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  Archive    Once upon a time… .techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)      :iconorestart: orestART (https://www.deviantart.com/orestart)      Frog iPhone 4 Fisheye Twitter Facebook Google+ Once upon a time, a lazy joke used over and over in American movies and TV shows was Japanese tourists taking pictures of everything with their instamatic cameras. Today we are taking pictures of everything using our (usually Japanese) cellphones. When we were laughing at Japanese “quirks” we didn’t realize we were making fun of the cultural architects of our own future. The most amazing thing about our taking pictures with our telephones? It’s that it’s no

Issue No. 6|Archives Octavia Butler the Slayer of Stereotypes… How many times have artists been dismissed or discouraged because of someone else interpreting their audacity as egotism? Octavia Butler started writing science fiction because of the film Devil Girl From Mars. Don’t misunderstand–she wasn’t inspired by the movie, she knew that she could write a better story. Growing up in Pasadena, California, Butler was shy and introverted. She preferred writing stories over socializing. When she was twelve years old she saw Devil Girl From Mars, and began writing science fiction in an effort to do the genre some justi