Coilhouse responds to Herr Ellis’s comments on the death of Alt Culture: Why Doesn’t Alt Culture Exist? …We live an era that promises us a free flow of information, an era that, if you look just a little deeper, constantly exposes the ways in which facts can be covered up, in which history can be […]
Read more "Why Doesn’t Alt Culture Exist?"from (NSFW) SuicideGirls The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis … One of the few people in music who seem to me to be really leaning into the future right now is Burial, the reclusive lofi dubstep wizard whose work conjures fantastic images of a drowned London and haunted electronics. He’s doing his bit to save […]
Read more "..The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis (SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2007).."from Rudys Blog On Mundane SF … I dont think SF is necessarily about predicting possible futures. Ive always felt that SF is more like surrealism. The idea is to shock people into awareness. Show them how odd the world is. Whether or not you draw on realistic tropes is irrelevant. … Let it be […]
Read more "Rudy Rucker weighs in on Mundane SF"I watched the pilot of Journeyman a while ago. (Short version – it’s an update on Quantum Leap). It’s one of the few new show’s not being “directly streamed from the US” here. And probably for good reason – sadly Kevin McKidd ain’t kicking ass like he was in Rome. However, there’s one scene I […]
Read more "Journeyman shows hands-free phones through time"from Mundane-SF: “Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning!” by Geoff Ryman … Being a Mundane boils down to avoiding old tropes and sticking more closely to what science calls facts. We believe that for most of us, the future is here on Earth. … I dont believe in starships. At […]
Read more "selections from Geoff Ryman's speech on Mundane SF"from Mundane-SF: “Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning!” by Geoff Ryman … Being a Mundane boils down to avoiding old tropes and sticking more closely to what science calls facts. We believe that for most of us, the future is here on Earth. … I dont believe in starships. At […]
Read more "selections from Geoff Ryman’s speech on Mundane SF"Cory linked to Henry Jenkin’s articles on retro-futurism on one of the BoingBoing posts about (yes) steampunk. Here’s a (long) selection of quotes that I found interesting. ((Note: there’s a printer icon at the bottom of this, this post may be better read offline)) From “The Tomorrow That Never Was”: Retrofuturism in the Comics of […]
Read more "Henry Jenkins on retro-futurism"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 Paleo-Future Vision (Clip 2, 1993) This clip from the 1993 concept video Vision demonstrates why the videophone has never caught on. There is nothing communicated between the characters that necessitates visuals. If the best application of videophone technology you can think of is proving that helicopters exist, there probably isn’t a pressing need for […]
Read more "videophone didn't kill anything?"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, […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 