Are sci-fi fans sick and tired of computer-generated effects? Judging from micro-investor response to a fundraiser trailer for C: 299792 Kilometers Per Second, there seems to be plenty of hunger for seeing old-school miniature spaceships soaring through black space.
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Jan 6, 2012
C: 299792 Kilometers Per Second Uses Miniatures for Vintage Sci-Fi Feel
Are sci-fi fans sick and tired of computer-generated effects? Judging from micro-investor response to a fundraiser trailer for C: 299792 Kilometers Per Second, there seems to be plenty of hunger for seeing old-school miniature spaceships soaring through black space.
Jan 5, 2012
Batman in the Style of Dr. Seuss
Australian illustrator DrFaustusAU created this wonderful series of Dr. Seuss-inspired Batman illustrations. We previously wrote about DrFaustusAU’s Dr. Seuss-inspired rendition of The Call of Cthulhu, which he is planning on developing into a book.
witness the fall.......
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This review is from: Gideon's Fall: When You Don’t Have a Prayer, Only a Miracle Will Do (Hardcover)
I was given this by a friend and was a little wary. I shouldn't have been. It was a great read. I could barely catch my breath from the opening page to the last word. A must read for the post cyberpunk crowd. All the snakehandlers meet next weekend to pick anyone for pres that doesn't wear magic underpants..
Anyone But Romney
A group of movement conservatives has called an emergency meeting in Texas next weekend to find a "consensus" Republican presidential hopeful, Politico reports.The group is "concerned that a vote split between Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum among base voters could enable Mitt Romney to grab the GOP nomination. A source who shared the invitation said the meeting was about how to avoid such a possibility."
now for something completely different....
Video: ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ Literal Version Meets Doctor Who
Just when it seemed every form of Doctor Who fandom had been explored and every type of literal music video had been made, the two came together and birthed “Literal Eclipse of the Heart.”
Jan 4, 2012
Dexter Blood Splattered Beverage Coasters
Fans of Showtime’s television crime drama about a serial-killing forensics expert, Dexter, will certainly appreciate the officially licensed Dexter Blood Splattered Coasters available at ThinkGeek. Made of see-through acrylic, this set of six beverage coasters housed in a wooden box will add a dose of dark humor to any home.
Let visitors to your house know that splatters of any kind are unacceptable. You will not turn the other cheek, you will slice it! What civilized person puts a cup glistening with condensation on a bare wooden table? That’s why we have this set of blood-spattered Dexter coasters. (To put cups on, not to slice people with.) Can you imagine slicing someone open with a dull-edged coaster? That would take a great deal of effort.
really? way to fight the sterotypes.......
Poisoned Cat Kills China Tycoon
Sometimes it’s better to stick to the chicken. Chinese police suspect that a billionaire logging tycoon was murdered when his lunch companion slipped a toxic herb into his slow-boiled cat-meat stew. Long Liyuan, 49, owned a forestry company and was meeting with Hunag Guang about leasing a piece of woodland. (BBC reports that there was also an embezzlement dispute between the two men.) After lunch, according to the Chinese police report, Long felt dizzy and sick, though a third man, who had eaten only a small portion of the stew because it tasted “bitter,” was fine. Long went into cardiac arrest and died the same day.
New Design Gives ’ATV’ a Whole New Meaning
(Image via Car Body Design)
The Daily Mail reports that the Volkswagen Aqua car is designed to run on “tarmac, sand, ice… and even water:”
It features a shiny, sleek design with four fans and integrated airbags that inflate to make it hover.
And it’s also environmentally-friendly as its two motors are powered by a hydrogen fuel cell — with zero carbon emissions.
One of the motors inflates a “skirt” around the vehicle to lift it off the ground, while the other drives it forward and controls direction.
UPDATE: Romney Wins Iowa Caucuses By 8 Votes Over Santorum; Paul Finishes Third
it just keeps getting better.......
yikes......
Super Realistic Steve Jobs Action Figure
By on January 3, 2012
This highly detailed Steve Jobs action figure is by toy company in icons. It features interchangeable hands so that Steve can hold a 1/6th scale iPhone (not included) or clasp his chin thoughtfully. The action figure is not authorized by the Jobs camp so it is unlikely to survive the imminent legal barrage (and the site is currently down due, presumably, to overwhelming traffic). The figure is scheduled for release in February
finally....A Poster-Sized Bubble Wrap Calendar That You Can Pop Each Day
The 2012 Bubble Calendar is a fabulous 4-foot tall poster-sized bubble wrap calendar that you pop as the days go by. First designed in 2008 by Brooklyn-based experience designer Stephen Turbek, the 2012 version of the calendar comes in several languages and major holidays and weekends are bolded for “easier reference”.
“Everyone is looking for an excuse to pop more bubbles. This calendar gives it a useful purpose: marking time in style. ” says Stephen Turbek, designer of the Bubble Calendar, explaining the inspiration behind the design. “Kids love learning about the calendar while popping the bubbles.”
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Jan 3, 2012
Read it....
Distrust That Particular Flavor: William Gibson's long-overdue essay collection
The remarkable thing about Distrust That Particular Flavor,
William Gibson's debut essay collection, is that it was so long in
coming, collecting two-and-a-half decades' worth of nonfiction, opinion,
travelogue, memoir, media theory, speeches, criticism, and miscellania.
Because although Gibson disclaims any title to being an essayist -- he
says in his introduction that writing nonfiction always felt like
cheating on his fiction work -- he's awfully good at. Even when the
pieces are slight -- as a few of these are -- they are always
delightful, exquisitely written, done to a turn with both insight and
that unmistakable prose that is just shy of spectacular (Gibson once
told me that he is averse to spectacular prose, it strikes him as
premeditated and ostentatious).
There are many different threads in this book, but they converge on a few themes: one is Gibson's relationship to the Internet. He is, after all, the infamous creator of the term "cyberspace" who even more infamously refused to use email (he preferred faxes) until well into the net era, a man who is (falsely) reputed to use a manual typewriter in preference to computers. Another is Gibson's relation to technology, design, aesthetics and culture, from the underground rock scene he found himself in as a slacker in his early twenties to the gaudy pulp science fiction paperbacks he reared himself on to the ancient military firearm he found in his parents' attic as a boy. These threads converge in a pair of essays on Japan -- a place of futuristic aesthetics, forward design, and odd history -- an essay on Gibson's early obsession with eBay and the vintage watches to be had there, and in a transcript of a speech on robots, cyborgs and digital brains that is a moving piece of memoir shot through with prediction and technological insight.
By many standards, Gibson is a slow writer -- his book publishing career is 27 years old, and consists of nine and a half novels, a book of short stories and this collection of essays -- but he is a very, very fine one. His work has been seminal to many key moments at the end of the last century and the start of this one, and it is a rare pleasure to read his direct reflections on society and his work, rather than inferring them from his fiction. This is a fine and even essential complement to the Gibson canon, and a delight to read.
sweet
Three Cubes Colliding, A Beautiful Cube-Shaped Kite Sculpture
By on January 2, 2012
“Three Cubes Colliding” is a beautiful cube-shaped sculpture and functioning kite, made from carbon fiber spars, Cuben Fiber fabric, and 1,700 3D printed connectors (video by jimandtonic). The kite is by Heather and Ivan Morison, in collaboration with Sash Reading and Queen and Crawford, all from the UK
this makes me very nervous....
The Obliteration Room, Kids Cover All White Room in Polka Dots
By on January 2, 2012
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama created obliteration room, an art work where she gathered used furniture, recreated a typical Australian home all in white and then allowed children to sticker it in colorful polka dots. The obliteration room is part of her current exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever at the Gallery of Modern Art in Queensland, Australia. The show opened November 19, 2011 and runs through March 1
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