Warning: the following rant includes low-level language and minor spoilers for a tres cliched new release action film. k, so the other day I was watching the new film Next. Now, firstly I’m gonna say that this was clearly made by the SFX people, because any scene that wasn’t action was horrible, cliched horrible’ness – […]
Read more "on movies eating video games…"I linked to Gibson’s interview on Trashotron earlier… This is my fave quote – where he talks about living in a SF world. He elaborates on this in his recent interview with the BoingBoing crew. All this of course is in support of his new novel, Spook Country. Which is due to arrive on my […]
Read more "William Gibson – we're living in a 1980's SF novel"from Paleo-Future WALL-E Promo Postcards In what seems to be another example of postmodern paleo-futurist design (repurposing past visions and versions of the future) we have promotional postcards for the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E. Apparently these were given out at Comic-Con 2007. (via The Disney Blog) You can view the teaser trailer for WALL-E here. […]
Read more "..WALL-E Promo Postcards.."from College Crier: … T. Virgil Parker: Your early Sci-Fi commented obliquely on contemporary issues, but it gave you a very unique set of strategies that you’re using to explicate the present. William Gibson: Well, I don’t actually think they’re unique because I acquired them through the course of working in the genre of science-fiction, […]
Read more "..William Gibson: Sci-Fi Icon Becomes Prophet of the Present.."Awesome Utopian vision of the future evolution of the media space.. via — I especially dig the new new media financing space exploration. If only we could harness the power of crapola ‘reality’ TV for such ends.
Read more "..Prometheus the media revolution.."Been devouring the Steampunk magazines – thanks to a heads up from BoingBoing and Warren – a xerox subsidy that saw me getting caught in pre-longweekend traffic. grr. On my first pass through I’ve skipped the plethora of fiction, preferring the articles examining just what is Steampunk. Mostly defined as a sub-genre of Cyberpunk, that […]
Read more "lessons from Steampunk on Cyberpunk"Thanks to Rachel for putting me onto Escape Pod. She mentioned she’d grabbed Impossible Dreams after it was posted on BoingBoing, and that it was decent. I’ve added the podcast in iTunes and have been working my way backwards through their recent stuff. It’s such a great way to sample new (to me) authors with […]
Read more "EscapePod.. aural sf pr0n"BoingBoing’s latest podcast is chuck full of goodness. Download it now, or just listen to it here. The first 10 mins is an ace discussion of predicting the future. At 18 mins in they’re actually talking to their guest, Jane McGonigal about ARGs and what designing games means in 21C. At 29 mins in they’re […]
Read more "BoingBoing podcast#13.."from JoBlo.com Neuromancer comes After more than two decades of influencing countless modern sci-fi stories and concepts in film, TV, videogames, books and comics, an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel NEUROMANCER is finally heading to theaters. Producer Peter Hoffman will essentially make the movie as a $70 million indie. Director Joseph Kahn, whose […]
Read more "…Neuromancer comes…"Don’t you just love the internet? One minute I’m reading about Hollywood burning. Four clicks and three minutes later I’m reading about Mark Twain’s trip through Australia. And that there’s a whole book about his adventures. Leave it to FirstPerson to do a selected reading from it. Here’s a few of them: April 30 May […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 