February 2012
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Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world →
A TEDTalk from the future as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scott
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Beyond the Black Rainbow
Panos Cosmatos ‘ new film, Beyond The Black Rainbow, feels like the best possible conglomeration of 2001, Electroma, and A Clockwork Orange.
Beyond the Black Rainbow will have a US release by Magnet Releasing later this year.
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WatchOur friend Bennett Schatz (full disclosure, Sam’s roommate) explores connections between human, machine, intent, and action, with a box, emitting a strange light, that uses him as a tool to create art. TENS wires cause him to involuntarily flex his hand and manipulate sculpting clay. The created and the creator play off of each other, as the resulting sculpture takes shape with no...
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“I write novels to find questions, not because I know the answers…the only...”
– William Gibson, speaking at Powell’s City of Books Jan 18th 2012 http://sararyan.com/2012/02/william-gibson-at-powells-january-18/
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January 2012
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H.A.L. 9000 Screensaver and Desktop Theme
I would say that you can’t call yourself a science fiction fan if you don’t enjoy every aspect of the immortal H.A.L. 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). From his apathetic monotone voice, to the multicolored systems monitors, to the ominous red eye - the presence of H.A.L. is the metaphorical rug that brings 2001’s story and set deign together. Now,...
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“It’s safe to say that the Internet is slightly interested in checking out Ridley...”
– http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-prometheus-teaser-ridley-scotts-alien-movie-th,66982/
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WatchNASA is a short film written, directed and produced by upcoming filmmaker Carlos Florez. Spectacular use of Mocha After Effects rotoscoping and tracking, and the imagery is fantastic.
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Expand Your (Star Wars) Universe →
As young fanatics many Star Wars enthusiasts are eager to learn as much as they can about the environment of one of the most painstakingly-, and lovingly-, developed fantasy worlds ever created. My bookshelf still has an entire section dedicated to books that outline the background of the franchise: the ships, weapons, locales, and people of the “expanded universe” that encompasses...
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Pop Sci: German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space... →
Many of us have read enough Orwell and enough cyberpunk to know that control over information and our thoughts is an important modern issue. Apparently a hacker group in Germany is being a bit more pragmatic with their solution.
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"After Life" by Simon Frank →
To this day, taking on the role of our modern day philosophical texts, literature in science fiction asks: just what comprises human consciousness? More specifically, what happens to our human minds once you extract us from our human bodies?
Simon Frank gives a set of hypothetical answers to this question in “After Life,” a mind-bending story of the first human to digitize...
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Last Look at Shuttle Atlantis
With the space shuttle Atlantis now out of commission, CollectSpace offered us a last look into the detailed engineering that went into the shuttle before it was taken apart.
More fantastic images can be found here.
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"Sinking in the Datatank" Playlist, Mixed by Kuedo
It is a rainy, dreary day in New York. Many people have music set aside for offsetting the melancholy that comes from days like this. I for one tend to embrace it, and have a playlist that matches the tone. One such artist, Berlin-based electronic musician Kuedo, is heavily influenced by the tone of dystopian science fiction, especially one of my favorites, Blade Runner (1984). Checking up on my...
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Project: Foster
Project: Foster is a sci-fi story concept about a small group of explorers’ discovery of an alien planet’s collective-consiousness known as the Foster. Still in its early stages of development, the creator, Ian Mayhew, is asking for help from all fields to contribute to his story. As the plot starts to clarify, he will begin to create artwork to accompany the developing story,...
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Altered Wallpaper Zones
Altered Zones was a Pitchfork-curated blog that has some sweet backgrounds for getting your computer desktop background all prettied up. They’re extremely high resolution, but that just means you get to pick the part you like best. Strange compounds under a microscope, strange alien landscapes, or a landscape, curving upward, as though it were one of the space stations in Mobile Suit...
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Retronaut: Sci-Fi Convention, Los Angeles, 1980 →
Know your roots.
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Sci-Fi Soundtracks on Spotify
Spotify has yielded a convenient (and legal) trove of hard-to-find music, including film scores and soundtracks. To my surprise, a good collection of science fiction film music is available for listening, either in film soundtrack form or as part of a compilation. Scouring the far reaches of Spotify, I managed to put together a good sampler playlist of some of my favorite classic science fiction...
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The Inspiration for Stasis Chamber
STASIS CHAMBER could not be launched without owing due credit to the inspiration for the blog, the upcoming release of Ridley Scott’s return to the science fiction genre, Prometheus (2012). The film will be released in theaters on June 8th, and this blog will be happy to show its progress as we inch closer to the release.
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Sampled audio from Alien (1979)
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