Unlike several existing visible light communication methods, DisCo works with off-the-shelf image sensors.
(Thus the authors observe that Donna Summer "internalized much of the criticism that she received for her disco work and spent at least part of her subsequent career trying to prove that there was more to her than that").
Jayde Adams challenges people's preconceptions of young, working-class women, focusing on her relationship with her sister, who died of a brain tumour, while spinning a story of competitive disco dancing, working in Asda and body issues in a piece called simply Jayde Adams: 31.
DisCo can work with a broad range of devices.
In the short term, this disco backlash worked.
MIMA, to 6 Aug RC Surely one of the coolest photo-artists around, Stan Douglas presents here his renowned series Midcentury Studio, Malabar People and Disco Angola, works redolent with psychological tension and a brooding high contrast, set against backgrounds of endless black.
Lonnie D (the snappy Lorna Ventura) is ready to leave her man, and she's packing her many, many shoes, arranged in an enchanting arc around the stage: high heels, disco boots, work boots, sandals, sneakers, ruby slippers and especially the title footwear.
LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy's role as co-producer stokes expectations of existential-disco work-outs, but they're mostly answered only by "Reflektor" and "We Exist", where a warm "Black is Black" groove and chilly lyrics chafe: it's froideur on the dance floor.
That night at the Gallery, Nicky Siano, the pioneering disco D.J., was working the turntables, and the drums and drones and chants, the connected grooves of great length must have seemed a sign of some new ultrasophistication from an inviting foreign place.
This never actually happened; instead Black read a lot, hung out in Mexican discos, and worked on the script that became "The Last Boy Scout".
