Tagged: sciencefiction

Now Ralph's looked at crowd funding projects before, whether for bands producing a new album or for an Indie film trying to raise production funds but Simon Horrocks the director of Third Contact has already made the film, his Kickstarter project is to get his Indie film onto the biggest cinema screen in Britain the BFI IMAX in London! [...]

Sometimes in the most unexpected places you find a real gem. At Naherholung Sternchen, an art space tucked away amongst the high-rises in the heart of Berlin, NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION came across CONQUERING ANIMAL SOUND. Comprised of Anneke Kampman and James Scott hailing from Glasgow Scotland, the duo performed a three-song set for The post Interview: Conquering Animal Sound - "The Organic Process is Through the Inorganic" appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

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Space is the place. The post 10 Essential Sci-Fi Albums appeared first on Treble: Music news, reviews, interviews and more .

The day is so beautiful that Gracie just came inside for her morning nap. It's quite late as the cats are already well into theirs. Fern, of course, grabbed all the morning sunlight streaming through the front door so Maddie is on the afghan. Gracie hit the couch. Last night around 11:30 I noticed the back sensor lights were on. They were keyed to Gracie when she was younger and around 25-30 pounds so a possum or skunk wouldn't trigger them. I was curious to know if something was in the yard so I went out to check. [...]

Oblivion is this year’s first “summer blockbuster", a term coined for Jaws back in 1975 that gets attached to any commercially successful tentpole action-adventure film released by a major studio between the months of April and August.  Oblivion fits nicely into the blockbuster mold; it features action, romance, a great soundtrack and a PG-13 rating. [...] The post Film Review: Oblivion appeared first on Spinning Platters .

'Doctor Who': This Week's Cover | PopWatch | EW.com . Filed under: TV Tagged: Doctor Who , science fiction

Reblogged from Tor/Forge's Blog: Written by Cory Doctorow On January 11, a young hacker, hacktivist and entrepreneur named Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was 26, and I had known him since he was 14. He was facing 50 years in prison. His crime was to walk into an unsecured computer closet at MIT, near the Harvard campus where he had a fellowship, and plug a laptop into the campus network, with which he proceeded to download a large [...]

Entertainment Weekly’s website has launched CapeTown, a new site dedicated to Hollywood and "Comic-Con culture" - a place for all things superhero, sci-fi, fantasy and horror on film, TV, gaming, comic and novel platforms. Geoff Boucher, who joined EW after twenty years at the LA Times, will head CapeTown. This week the site will showcase interviews with Robert Downey Jr. ("Iron Man 33), Brad Pitt ("World War Z") and DC Comics writer Scott Snyder (on the Joker). Also in the works for CapeTown is a film and TV festival in collaboration with the American Cinematheque and [...]

by Tiana Feng Theater-influenced rockers Radius and Helena are going to release 2 LPs in 2013. For now they've teased us with 3 tracks on their Bandcamp/a>. Below you can listen to the slightly weird and eerie Science Fiction . Science Fiction by Radius and Helena

Marshall Franklin Long Photography Nikki Schultz never thought she would see herself fronting a loud, gnarly rock band. The singer-songwriter has never been comfortable with the idea of the spotlight

justinbenzel : “Moray’s presents “The Peekaboo” Personal Wormhole Trans-Dimensional Communicator” Image & Props by: Justin Benzel An image from the 5th dimension series, poking fun at the limited nature of communication technologies like video chatting or text messaging. Into it.

Maybe it's the quiet and the rustling of the leaves outside the open windows of our treehouse living room. (the temperature is surprisingly mild) Maybe it's having spent some time checking out blogs counting down to Halloween. But it's just past midnight on a Saturday night and the hour is perfect for the glow eminating from the television screen to be from some old horror movie or sci-fi flick. On such a night - and at such a time in the night - thirty-years or so ago, the channel would be turned [...]

The Cathedral from styczek on Vimeo . Die Kathedrale (polnisch: Katedra) ist der Titel einer Science-Fiction-Kurzgeschichte von Jacek Dukaj. Wunderbar animiert von Tomasz Bagiński . Der Film gewann den Titel des Best Animated Short auf der Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio.

Sch�ner SF-Kurzfilm im Retro-Style von Théo Guignard, N�é Lecombre und Hugo Moreno. Erinnert von der Story an Prometheus. Weitere Kurzfilme gibt es hier zu sehen. via Doktorsblog

New York graphic designer Daniel Nyari has created a great poster that displays a memorable collection of Famous Robots from film, television, comics and video games. Prints, canvases, bags, hoodies and shirts are all available to purchase from Daniel’s online Society6 store.

The Doctor Who clip I wrote about earlier was taken down, but here is an even longer, better quality version of the same scene from "The Unicorn and the Wasp" - quite possibly the best scene ever in the Doctor Who reboot (though I am sure some would pick a scene with the young Amelia Pond, such as 'fish fingers and custard'): And you can watch the whole episode online through Amazon instant video . [...]

Ganz gro�es Kino in sieben Minuten und 53 Sekunden. Man ist zwar am Ende nicht wirklich schlauer, aber die Gedanken habe auch im Anschluss noch eine Menge Zeit zum kreisen. Grounded von Kevin Margo auf Vimeo . Eine Reise durch Zeit und Raum, ein Astronaut stirbt auf einem fremden Planeten und grundlegende Fragen nach der Wirklichkeit, dem Leben und dem Tod werden aufgeworfen. Gro�artig. Filmemacher Kevin Margo dazu: "Did Grounded inspire you? My dad's life inspired me and his death inspired Grounded". Und da man seit neuesten bei Vimeo Spenden (Tip Jar) kann, w�rde hier [...]

Founder Ben Kaplan delves into themes of technology and the future on an album of hard-charging to hypnotic rhythms and found audio clips.

Two tasty quotes concerning our online life: "have you ever wondered why discussions in chat rooms or instant messaging turn nasty so easily? Or wander off topic? It’s because the behavioural cues we use to trigger socially acceptable responses aren’t there in a non-face-to-face environment. If you can’t see the other primate, your ethical reasoning is impaired because you can’t build a complete mental image of them—a cognitive frame." Rule 34 by Charles Stross We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We have met the Devil of Information Overload [...]

Reblogged from Tor/Forge's Blog: Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross recall the nine year writing process that resulted in The Rapture of the Nerds . Cory Doctorow: Charlie, do you remember what you had in mind when you wrote the opening passage to Jury Service ? Were you explicitly thinking of Ken Macleod’s idea that the Singularity was like a rapturous, transcendant end-time for nerds? Read [...]