The Changing Icon.






Or maybe we are more connected and see his effect on other people's lives.

Float on a river forever and ever.

I'm told that it's next to impossible to erase anything off the web permanently, so the answer is, considering his immense presence in cyberspace (as well as our headspace), Mr. Bowie is probably ineradicable.

It was definitely murder - but was it art?

Sorry to ask, but what is this orange croc doing in a thread about DB and his virtual immortality?

I dunno about the croc except it was the same color as The Gentleman's hair during his Man Who Fell to Earth-Low period

That also occurred to me, but so did this...



It was definitely murder - but was it art?

Never mind Bowie, it won't be that long before we are all immortal once we have all integrated ourselves totally into the Saviour Machine.

Our bodies will be dead but our thoughts and minds will forever live on

God help us though if the Saviour Internet Machine were to ever permanently crash with no recoverable back up.

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Yes probably.

No.

rgds

billb

The internet gives a medium via which us fanatics / obsessives / anoraks can interact. So Bowie's work can be meticulously discussed and picked over at previously impossible levels. Back in the eighties, where would you have gone if you wanted to discuss the merits of Eno's oblique strategies on the Berlin trilogy?

Bowie's immortality or presence over modern culture isn't thanks to the internet, if anything it's been detrimental to the quality of his output. When Bowie went online his work went downhill: he got a fan to write lyrics for the relatively lame Hours, he re-recorded his 60's songs, he planned a Ziggy 2002 project. It was when he got off the net and into a remote studio built in to the side of a mountain that he found his voice again.

Bowie's 'immortality' is down to the music he's created which has influenced subsequent artists. The year long NME poll of contemporary bands from '99-'00 which found Bowie to be the most influential artist of all time is evidence of this.