IVIV (1) Channel View Estates

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "... some chipboard horror known as Channel View Estates'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 8)
>
>
> Channel View Estates
>
> Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—"If you lived here, you'd be home by
> now"— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At
> Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of
> rampant Tubaholism from Vineland.
>
> The Channel Islands are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.
>
> Channel View is an image manipulation option in Adobe Photoshop,
> whereby a raster graphic is split into its constituent RGB or CMYK
> color values (or channels) to allow for individual, fine adjustments
> to the distribution of any of the graphic's 3 (or 4) basic colors.
> Channels and channel masks are also useful for creating composite
> images and transparency effects in Photoshop.
>
> The name is perhaps intended as a telling contrast with "River View"
> (or "Riverview"), a common name for neighborhoods, real-estate
> developments and towns. Wolfmann's development is a "chipboard horror"
> - basic tract housing for the newly middle-class - and it has no river
> to view, only a drainage channel. "Ditch View Estates" might have been
> more pointed, if less believable.
>
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_8
>
> Cf. ...
>
> Fangoso Lagoons - A housing development, and one of Pierce's
> investments. By chance, a commercial for it appears on the television
> during Metzger's film 'Cashiered' [p19]. 'Fangoso' is a spanish word
> meaning miry, muddy, slushy or sticky.
>
> http://ohuiginn.net/docs/49.html

"'Go through channels'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 8)