's 25th anniversary, Madonna stages a holographic Blonde Ambition tour that's 1990 all over again
2017: Peter Hook wins intellectual property rights to the look of Joy Division in 1977. Virtual Joy Division finally complete that US tour.
2019: For its 50th anniversary, Woodstock is holographically recreated and runs continuously. 3 days of peace and music but without the mud!

Also... 2019: There are rumors of a holographic Stones playing a holographic Altamont