Artist’s website, via INSIDE THE FROZEN MAMMOTH.
May 12th, 2009
May 8th, 2009
Weird NASA Video
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May 5th, 2009
Patrick Smith
I have yet to download his new game Windosill, but just from his blog and website I can see that the Dan-Nadel-recommended artist Patrick Smith is a man after my own brain.
Comics, drawings, paintings, animations, and video games – what more could my nerdy heart ask for? Unfortunately his site seems to be down or I’d post some images, but at least check out the Ganzfeld splash page for a nice example of one of his interactions. Ganzfeld #1 contains one of his comics but it’s sold out (probably has been for a while). From his site it doesn’t seem like he produces many comics, although I’m sure that making an independent game is an extremely time-consuming process.
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April 28th, 2009
Enki Bilal’s Immortal
I watched Enki Bilal’s Immortal this past Sunday. After I read Jog’s review [2022-06-26 update: this link to Jog’s review on the Comixology website is now broken], I just had to check it out, so I made my girlfriend and friends sit through it on our sci fi movie nite.
Overall, the movie has too much going on and too many styles mixed up together – as Jog mentions, the mashup of CGI and RL actors is particularly awful. However, at its best, the movie has a frantic melee of crazy sci fi ideas and imagery that transcends to another level where Egyptian gods coexist with hammerhead aliens and a blue-scalped woman is in love with an alien named John who hangs out on a throne floating in outer space.
A snapshot of the main characters, Nikopol, Jill, and Horus, as depicted in the Nikopol Trilogy comic book that is also by Enki Bilal and was adapted for the movie, image via hakanuygun.
The one thing that is portrayed most effectively in the movie is the cityscape of future New York, image via letsfallasleep. The backgrounds are often the most visually consistent and compelling aspects of the scenes.
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April 24th, 2009
April 21st, 2009
RIP JG Ballard
JG Ballard has passed away. A truly visionary author of the apocalyptic.
Here’s an obit, via posthuman blues.
Some book covers.
From rick mcgrath’s ballard site, via feuilleton.
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Myriahedral Map Projections
Apologies for the two weeks absence folks! Unfortunately, work got in the way, but I’ll do my best not to let that happen again. I’ve got a video from next nature to show y’all:
What interests me here is less the ideology behind this project (constructing a map of that doesn’t privilege certain areas) and more the algorithms for translating a three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional plane without losing any data.
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April 18th, 2009
STAPLE! 2009
Belated post of some picx from STAPLE! 2009…
Here’s me and my lady, she sold her wonderful glademade products alongside those of the GCPM.
Here’s summa the stuffz we had for sale.
Here’s me and the boyz (left to right: Dr. Chuch, XyphaP, &myself).
STAPLE! was a real good time, we moved plenty of product and wayyy more ppl showed up than last year, so thanks Austin and Uncle Staple for making it such a success! Look for the GCP and glademade at Zine Fest Houston, coming up May 16th!
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April 3rd, 2009
Map of the Nearby Universe
The most detailed map of the nearby universe yet constructed. Each dot is a galaxy. For some galaxies, the researchers who created this map are trying to separate the velocity of a galaxy due to cosmic expansion from the velocity of a galaxy due to its own “peculiar” movement.
via universe today.
Just as stars in our galaxy orbit around the galactic center, do galaxies themselves orbit around as-yet unnamed centers in the endless uniformity of the universe?
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March 31st, 2009
ISS Update
Click here to see a visual history of the International Space Station, via universe today.
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