Check the original post over at Ulrich’s website 3 Ton Gallery. Eric Ulrich is an artist and designer living in San Francisco. (About)
• Aug 11, 2010 link notes tagged: art design space helmet space helmet collection typology technology movie film science fiction science
Metropolis: All New Restauration ― Behin The Scenes
Seldom has the rediscovery of a cache of lost footage ignited widespread curiosity as did the announcement, in July 2008, that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS had been found. (more)
• Jul 28, 2010 link notes tagged: art technology film human machine politic cinema movie film filmmaker Fritz Lang BW woman girl robot social class science fiction science future retro vintage
About Steven Smith;
“Hatched in the distant galaxy, Long Island, Steve used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16. Steve traveled to Central New York where he studied illustration. After receiving his Associates degree from MVCC, Steve departed to the island of Manhattan where he is now being trained under the high council of the School of Visual Arts. Awaiting battle Steve has sharpened his knowledge in the force and can finish the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs, and grows stronger by the day. That’s no moon. That’s Steven Smith.”
• Jun 27, 2010 link notes tagged: art artist illustration baby network wire connexion distopia utopia science science fiction
Think Geek: Monolith Action Figure
• Properly proportioned to those in the movies 2001 and 2010 (1:4:9 - the squares of the first 3 integers).
• Made of semisynthetic, organic, amorphous, solid materials (AKA plastic).
• Zero (0) points of articulation.
• May cause strange magnetic fields, action figure evolution, seeing things filled with stars, and/or more (or it might just sit on your desk doing nothing). (more)
• Apr 30, 2010 link notes tagged: art toy technology communication film movie science fiction humor gadget
“The author shares his enthusiasm for the upcoming release of “Blade Runner” with the production company.”
“Philip K. Dick wrote this letter after seeing his first glimpse of Blade Runner in a television segment. To the best of the family’s knowledge, this letter has never been previously released to the public.”
Philipkdick.com is Philip K. Dick official web site:
“On behalf of Philip K. Dick’s children, welcome to the Official Philip K. Dick website. We endeavor to create a venue for new readers, as well as a valuable resource for the loyal fans who have enjoyed his works for years. It is a work in progress, but one nevertheless that we hope you will find useful, and also truly enjoy.”(more)
• Mar 11, 2010 link notes reblogged from innovationisdead [via] tagged: art technology future futurism science fiction author book Philip K. Dick film movie letter
 | ― I know it’s hard, Miles, but try to think of this experience as a miracle of science. ― A miracle of science is going to the hospital for a minor operation, I come out the next day, my rent isn’t months overdue. That’s a miracle of science. This is what I call a cosmic screwing. And then where am I anyhow? What happened to everybody? Where are all my friends? ― You must understand that everyone you knew in the past has been dead nearly two hundred years. ― BUT THEY ALL ATE ORGANIC RICE! |
Full script available over at Script-O-Rama.
• Feb 25, 2010 link notes tagged: art movie film filmmaker future science fiction food health life death past evolution
| Without question, the most socially and economically significant technological event of the last quarter-century has been the invention of the surrogate. As this paper will show, never before in human history has the consumer been offered a product capable of delivering such a dramatic personal change. The ramifications of the surrogate’s rapid assimilation into everyday living can be witnessed in virtually every facet of culture, particularly in the United States where in the twenty years since their introduction the portion of the adult population that either owns or has operated a surrogate has risen to an astounding 92%. With surrogate technology in a constant state of refinement, there is no evidence to suggest this trend will be reversed. The improvements and transformations enjoyed by the operating public are here to stay, which leaves us with the question: What, if anything, remains to be overcome? |
” “Paradise found…” is a fictional paper appearing in the first volume of the comic book series The Surogates, created and written by Robert Venditti. The film was recently adapted into a film by Jonathan Mostow, starring Bruce Willis.”
• Sep 25, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: technology art comic film movie future science fiction science virtual cybernetic individuation self man body evolution double avatar surrogate
| “–this guy,” Luckman was saying, manicuring a box full of grass, hunched over it as Arctor sat across from him, more or less watching, “appeared on TV claiming to be a world-famous impostor. He had posed at one time or another, he told the interviewer, as a great surgeon at John Hopkins Medical College, a theoretical submolecular high-velocity particle-research physicist on a federal grant at Harvard, as a Finnish novelist who’d won the Nobel Prize in literature, as a deposed president of Argentina married to–” “And he got away with all that?” Arctor asked. “He never got caught?” “The guy never posed as any of those. He never posed as anything but a world-famous impostor. That came out later in the L.A. Times–they checked up. The guy pushed a broom at Disneyland, or had until he read this autobiography about this world-famous impostor–there really was one–and he said, ‘Hell, I can pose as all those exotic dudes and get away with it like he did,’ and then he decided, ‘Hell, why do that; I’ll just pose as another impostor.’ He made a lot of bread that way, the Times said. Almost as much as the real world-famous impostor. And he said it was a lot easier.” |
• Sep 25, 2009 link notes tagged: art technology book author science fiction reality science simulacrum double representation
| Whether The Surrogates is about the positive or negative aspects of technology’s rapid growth is a question for each individual reader. Personally, I don’t know where the line is drawn between good advancements and bad. To reflect that, I tried to populate the story with characters that represent both sides of the surrogate issue. Some are for surrogates and some are against them, and it’s the up to the reader to decide which group is more sympathetic. |
Regarding the upcomming film The Surrogates directed by Jonathan Mostow and adapted from a comic book series created and written by Robert Venditti.
• Sep 24, 2009 link notes tagged: art communication technology film movie comic future science fiction science surrogate avatar virtual virtuality self double man evolution
• Sep 12, 2009 link notes tagged: genre humor illustration literature science fiction Tom Gauld
Kevin Dart: “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”
• Sep 08, 2009 link notes tagged: novel author book animal man science fiction illustration
Alphaville is a 1965 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
“Alphaville is science fiction without special effects. Godard couldn’t afford them in 1965 or ever, but he probably wouldn’t have wanted them even if he’d had unlimited financing. His whole theme, imagination versus logic, is consistent with his deployment of Paris as it was in the ’60s—or at least, those portions of Paris which struck Godard as architectural nightmares of impersonality. Sub-Nabokovian jokes on brand names abound. There is much talk of societies in other galaxies, but their only manifestation is the Ford Galaxy that Eddie Constantine’s Lemmy Caution (a low-rent French version of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe) moves about in. Most of Alphaville is nocturnal or claustrophobically indoors. Yet there is an exhilarating release in many of the images and camera movements because of Godard’s uncanny ability to evoke privileged moments from many movies of the past.” Read the whole essay by Andrew Sarris.
See more poster art by Jean Mascii,/p>
• Aug 29, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: poster design film movie Godard science fiction vintage
“First introduced in cockpit heads up displays, head / eye tracking enables content to be presented as though it were naturally part of the participants surroundings and is quite an effective technique for increasing cognitive immersion. Projecting onto translucent surfaces enables a mixed reality experience where both the natural environment and the digital content appear in the same space. This technique will soon be deployed on a wide basis, as your cell phone / mobile device will be able to track itself in any environment giving it the ability to deliver mixed reality content.”
About OOOii: “The LIVE ENVIRONMENT is our response to a paradigm shift that is expanding the role of the creative desinger to explore and embrace new interaction models as the primary driving force in realizing the mutualism of consumer and content. This reengineering towards natural experience in an immersive venue is transforming the industry in ways that many are calling a revolution in visual communication. […] Drawing on the tools, techniques and experience developed while designing some of the most memorable immersive visual effects sequences for Hollywood feature films, the developers at OOOii have implemented the open interface framework in order to bring these technologies to the live environment.” (Read more).
• Jul 29, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: technology head body human machine immersion environment design interactive communication film movie future science fiction information
| PLAYBOY: What do you think we’ll find on the moon? STANLEY KUBRICK: I think the most exciting prospect about the moon is that if alien races have ever visited earth in the remote past and left artifacts for man to discover in the future, they probably chose the arid, airless lunar vacuum, where no deterioration would take place and an object could exist for millennia. It would be inevitable that as man evolved technologically, he would reach his nearest satellite and the aliens would then expect him to find their calling card—perhaps a message of greeting, a cache of knowledge or simply a cosmic burglar alarm signaling that another race had mastered space flight. This, of course, was the central situation of 2001. |
“To discover what has made Kubrick so respected—and controversial—a director, and to plumb both his own complexities and those of 2001, Playboy interviewed Kubrick at his elegant mansion outside London, a short drive from MGM’s studio at Borham Wood, where he is working on his latest film—a biography of Napoleon. Interviewer Eric Norden found Kubrick—”a slim, relaxed man with thinning hair, dark beard and intense eyes”—sprawled in a chair on the spacious expanse of lawn overlooking his elegantly tended gardens. “As Kubrick crossed one scuffed shoe over a wrinkled pants leg,” writes Norden, “I began by asking him to decipher the metaphysical message of 2001. Though his answer was enigmatically evasive, he was far more voluble about his space odyssey, and the destiny it prophesies for the human race, than about himself as man or moviemaker. It may be that he feels his private life is too dull to talk about, or perhaps too interesting, or simply nobody’s business but his own. But I think it’s more likely that he is one of those rare men whose self-concern is plural and impersonal, to whom the present is less real than the possible, who live less in the world of tangible reality than in the uncharted country of the mind.”” (read more)
I first came to know the existence of this interview through Sister Of The Raging Sea.
• Jul 29, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: art technology communication film movie filmmaker Moon science fiction novel future culture America celebrity
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