Nick Peterson
Personal Information
Description
Nick Peterson is a British artist who launched his space persona of Virtual Alien "V.A." and Old Nick at the age of 14 in the late eighties. He has released 24 albums and film soundtracks (Old Nick, War of Love, King of the World, LouDMouth, Red by..., Speed of Light, Remove Your Face) and many books, mainly screenplays to his films (Closer to the Sun, T: Ghosts in the Machine). After returning to further education in the nineties he achieved a BA in English Literature and Drama and an MA in Interactive Multimedia in 2000 at the University of the Arts, London. He ventured into the noble Art of directing interactive feature films and documentaries from 2001.
Books
Closer to the Sun
Four investigators are assembled by an insurance company in New York to examine a claim for accidental death of six oil workers on an oil platform, off the cost of Nigeria. The team has 24 hours to investigate the claim. It slowly transpires that it wasnʹt accidental death but that the oil workers have been taken hostage by local terrorists, a common occurrence that often goes without victims and in this case six men had died. How to approve the claim when there are so many overwhelming evidences against it? The trouble is for a reputable international insurance company dismissing such a claim would place them at odds with the real problems in the country, place them on the spot as an unlikely human right witness and will compromise a whole system with ramifications to powerful Western governments and multinational companies. They have accidentally walked into highly dangerous grounds...
La Guerre des Planètes
Une histoire de science-fiction sur un monde se déroulant dans le futur où la planète Terre a été envahie par des papillons de nuit géants.
Virtual Alien
Screenplay from the interview-documentary feature about the work and life of the artist Virtual Alien. Best of, rough cuts, outtakes, bloopers, screeners and trailers 1997-2007. A fictional story about the tribulations of a virtual artist who is trying to survive in show-business and slowly discovers all the machinery that keeps him alive.
The Y2K File
The Ultimate guide to survive inside the internet and beyond, the Y2K File is the story of the Y2K diary. Launched in 1999 at the turn of the new millennium it has witnessed all the events of the Y2K years until today; from the conspiracy theories to the ‘who’s who’ and ‘what’s what’ of the players, winners and losers weaving the web. Since its inception the diary has often been described as a compendium of gobbledygook. Indeed what cannot be found on Google can generally be found on the ultimate encyclopaedia of gibberish, the Y2K diary.
Beyond the Sphere of Reasonable Doubt (part 1)
" To some the world is merely an optical illusion created by aliens and extra-terrestrial forces and the world is all part of a virtual game." The diary started on the first of January 2000 as the Y2KDiary.com. The name was later changed to DiaryUnlimited in 2001 and has grown under that name ever since. The diary has been written by one man or alien: V.A. Virtual Alien with contributions from various users, sometimes from big corporations and governments' representatives responding to a recent comment, request or criticism. The diary exists online in images, games and video format. The diary has been conceived Tom Norwood and V.A. (Nick Peterson/Virtual Alien). It all started in London and progressively moved in the U.S. and the language -spelling- reflects this half way through the diary. The date however remained within a British format. The diary started on 01.01.01 (first of January 2001) and remained so until 31.12.09 (31st of December 2009) and beyond. The 00 years are perhaps the scariest decade in human history that saw 9/11, the war on terror, web commerce, MP3/MP4, WW3, The Banking collapse, the biggest corporate frauds in history, the Eurozone, organized religions, gay weddings, Data Protection and ID thefts, electronic viruses, spam, The pollution in London, binge drinking, BSE mad cow disease, Foot and Mouth, life on credit, recycling, the Polish invasion, HD, the Hygiene problem, Lady Gaga, human trafficking, living in New York and L.A., the constant abuse of children, the army of homeless, the first black president in the history of the Western world, the eighties revival with the seventies and nineties hang-over, Facebook, the obesity pandemic, Money Laundering (a guide to), How to Kill someone from a distance, Crime and Punishment (our lawless society). The diary has often been dubbed the diaries of Virtual Alien or the devil as no one can escape the acerbic and vitriolic language often used throughout this decade. V.A. Virtual Alien commenced his journey into outer space at the age of 14 in the late eighties with a brief music career often dubbed -a virtual one- and morphed into the world of interactive films and documentaries in the 00 years and this journey can be traced throughout this diary. The diary of the aughties/noughties/Y2K/00 years. It is also the diary of a Virtual Alien who discovers what the world really is and who really rules the world..
Writing on the Wall
Advenures Beyond the Hemisphere
" To some the world is merely an optical illusion created by aliens and extra-terrestrial forces and the world is all part of a virtual game." The diary started on the first of January 2000 as the Y2KDiary.com. The name was later changed to DiaryUnlimited in 2001 and has grown under that name ever since. The diary has been written by one man or alien: V.A. Virtual Alien with contributions from various users, sometimes from big corporations and governments' representatives responding to a recent comment, request or criticism. The diary exists online in images, games and video format. The diary has been conceived Tom Norwood and V.A. (Nick Peterson/Virtual Alien). It all started in London and progressively moved in the U.S. and the language -spelling- reflects this half way through the diary. The date however remained within a British format. The diary started on 01.01.01 (first of January 2001) and remained so until 31.12.09 (31st of December 2009) and beyond. The 00 years are perhaps the scariest decade in human history that saw 9/11, the war on terror, web commerce, MP3/MP4, WW3, The Banking collapse, the biggest corporate frauds in history, the Eurozone, organized religions, gay weddings, Data Protection and ID thefts, electronic viruses, spam, The pollution in London, binge drinking, BSE mad cow disease, Foot and Mouth, life on credit, recycling, the Polish invasion, HD, the Hygiene problem, Lady Gaga, human trafficking, living in New York and L.A., the constant abuse of children, the army of homeless, the first black president in the history of the Western world, the eighties revival with the seventies and nineties hang-over, Facebook, the obesity pandemic, Money Laundering (a guide to), How to Kill someone from a distance, Crime and Punishment (our lawless society). The diary has often been dubbed the diaries of Virtual Alien or the devil as no one can escape the acerbic and vitriolic language often used throughout this decade. V.A. Virtual Alien commenced his journey into outer space at the age of 14 in the late eighties with a brief music career often dubbed -a virtual one- and morphed into the world of interactive films and documentaries in the 00 years and this journey can be traced throughout this diary. The diary of the aughties/noughties/Y2K/00 years. It is also the diary of a Virtual Alien who discovers what the world really is and who really rules the world..
Communication
Human Lib
The life and consequences of being "In deep space" or "underwater": life on drugs, smoking and alcohol ravaging the UK population with a presentation of various drugs, sexual addictions and smoking introducing each chapter.
The Original Edge Magazine
The Edge was born in 1987 in Islington and in 1990 with a European Community and Islington grant as they were extremely keen in promoting the image of Islington as the "Real London". The Edge had then a circulation of 25 000 ex. The Edge used a special imported Kraft paper from France made out from 100% recycled textile with green and red ink. Whilst the magazine was not a commercial success the format changed to a normal white but recycled paper, with an A3 size foldedposter format with yellow pages of small ads inside. For three years 45 000 copies were mainly exported to the U.S. and the rest of the world whilst only a handful of selling points survived in Britain. During that intervening time The Edge collected a mine full of images, photography, artwork, graphics, stories, cartoons from various writers and artists and over 300 interviews (most saved on tape). By 1995, The Edge magazine was selling but wasn't commercially viable so it was time to pull the plug. A series of periodicals came after that published by The Edge Press; it showcased short novels and Art collections. The periodicals were published until 1999. Instead of a compendium or a ‘best of’ the magazine we decided to publish a series of scans, some rough some bare of the content, of some of the covers to bring an insight into how the magazine was printed and received, how it looked like and the random display of the scans demonstrates the chaos the Edge magazine was under. They were no defining rules and perhaps the only ones set out from the start have been broken after the 10th issue: we stopped using the special Kraft paper, the green and red ink and became more 'traditional'. But actually the content was anything but. 'As long as it was Art it didn't matter what it was'. We've only managed to hold on for as long as we did merely because we had generous sponsors and advertisers and a great and faithful American readership. Enter Tower record(s), which was one of the first U.S. retailers to contact us and successfully distributed the magazine. The book contains a full list of the publication dates, code numbers, staff and contributors from 1987-1999.
TT
The whole story is set inside a train carriage. Due to an engine failure the journey is dragging on without knowing when it will end. The only information received is from the "camp" voice of the main train driver blasting away throughout the train at regular intervals. The passengers are forced to endure this, pushing them to the limits; into some deep agonizing fits and often deeply traumatic moments.
Beyond the Sphere of Reasonable Doubt (part 2)
" To some the world is merely an optical illusion created by aliens and extra-terrestrial forces and the world is all part of a virtual game." The diary started on the first of January 2000 as the Y2KDiary.com. The name was later changed to DiaryUnlimited in 2001 and has grown under that name ever since. The diary has been written by one man or alien: V.A. Virtual Alien with contributions from various users, sometimes from big corporations and governments' representatives responding to a recent comment, request or criticism. The diary exists online in images, games and video format. The diary has been conceived Tom Norwood and V.A. (Nick Peterson/Virtual Alien). It all started in London and progressively moved in the U.S. and the language -spelling- reflects this half way through the diary. The date however remained within a British format. The diary started on 01.01.01 (first of January 2001) and remained so until 31.12.09 (31st of December 2009) and beyond. The 00 years are perhaps the scariest decade in human history that saw 9/11, the war on terror, web commerce, MP3/MP4, WW3, The Banking collapse, the biggest corporate frauds in history, the Eurozone, organized religions, gay weddings, Data Protection and ID thefts, electronic viruses, spam, The pollution in London, binge drinking, BSE mad cow disease, Foot and Mouth, life on credit, recycling, the Polish invasion, HD, the Hygiene problem, Lady Gaga, human trafficking, living in New York and L.A., the constant abuse of children, the army of homeless, the first black president in the history of the Western world, the eighties revival with the seventies and nineties hang-over, Facebook, the obesity pandemic, Money Laundering (a guide to), How to Kill someone from a distance, Crime and Punishment (our lawless society). The diary has often been dubbed the diaries of Virtual Alien or the devil as no one can escape the acerbic and vitriolic language often used throughout this decade. V.A. Virtual Alien commenced his journey into outer space at the age of 14 in the late eighties with a brief music career often dubbed -a virtual one- and morphed into the world of interactive films and documentaries in the 00 years and this journey can be traced throughout this diary. The diary of the aughties/noughties/Y2K/00 years. It is also the diary of a Virtual Alien who discovers what the world really is and who really rules the world.
With a Mouse (to your mouth)
Two friends are spending a week, day/night crossing London inside a black cab and reading a science fiction book. In the story their imagination is so powerful that they are able to become the characters from the book and re-create new and better realities around them in 3D and in blue. The book is the story of X. X is a little germ entering someone's mouth. X's vision is somewhat blurred. Its vision is in 'distorted 3D'. The mouth is the ultimate frontier between the inside of a creature and the rest of the universe. It is the border control. There is a long process before reaching the heart of the body. X aims to re-produce itself into the heart of the body just like a little mouse. When inside the body, X the germ can see, feel and breathe exactly what the creature's body sees, feels and breathes. It's often thrown out randomly. To be a germ is the ultimate fulfillment like multiple orgasms. A germ can dictate and control a whole body and there is very little anyone can do.
The Y2K File. Volume 2.
The Ultimate guide to survive inside the internet and beyond, the Y2K File is the story of the Y2K diary. Launched in 1999 at the turn of the new millennium it has witnessed all the events of the Y2K years until today; from the conspiracy theories to the ‘who’s who’ and ‘what’s what’ of the players, winners and losers weaving the web. Since its inception the diary has often been described as a compendium of gobbledygook. Indeed what cannot be found on Google can generally be found on the ultimate encyclopaedia of gibberish, the Y2K diary.
T
Two men from very different backgrounds meet and discover that they are both guided by invisible ghosts and they are in fact two machines compel to live a life haunted by an incurable condition. During the inauguration of the tallest building in town, one man is holding the President of the United States at gun point and together they will disappear for 60 minutes out of the eyes of the world where they will confront the ghosts in the machine.
Y
Publisher's description: Renowned scientist and author Steve Jones reveals the mysteries of maleness and arrives at a startling conclusion: men are actually the second sex. Beginning with what men consider the "prince of chromosomes" -- Y -- Jones delves into the latest research on what makes a man. He explores hormones, hair loss, and the hydraulics of erections. We learn that estrogen, the so-called female hormone, is critical in male puberty and intercourse, yet men who take additional doses of the "male" hormone, testosterone, risk medical problems. And the notion that bald men have extra testosterone is a myth. Building on such findings, Jones corrals the new wealth of research on the science of men to show how males are "wilting away"--their true destiny. Women are living ever longer than men, who are less successful at fighting off diseases. What's more, the latest information about sperm counts and chemical pollution indicates that males are being feminized. (Even a week's indulgence in licorice leads to lower sperm production.) And factors such as violence and education play a role. According to Jones, men may have to accept that the twenty-first century might be the "age of women." This book will captivate every man--and woman.
Devil's Life
Screenplay from the feature film. 4 avengers of the apocalypse are trying to save the world paralyzed by a mysterious virus. A computer game brought to the screen. An evaluation of life in the universe with augmented reality. The game is played by the viewer being the player and is triggering the four "As", the four avengers of the Apocalypse and lost reality. A voice based in the air is guiding the game: everything defining the rules and what is and nothing is what it seems. The presentation on screen is the train of thought from the four avengers. The entire film is driven by speed: the speed of life in the universe, on planet Earth and inside the story that we are living in. The journey speeds throughout the landscapes whilst at the same time we are made aware that we live in another universe, a parallel universe and the planets are rotating around throughout the story and within the same frame. The four avengers also rotate around at the same time and within the same frame. The story is further guided by a narrator believed to be an unknown force living somewhere on planet Jupiter. The four avengers are constantly seen throughout the story by rotating in and around this universe performing their duties in portraying evil by either signing or shooting indiscriminately at the world with a rifle. The four avengers are also having various conversations on what evil means or is or defined as evil and how evil one can get. An experiment with time and space. The Earth is run by evil and only four people can save the world: the four avengers of the apocalypse. They will attempt to demonstrate how reality is really like. It's impossible to comprehend the notion of time and space unless we accept that time no longer exists. At the same moment, same instant and same location, an infinite number of events interlace each other. This is reality and this reality so described can only be understood by replaying the same instant backwards and forward only to discover what lies hidden. We live in a world of complete insanity and horror without understanding why. We live our lives all at the same time, wherever we are in the world, in space and in the far end of the universe. It is all intertwined. It all moves at the speed of light but to make sense of it all, we need to slow it down and replay. Created in 2018 and filmed in 2018 mentioning the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Way You Make Me Feel
From the documentary feature, interviews with Lord Dennis Stevenson and Malcolm Carruthers. A portrait of two powerful figures in Britain with their life story presenting controversial and contemporary issues: mental health, cosmetic surgery and the use of testosterone. A portrait and interview of Lord Stevenson who back in 2008 at the onset of the world financial crisis was chairman of HBOS, the banking corporation in the UK. Lord Dennis Stevenson who was until 2016 an advisor to the British government on the subject of mental health. An interview with a world leader in cosmetic surgery who was an advisor to the British government, advising the use of testosterone to strengthen the body and in the immune system and live longer.
